Bertram Grassby

AKA:

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1880-12-23

Lincolnshire, England, UK

Biography

Crew Roles

A Son of the Immortals

Scenario Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {49}

Alexus

1917-10-05 0

Rasputin, the Black Monk

The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution. ...

Genre :Drama, History

1921-12-05 0

A Parisian Scandal

Without social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology and to bring back a report to his guardian on the manners and moral character of her granddaughter, Liane. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Prince Ugo Ravorelli

1923-03-18 0

The Prisoner

While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a m ...

Genre :Drama

Howard Quarrier

1920-08-01 0

The Fighting Chance

Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siwar ...

Genre :Drama

Hung Chin Chung

1921-12-11 0

Fifty Candles

Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry ...

Genre :Mystery

Bartlett

1924-05-25 0

One Law for the Woman

A naive youngster is sold a phony mine. ...

Genre :Western

Prince Tut

1923-10-28 0

The Dancer of the Nile

An Egyptian Princess is infatuated with Karmet, a Syrian prince who is disguised as a merchant. He, however, loves Arvia, a dancer. The Princess plots to sacrifice Arvia to the sacred crocodiles. Arvi ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Michael Lanyard

1919-12-21 0

The Lone Wolf's Daughter

At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote are hidden, but it is bought by Michael Lanyard, su ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Boris Varishkine

1924-09-29 0

His Hour

Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Ta ...

Genre :Drama

Prince David

1918-08-10 7

Salome

Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravit ...

Genre :Drama, History

Marston Hughes

1919-02-23 1

What Every Woman Wants

Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts. ...

Genre :Drama

Duke of Othomo

1922-06-11 0

Golden Dreams

Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the coun ...

Genre :

Rasnea

1923-12-16 0

The Man from Brodney's

A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dr. Norton / The Devil

1917-01-01 0

Conscience

Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a ...

Genre :Drama

Leonard Ferris

1920-09-26 1

Mid-Channel

The story has been adapted from the Sir Arthur Wing Pinero play. The title means nothing more than the mid-channel of married life, through a character in the feature likening the roughness of the Eng ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Duke of Orleans

1927-03-12 7

The Beloved Rogue

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure, History

Stoughton Lounsbury

1918-12-29 0

The Hope Chest

Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne, th ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ramón Maticas

1921-08-01 0

Serenade

In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is a ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Rodney Page

1920-03-14 5.3

Dangerous Days

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodr ...

Genre :Drama

The Crook

1918-09-28 0

Battling Jane

Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mahmoud Bey

1926-01-26 5.5

Made for Love

A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and ...

Genre :Drama

Chambret

1915-12-06 0

The Road to Paradise

Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts. ...

Genre :Adventure

Duke de Sauterne

1919-05-12 5.6

The Delicious Little Devil

A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the f ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Maharajah Ali Kahn

1922-11-11 6.5

The Young Rajah

A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1917-04-30 0

American Methods

Genre :Drama

Judas

1919-01-26 7

A Romance of Happy Valley

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he r ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Clifford Trent

1921-10-24 0

Her Social Value

A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up. ...

Genre :Drama

Le Duc de Richelieu

1927-08-21 6.4

When a Man Loves

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan. ...

Genre :History, Romance

Alexi Betskoy

1925-09-27 0

Havoc

A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter McGrail) at the ...

Genre :War, Drama

Rafael Artega

1920-05-01 0

For the Soul of Rafael

Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a marriage between the two, because she thinks that M ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure, History

Arthur Bleydon

1924-06-01 3

The Midnight Express

Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Bra ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Prince Michael Delgrade

1916-05-22 0

A Son of the Immortals

A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General. ...

Genre :Drama

Artist

1917-04-01 0

Even as You and I

Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lu ...

Genre :Drama

Mark Waring

1916-04-24 0

The Gay Lord Waring

Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for Arthur's half-brother Mark (Bertram Grassby), a tyrannical ...

Genre :Drama

Wallace Harrison

1916-08-28 0

The Girl of Lost Lake

Genre :Drama

Lord Percy

1916-06-26 0

It Happened in Honolulu

Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual fathe ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Clubman

1917-02-05 0

The Mysterious Mrs. M

A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire. ...

Genre :Drama

Chambret

1916-08-21 0

The Pool of Flame

J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'Rourke. While knocking about in India, O'Rourke comes into possession of the Pool of Flame, a valuab ...

Genre :Adventure

Don Diego

1924-09-21 8

Captain Blood

Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a ...

Genre :War, Action, Adventure, Romance

William Martin

1916-09-10 0

The Whirlpool of Destiny

George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite horse, Mr. Bell turns him out, and George becomes a g ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Joseph Kasimir

1922-06-04 0

For the Defense

Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler. ...

Genre :Drama

Raj Singh

1923-04-22 0

The Tiger's Claw

Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwoo ...

Genre :Drama

Manuel Leon

1916-08-20 0

Liberty

A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial. ...

Genre :War, Adventure

Philip Blaney

1923-05-01 5

Pioneer Trails

Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. T ...

Genre :Western

Robert Van Austen

1921-04-09 0

Straight from Paris

A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell in love with and became engaged to. However, his snooty mother finds out that she doesn't come from a "go ...

Genre :

Marquis de la Pontenac

1926-02-21 0

The Beautiful Cheat

A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky ...

Genre :Comedy

Kunwar Singh

1924-01-27 0

The Shadow of the East

Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolair ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

The Count

1919-06-15 0

Cowardice Court

A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil Bazelhurst, whose wife, the former Evelyn Banks of Jersey Cit ...