Edward Coxen

Acting

Edward Coxen

Born — Died

1880-08-08 — 1954-11-21

Place of birth

Southwark, London, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

One Million B.C. poster
5.8

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

One Million B.C.

1940

Our Hospitality poster
7.5

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Our Hospitality

1923

Wild Girl poster
6.2

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

Wild Girl

1932

Thunder Trail poster
8.0

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Thunder Trail

1937

No artwork available
9.0

Wealthy bachelor Forest Keene lives in a mansion with his nephew Rex Booth and housekeeper Janet. Rex and Janet are in love with each other, but Keene objects to the match threatening disinheritance in the event of a marriage. Gifted with an ancient knife, Keene nods off holding it, falling into a nightmare where he sees the ruination of them all because of his obstinacy. Awakening he realizes the folly of his objections and gives his consent to Rex and Janet’s union.

The Forecast

1915

Desert Gold poster
9.0

In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (Margery Wilson) from the clutches of notorious outlaw Rojas (Walter Long). Mercedes' fiancé, Captain George Thorne (Edward Coxen), entrusts her to Gale's care when he returns to duty.

Desert Gold

1919

Film credits

1930s · 9 titles

Wild Girl poster
6.2

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

Wild Girl

1932

Thunder Trail poster
8.0

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Thunder Trail

1937

Wheels of Destiny poster
5.3

Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.

Wheels of Destiny

1934

King of the Arena poster
8.5

Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.

King of the Arena

1933

The Ghost Rider poster
6.3

Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He kills two of them leaving an ace as his calling card. Bull remembers the deck of cards that fell when he fought Dave had no aces and the Rascob's set out after him. Trapped in a cabin, Dave receives unexpected help from Bullard.

The Ghost Rider

1935

Young Blood poster
10.0

A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.

Young Blood

1932

Code of the Range poster
8.0

Ford Beebe's "original screenplay" (he had used it before) finds the cattlemen, headed by "Calamity" Parker, opposing the use of their rangelands by sheepherders, with cattlemen Lee Jamison and Ed Randall in the dissenting minority and they offer sheepman Angus McLeod free grazing privileges. Saloon owner Barney Ross offers to keep the sheepmen off of the range and out of town if each cattleman will pay $500.

Code of the Range

1936

Down the Wyoming Trail poster
6.5

Tex arrives on the Parker ranch on Christman eve and is given the job of being Santa Claus. Also dressed as Santa Claus, Blackie robs Parker and kills a man. When Tex is arrested for the murder, he escapes and joins up with outlaw Becker and his gang. He finds Blackie's Santa Claus suit but is soon made a prisoner.

Down the Wyoming Trail

1939

Smoking Guns poster
10.0

Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.

Smoking Guns

1934

1920s · 10 titles

Our Hospitality poster
7.5

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Our Hospitality

1923

As No Man Has Loved poster
7.0

Also known as The Man Without a Country

As No Man Has Loved

1925

No artwork available
7.0

Virginia Clerson lives in sordid surroundings with her drunken father, her thieving brother Frank and her wastrel sister Laura. Deciding to take a different path, Virginia runs away from her unhappy home and obtains work in a millinery factory, telling her employer, Frederick Parker, that her relatives are all dead. Virginia works hard, soon becoming superintendent of the factory, and Frederick falls in love with her. She rescues Laura from her lot as a scrubwoman, but just as Virginia and Frederick are to be married, Frank appears and reveals his sister's past.

The Path She Chose

1920

Galloping Fury poster
9.0

Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could desire. Then the land-grabbers, clay-speculators, cosmetic companies and a show girl or two show up to get a piece of the action.

Galloping Fury

1927

Singer Jim Mckee poster
10.0

Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.

Singer Jim Mckee

1924

No artwork available
9.0

A 1924 silent drama.

One Glorious Night

1924

The Return of Grey Wolf poster
9.5

Grey Wolf, a German Shepherd Dog, leads the human hero to victory in this silent western.

The Return of Grey Wolf

1926

No artwork available
8.0

In the frozen north, a husky but not over-bright half-breed Indian seeks the identity of his white father. Any child in the audience could have told him this – despite the fact that the hissable hypocrite is actually presented as a man of character.

The Test of Donald Norton

1926

No artwork available
NR

Evelina Grey is the prettiest girl of the small community where she lives. Her sweetheart is Dr. Dexter, and they share a passion for scientific research. While they are both working in the laboratory one day, there is an explosion which renders Evelina unconscious. Concerned that her beauty has been marred, Dexter disappears.

