Edwin August
Birthday: 1883-11-10
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: Edwin August (born Edwin August Phillip von der Butz; November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919. August co-founded Eaco Films in 1914. He wrote novels under the pen name Montague Lawrence. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Movies
Romance of the West
Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unw...
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The Long Road
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, ...
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The Sands of Dee
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day ...
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Waifs
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One fri...
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The Old Actor
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is...
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The Fugitive
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skir...
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Into the Lion's Pit
Marius goes into the lion's pit, taking his life into his hands to save the girl who has been brutal...
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A Beast at Bay
A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new ...
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the...
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The Lesser Evil
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smuggl...
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Winning Back His Love
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not....
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The Revenue Man and His Girl
In the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still; alo...
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The Eternal Mother
John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby i...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her...
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A Country Cupid
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a no...
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The Pride of the Yankees
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig....
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The Bomb Throwers
"Red Mike" Davis, a notorious bomb thrower, has been landed in jail through the activities of Lawren...
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called...
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Side Street
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger....
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The Courage of the Commonplace
A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger ...
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Youth Takes a Fling
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...
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Getting Even
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a cha...
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The Lure of the Gown
"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle a...
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When It Strikes Home
Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a so...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...
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Under Burning Skies
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady ...
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The Son's Return
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parent...
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The Song That Reached His Heart
A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he listens to ...
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The Calling of Louis Mona
Louis Mona is left to the care of the monks of the monastery of San Luis, who have brought him up wi...
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An Evil of the Slums
A young man who visits a shady bar and gets involved with the criminals there, by a misunderstanding...
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The Rose of Kentucky
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's g...
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The Welcome Burglar
“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very clo...
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Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzli...
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The Golden Supper
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and ri...
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The Good for Nothing
A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove himself ...
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His Daughter
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father ha...
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The Making of a Man
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks a...
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Simple Charity
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsom...
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Madame Rex
Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to assume th...
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Lena and the Geese
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who...
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The Blonde Vampire
Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that she pr...
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Over My Dead Body
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s...
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Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d...
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Mr. Lucky
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience be...
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Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...
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The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try ...
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The City of Tears
Chorus girl Rosa Carillo (Carmel Myers) finds herself in dire straits when the troupe she works with...
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A Broadway Scandal
Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (E...
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A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
The daughter of a poor seamstress takes a package to the house of her mother’s wealthy employer and ...
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A Child's Stratagem
Mrs. Walton wilfully and mistakenly presumes that her husband is unfaithful, and demands a divorce. ...
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The Failure
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-do...
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The House with Closed Shutters
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; hi...
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Conscience
As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee o...
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The Renunciation
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the crit...
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When Kings Were the Law
Over the Kingdom of Romanda there reigned a King who was greatly influenced by his favorite, whom he...
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The Message of the Violin
A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart....
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The Voice of the Child
A businessman neglects his wife, who is tricked into believing he is having an affair. She packs to ...
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The Trail of Books
Upset that her parents are getting ready to separate a little girl grabs a handful of books and head...
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and ...
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A Child's Impulse
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these f...
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Scandal Street
When a film star is killed in a car crash during the shooting of his latest pictures, the producers ...
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The Idol of the North
Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New...
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The Mortgaged Wife
After Ralph Carter steals $50,000 from the bank where he is employed, his wife Gloria phones bank of...
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The Yellow Passport
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British ...
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