Edith Johnson

Acting

Edith Johnson

Born — Died

1894-08-10 — 1969-09-06

Place of birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Known for

A Fight for Millions poster
NR

Jean must marry one of two unwanted men to claim her fortune, but she and her true love, Bob, team up to defeat the scheming suitors and keep her inheritance. 15 episodes: (1) The Snare; (2) Flames of Peril; (3) The Secret Stockade; (4) The Precipice of Horror; (5) The Path of Thrills; (6) The Spell of Evil; (7) The Gorge of Destruction; (8) In the Clutches; (9) The Estate; (10) The Secret Tunnel; (11) The Noose of Death; (12) The Tide of Disaster; (13) The Engine of Terror; (14) The Decoy; and (15) The Sealed Envelope.

A Fight for Millions

1918

No artwork available
7.5

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

Hello, 'Frisco

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Fred Herman, a farmer in Africa, with his wife and baby, lives in happiness. Carl Snyder, an animal trapper, stops at the Herman home. He sees some of Mrs. Herman's paintings and tells her that her talent is too great to be hidden in the wilderness. He asks her to come to the city with him where her artistic talents will have greater scope, and she agrees.

The Baby and the Leopard

1915

Dixieland poster
9.0

A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.

Dixieland

1913

Conscience and the Temptress poster
NR

John Morton, a rising young businessman, comes under the fascinating spell of Vera Violetta, a burlesque actress, and lavishes costly gifts upon her.

Conscience and the Temptress

1914

No artwork available
10.0

A fisherman discovers a young woman on a long-uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle don't have long to live.

The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle

1915

Film credits

1920s · 5 titles

1910s · 23 titles

A Fight for Millions poster
NR

Jean must marry one of two unwanted men to claim her fortune, but she and her true love, Bob, team up to defeat the scheming suitors and keep her inheritance. 15 episodes: (1) The Snare; (2) Flames of Peril; (3) The Secret Stockade; (4) The Precipice of Horror; (5) The Path of Thrills; (6) The Spell of Evil; (7) The Gorge of Destruction; (8) In the Clutches; (9) The Estate; (10) The Secret Tunnel; (11) The Noose of Death; (12) The Tide of Disaster; (13) The Engine of Terror; (14) The Decoy; and (15) The Sealed Envelope.

A Fight for Millions

1918

No artwork available
10.0

Fred Herman, a farmer in Africa, with his wife and baby, lives in happiness. Carl Snyder, an animal trapper, stops at the Herman home. He sees some of Mrs. Herman's paintings and tells her that her talent is too great to be hidden in the wilderness. He asks her to come to the city with him where her artistic talents will have greater scope, and she agrees.

The Baby and the Leopard

1915

Dixieland poster
9.0

A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.

Dixieland

1913

Conscience and the Temptress poster
NR

John Morton, a rising young businessman, comes under the fascinating spell of Vera Violetta, a burlesque actress, and lavishes costly gifts upon her.

Conscience and the Temptress

1914

No artwork available
10.0

A fisherman discovers a young woman on a long-uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle don't have long to live.

The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle

1915

No artwork available
9.0

Billie Benton, a cub reporter, goes to the home of Violet Reynolds, a society girl and settlement worker, and asks for an interview, which is refused. Billie returns to the reportorial room, expresses his failure and the city editor assigns Ned Pelton, another reporter, to get the story.

The Girl and the Reporter

1915

No artwork available
10.0

Author Ramon Valentine lives in the slums looking for inspiration for his novel, but finds life threatening danger instead.

Guilty

1916

No artwork available
NR

The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams). Eventually she commits suicide and her lover dies in an accident. Roanoke lavishes all his love and attention on his daughter (Edith Johnson). As a young woman she goes to the West where she meets the son of the man who broke up her father's marriage.

Sweet Alyssum

1915

The Scarlet Car poster
4.6

Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.

The Scarlet Car

1917

Behind the Lines poster
NR

The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.

Behind the Lines

1916

No artwork available
NR

Aged Jonathan Wise is head curator of the Department of Anthropology in the great museum at X. - He has a considerable fortune saved in the bank, and when Director Henshaw, head of the institution, jokingly shows him an advertisement of a brokerage firm which claims to make investors wealthy, the aged Curator shakes his head and replies, that if he were young again he would venture his savings in such an enterprise.

If I Were Young Again

1914

No artwork available
9.0

Accused of stealing the annual report of the Great Western Railroad Dick Olney is discharged though it was really the president’s secretary Hodges who took it to sell information to the opposition. When Dick saves the life of the president’s daughter, Marjorie and her mother, the boss wishes to reward him, so he gives Dick another chance. Dick becomes suspicious of Hodges, when he learns that he and money lender, Gentry, are in cahoots. He takes desperate measures to foil their plans and succeeds in saving the day!

The Conspiracy

1916

The Scarlet Crystal poster
NR

Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.

The Scarlet Crystal

1917

The Circular Staircase poster
NR

Wealthy spinster, Rachel Innes rents a country house with her niece and nephew for the summer, only for a series of strange occurrences and a murder at the house's circular staircase to lead to shocking revelations about the home's owner and the family secrets within the house.

The Circular Staircase

1915

Rosemary, That's for Remembrance poster
10.0

Dorinda, a mountain girl, left alone by the death of her parents, is adopted by distant relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Greer. Mrs. Greer is not overjoyed by this addition to their family, because all her mother-love and affection is given to their only son, Harvey, just finishing a term at college.

Rosemary, That's for Remembrance

1914

The Fighting Grin poster
NR

A man bets his father $10,000 that he'll marry his girlfriend within the next week, even with the opposition of both his and his girlfriend's fathers.

The Fighting Grin

1918

No artwork available
9.0

Joe Grant is the renegade husband of Lengua, a beautiful South African native girl. John Lewis is a South American trader, living with his daughter Grace. Ned Singleton helps Lewis in his work. Grant steals from Lewis' trading post and orders the abused Lengua to aid him in secreting the loot, and she refuses. She tells Lewis of Grant's misdeeds.

The Jaguar Trap

1915

No artwork available
8.0

15 episode serial: (1) The Riven Flag; (2) The Leap Through Space; (3) The Creeping Death; (4) The Gripping Hand; (5) The Human Shield; (6) The Height of Torment; (7) Into the Trap; (8) The One Chance; (9) The Crashing Horror; (10) Double Crossed; (11) The Ship of Dread; (12) The Volcano's Prey; (13) The Flood of Despair; (14) The Living Catapult; and (15) The Rescue.

Man of Might

1919

The Shuttle poster
NR

American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.

The Shuttle

1918

An Embarrassing Predicament poster
NR

Billy Quill, a bashful bookkeeper, loves Marjorie Keyes, the pretty stenographer. Anatole, the French barber, is also in love with Marjorie, but he is not at all bashful and makes himself a pest by declaring his love for her at every opportunity. Marjorie reciprocates Billy's love, and gives him every opportunity to express his feelings and "pop" the question, but Billy lacks nerve to say the fatal words.

An Embarrassing Predicament

1914

No artwork available
NR

A young woman in the Canadian wilderness, seduced and then abandoned by her Canadian Mountie lover, turns for help to her old Indian friend.

The Lure of the Windigo

1914

Smashing Barriers poster
6.5

When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.

Smashing Barriers

1919

No artwork available
NR

Wade Brent's father bequeaths to his son several hundred thousand dollars, but leaves this in the hands of a strict guardian. Wade's reckless expenditures and dissolute habits were the cause for these restrictions. Included in the property is Brent Hot Springs, a resort and the location of a sanitarium.

Wade Brent Pays

1914