The Veiled Woman

1922

Desperate Trails poster
7.0

Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is her brother but who is really a husband who has deserted his wife and two children.

Desperate Trails

1921

1910s · 39 titles

No artwork available
9.0

Wealthy bachelor Forest Keene lives in a mansion with his nephew Rex Booth and housekeeper Janet. Rex and Janet are in love with each other, but Keene objects to the match threatening disinheritance in the event of a marriage. Gifted with an ancient knife, Keene nods off holding it, falling into a nightmare where he sees the ruination of them all because of his obstinacy. Awakening he realizes the folly of his objections and gives his consent to Rex and Janet’s union.

The Forecast

1915

Desert Gold poster
9.0

In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (Margery Wilson) from the clutches of notorious outlaw Rojas (Walter Long). Mercedes' fiancé, Captain George Thorne (Edward Coxen), entrusts her to Gale's care when he returns to duty.

Desert Gold

1919

No artwork available
7.0

A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpose of establishing a scandal which he is to be forced to sell his paper in order to hush up. The arrangements, overheard by the daughter, are frustrated by her locking the maid in her closet, and impersonating her herself. The result is comical and satisfying.

Reprisal

1915

No artwork available
8.0

Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife, Mrs. Steven Brooks, and another woman named Nell. The relationships and events that unfold ultimately test Steven's resolve and character, leading to a dramatic conclusion.

The Resolve

1915

Mother, I Need You poster
NR

A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an abortion.

Mother, I Need You

1918

Quicksand poster
8.0

Jim Bowen, a cashier in a prosperous insurance firm, lives happily with his wife Mary and son Frankie until Alan Perry, the profligate son of Jim's employer, frames Jim for forgery.

Quicksand

1918

No artwork available
NR

Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he will be home in a few days. Traveling salesman John Smith leaves for a short business trip. He also tells Mrs. Smith to expect him in a few days. Salesman John wires his wife that he will be held up until the next day. Adjuster John Smith wires his wife that he will be home on the midnight express and to have lunch ready for him. The messages get crossed and many comical misunderstandings results until all is happily resolved.

Mixed Wires

1915

No artwork available
NR

Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied due to the mother's desire for a wealthy match. A dream reveals the potential unhappiness of such a marriage when Edith's mother envisions Edith married to a wealthy man who neglects her. The dream, filled with infidelity and public humiliation, convinces the mother that a loveless, wealthy marriage is not worth it. Upon waking, she happily grants her consent to Fred and Edith's union.

The Problem

1915

A Law Unto Herself poster
9.0

The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Bertrand Duroc, the humble overseer of her father's estate. His pride wounded, Von Klassner murders Duroc and shifts the blame to marauding poachers.

A Law Unto Herself

1918

No artwork available
NR

Burglar Spider Barlow in looking through his little notebook and decides to rob the Morey mansion that night. Will Rand has been courting Rita Morey, chooses the same night for his proposal to Rita. Spider ends up with her engagement ring, but Will and Rita still have each other.

Spider Barlow Cuts In

1915

No artwork available
NR

Lumber magnate Elihu Bennett seeks a monopoly in California's redwoods, clashing with mountain families like the Simpsons, who own valuable timber land. His daughter Ruth Bennett, educated and independent, disguises herself as a stenographer to spy on Stocker, her father's unscrupulous partner, and discovers his fraudulent schemes. She falls for Jerry Simpson, a lawyer and leader of the mountain folk, learning of Stocker's plot to steal their land and destroy ancient trees, including a beloved sequoia. After Stocker assaults Ruth, Jerry saves her, and Stocker dies in a reckless escape down a water flume. Elihu Bennett, realizing the truth, agrees to let the Simpsons keep their land, and Ruth and Jerry's love story culminates.

Out of the Rainbow

1916

The Voice of Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Voice of Love

1916

More Deadly Than the Male poster
7.0

More Deadly Than The Male is a 1919 silent film comedy adventure directed by Robert G. Vignola.

More Deadly Than the Male

1919

The Alarm of Angelone poster
NR

Angelone, a poor Italian man, works hard in America to support his family back home and eventually bring them over. A mix-up leads to him having to serve time in prison. This film appears to be lost.

The Alarm of Angelone

1914

No artwork available
NR

Young lawyer Richard Potter and Irene Roberts are secretly engaged but Irene’s social climbing mother wants her to marry a wealthy man. To that end she schemes with banker David Winters to break up Richard and Irene and pair her with Winters profligate son Gerald Winters. They succeed temporarily but Gerald is a violent drunk who runs with a fast crowd and eventually ends up charged with murder. Though innocent Gerald has been well framed and faces the gallows until Irene appeals to Richard, now the District Attorney, for aid. At the eleventh hour a confession saves Richard, allowing Richard and Irene to reunite.

