Gertrude McCoy

Acting

Gertrude McCoy

Born — Died

1890-06-30 — 1967-07-17

Place of birth

Sugar Valley, Georgia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

From Wikipedia Gertrude McCoy (June 30, 1890 – July 17, 1967) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926. She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.

Known for

Madame Sherry poster
9.0

Periodically, Edward Sherry has received sums of money from his uncle Theophilus, because he made his uncle believe that he had a wife and children. When Theophilus comes to visit with his niece Yvonne, who has just left a convent, Edward hires a wife and borrows children to perpetuate the ruse.

Madame Sherry

1917

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9.0

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

Heartstrings

1923

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4.0

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him.

A Soldier's Duty

1912

No artwork available
5.7

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story

1912

Nelson poster
3.0

Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.

Nelson

1926

Always Tell Your Wife poster
5.2

A British short comedy about two married couples whose romantic entanglements lead to farcical complications. When the original director Hugh Croise fell ill, Alfred Hitchcock and Seymour Hicks completed the film. Released in 1923 as a remake of the 1914 Leedham Bantock version, only one of its two reels is known to survive.

Always Tell Your Wife

1923

Film credits

1920s · 12 titles

No artwork available
9.0

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

Heartstrings

1923

Nelson poster
3.0

Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.

Nelson

1926

Always Tell Your Wife poster
5.2

A British short comedy about two married couples whose romantic entanglements lead to farcical complications. When the original director Hugh Croise fell ill, Alfred Hitchcock and Seymour Hicks completed the film. Released in 1923 as a remake of the 1914 Leedham Bantock version, only one of its two reels is known to survive.

Always Tell Your Wife

1923

No artwork available
7.0

A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.

Miriam Rozella

1924

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcco, der Bezwinger des Todes

1925

No artwork available
7.0

A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.

Tell Your Children

1922

No artwork available
10.0

A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.

The Temptation of Carlton Earle

1923

Hidden Fires poster
7.0

German made drama was one of several the notorious Mary Nolan, under her given name Imogene Robertson, made during her European exile brought on by innumerable scandals in America.

Hidden Fires

1925

No artwork available
9.0

A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.

Nets of Destiny

1924

No artwork available
8.0

Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.

The Diamond Man

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

A Royal Divorce

1923

No artwork available
7.0

A bored Lord saves a fishergirl's lover from drowning

Christie Johnstone

1921

1910s · 23 titles

Madame Sherry poster
9.0

Periodically, Edward Sherry has received sums of money from his uncle Theophilus, because he made his uncle believe that he had a wife and children. When Theophilus comes to visit with his niece Yvonne, who has just left a convent, Edward hires a wife and borrows children to perpetuate the ruse.

Madame Sherry

1917

No artwork available
4.0

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him.

A Soldier's Duty

1912

No artwork available
5.7

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story

1912

His Mother's Hope poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

His Mother's Hope

1912

No artwork available
NR

Gertrude Sawyer supports herself and an invalid sister on her wages as stenographer of a large corporation, but her income does not allow her to fulfill her longing to have her sister seek the remedy of the seaside, or to furnish what conduces to quick recovery. Gertrude's employer, Charles Hardin, has a business rival, Joe Elbert, whom he is anxious to crush. Eager to obtain inside information, Hardin so contrives matters that Gertrude quits his employ and secures a similar position with Elbert

The Stenographer

1914

Through Turbulent Waters poster
NR

The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.

Through Turbulent Waters

1915

No artwork available
NR

Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.

A Letter to Uncle Sam

1913

The Usurer's Grip poster
5.7

Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.

The Usurer's Grip

1912

No artwork available
9.0

William Thompson slips away to New York, leaving his wife and daughter to shift for themselves. He obtains a station and finally becomes head waiter in one of the gay restaurants of the Great White Way. As years slip by his daughter becomes star-struck. Harry Valentine, the manager, notices her pretty face and tries to take her from town with him, although he has no position in the company to offer her. This she declines, but when he later writes her that he will marry her if she will come to New York and will also place her on the stage, she decides to leave her mother and accept the offer. Of course, Valentine has no intention of marrying her and when he meets her in New York he takes her for a little supper at the restaurant before the supposititious wedding ceremony and thus Thompson is brought face to face with his daughter.

