Helen Holmes
Birthday: 1892-06-19
Place of Birth: USA
Biography: Helen Holmes (June 19, 1892 – July 8, 1950) was an American silent film actress, producer, director, screenwriter and stuntwoman. She is most notable for starring in the 1914–1917 serial The Hazards of Helen. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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40-Horse Hawkins
Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling,...
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Stormy Seas
Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in sto...
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Perils of the Rail
A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipm...
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Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give eve...
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Whispering Smith
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransac...
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The Operator at Black Rock
The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff ar...
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The Fast Freight
Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by...
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Into the Depths
Neglected by her husband, Beth Stanford becomes interested in Arthur, his friend. Although their fri...
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The Stolen Engine
A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engi...
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The Death Train
The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is...
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The Flying Freight's Captive
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discover...
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The Black Diamond Express
When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Hel...
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The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejec...
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The Broken Circuit
Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the...
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The Escape on the Limited
Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, ...
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The Little Engineer
While Hastings, the engineer of Freight No. 3205 is at lunch- in the Lone Point station, Bobby Heywo...
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The Fast Mail's Danger
Down and out, Bob, an engineer, drifts into town. His condition excites Helen's sympathy. Using her ...
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experienc...
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The Engineer's Peril
Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a ...
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The Open Drawbridge
Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight c...
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The Girl at Lone Point
Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train be...
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The Red Signal
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passin...
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A Race for a Crossing
Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a ma...
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The Human Chain
Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes ...
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His Nemesis
With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the...
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Helen's Sacrifice
In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lo...
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The Girl Engineer
A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jum...
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The Box Car Trap
Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brak...
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A Life in the Balance
King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lon...
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The Broken Train
Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps int...
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a tele...
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The Girl at the Throttle
Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally sho...
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Nerves of Steel
Detective Strong is warned that an attempt will be made to free the crooks he is taking to the penit...
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A Railroader's Bravery
When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs th...
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The Girl on the Trestle
A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, k...
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A Wild Ride
The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Rea...
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Near Eternity
A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He ...
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The Midnight Limited
Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggm...
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A Deed of Daring
Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, t...
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The Limited's Peril
Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a...
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The Substitute Fireman
A warm friendship springs up between Quirkly and Helen, when the fireman saves the girl's life. In h...
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A Perilous Chance
Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons...
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The Girl on the Engine
When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Divi...
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The Fate of Number One
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who at...
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A Girl's Grit
After robbing the bank at Orlock, Cherry and Newton make their getaway. When on the outskirts of Lon...
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Train Order Number Forty-Five
Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl tel...
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A Matter of Seconds
Dawson, a newcomer to the division, meets Helen while the girl is riding in the freight engine with ...
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The Broken Rail
Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone P...
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The Runaway Boxcar
Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express mes...
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A Test of Courage
Confronting Helen at the Lone Point Switch Tower, Denning and his pal imprison the girl in a clothes...
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The Watertank Plot
Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to b...
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When Rogues Fall Out
Holmes, the president of the S.L. Railway, has been trying very hard to secure a new franchise for h...
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The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fire...
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Judith of the Cumberlands
Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whis...
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Medicine Bend
Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars....
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A Desperate Leap
As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station...
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The Lone Hand
Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, b...
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The Flaw in the Alibi
It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the ...
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Fighting Fury
A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ran...
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The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same tr...
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet,...
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Kaintucky Bill
The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the...
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In Danger's Path
Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she cho...
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The Girl and the Game
Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, ...
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The Fatal Fortune
A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure....
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Hills of Missing Men
A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and b...
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The Lost Express
A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it...
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Crossed Signals
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headqu...
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On His Wedding Day
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory...
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The Pay Train
Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is...
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The Leap from the Water Tower
Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making...
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The Car of Death
In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recogniti...
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The Californian
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing...
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Mistaken Orders
Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent ...
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Dude Cowboy
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeite...
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The Lost Express
Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train....
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Outwitted
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfei...
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Barriers of the Law
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, t...
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The Manager of the B & A
Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening h...
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The Railroad Raiders
A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. I...
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The Hazards of Helen
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes...
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The Lost Mail Sack
A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the ...
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Webs of Steel
Helen Webb (Helen Holmes) is willfully wooed by a man with a mysterious past (Bruce Gordon) who join...
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The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C....
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode 3 - The Girl at the Throttle
Blake, fireman of a light engine, receives a message that his wife is dangerously ill. Benton, his e...
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The Sign of the Cactus
A mysterious rider, known as Whitehorse Cactus, steals from the dishonest water company in order to ...
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