Elliott Dexter
Actor · 1879 – 1941 · Galveston, Texas, USA
Elliott Dexter (born Adelbert Elliott Dexter) was an American actor, in films from 1915 to 1925.
Movies24
Movie5.9DramaComedySocialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · 12 votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceMary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Mary of the Movies
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyDirected by Wallace Worsley.
Enter Madame
1922 · 3 votes
- MovieCrimeDrama
Hazel Gray, a young nurse, is in love with Phillip Carson, son of Mrs. Carson-Morgan, a philanthropist.
Public Opinion
1916
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
A Romance of the Redwoods
1917 · 14 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Souls for Sale
1923 · 22 votes
Movie6.3DramaDr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
For Better, for Worse
1919 · 11 votes
Movie10.0DramaA fur smuggler's daughter asks to accompany him on his trip to the US to sell his furs. She falls for Robert, a young man who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man. She and Robert fall in love, but her father suddenly takes her back to Canada to avoid tax agents. Robert searcher for her for a year, and when he finally finds her, he must fight both her father and her father's gang for her. Complications ensue.
A Daughter of the Wolf
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyCharles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Old Wives for New
1918 · 9 votes
Movie6.8DramaWealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Something to Think About
1920 · 6 votes
MovieComedyDramaA married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
Movie9.0RomanceDramaNewland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.
The Age of Innocence
1924 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA silent drama film directed by James Young
The Lash
1916
Movie9.0DramaDuring World War I, a group of German saboteurs plot to blow up an ammunition dump in New York City. A secret agent sets out to stop them.
Sylvia of the Secret Service
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie7.5Comedy
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 · 2 votes
Movie1.0DramaAdventurePhilip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
Daphne and the Pirate
1916 · 2 votes
Movie8.0MysteryCarol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers.
The Verdict
1925 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
David Remon loves barmaid Dulcie, not by choice but by force of circumstances, and attempts to persuade her to marry him rather than submit to a life of drudgery. But Dulcie is thoroughly independent and prefers to earn her own living.
The Masqueraders
1915
Movie7.0DramaNara, the daughter of a wealthy Russian killed by the Bolsheviki, flees to America and meets Adam Pine, a sculptor, who marvels at the beauty of her hands. Through him she meets Mrs. Vanessa Yates, a patroness of the arts, and Dr. Emlen Claveloux, who is completely absorbed in science. Connor Lee, a fake spiritualist, persuades her that she has a God-given power to cure ill people, and profits financially by her success in this work. This brings her into conflict with the physician, whom she loves, but her faith in the power of will and her beauty of character finally teach him that faith is at least an important adjunct to medicine.
The Hands of Nara
1922 · 1 votes
- MovieDramaRomance
While waiting for the detained Lord Traverse, the guest of honor at an English society party, the guests play a game wherein each must tell a complete story before a cigarette burns out. Heléne Dearing relates that her proud father John left England after being exposed as a card cheat and became a whiskey runner near a Canadian lumber camp.
Movie6.8ComedyLeila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Don't Change Your Husband
1919 · 19 votes
Movie8.0DramaTwo men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
Don't Tell Everything
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
For Woman's Favor
1924 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaIn Canada, a young woman of Indian blood marries an Englishman who sends her back to England to humiliate his family and the woman who once spurned him. But the man's brother shows her the ways of English civilization, and a great surprise awaits her husband when he returns to his homeland.
Behold My Wife
1920 · 1 votes