Acting

Percy Standing

Born 1882-10-26 · Lambeth, London, England, UK

From Wikipedia Percy Standing (26 October 1882 – 17 September 1950) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was the son of Herbert Standing (1846–1923). Several of his brothers were actors including Sir Guy Standing, Wyndham Standing and Jack Standing. He was born in Lambeth, London and died in Placer County, California, USA.

Acting credits

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10.0

'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)

Colonel Blood

1934

The Miracle of Love poster
8.0

Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name.

The Miracle of Love

1919

The Mystery Road poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Mystery Road

1921

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NR

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Zaken zijn zaken

1921

The Captain's Captain poster
NR

Louise Grayling escapes from a straight-laced aunt on a plea that she wants to visit her uncle, Captain Abe, on Cape Cod. Abe is henpecked by his housekeeper and rather looked down upon by the villagers who haunt his store. To give himself a fictitious glory he invents a fictitious brother, Amzon, who is a composite of all the pirates from Blackbeard to the food profiteers. Louise penetrates the deception and induced Abe to go away and come back as the fictitious brother.

The Captain's Captain

1919

A Game with Fate poster
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After Henry Dawson and Robert Harwell quarrel at Elaine Huntington's garden party, Henry disappears and Robert is accused of murder. Although Robert is found guilty and sentenced to death, Elaine, who loves him, believes he is innocent and does everything in her power to help him.

A Game with Fate

1918

Her Fighting Chance poster
NR

Corporal Blake is sent to apprehend the murderer of François Breault. All evidence points to Jan Thoreau as the guilty man. Blake arrives at Thoreau's cabin while he is away and is greeted by his wife Marie. Posing as a friend of her husband, Blake learns that Thoreau and Breault had quarreled shortly before the murder. This, together with Breault's dying accusation that Thoreau was his murderer, seems undeniable evidence. Blake, fascinated by Marie, agrees to let Thoreau escape, providing that she become his mistress. After much anguish, she consents. When Thoreau arrives, Blake arrests him but during the night Marie helps him escape. Blake goes in pursuit.

Her Fighting Chance

1917

The Business of Life poster
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Carrying on with the antique business of her deceased father, Jacqueline Nevers is asked to catalog James Desboro's collection. When they fall in love, it induces the jealousy of Elena Clydesdale, a married woman who is also in love with James.

The Business of Life

1918

Everybody's Girl poster
9.0

Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It is all the home she has and the girls have to receive their company in the parks because there is no reception room, the millionaire owner of the Row having sublet the parlors. They see no harm in chance acquaintances. Then Florence meets Blinker, and real love comes into her life; but Blinker learns of what to him seems her promiscuous acquaintances and makes it plain that he cannot marry such a woman.

Everybody's Girl

1918

The Final Judgment poster
NR

Actress Jane Carleson has three admirers: Henry Strong (a millionaire), Hamilton Ross (a chemist), and Murray Campbell (a district attorney). When Jane weds Campbell, Ross writes an anonymous letter to Campbell, warning him that Strong is after his wife.

The Final Judgment

1915

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NR

When the United States enters World War I, a mother sends her two eldest sons off to the battlefields with a smile, although her heart is breaking.

Every Mother's Son

1918

Aaron's Rod poster
7.5

A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers

Aaron's Rod

1923

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8.0

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A Gipsy Cavalier

1922

Fires of Fate poster
10.0

Colonel Egerton, a British officer told he has only one year to live, who finds renewed purpose while traveling in Egypt. He rescues a young woman from an Arab prince and fights to protect tourists from hostile forces in the Libyan Desert.

Fires of Fate

1923

Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases poster
8.0

Eille Norwood stars as the Great Detective in three episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; The Golden Pince-Nez, which features Holmes’ deductive powers at work; and The Final Problem, featuring the sinister Professor Moriarty. The episodes are accompanied by newly commissioned scores by Joanna MacGregor, Neil Brand and Joseph Havlat.

Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases

2025

The Flame of Love poster
6.0

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

The Flame of Love

1930

The Final Problem poster
7.0

Holmes and Watson travel to Cheddar Gorge to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.

The Final Problem

1923

Harmony Heaven poster
8.2

The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.

Harmony Heaven

1930

The Desert Sheik poster
9.0

Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?

The Desert Sheik

1924

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

Bonds of Love poster
NR

A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.

Bonds of Love

1919

Kaiser's Finish poster
NR

During World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--is sent to Germany as a spy in order to kill both the Kaiser and his son.

Kaiser's Finish

1918

Life Without Soul poster
NR

A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.

Life Without Soul

1915

Should a Husband Forgive? poster
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After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a duel and is killed. Mary is thrown out by her husband's wealthy family and separated from her little boy, John Carroll, Jr. Years later, John Jr. falls in love with Ruth Fulton, the daughter of the horse trainer for Rex Burleigh. When her father dies, Ruth accepts Rex's offer to care for her, but she leaves the expensive apartment he has provided when she learns his true motives.

Should a Husband Forgive?

1919