Edward Elkas

AKA: Edward Elkas Hirsch
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1862-02-08

New York City, New York, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {45}

Banker Van Leys

1918-04-01 0

The Cross Bearer

Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the car ...
Genre :Drama

The Old Cobbler

1920-03-01 0

Chains of Evidence

Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge St ...
Genre :Mystery

Silverstein

1918-03-05 0

Joan of Plattsburg

Joan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at Plattsburg, reads the story of "Joan of Arc" and soon imagines that she is the reincarnation of the peasant- ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Cowboy

1911-10-27 0

Kitty and the Cowboys

Fatty comes up with a plan to prank his cowboy buddies. He announces that his sister Kitty is coming to visit, but it's not at all what his friends expected. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

John Daggerts

1915-06-19 0

Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde

Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised her in marriage to Daggerts, a politician, who, in reward, has agreed to see that Jekyll is elected go ...
Genre :Drama

Joseph Ulrich

1917-09-17 0

The Awakening of Ruth

Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop ...
Genre :Drama

The Convict

1914-07-16 0

The Little Captain

While visiting General Forbes, a friend of his Daddy, Sonny Jim imitates the soldiers at the garrison and feels certain that he was cut out for one of them. The General tells him always to help a comr ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mouroff

1916-05-22 0

The Suspect

The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Constable

1916-01-31 8

Jane's Bashful Hero

Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to resemble the notorious bank robber Banker Bill. Th ...
Genre :Comedy

Grand Daddy

1916-07-17 0

The Musical Barber

De Goat only barbers to earn enough to keep supplied with musical instruments and he certainly keeps a goodly stock of them. Between (also during) shaves he amuses himself by playing solos on the viol ...
Genre :Comedy

1916-01-03 0

Who Killed Joe Merrion?

Sir Philip Randall, a prominent judge, is fed up with the antics of James, his scapegrace son, and tosses him out of the house. The conflict between father and son leaves Mrs. Randall heartbroken, and ...
Genre :Drama

Dirty Eddie

1919-10-06 0

The Oakdale Affair

Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending ...
Genre :Adventure

Abie Lefkowitz

1916-09-11 0

Phantom Fortunes

Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and Co., stockbrokers, his place of employment, just in time to save Herman, Zalmon Pinsker's 14-year-old ...
Genre :Drama

Strike Leader

1916-08-14 0

The Dawn of Freedom

"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders of the United States. ...
Genre :Drama

Jarboe

1916-08-07 0

The Alibi

To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but before carrying out the pilferage, he confesses to cashier Slayton, his superior. Sl ...
Genre :Drama

Rosenberg

1915-11-09 0

For the Honor of the Crew

Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colleges until they both fall in love with Viola Scott, a college girl. ...
Genre :Drama

1915-01-17 0

The Man, the Mission and the Maid

Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playmates. Some years later. Hal goes to college, and while there makes a bitter enemy of Bert Peyson by ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

A Lieutenant

1919-11-01 0

Bullin' the Bullsheviki

As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces. ...
Genre :Comedy

Thenardier

1917-12-03 5

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the m ...
Genre :Drama

Ortos

1917-04-09 0

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and ...
Genre :Drama, War

1913-01-04 6

A Bit of Blue Ribbon

A short Western in which a cowboy is rescued from a lynching in the nick of time. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Harden

1916-09-26 0

The Foolish Virgin

A 1916 film. ...
Genre :Drama

Prof. Lohr

1919-03-09 0

When Men Desire

A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

A Juror

1919-06-29 5

The Woman Under Oath

After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Doctor Soakum

1919-09-01 5

The Midnight Girl

A musical comedy in two acts based on Adolf Philipp's own play. ...
Genre :Comedy

Briggs

1918-06-16 0

The Venus Model

A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love with her employer's son, who is in danger of ruin from ...
Genre :Comedy

Jacob Rosenstein

1915-02-01 5

Cabman Kate

Kate, a washerwoman, takes Tim McGrath’s cab on security when he doesn’t pay his laundry bill. Trouble arises when Kate picks up her first passenger. ...
Genre :Comedy

Flaggs

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

Rabinowitz

1926-01-03 0

Too Much Money

Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, w ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Cohen

1914-10-26 0

The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray

Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Portnoff

1922-04-20 0

God's Crucible

Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including ...
Genre :Drama

Herr Von H.

1918-01-02 5

The Birth of a Race

This epic traces, from the Beginning, the lineage of the race of peace-loving people. Mankind at its best is highlighted as greatness of character across the centuries is displayed: Noah heeding God's ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Goldberg

1918-12-02 0

Hitting the Trail

Kid Kelly, a gangster in New York's Lower East Side, attempts to rob Goldberg's millinery store. When the police arrive, Flo Haines, who had come to the building to look at an apartment, hides. When t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Jan Moritz

1917-07-16 1

Beloved Adventuress

Romantic melodrama of musical comedy star Juliette La Monde's thoughtless pursuit of love and pleasure with various men until her ultimate redemption through sacrifice. ...
Genre :Drama

Joshua Anson

1917-05-14 0

Moral Courage

Wealthy Joshua Anson expects his son Chadwick to marry a woman of their class, but much to his chagrin Chadwick falls in love with factory girl Mary McClintock. Anson schemes to break up the romance b ...
Genre :Drama

1920-11-01 0

The Mystery Mind

A murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind." ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Adventure

Wolfe

1924-01-06 0

West of the Water Tower

Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is expecting but the legitimacy of their union is called into question. Eventually the squire who perfo ...
Genre :Drama

The Equally Villainous Baron

1916-03-10 0

Beaned by a Beanshooter

Hero Handsome Harry must rescue his love interest, Lizzie, from a villainous character named Creampuff. Harry is repeatedly "beaned" by a beanshooter in the hands of a villainous boy and then Creampuf ...
Genre :Comedy

Agent Walker

1916-02-18 0

In Arcadia

The Youngloves have a cozy little apartment and a jewel of a cook, Bridget, and are happy until the landlord raises the rent. A slick agent convinces them to take a lease on "the modern Paradise” in A ...
Genre :Comedy

Ani

1915-10-04 0

The Dust of Egypt

Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years. Originally a six reel feature, only short fragments of The Dust of Egypt surv ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Silas Kehr

1915-05-09 0

The Goddess

A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1915-05-25 0

The Esterbrook Case

Paul Sturgess is engaged to Grace Van Austin. At a party at their Newport home, Grace flirts with Howard Esterbrook leading to a fight between the two men. Later that night, a servant witnesses Paul, ...
Genre :Drama

Bornheim

1919-12-08 0

The Tower of Jewels

Emily Cottrell, one of the most respected members of a large gang of crooks headed by Fraser Grimstead, is caught while robbing the home of wealthy David Parrish. Emily accepts David's offer of a home ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Luke Stimson

1917-06-25 0

Aladdin's Other Lamp

Aladdin's Other Lamp is a 1917 American silent fantasy-comedy film directed by John H. Collins. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Innkeeper Ducros

1920-09-05 0

The House of the Tolling Bell

According to the will of old Anthony Cole, his heir must live for one year in the spooky residence known as "the house of the tolling bell." The dread of the house and the superstitions enshrouding it ...
Genre :Mystery