Charles Kent
Birthday: 1852-06-17
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: Charles Kent was an American actor and director in silent films.
Movies
Jean the Match-Maker
Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore ...
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War
In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in...
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The Death of King Edward III
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Wind...
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Madge of the Mountains
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan t...
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Arbutus
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain mai...
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A Reformed Santa Claus
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until...
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The Party Dress
Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to wh...
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The Prodigal Judge
The story takes place in the pre-Civil War era South. Judge Price has a fondness for liquor which re...
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An Easter Lily
The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood...
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A Window on Washington Park
From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dal...
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Etta of the Footlights
Etta Lang, a chorus girl, is the principal support of an invalid mother and her sister and brother, ...
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She Never Knew
Left with the care of his little grandchild through the death of his daughter, old Mr. Blinn tries i...
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The Toymaker
An old German toymaker, Hans Greyburg, living in a little flat on the east side of New York, while e...
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Counterfeit
In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position i...
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A Tale of Two Cities
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent ...
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The Christian
Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gain...
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The Tiger Lily
Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, t...
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The Swan Girl
A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl....
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Pawns of Mars
Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, r...
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncl...
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The First Endorsement
An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier a...
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Benedict Arnold
Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray...
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of...
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A Florida Enchantment
Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, th...
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The Bond of Music
Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy....
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Kennedy Square
At a dance on his parents' plantation in the early nineteenth century, Harry Rutter wins a duel with...
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The Life of Moses
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in t...
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The Battle Cry of Peace
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense a...
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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agree...
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Hypnotising the Hypnotist
As a bonus to this year’s screening of The Boatswain’s Mate, festival attendees can also enjoy “Vita...
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Put Yourself in Their Place
A comedy short directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young and himself....
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The Old Guard
A short film directed by James Young and starring Charles Kent & Clara Kimball Young....
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including ...
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The Poor Musician
Our story opens with a noted violinist practicing, his young wife sitting nearby, while their little...
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As You Like It
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguise...
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play....
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The Only Veteran in Town
More interested in automobiling than in anything else, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are inclined to be neglec...
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His Official Appointment
This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is ...
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Fortunes of a Composer
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone....
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An Innocent Theft
Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collect...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India
Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest...
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The Purple Highway
Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they ...
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The Awakening of Bianca
Angelo and his daughter Bianca are poor Italian immigrants. They sell fruit and vegetables on the st...
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The Tiger
Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's dau...
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Rose Leaves
Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly...
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Twelfth Night
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brothe...
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A Dixie Mother
Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one...
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A Million Bid
Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother ta...
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The Ragged Edge
Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On "the ragged...
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Britton of the Seventh
In 1876, Lt. Tony Britton of the 7th Cavalry is in love with pretty young Barbara Manning, but the w...
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The Island of Surprise
Robert Lovell falls in love with his father’s secretary Dorothy Arden and marries her in secret desp...
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The Heights of Hazard
Miss Olivia Martindale, at a dinner, announces: "There is no longer any romance in American life," a...
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The Wooing of Princess Pat
To stave off war with a neighboring kingdom, Princess Pat of Paxitania agrees to marry Warburg's Kin...
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A Price for Folly
Noble born but dissolute M. Jean de Segni receives word from his lawyers that his profligate ways, i...
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The Esterbrook Case
Paul Sturgess is engaged to Grace Van Austin. At a party at their Newport home, Grace flirts with Ho...
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The Carpenter
A mysterious, Christ-like stranger in modern (for 1913) clothing brings healing and peace to a famil...
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The Single Track
A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the minin...
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Thin Ice
When Alice Winton's brother embezzles funds belonging to his employer, Benjamin Graves, a promoter o...
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The Leopardess
On a South Sea island, wealthy hunter Scott Quaigg meets Tiare, the daughter of a drunken Scotsman a...
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The Forbidden Valley
A feud has been raging between the Lee and Mitchell families, in the forbidden valley of the Kentuck...
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Daring Hearts
In the summer of 1914, Alsatian maiden Louise de Villars is attacked by two German soldiers. Hugh Br...
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Wild Primrose
Standish, a wealthy Northerner, deserts his untutored Southern wife shortly after their daughter Pri...
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The Life of George Washington
A two-part silent movie, with the first part focusing on Washington's early life and French and Indi...
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A Spring Idyll
An episode of The "Country Life Stories" Series focusing on idealized or dramatic vignettes of rural...
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