The Profligate

1916

Go West, Young Man poster
NR

Wealthy Easterner Dick Latham, determined to disprove his father Amos' accusation that he is an idler, rides the rails West to the mining town of Twin Bridges. Hugh Godson, the town's corrupt political boss, appoints Dick sheriff, supposing him an easily manipulated tenderfoot. To Godson's dismay, Dick proceeds to clean up Twin Bridges, closing the saloons and gambling dens, and forcing even the most hardened miners to attend church.

Go West, Young Man

1918

No artwork available
9.0

Bank cashier Norman Stockton is falsely accused of embezzlement. He flees to the North, becomes a prospector, and his wife, Bess, follows, losing her memory after a shipwreck rescue. A lightning strike restores her memory, revealing the truth and reuniting the couple after 16 years.

The Key to the Past

1915

The Heart of Rachael poster
8.0

Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he ignores her for the bottle. In addition, his daughter, Billy (Ella Hall), who is not much younger than Rachael, is spoiled. When Rachael meets the family doctor, Warren Gregory (Herbert Heyes), they fall in love.

The Heart of Rachael

1918

No artwork available
7.0

Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he and Marie are mutually attracted to each other. This attraction leads Marie to return the engagement ring to Roy. One evening, Marie pretends to have a headache to stay home from the opera with her parents, dismissing her maid, expecting a visit from Allan. Instead, Roy arrives, sees Marie with Boyd, and discovers their relationship. Later, Allan's brother, Dr. Boyd, informs Roy that Marie has been in an eastern hospital and has given birth to a baby. He shares a statement from Marie naming the father. A year later, Allan marries, having seemingly forgotten Marie.

The Jilt

1915

No artwork available
9.0

The story of Juanita, Romero, and Pedro, with a central plot revolving around love, betrayal, and revenge. Romero, a wealthy fisherman, loses Juanita to Pedro, an itinerant musician. After being wounded in a duel with Romero, Pedro abandons Juanita, and she eventually returns to Romero, now a water carrier.

The Water Carrier of San Juan

1915

Out Of The Ashes poster
NR

Silent film drama..

Out Of The Ashes

1915

The Curse of Eve poster
9.0

When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the movement to rescue "wayward" girls. Eva's boyfriend John Gilbert is sent west on a government job, and Eva finds herself lonely and neglected. She is lured onto the yacht of lecherous Leo Spencer, the dissolute brother of the district attorney.

The Curse of Eve

1917

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comrades Three

1915

Beware of Strangers poster
NR

Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell

Beware of Strangers

1917

No artwork available
8.0

Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne has just admonished the young couple when he is entrapped by a flirtatious gypsy beauty. When an innocent but comprising, situation occurs the gypsy’s husband Tony appears and demands $1,000 in a designated spot to escape an Italian bomb. Ethel and Jack find the note so when Dunne leaves the money, Jack arrests Tony and banks the money to Ethel's credit. Arriving home Father Norton tells of his great bravery in foiling the designing gypsy, but Jack and Ethel reveal their part in the little comedy.

The High Cost of Flirting

1915

No artwork available
NR

Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's farm have departed, but two of them, Lloyd Norman and his cousin Edgar, remain in Mary's thoughts. Mary is concerned about a promise that was made to her earlier, and awaits a summons that would bring her happiness, but it never arrives.

One Summer's Sequel

1915

No artwork available
7.0

Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly in love with Louise, gets Leo intoxicated and sends him to her home. Louise breaks off the engagement and Bruce pursues her. Undecided, she slips into a dream where she is mired in a life of misery with Morgan, who has become a worse drunkard than Holmes as well as selfish and brutal. In trying to defend herself from Bruce she kills him with a pair of shears. Holmes, a poor derelict, hears her scream, rushes to her rescue. Louise awakens and sends for Leo.

The Derelict

1915

A Man's Man poster
NR

John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts for Denver. On the train is Dolores Ruey, a beautiful Spanish girl reared in the United States. Webster thrashes a travelling salesman who has been forcing his attentions on Dolores and thereby gains her admiration. Upon his arrival in Denver he leaves for Sobrante, Central America, to finance a mine found by his former protege, Billy Geary. Dolores is also bound for Sobrante. Her father, Don Ricardo Ruey, had been President of the Republic, until he was killed by revolutionists. They board the same train but Webster is seized with ptomaine poisoning and is removed to a hospital. Dolores is met by Billy Geary, who falls desperately in love with her. When he arrives. Webster does everything to give Geary a clear field, but after he has put Dolores' brother in the place his father held, he finds he has not only won a revolution, but a wife.