His Daughter

1912

The Blue Bird poster
6.7

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

The Blue Bird

1918

No artwork available
8.0

Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a young girl is searching for an important paper. All three are involved in a Tango which reaches a sensational climax in the death of the other crook.

The Brass Bowl

1914

No artwork available
NR

John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.

The President’s Special

1914

No artwork available
7.5

Mr. Clayworth, a wealthy American and self-made man, has a daughter Bessie, who is determined to marry a foreign title much against her father's wishes. She has an American suitor, William Brooks, who is deeply in love with her but he is given little encouragement. Mr. Clayworth plans to discourage his daughter with nobility and accordingly goes to an employment agency where he engages three foreign menials to impersonate noblemen, supplying them with evening clothes and arranging to have them call at his house that evening. Bessie is overjoyed when she learns from father that three noblemen are to honor them with their presence. Father incidentally suggests that if the noblemen do not come up to her expectations to patch up her little quarrel with Billy and say no more about marrying a title. The fun begins when the three bogus noblemen present themselves at Clayworth's house as Duke Macaroni, Lord Brien Berue and Baron Hasenpfeffer.

The Title Cure

1913

Men poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Men

1918

No artwork available
10.0

Should she marry for love or for money?

How They Outwitted Father

1913

A Serenade by Proxy poster
6.0

A farmer’s daughter helps a farmhand win the heart of a cook by convincing him to serenade her, with unexpected results.

A Serenade by Proxy

1913

Jack and the Beanstalk poster
9.0

We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs.

Jack and the Beanstalk

1912

The Danger Mark poster
NR

Scott Seagrave and his sister Geraldine are left the family estate when their wealthy alcoholic father dies. Unfortunately, they've also inherited his problems with alcohol, so they stay at the estate in seclusion. When Geraldine reaches "coming-out" age, Scott throws her a coming-out party. However, one of the men after her hand in marriage, Jack Dysart, tricks her into taking a drink, and she winds up embarrassing and humiliating herself in front of an old family friend, Duane Mallett, whose daughter Sylvia is in love with Jack, even though he's treated her shabbily.

The Danger Mark

1918

Revenge Is Sweet poster
5.7

A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.

Revenge Is Sweet

1912

Caste poster
10.0

Eccles, a profligate old drunkard, is the father of two beautiful girls, Esther and Polly. George D'Alroy, a young officer in the British Army who is infatuated with Esther, brings his friend, Captain Hawtree, to call. The captain is greatly taken with the lively Polly, who makes him carry the teakettle about and generally dance attendance on her to the emphatic disgust of Sam Garridge, an ardent suitor for Polly's hand. Meanwhile Esther shows George a letter from an impresario offering her an engagement on the stage. The offer seems a veritable godsend to the girl, but she changes her mind when George asks her to be his wife instead. A few months after they are married, George receives the unpleasant news that he must sail for India with his regiment. Owing to her ultra-aristocratic ideas, George has not dared to tell his mother, the Marchioness D'Alroy, that he has married a girl of common origin, and he is in a quandary as to what provision he should make for Esther.

Caste

1913

His Daughter Pays poster
9.0

To pay off his extensive debts, Armand La Tour agrees to sell government secrets to a gang of spies, but when he fails to produce any information, Ben Hassan, the ring leader, kidnaps Louise, La Tour's eldest daughter, and forces her to perform Turkish dances in his cabaret.

His Daughter Pays

1918

What Could She Do? poster
NR

The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York. (Note: Only 2 of 3 reels exist)

What Could She Do?

1914

The Silent Witness poster
9.0

Janet Rigsby loves Richard Morgan, a Denver college student, but loses him when he is caught in a fire. Shortly after Richard's presumed demise, Janet leaves her home and bears a son out of wedlock. Over the years, she struggles to make ends meet while raising Bud, her son, on her own. Although her savings are small, Janet manages to send Bud to college. Chastised for his poverty and illegitimate birth, Bud, who is in love with the college gardener's daughter, suffers the ridicule of his peers and eventually comes to blows with and threatens one particular boy for insulting his mother. In the ensuing confrontation, the boy is killed and Bud is arrested for the crime. During the course of the trial, Bud discovers that the district attorney is Richard Morgan, his father. The testimony of one expert witness reveals how the murder in truth was committed, and a liberated Bud happily reunites with his mother and new-found father.

The Silent Witness

1917

Behind the camera