Arthur Shirley

Acting

Arthur Shirley

Born 1886-08-31 · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Acting credits

Muggsy poster
8.0

Joyce 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

The Vivisectionist poster
NR

When 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.

The Vivisectionist

1915

Roped poster
7.0

Wealthy 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

No artwork available
NR

Leather Pushers #10

The Champion

1931

The Shepherd of the Southern Cross poster
9.0

Lady 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

Betty Be Good poster
7.0

Betty Be Good is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Sherwood MacDonald.

Betty Be Good

1917

The Millionaire Paupers poster
NR

Mrs. 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.

The Millionaire Paupers

1915

The Girl Detective poster
5.8

A 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

The Sealed Room poster
7.0

Paul 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

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab poster
8.0

The 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

Alas and Alack poster
5.4

A 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

A Mother's Atonement poster
5.5

A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.

A Mother's Atonement

1915

The Fall of a Nation poster
10.0

A 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

No artwork available
NR

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.

Stronger Than Death

1915

Branding Broadway poster
NR

Drunk 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.

Branding Broadway

1918

Modern Love poster
NR

Stage 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

The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis poster
NR

The 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.

The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis

1915

The Valiants of Virginia poster
NR

When 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.

The Valiants of Virginia

1916

A Bit of Kindling poster
7.0

Alice, a little newsgirl known as "Sticks", spends her time fighting for her territory against a lot of tough kids.

A Bit of Kindling

1917

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Dick Seymour is fortunate in having a nice father and a nice girl as sweetheart. Money is coming to him. But, tempted by woman and wine on the great White Way of New York, he falls down badly. His money is in Paris. In that city he goes from bad to worse and is accused of murder. From jail and death there seems no escape. But his father and sweetheart have been loyal to him and he is proved innocent of the crime and saved. He finds happiness by shunning bad company and bad habits.

The Model

1915

The Sealed Room poster
7.0

Paul 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

The Sealed Room poster
7.0

Paul 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

In Old Kentucky poster
10.0

Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.

In Old Kentucky

1927

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab poster
8.0

The 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

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab poster
8.0

The 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

My Old Dutch poster
4.0

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.

My Old Dutch

1934

No artwork available
9.0

An idiot heir helps a wounded prince save the princess from forced marriage to a usurper.

The Lifeguardsman

1916

Les Deux Gosses poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Deux Gosses

1924