Robert Edeson

AKA:
0.5078

1868-06-02

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {80}

Redding - an Inspector

1923-11-23 6.5

The Ten Commandments

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the comma ...
Genre :Drama, History

Dr. Brodie

1929-01-26 0

The Doctor's Secret

Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she returns home to her husband and tries to carry on a ...
Genre :Drama

Swift

1930-09-03 4

The Way of All Men

A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississippi River levee breaks and causes flood havoc above and below. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Prince Nikita

1926-05-23 6.3

The Volga Boatman

During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor. ...
Genre :Drama

Amos Thompson

1925-01-25 2.7

The Golden Bed

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him d ...
Genre :Drama

Don Fernando

1929-11-17 0

Romance of the Rio Grande

Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy ...
Genre :Western, Romance

Charles Dodge

1923-03-15 0

The Tie That Binds

A beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her husband confe ...
Genre :Drama

J.S. Bucks

1926-03-28 0

Whispering Smith

Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. ...
Genre :Western

Oliver Wade

1915-04-19 0

Man's Prerogative

Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit faith in Elizabeth. She is a woman of strong mind, a magazine writer of repute, and believes he shou ...
Genre :Drama

Richard Vane

1921-03-07 0

Extravagance

The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with caddish Morrel ...
Genre :Drama

The Hawk

1925-04-27 0

Go Straight!

Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywood to begin anew but the old gang follows behind. Can she stop them from ruining her new life? ...
Genre :Drama

Norman Carter

1925-01-05 1

Locked Doors

A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls desperately in love with a young man. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

William Flynn

1927-12-23 5.476

Chicago

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical o ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime

Colonel Sapt

1922-09-11 6.3

The Prisoner of Zenda

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Don Esteban

1925-10-10 0

The Prairie Pirate

A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she commits suicide. When her brother finds out what happened, he turns to a life of banditry, hoping to find th ...
Genre :Western

Chaplain Regan - aka Father Joe

1926-09-12 5.1

The Blue Eagle

Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they call a temporary truce to take on dope peddlers w ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Judge Templeton

1923-03-01 7

Luck

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

Hobart Nelson

1925-12-27 0

Braveheart

Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle th ...
Genre :Western

Frederick Hall

1924-06-08 0

The Bedroom Window

William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book m ...
Genre :Mystery

Don Mariana Delfina

1930-12-14 5.3

The Lash

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans. ...
Genre :Western

Tom Johnson

1931-01-09 5.941

Danger Lights

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and t ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Frank Prentiss

1919-11-16 0

Sealed Hearts

Frank Prentiss, a multi-millionaire who hates and distrusts women, convinces his adopted son, Jack, that they are detrimental to a man's success. The overworked Frank is forced to rest at the country ...
Genre :Drama

Joel Ketchum

1928-12-08 0

The Little Wildcat

A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter falls in love ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Israel Cohen

1925-03-23 0

Men and Women

Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound riches, Seabury proceeds to woo Prescott's wife, A ...
Genre :Drama

Arthur Nelson

1917-11-03 0

The Public Defender

When bank president Leslie Morrison dips into the till, he seeks to place the blame on bank clerk David Moulton by altering the figures in Moulton's books. He lays his plan carefully, but upon leaving ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Detective Ed Burton

1928-08-06 0

Tenth Avenue

Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city. Bob's desire to show Lyla he can support her leads ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Doctor

1930-05-18 6.5

Swing High

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, ...
Genre :Music, Drama

John Sutherland

1927-02-15 0

Altars of Desire

Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a f ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

General Garcia

1930-10-17 5.3

A Devil with Women

Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They beco ...
Genre :Adventure

Don Pedro de Quiros

1924-04-14 5.4

Mademoiselle Midnight

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by ...
Genre :Drama

Judge Gresham

1928-01-04 5.45

A Ship Comes In

Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States. ...
Genre :Drama

Edgar Thatcher

1928-05-21 7.8

Walking Back

Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed au ...
Genre :Drama

The Manager

1929-02-19 0

Friendship

A short drama film Directed by Eugene Walter to publicize the new talkie craze. ...
Genre :Drama

Matthew - the Publican

1927-04-19 6.4

The King of Kings

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Ch ...
Genre :Drama, History

Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)

1923-04-22 6.2

Souls for Sale

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mr. Bernard

1925-02-16 6.5

The Rag Man

Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dea ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ed Baker

1929-11-17 0

Little Johnny Jones

Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a s ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama

Dr. Fergus Lansell

1924-09-27 0

Feet of Clay

Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion model. While she is away from home, Bertha, the wife o ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

1912-11-01 5

On Secret Service

Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, the signature to his messages is forged, and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush ...
Genre :Drama, War

The General

1929-08-24 6.3

Marianne

At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Austin, the 'Sky Pilot'

1915-04-15 4.4

On the Night Stage

A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her and she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. ...
Genre :Romance, Western, Adventure

James Bradford, Sr.

