Ruth Roland
Birthday: 1892-08-24
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: American actress and film producer. Most famous for her starring roles in adventures serials produced by her own production company.
Movies
In Peril of Their Lives
A California fisherman starts with his family for a trip up the coast. When the party finds a desira...
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The Hobo and the Myth
Bill interrupts a dress rehearsal in a wooded section, being held by several society girls who are t...
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While Father Telephoned
Marlin takes his daughter, Ethel, to the seashore in hopes that she will annex a rich husband. The f...
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Her Indian Mother
The scenes are laid in the Hudson Bay country in comparatively recent years and cover the life of a ...
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The Sultana
Rich young playboy Gregory Kirkland reads a newspaper story about a daring robbery, and bets his fri...
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The Stolen Play
A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, w...
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Copyright Comedies and More
A compilation of thirteen rare silent films digitized by the Library of Congress, selected for the 2...
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The Sheriff of Stone Gulch
In this rare, surviving one-reel Western from the pioneering Kalem company, Ruth Roland's fiancé, Di...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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The Girl Detective
A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for th...
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The Timber Queen
The Timber Queen follows Ruth Rowland as the inheritor of a wealthy timber business who tries to st...
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The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....
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'Walk, -- You, Walk!'
The concept for Walk,—You, Walk! is as old as the battle of the sexes: When Rose’s date tries to get...
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The Matrimonial Martyr
Erma Desmond leaves her uncle and aunt to visit a friend, Phyllis, in the city. There, she finds wor...
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Sherlock Bonehead
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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The Peace Offering
Arthur, who has been out the night before, is late to breakfast, much to the annoyance of his wife. ...
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The Burglar and the Baby
Driven to desperation by his wife's nagging, Mr. Nag, who ordinarily is as meek as any lamb, rebels,...
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From Nine to Nine
Ruth Roland in her last role alongside Roland Drew in a mystery about murder, blackmail and stolen j...
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The Adventures of Ruth
Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he ref...
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Who Pays?
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King...
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Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw
After he learns hypnotism, a husband uses it on his wife and mother-in-law. While they're in a tranc...
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The Tiger's Trail
A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of ri...
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Hands Up
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of th...
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The Masked Woman
Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite ch...
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The Scarlet Letter
"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Engl...
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Cupid Angling
Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearanc...
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Where the Worst Begins
Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she...
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The Red Circle
The Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress and ex...
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Ruth of the Rockies
A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the t...
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The Devil's Bait
A father's strict upbringing of his beautiful but innocent young daughter may backfire on him when h...
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The Great Chase
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences...
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Haunted Valley
Ruth, the owner of Haunted Valley, borrows a million dollars in order to finish a dam. The terms of ...
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The Avenging Arrow
A young woman tries to find out the reason behind why all of her female ancestors have been killed b...
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