W. Chrystie Miller
Birthday: 1843-08-10
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Biography: W. Chrystie Miller (William Chrystie Miller; August 10, 1843 – September 23, 1922) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 139 films between 1908 and 1914. Miller frequently appeared in films directed by D.W. Griffith and was known to film audiences as the "Grand Old Man of the Photodrama". [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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The Honor of His Family
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War....
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disappro...
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A Trap for Santa Claus
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely....
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Fisher Folks
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt....
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A Corner in Wheat
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of br...
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Pirate Gold
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the ...
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An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true ...
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The Work Habit
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young...
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The Stopped Clock
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, t...
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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 Tender Hearted Boy
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness....
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensi...
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The Chief's Blanket
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred bla...
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Ramona
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with t...
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A Child of the Ghetto
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shi...
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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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His Mother's Son
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the...
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Man's Genesis
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a wom...
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The Adopted Brother
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betraye...
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The Primal Call
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough ...
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Her Terrible Ordeal
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, a...
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Getting Rid of Trouble
The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle....
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Over Silent Paths
In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young dau...
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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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A Sailor’s Heart
A sweetheart at every port has ever characterized the sailor, but it is believed that the sailor in ...
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The Newlyweds
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...
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The Two Brothers
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born ...
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In Life's Cycle
A story about two children that are made to promise they will not forget their recently departed mot...
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The Thread of Destiny
The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused...
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The Oath and the Man
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p...
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In the Season of Buds
It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands,...
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May and December
The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college...
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A Lucky Toothache
Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school ...
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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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A Plain Song
Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by w...
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The Unwelcome Guest
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated...
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The Informer
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth...
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My Baby
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the onl...
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An Indian Summer
A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects m...
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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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Sunshine Sue
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself....
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A Temporary Truce
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the...
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The Little Tease
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost g...
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The Lonedale Operator
A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has ...
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That Chink at Golden Gulch
In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family b...
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The Lily of the Tenements
A struggling young seamstress supports her elderly parents by working at home. The landlord offers f...
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Examination Day at School
A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s v...
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Her Father's Pride
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her...
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The Sunbeam
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster....
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The Mender of Nets
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old...
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A Timely Interception
A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired fro...
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the...
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The Blue or the Gray
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir...
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To Save Her Soul
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and o...
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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the boy,...
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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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The Converts
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be sa...
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On the Reef
Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower...
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The Day After
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but ...
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His Trust
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, h...
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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 Massacre
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation....
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A String of Pearls
A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and inst...
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In the Border States
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leav...
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Faithful
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner wh...
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In Old California
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned Califor...
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An Arcadian Maid
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host f...
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The Modern Prodigal
In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, excl...
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The Adventures of Billy
Little Billy, the bootblack, finding luck against him, decides to move to some other town. To do thi...
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Unexpected Help
John Bradley is a trusted clerk with an oil company. Enjoying a fair salary, he is comfortably fixed...
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