1931-04-26 0

Aloha

In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

'How' Landor

1914-10-12 0

Where the Trail Divides

Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How proposes to Bess, whom he has loved since his childh ...
Genre :Western

City Editor

1928-10-30 6.2

The Power of the Press

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove ...
Genre :Drama

Cyrus Browning

1926-01-26 0

The Danger Signal

A recently widowed and destitute young mother (Jane Novak) appeals to her wealthy and heartless father-in-law (Robert Edeson) for financial aid. Instead, he convinces her to hand over her new baby to ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Calhoun

1928-11-03 0

The Home Towners

Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance. ...
Genre :Comedy

1927-07-24 0

His Dog

Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor, though Dorcas Chatham, daughter of the general store own ...
Genre :Drama

Andrew J. Hughes

1922-01-11 6.4

Foolish Wives

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

T.M. Bancroft

1926-09-06 6.2

The Clinging Vine

When a hardened businesswoman who goes by the initials A.B. overhears someone calling her an “Amazon” because of her butch ways, she agrees to a more “feminine” makeover. In the end she learns that n ...
Genre :Comedy

Colonel Randall

1930-01-12 0

Cameo Kirby

Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song. ...
Genre :Drama

Costigan

1928-07-01 4

Beware of Blondes

Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable emerald to the Hawaiian Islands. On the boat he mee ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Field Marshall

1926-08-25 0

Her Man o' War

During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he is assigned to the small farm of a young woman and ...
Genre :Drama

Henry Van Courtlandt

1924-01-06 0

Don't Call It Love

Prima donna Rita Coventry charms Richard Parrish from his fiancée, Alice Meldrum. Tiring of Parrish, Miss Coventry casts him aside and begins a flirtation with Patrick Delaney, a piano tuner of some m ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Comandante

1924-02-04 0

Thy Name Is Woman

A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Ned & Graehme Stewart

1914-08-10 5.2

The Call of the North

Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse". ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

James P. Ryan

1925-09-06 0

Keep Smiling

The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, t ...
Genre :Comedy

Joe Dextry

1923-08-26 0

The Spoilers

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Sanford Gillespie

1925-10-18 0

Hell's Highroad

Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join ...
Genre :Drama

Pierce

1916-02-28 0

For a Woman’s Fair Name

Right after a husband and wife (Robert Edeson and Eulalie Jensen) arrive home from their honeymoon, the husband goes to fetch his sister from boarding school. While he is away, the wife's friend and n ...
Genre :Drama

Mortmain

1915-09-06 0

Mortmain

Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Gaston Isbel

1923-09-23 0

To the Last Man

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Jim Barton

1922-01-01 0

Any Night

While Jim Barlow is hiding from the cops, his wife Ann goes to a mission The minister, Reverend John Matthews, gives her the address of a good Samaritan, Dr. LeRoy Clifford . When her child is hit by ...
Genre :Crime

Bradford-Fish

1929-09-22 1

A Most Immoral Lady

Laura Sergeant (Leatrice Joy), together with her husband, Humphrey Sergeant (Sidney Blackmer) operates a scam scheme to extort money from millionaires through blackmail and victimization until she mis ...
Genre :

Count Franz Cserhati

1927-04-26 0

The Heart Thief

Paul Kurt, embittered and disillusioned by war, returns to Budapest and devotes his life to roistering and gambling. He falls in love with Anna Galambos but leaves her when he realizes his unworthines ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Pa Martin

1930-10-05 4.3

Pardon My Gun

Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Captain Corbin

1926-01-10 7

Eve's Leaves

After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. McCall

1930-10-28 0

Big Money

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Wise Fool

1929-12-13 6.4

Dynamite

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financ ...
Genre :Drama

Henri Duval

1924-05-04 7.2

Men

Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spi ...
Genre :Drama

Gen. Kinnard

1925-07-26 0

The Scarlet West

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of ren ...
Genre :Western

Jim Garrity

1916-04-18 0

Big Jim Garrity

Big Jim Garrity, a mine superintendent, is falsely accused of murder by a dope doctor and is forced into exile in Europe. After several years, he has made a fortune and returns to the U.S. under an as ...
Genre :Drama

1915-11-29 0

The Cave Man

A socialite bets that she can educate a lower class man and pass him off as a member of the upper class in a week. ...
Genre :Comedy

Clinton J. Scollard

1930-08-03 6.2

Night Work

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled custom ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Ralph Coombes

1923-09-16 0

The Silent Partner

Wall Street clerk George Coburn leaves the employ of broker Ralph Coombes to become an independent speculator. Although she disapproves, George's wife, Lisa, insists on being his "silent partner" with ...
Genre :Drama

Anthony De Lanni

1922-08-25 0

Sure-Fire Flint

Sure-Fire Flint, an energetic chap just returned from wartime military service, meets June De Lanni, the girl of his dreams, while working as a cabdriver and busboy. Her father gives Flint a job in hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Eb Hooker

1924-08-24 0

Welcome Stranger

Stereotypical Jewish man Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives with his daughter Essie (Virginia Brown Faire) in a small, predominantly-Christian New England town. The discriminating viewpoints of t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Winters

1928-11-09 0

Marriage by Contract

Marriage by Contract is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by James Flood. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Adams

1923-02-28 0

Has the World Gone Mad!

Mrs. Adams (Hedda Hopper) succumbs to the spirit of jazz, moves into her own apartment, and even has an affair with Mr. Bell (Charles Richman), the father of her son's sweetheart. Miss Bell (Elinor Fa ...
Genre :Drama

1912-11-08 0

When Lee Surrenders

During a fiercely contested battle, a wounded Union officer seeks refuge in a Southern home. He is discovered and assisted by Nellie Morton, who hides him from Confederate forces. Confederate officers ...
Genre :War, Romance

Judge Hopper

1927-08-08 0

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary

Film was released on August 8th, 1927 ...
Genre :Comedy