Earl Metcalfe

Acting

Earl Metcalfe

Born 1889-03-10 · Newport, Kentucky, USA

Acting credits

The Battler poster
NR

Clean-living pugilist Jim Fortune assists Angelica Hart when her husband Duncan assaults her in a Bowery café. Soon after, Jim fights a bout with Hart, an amateur society boxer, during a dinner party. Enraged by the sight of whip marks on Angelica's neck, Jim knocks Hart out soundly. In revenge, that night Hart attacks Angelica.

The Battler

1919

Mother Eternal poster
10.0

Unable to support her second child, a boy, Alice Baldwin gives him up to the wife of Edward Stevens, a wealthy manufacturer. Her other child, a daughter, grows up, marries, and selfishly neglects her mother. Twenty years pass, and Alice's son, Edward, Jr., wins a place in the Stevens piano factory and falls in love with Julia Brennon, the owner's daughter. Meanwhile, the mother leaves home when her son-in-law objects to her presence, and she is rescued from a suicide attempt by Edward and Julia. At his foster father's home he realizes her identity, and at last they find happiness together.

Mother Eternal

1921

White Eagle poster
8.0

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

White Eagle

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Private Smith

1913

No artwork available
7.0

A costly gem is stolen from a Hindoo idol and brought to America. Introducing numerous startling incidents, including an auto wreck and a leap for life.

The Eye of a God

1913

Sin Cargo poster
10.0

Mark Russell, captain of a ship sailing from the South Seas to San Francisco, is an innocent victim of a pearl-smuggling scheme by Harry Gibson, and when the pearls are discovered by customs inspectors, Russell takes the blame because of his love for Gibson's sister Eve and to shield her of being disgraced.

Sin Cargo

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gentleman Joe

1912

No artwork available
7.5

Carmelita, jealous of Captain Herbert, who loves Mildred, obtains the assistance of Salvada, a Mexican enemy of Herbert's and personates Mildred, to make the captain jealous...

The Price of Jealousy

1913

The Mystery Club poster
10.0

The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Cranahan, wagering that crimes can be committed without detection by the police; Inspector Burke serves as arbiter. A forfeiture of $25,000 is set, and the members draw secret lots to decide who is to be the criminal. When Burke himself is reported murdered, the members agree to cancel the agreement but cannot find the document.

The Mystery Club

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Mexican Spy

1913

No artwork available
10.0

Stenographer Rita Charles is a woman who courts the attention of wealthy men. Rita works for T. J. Olverson during the day, and sees wealthy New Yorker Hugh Chalvey at night. She meets Dr. Varian, a young settlement doctor, who falls in love with her, but Rita does not encourage him because he does not make enough money. She tries to get Hugh to propose, but he does not want to marry her.

The World to Live In

1919

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide poster
9.0

When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit Carson!

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

1925

The Silent Accuser poster
10.0

After witnessing his master's stepfather being murdered by the conniving Phil, a dog named Peter carries messages in and out of prison for his wrongfully convicted owner, Jack. Later, in Mexico, Peter chases down the villain, forcing a confession and saving Jack.

The Silent Accuser

1924

Love's Blindness poster
8.0

A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".

Love's Blindness

1926

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kitty and the Bandits

1912

No artwork available
9.0

Silent crime drama about the dangers of the title situation.

Ignorance

1916

The Valley of Hate poster
7.0

A young man in South Carolina inherits property in a valley he has never visited before. On arriving he is mistaken by the locals for a revenue officer intent on enforcing the Volstead Act on Prohibition. As the whole area lives off the moonshining trade, this prevents problems - particularly when he falls in love with the daughter of the head of the local producers.

The Valley of Hate

1924

The Fortune Hunter poster
10.0

When perpetual failure Nathaniel Dunham is fired from yet another job, his successful friend Harry Kellogg offers him $500 if Nat will move to a small town, change his ways and marry a rich heiress.

The Fortune Hunter

1920

No artwork available
10.0

Society girl Constance Bailey becomes a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, telling her fiancé, Bruce Van Griff, that she is sailing to Europe.

The New Teacher

1922

No artwork available
7.0

When a rich stranger drives his automobile into a backward mountain village, he sweeps a young girl off her feet with his attentions. This infuriates the local schoolteacher, who's been in love with her for some time. Eventually the stranger lures the girl into running away with him, and the teacher must act quickly to make sure it doesn't happen.

Where the Road Divided

1915

No artwork available
8.0

A gang terrorizes and controls the waterfront.

The Water Rats

1912

The Midnight Sun poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Midnight Sun

1926

While New York Sleeps poster
7.0

An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.

While New York Sleeps

1920

The High Flyer poster
8.0

War veteran Jim is an airplane designer. His best buddy Dick steals his latest design. Dick wants to impress beautiful Winnie and sell Jim's plans to her father, a rich manufacturer, but Jim turns up at the right moment to claim his invention, and he wins Winnie.

The High Flyer

1926

Behind the camera