A Man's Man

1917

No artwork available
NR

Spider Barlow and Spike, motivated by a news article about District Attorney Willard Dale giving his wife, Peggy, an expensive necklace, pose as gardeners to case the Dales' home. While the Dales are at a costume party dressed as thieves, Spider and Spike steal the necklace. Willard returns home, is mistaken for a real burglar, and in the ensuing confusion, Spider escapes with the necklace.

Spider Barlow Meets Competition

1916

No artwork available
8.0

Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy the land back at a lower price after learning of the discovery. Todd's secretary informs Sally, who warns Algy, but he reveals he already knew about the oil and had planned the whole scenario. This not only wins him the land but also Sally's affections, as Todd loses both.

The Castle Ranch

1915

No artwork available
10.0

Adams is hoping for a son the same night that "Spider" Barlow plans to make a haul at the Adams house. While Adams smokes in the library, outside "Spider" waits for him to retire. The burglar enters the house. The maid is awakened and corners him in a closet. Adams comes, and explains the need for quiet, leaving the maid on guard with a gun. When Adams goes to send a hurry call for the doctor, "Spider" relieves the maid of the gun, and taking advantage of the opportunity, rifles the house. Acting as self-appointed butler, "Spider" admits the doctor, and removing the gag long enough to give the maid three kisses, departs in the doctor's limousine with the doctor's coat and bag.

It Was Like This

1915

No artwork available
8.0

After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’s trail, the sheriff finds the miner's horse, abandoned by the outlaw, and notices the resemblance between Slippery Joe and Mr. Bond, a man he had encountered earlier who was searching for his twin brother. The miner and his daughter arrive at the ranger's cabin, recognizing Bond as the robber.

The Zaca Lake Mystery

1915

The Bells poster
NR

A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for his crime.

The Bells

1918

The Happy Masquerader poster
8.0

Richard Thorn, a wealthy young man who returns from Africa after his father's death to manage the family estate. While at the train station, he hires a taxi driven by Davis, a disgruntled man who envies Thorn's wealth and lifestyle. The story explores the contrast between the wealthy Thorn and the resentful Davis.

The Happy Masquerader

1916

Who Shall Take My Life? poster
NR

A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.

Who Shall Take My Life?

1917

No artwork available
9.0

Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdown. To recover her physician, Dr. King advises her to spend several months in the mountains. After some time there she meets young mountaineer Tom Sexton. The couple are smitten both thinking the other is a native of the area. Tom had also been sent to the region by Dr. King and when the doctor arrives for a vacation the pair both swear him to secrecy, much to his amusement.

The Deception

1915

No artwork available
10.0

Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worthless chap" named Joe Hills, who frequently loiters around their cabin. Hills subsequently steals Allen's gold, and Beatrice discovers him in the act.

Justified

1915

No artwork available
NR

Mark Pelton's young wife, Laura, is a drug addicted kleptomaniac. In her delirium she writes her father, John Calvert, accusing her husband of cruelly wrecking her life, then commits suicide. Calvert, knowing the truth, puts the letter aside. Ten years pass and Calvert hopes his niece Pauline will pair with Mark, but she has fallen under the charms of fortune hunter Elmer Danby and plans to elope with him. When Calvert dies, he leaves his estate jointly to Pauline and Mark, provided they marry. If one refuses, he or she forfeits all to the other. Pauline, having found the letter at first announces her engagement to Danby, forfeiting her rights but when he is exposed as a grabber and she learns the truth about Mark they wed.

The Sting of It

1915

No artwork available
9.0

Spaniard Senor Cabello threatened by an invading party of "Gringoes." leaves his home, accompanied by his servant, Miguel, taking with them the family treasure to be buried until safer days come. Burying the treasure near a certain tree then marking the location on a silver buckle, Miguel kills Senor and retains the buckle so that he may later recover the master's gold. Later settler John Monroe pitches his camp near the treasure tree, cutting it down to make way for his home. After twenty years Miguel sends his son, Felipe, to recover the buried treasure but he is stymied at first by the missing tree. Young surveyor George Davis, who is in love with the John’s daughter Alice, is instrumental in foiling Felipe's work, and in time Alice recovers the treasure.

The Senor's Silver Buckle

1915