Writing

Perry N. Vekroff

Born — Died

1881-06-03 — 1937-01-03

Place of birth

Shumen, Bulgaria

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

Perry N. Vekroff (June 3, 1881 – January 3, 1937) was an Bulgarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era. He directed 19 films between 1914 and 1922, including two film serials for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company and one for Pathé.

Known for

A Soldier's Plaything poster
5.4

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

A Soldier's Plaything

1930

When It Strikes Home poster
NR

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but childless marriage when they decide to adopt a child. By chance and unknown to him, the boy is his son.

When It Strikes Home

1915

The More Excellent Way poster
NR

Chrissey Desselden is the ward of John Warburton and has promised to marry him though she is drawn to the roguish Robert Neyland. When Robert’s caddish behavior becomes too flagrant, she marries John despite still feeling a pull towards the bad boy. Conflicted, she asks her husband for time to sort out her feelings but when she discovers Neyland’s plot to destroy John’s fortune for spite she spurns him and settles into a happy marriage.

The More Excellent Way

1917

No artwork available
NR

A young English nobleman is sent to Switzerland by his parents, where he meets a mysterious older woman with whom he has a torrid three-week romance.

Three Weeks

1914

The Child Thou Gavest Me poster
10.0

On her wedding day, Norma Huntley wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be, her secret -- that she mothered a child out of wedlock which subsequently died. Her mother forbids her to reveal this. Only moments after the ceremony, it is discovered that the child, now three, is actually alive. Berkley, incensed at this turn of events, agrees to adopt the child and remain married for appearance's sake -- but when he finds the father, he will kill him.

The Child Thou Gavest Me

1921

Perils of the Yukon poster
8.0

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.

Perils of the Yukon

1922

Behind the camera

A Soldier's Plaything poster
5.4

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

A Soldier's Plaything

1930

When It Strikes Home poster
NR

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but childless marriage when they decide to adopt a child. By chance and unknown to him, the boy is his son.

When It Strikes Home

1915

The More Excellent Way poster
NR

Chrissey Desselden is the ward of John Warburton and has promised to marry him though she is drawn to the roguish Robert Neyland. When Robert’s caddish behavior becomes too flagrant, she marries John despite still feeling a pull towards the bad boy. Conflicted, she asks her husband for time to sort out her feelings but when she discovers Neyland’s plot to destroy John’s fortune for spite she spurns him and settles into a happy marriage.

The More Excellent Way

1917

No artwork available
NR

A young English nobleman is sent to Switzerland by his parents, where he meets a mysterious older woman with whom he has a torrid three-week romance.

Three Weeks

1914

The Child Thou Gavest Me poster
10.0

On her wedding day, Norma Huntley wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be, her secret -- that she mothered a child out of wedlock which subsequently died. Her mother forbids her to reveal this. Only moments after the ceremony, it is discovered that the child, now three, is actually alive. Berkley, incensed at this turn of events, agrees to adopt the child and remain married for appearance's sake -- but when he finds the father, he will kill him.

The Child Thou Gavest Me

1921

Perils of the Yukon poster
8.0

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.

Perils of the Yukon

1922

Big Boy poster
5.2

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

Big Boy

1930

Men poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Men

1918

Richard the Brazen poster
NR

"Richard the Brazen" is the romance of a modern knight who has all the flourish and daring of the knights of old, although he happened to be born in Texas in the 20th century. While traveling with his chum, an English peer, an accident forces him to assume his friend's title, valet, and monocle and leads to a meeting with a girl whom he had worshipped from afar in England.

Richard the Brazen

1917

The Secret of Eve poster
NR

A gypsy woman, Hagar, abandons her baby, Eve, on the doorstep of a Quaker family, the Fothergills, hoping for a better life for her child, who is then raised as their daughter.

The Secret of Eve

1917

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Should a Baby Die?

1916

Trailed by Three poster
8.0

The story of a girl who for months was in perpetual peril; on land, on sea, everywhere, Orient, Occident, and the Antipodes.

Trailed by Three

1920

Bridges Burned poster
8.0

When Mary O'Brien falls in love with Ernest Randall, the younger son of an English baronet, she gives herself completely to him and becomes pregnant. Her father (Robert Broderick), an Irish gentleman, finds this out and demands that she marry Randall.

Bridges Burned

1917