Sheldon Lewis

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1868-04-19

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sheldon Lewis (April 20, 1868 – May 7, 1958) was an American actor of the silent era best known for his antagonistic roles. He appeared in 93 films between 1914 and 1936.

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Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

1920-04-01 5.7

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

David Hampton

1930-01-28 0

Firebrand Jordan

'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Western

1930-08-11 0

Terry of the 'Times'

Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is c ...
Genre :

Achmet Zek

1929-12-08 5

Tarzan the Tiger

After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia after a blow to the head. When he recovers his memory (from a lat ...
Genre :Adventure

Wanakee

1928-08-01 0

The Little Wild Girl

Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Spider

1929-01-27 6

Seven Footprints to Satan

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Horror

1927-01-15 0

Driven from Home

A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den. ...
Genre :Drama

Don Alfonso

1924-10-19 0

The Dangerous Flirt

The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks leading to several dangerous situations from which she and the man she loves to barely escape with thei ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Dr. Scarely

1917-11-23 0

The Hidden Hand

15 chapter adventure serial starring Doris Kenyon. Episode titles: 1. The Gauntlet of Death 2. Counterfeit Faces 3. The Island of Dread 4. The False Locket 5. The Air-Lock 6. The Flower of Death 7. Th ...
Genre :Adventure

Robert Earlton

1932-02-07 4.2

The Monster Walks

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her t ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Drama

1928-09-01 0

The Chinatown Mystery

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowa ...
Genre :Adventure, Mystery

Single Tooth Wilson

1925-04-13 0

Silent Sanderson

When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a new life in Alaska. He is later reunited with Judith ...
Genre :Western

Matt Daley

1932-12-25 3.5

Tombstone Canyon

A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis). ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Western

Jacob Feldman

1928-04-09 0

The Chorus Kid

Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal education, so when she unexpectedly falls heir to a huge sum of money, Beatrice decides to make up for l ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Piet Kroon

1926-02-20 0

Bride of the Storm

An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives ...
Genre :Drama

Legar, The Iron Claw

1916-02-28 0

The Iron Claw

Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episodes are believed to be lost. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Count Sergius Dardinilis

1916-01-07 0

The King's Game

The story tells of the adventures of an unusual young duke, whose father, the old Grand Duke of Kiev, coveted the wife of Count Dardinilis, his colonel of Huzzars; of the old Grand Duke's plot to get ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Lawyer Hawkins

1933-12-11 0

Gun Justice

Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfig ...
Genre :Western

J. W. Dolson

1936-05-26 0

The Cattle Thief

Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night. ...
Genre :Western

Ratburn

1926-08-01 0

Senor Daredevil

Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Son ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance, Adventure

Jules

1927-01-31 0

The Overland Stage

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wiza ...
Genre :Western

Bartender

1928-07-01 0

The Code of the Scarlet

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gan ...
Genre :Action, Western

The spy

1928-01-15 0

Top Sergeant Mulligan

During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training ...
Genre :Comedy

Jacques Frochard

1921-12-28 6.9

Orphans of the Storm

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

George Harmon

1917-05-22 0

The Warfare of the Flesh

Melodrama in which the rich arrogant George gives money to poor Frank and Jane, so he may spend a night with Jane. Jane goes along with it because she need the money to save her sick husband. ...
Genre :Drama

Herman Bennett

1925-07-05 0

The Mysterious Stranger

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this s ...
Genre :Drama

Serpent Smith

1924-11-15 0

Those Who Dare

Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mari ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

District Attorney

1925-11-16 5.7

The Red Kimona

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive. ...
Genre :Drama

Hiram Judd

1927-02-15 0

Life of an Actress

The film explores the journey of Nora Dowen as she rises to fame and stardom, facing the challenges and temptations that come with the industry. ...
Genre :Drama

Flint Bastille

1925-09-02 0

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit Carson! ...
Genre :Western

Maj. Mike Connel

1926-03-01 4

With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail

When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to build a town along the route. ...
Genre :

Giovanni

1923-12-03 7

The Darling of New York

Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Witchdoctor

1929-07-06 0

Black Magic

On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happi ...
Genre :Drama

Roger Barclay

1918-10-13 6

Wolves of Kultur

Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints ...
Genre :Adventure

The Thing

1931-11-01 3.813

The Phantom

An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Albert Edward Sassoon

1924-08-25 9

The Enemy Sex

A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to stee ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

