Arthur Shirley
Actor · 1886 – 1967 · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Movies19
- MovieDrama
Leather Pushers #10
The Champion
1931
Movie10.0DramaA sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
The Fall of a Nation
1916 · 1 votes
MovieHorrorWhen a neighbor complains about strange noises, an officer goes undercover to investigate Dr. Jardine. After her cover is blown, she infiltrates his lab and stops him from performing an illegal surgery on an escaped convict.
Movie5.5DramaA man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
A Mother's Atonement
1915 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWesternWealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.
Roped
1919 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaLady Helen Reynolds is forced to choose one of her two cousins to be her husband if she wants to inherit a large fortune.
The Shepherd of the Southern Cross
1914 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Mystery of a Hansom Cab is an Australian silent film directed by and starring Arthur Shirley based on the extremely popular novel.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
1925 · 1 votes
MovieDramaWhen his opponent is killed after a duel over the honor of Virginia belle Judith Fairfax John Valiant flees North. Before taking flight John entrusts a note of explanation for Judith to Major Bristow. Bristow, however, has designs on the belle and withholds the missive. As the years pass John founds a successful business, loses his wife in childbirth and Judith marries Tom Dandridge and has a daughter, Shirley. Many years later, John Jr., now head of the Valiant Corporation, returns to his father’s estate during a financial crisis and falls in love with Shirley Dandridge. To rekindle her romance with John, Katherine tells Shirley of the family feud and Shirley suddenly cools toward John. On his deathbed, Barstow finally gives Judith John's letter in which John reveals that Edward had shot himself during the duel. John and Shirley are happily reconciled.
Movie5.8MysteryThrillerA series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.
The Girl Detective
1915 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DramaAlice, a little newsgirl known as "Sticks", spends her time fighting for her territory against a lot of tough kids.
A Bit of Kindling
1917 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThrillerPaul Craig is an aviator-inventor who becomes blind due to overwork. He stumbles into a room as a person is being killed by foreign agents - who decide to let Craig live because he cannot identify them. The murder is part of a plot to overthrow the monarchy of fictional Ruvania.
The Sealed Room
1926 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaJoyce Tolliver, whose nickname is Muggsy, plays baseball, fights and swears with boys, and is severely punished by her elders. When she grows up, she is disguised as a boy, and sent to live with a wealthy old uncle, Leslie Bolton, who hates women. Her ruse works perfectly until she falls in love. When Bolton e discovers that his supposed nephew is really his niece, he orders her out, but after he realizes that he cannot get along without her, he sends for her to return.
Muggsy
1919 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRomanceThe heraldic image of the fleur-de-lis weaves through the story of an orphaned girl, born with a birthmark in the shape of the insignia her mother had become obsessed with before her death, as her own fascination with the symbol leads her to a series of troubled relationships with powerful men. Partially lost: an unknown length of the film survives.
MovieDramaMrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other.
Movie5.4DramaA fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
Alas and Alack
1915 · 5 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaBetty Be Good is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Sherwood MacDonald.
Betty Be Good
1917 · 1 votes
- MovieDramaRomance
Out of gratitude for her upbringing, young orphan June Lathrop marries her older guardian. Following his death, a ghostly encounter, and a near-fatal sleepwalking fall, her spirit is ultimately released from a promise to never remarry.
MovieDramaRomanceStage actors Della and Julian, while playing a series of one-night-stands, miss their train and the troupe on it. They move into a hotel. A fight breaks out.
Modern Love
1918
MovieRomanceComedyDrunk and disorderly cowpoke Robert Sands is banished from an Arizona frontier town and hops on a freight train heading for New York. Arriving in Manhattan, the rough-and-tumble cowboy obtains a position as "physical guardian" to a spoiled member of the social register.