Sidney Olcott
Director · 1873 – 1949 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
John Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben Hur" (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.
Movies13
Movie5.1DramaThe life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
From the Manger to the Cross
1912 · 24 votes
Movie7.4DramaThrillerA young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
The Colleen Bawn
1911 · 4 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceA young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
The Lad from Old Ireland
1910 · 14 votes
Movie5.0ActionDramaSet in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
For Ireland's Sake
1914 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
The old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the past unfolds itself he sees his sweetheart, Dolores, forced by her parents to sign a contract of marriage with Don Carlos, and he again reads over in memory her message of farewell: "My on Love, This is my marriage ever, the death day of my soul. I cannot go without one last farewell to you, whom I will never see again. Wait for ma by the lake until you hear the bells chime. Yours in spirit until death, Dolores." Meeting her at the lake as requested, she gives him her old violin, saying, "I have breathed my soul into this violin. Whene'er it plays, it is my soul that speaks."
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has designs on Eileen, but Myles gives him a beating for his presumption. As a result, Fagin tells Reid that Myles is plotting against the Crown.
All for Old Ireland
1915 · 1 votes
Movie4.5ComedyA constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station when a well-dressed man with a cigar in his teeth enters with his arms around two women dressed in long skirts and jackets, gloves, and fancy hats. The trio laugh and stumble on the platform as if having a hilarious time, getting the attention of the policeman who attempts to stop their bawdy behavior.
2 A.M. in the Subway
1905 · 10 votes
Movie5.0ThrillerUnion raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase was based.
Railroad Raiders of '62
1911 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe story of the Emerald Isle years ago. Showing the struggle against poverty, evictions by hard-hearted landlords, hill fighting and the final triumph of the downtrodden.
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912 · 1 votes
MovieThrillerLockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his arm. The Civil War flashback sequences consist of archive footage from Kalem's Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911), rather than newly filmed footage.
Movie9.0DramaDocumentaryThe Kerry Gow is a 1912 short
Movie9.0DramaRomanceTwo American ladies touring through Germany happen on this little Spreewald girl and offer her a job in America.
The Little Spreewald Maiden
1910 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and return to Ireland where he is united with his sweetheart.
The Shaughraun
1912 · 1 votes