1934-03-01 0

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Sheldon Lewis plays the title role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter-ego Mr. Hyde in this ten-minute short film. ...
Genre :Horror

Bull McLeod

1925-12-03 0

Accused

Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hid ...
Genre :Drama

McEwen

1925-02-11 0

Dangerous Pleasure

This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He ...
Genre :Drama

Capt. Drake

1927-09-10 0

The Cruise of the Hellion

Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by an outlaw gang led by a woman known only as "The Hellion". ...
Genre :Drama

Drexel Draig

1924-07-15 0

In Fast Company

Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money, getting in the boxing ring and running from gangster ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure

Mulatto Mike

1928-12-01 0

The River Woman

A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle Nicholas Welby

1926-03-13 0

The Gilded Highway

After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marri ...
Genre :Drama

'Breed'

1928-03-01 0

Turn Back the Hours

Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Gentleman of Rome (uncredited)

1926-08-06 6.5

Don Juan

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Ivor Johnson

1926-06-13 0

The Two-Gun Man

Dean Randall is a hero of the Great War who comes home to his horse and his father's ranch. When back he saves a family in a wagon train -- a father, daughter Grace, and three orphan children. ...
Genre :Western

Pugin

1925-02-22 0

New Lives for Old

Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence information during World War I by winning the confidence ...
Genre :Drama

Perry Bennett / The Clutching Hand

1914-12-29 6

The Exploits of Elaine

Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery

Boris Kosloff

1926-04-18 0

Lightning Hutch

A scientist invents a poison gas; the villain and his gang will do anything to get the formula; our hero, "Lightning Hutch", is sent to save the scientist, the scientist's beautiful daughter, and the ...
Genre :Action

Charles Cramp

1915-12-03 0

The House of Fear

On the advice of his friend Pendleton, Ashton Kirk, a scholar and amateur detective, pays a visit to a house whose occupants, Charles Cramp and his sister Grace, complain of strange happenings involvi ...
Genre :Mystery

White Cloud

1919-10-05 0

Impossible Catherine

The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.H. Gilmore), the father and wealthy Wall Street magnate -- it's his spoil ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

David Hume

1915-11-05 0

The Menace of the Mute

Young Edyth Vail, believes her fiancé Allen Morris may have committed a murder, asking Ashton Kirk to investigate the crime. The fiancé admits he went to the David Hume's home to retrieve plans for a ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Dr. Morse

1915-10-22 0

An Affair of Three Nations

Ashton Kirk is a wealthy and scholarly young man who solves mysteries that have the police puzzled. Stella Morse asks Kirk to find out who is threatening her uncle, Dr. Morse. Morse has a copy of a se ...
Genre :Mystery

Henri DuBois

1923-03-19 0

Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers

Jacqueline Roland, the daughter of a backwoodsman, meets Henri Dubois during a visit to the city, but is unresponsive to his attentions. Henri later takes charge of the lumber camp where Jacqueline li ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Matt Russell

1923-05-10 0

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Jeb Russell and his son Matt run a bootlegging operation in the basement of the New England schoolhouse where Mercy Brent teaches. When her sweetheart John Hale and his revenue agents attempt to break ...
Genre :Drama

Allen Bancroft

1914-10-01 0

The Ticket-of-Leave Man

Allen Bancroft of Lancashire is framed by criminals leading to his imprisonment and subsequent struggle to clear his name and find work, all while facing coercion from the same criminals. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Richard Manners

1922-10-08 0

When the Desert Calls

British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about E ...
Genre :Drama

1926-11-26 0

The Sky Pirate

Amateur criminologist is hired by the Secret Service to track down airplane thieves, who then kidnap his ex-fiancée, leading to a daring escape and a love story amidst aerial adventures. ...
Genre :Adventure

King Louis

1924-09-08 0

Honor Among Men

Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is shot by the police. Patricia, an American heiress touring the world, nurses the prince. The king en ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Fleming

1916-10-01 0

Charity

Drama written by the film's star Linda Arvidson, under her married name Linda Griffith, was her both her final screenplay and film appearance. ...
Genre :Drama

Blackie Slade

1926-01-19 0

A Desperate Moment

Genre :Drama