Frank Goldsmith
Actor · 1876 – 1958 · Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
Movies23
- Movie9.0Adventure
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
The King's Highway
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaA young girl inherits half of the Lost Camp Mine when her father dies. His partner tries to help her from being cheated out of her share of the mine, first by local crooks and then by a group of her greedy relatives back East.
Oh, Johnny!
1918 · 1 votes
Movie5.5DramaReputation
1917 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
A Debt of Honour
1922 · 1 votes
Movie1.0DramaBilly Martin is sent to New York to put through a war contract for his father, a new England manufacturer, and takes $100,000 as a security. The munition broker's secretary, a crook, tells Graham, a gambling house keeper, of Billy's coming. Miller is detailed to lure him to the gambling house.
The New York Peacock
1917 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaBritish drama centered on a mother's desperate attempts to save her daughter's failing marriage as the film explores family loyalty, domestic conflict, and the social pressures surrounding divorce during the early 1930s.
Such Is the Law
1930 · 1 votes
Movie7.5WarDramaSet against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
The Guns of Loos
1928 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ThrillerCrimeMerchants hire a foreign criminal to kidnap a scientist for the secret of manufacturing diamonds.
Bulldog Drummond's Third Round
1925 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA resourceful young girl struggles to free herself from slum life.
Movie9.0DramaAmerican author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases an old castle in Switzerland. He discovers the beautiful Aline hiding with a baby in the east tower. Daughter of an American millionaire she on running from her ex-husband Count Tarnowsky, who squandered her money and treated her brutally, but whom the courts have awarded their child. The Count arrives confronting John who overcomes him and has him thrown into the dungeon. Smart, Aline and her child flee on a sleigh speeding towards the Italian border with the escaped Count in pursuit. In the nick of time they safely cross the border and Aline consents to be John's wife.
A Fool and His Money
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WarA dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
How Kitchener Was Betrayed
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0CrimeMystery
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
The Mystery of the Dancing Men
1923 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThe Film Favorite's Finish
1915 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA 1917 silent drama film
Man's Woman
1917
Movie10.0ComedyWhen her two roommates, Maude Raynes and Helen Bartlett, become engaged, Darcy Cole invents a titled fiancé of her own, in part to ward off her friends' nasty remarks about her untidy appearance.
Wanted: A Husband
1919 · 1 votes
MovieDramaMary Dexter comes to Washington with her husband, Phillip, to get his invention, an appliance for battleships, adopted. He runs against graft and influence on all sides and finally realizes he can do nothing without money and "pull." Unknown to Phillip, Mary goes to Senator Barring and by her beauty and charm so interests him that he promises to help her husband.
The Velvet Paw
1916
Movie3.0DramaScandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him.
As in a Looking Glass
1916 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThis picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous "vamp" actress Theda Bara in the role that Lillian Gish later made famous
The Two Orphans
1915
MovieDramaVera, a woman of questionable character places a wager that she will be able to destroy a happy marriage and inveigle the husband into becoming her lover. She succeeds to the extent of a midnight tryst in the family's home, witnessed by the couple's 12-year-old daughter. Her resolve weakened by the child's piteous pleas, Vera deliberately loses the wager, freeing the sadder-but-wider husband to return to his forgiving wife.
Vera, the Medium
1917
Movie9.0ThrillerComedyDepressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears a striking resemblance to Toni, is diagnosed with exhaustion and told to rest. The two swap places but Toni's first client turns out to be an exiled princess whose jewels are about to be stolen by a ruthless gang and the amateur detective finds more thrills than he bargained for.
Toni
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0Crime'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Crooked Billet
1930 · 1 votes
Movie4.5DramaRichard Hall is a successful writer, while his wife, Alice, is interested in pursuing a career as a singer. She meets James Hamilton, a musical agent, who arranges an opera engagement with Rimini, an impresario. Hall quarrels with his wife over this, and they separate, with Hall taking their daughter Grace.
His Greatest Sacrifice
1921 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaCivil engineer George Castleman leaves his wife Mildred in the city and goes South to supervise the construction of a railroad. Not one to be alone for long, Mildred quickly begins an affair with the wealthy and dissolute Arnold Morgan, while George becomes friends with Zell, who lives in the mountains. When George tells Zell about his unhappy marriage, she goes to Mildred, hoping to bring about a reconciliation between her and George. Mildred, however, views Zell's relationship with George as the grounds for divorce that she has been trying to find for so long. She and her lawyer follow Zell back to the mountains, but they die in an accident en route. Zell and George then realize that they love each other and make plans for their life together.
Fate's Boomerang
1916 · 1 votes