Directing

Harley Knoles

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Miss Petticoats poster
NR

Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.

Miss Petticoats

1916

Bought and Paid For poster
NR

A social-climbing young woman marries Robert, a rich alcoholic, for his money. Although basically a good man, when drunk Robert treats her as if she's just one more thing he owns, and not his wife. Realizing her mistake, she leaves him. Her brother-in-law believes that the two of them actually do love each other, and sets out to bring them back together.

Bought and Paid For

1916

The Bohemian Girl poster
6.8

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

The Bohemian Girl

1922

Lew Tyler's Wives poster
9.0

Although in love with Virginia Philips, Lew Tyler refuses to be supported by his rich prospective father-in-law, causing her to break the engagement. Thus cast off by Virginia and insulted by her father, Tyler finds distraction in Jessie Winkler, an old friend; and through the efforts of Buzzy, a business partner, Lew and Jessie marry. Their marriage is unsuccessful, and Lew, haunted by the memory of Virginia, seeks forgetfulness in a liaison with Coleen Miles, a neighbor.

Lew Tyler's Wives

1926

The White Sheik poster
9.0

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

The White Sheik

1928

The Gilded Cage poster
NR

In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).

The Gilded Cage

1916

Film credits

Behind the camera

Miss Petticoats poster
NR

Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.

Miss Petticoats

1916

Miss Petticoats poster
NR

Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.

Miss Petticoats

1916

Bought and Paid For poster
NR

A social-climbing young woman marries Robert, a rich alcoholic, for his money. Although basically a good man, when drunk Robert treats her as if she's just one more thing he owns, and not his wife. Realizing her mistake, she leaves him. Her brother-in-law believes that the two of them actually do love each other, and sets out to bring them back together.

Bought and Paid For

1916

The Bohemian Girl poster
6.8

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

The Bohemian Girl

1922

The Bohemian Girl poster
6.8

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

The Bohemian Girl

1922

The Bohemian Girl poster
6.8

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

The Bohemian Girl

1922

Lew Tyler's Wives poster
9.0

Although in love with Virginia Philips, Lew Tyler refuses to be supported by his rich prospective father-in-law, causing her to break the engagement. Thus cast off by Virginia and insulted by her father, Tyler finds distraction in Jessie Winkler, an old friend; and through the efforts of Buzzy, a business partner, Lew and Jessie marry. Their marriage is unsuccessful, and Lew, haunted by the memory of Virginia, seeks forgetfulness in a liaison with Coleen Miles, a neighbor.

Lew Tyler's Wives

1926

The White Sheik poster
9.0

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

The White Sheik

1928

The Gilded Cage poster
NR

In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).

The Gilded Cage

1916

Oh, Baby! poster
8.0

Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife.

Oh, Baby!

1926

Half an Hour poster
9.0

In order to help her father, Lord Dartmouth, out of financial difficulties, Lady Lillian agrees to marry the wealthy Richard Garson, whose love she does not reciprocate. After a bitter scene with Richard, Lillian consents to elope with her former suitor, Hugh Paton, leaving her jewels and a letter of explanation behind.

Half an Hour

1920

Guilty of Love poster
7.0

When governess Thelma Miller falls in love with her employer's brother, Norris Townsend, they have a brief affair. Soon after, Thelma discovers that she is pregnant and demands that Norris marry her so that their child can have a name. Norris' wealthy family objects to the marriage on the grounds of social equality, but Thelma forces the union at gunpoint. After the ceremony, Thelma leaves her husband and seeks employment in a country town. Years pass as Norris searches for his wife and son.

Guilty of Love

1920

No artwork available
8.0

A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.

Land of Hope and Glory

1927

A Square Deal poster
NR

Hugh Eltinge, a struggling artist, and Mark Dunbar, a genius of the pen, whom the world has as yet failed to reward, live together in MacDougal Alley. Across the hall is Doris Golden, a reporter on the Evening Star, who enthuses over the work of both. Mark's novel is sold and Hugh and Doris see a new Mark. Mark begs Hugh to allow him to stake him until his pictures sell, but pleasure in his new clothes and new popularity dwindle as he sees his old friends will not profit by them. A happy idea strikes him and he buys all of Hugh's paintings on exhibition at a local dealer, requesting that his name be not mentioned.

A Square Deal

1917

The Price of Pride poster
NR

Madge Black witnesses her best friend Nan Westland, kissing her husband, successful lawyer Jeffrey Arnold Black, a successful lawyer, and orders Nan from the house. Angered by her refusal to let him explain, Jeffrey leaves his wife and son David, Jeffrey meets Nan on a westbound train. Though he does not love her he offers his protection and the next year they welcome a son, William. Nan pleads with him to divorce Madge and marry her for the sake of their son, but he will refuse. Distraught, she marries Ben Richardson, a client of Jeffrey's client, leaving their son behind. Twenty years pass with David becoming a responsible adult while half-brother William now known as “Rodeo” becomes the leader of a lawless band of robbers. Meanwhile Ben Richardson and Nan have become owners of Chanceland, a gambling-house in Colorado and it is there that things reach a climax between the near identical brothers.

The Price of Pride

1917

The Devil's Toy poster
NR

The Devil's Toy is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Adele Blood, Edwin Stevens and Montagu Love.

The Devil's Toy

1916

Little Women poster
NR

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Little Women

1918

The Volunteer poster
NR

Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to serve in World War I. After bidding farewell to the World stars, Madge goes to her grandparent's home where she experiences stern discipline.

The Volunteer

1917

His Brother's Wife poster
7.0

When Richard Barton's health fails, his wife Helen, desperate for money to pay the medical bills, agrees to spend the night with the wealthy Howard Barton, without knowing that he is Richard's long-absent brother. However, after she tells Howard that she is selling herself in order to help her husband, he calls off the rendezvous and sends her home with enough money to pay for Richard's care.

His Brother's Wife

1916

The Oldest Law poster
NR

Following the death of her father, a Maine trapper, Jennie Cox moves to New York to earn her living.

The Oldest Law

1918

No artwork available
NR

William Lewis accidentally shoots a policeman while breaking into a house as a prank with his friends. His friend Sid falsely accuses him of the shooting, and Will escapes, eventually meeting and marrying Alice. Later, Sid blackmails Will into helping him rob a bank, leading to a chain of events that ultimately results in Will's imprisonment and eventual tragic death.

The Burglar

1917

The Great Shadow poster
9.0

Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the anarchistic propaganda being put forth by Klimoff, the leader of a Bolshevik gang whose goal is to disrupt the country with strikes and anarchy.

The Great Shadow

1920

The Supreme Sacrifice poster
NR

David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.

The Supreme Sacrifice

1916

The Cost poster
4.0

Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform.

The Cost

1920

The Master Hand poster
NR

James Rallston, facing financial hardship, marries a wealthy invalid widow with a daughter, Jean, and plots to control her fortune. He orchestrates her confinement in a sanitarium by drugging her and falsely claiming she is insane, with the help of a conniving doctor and sanitarium keeper. Fifteen years later, Rallston has lost Jean's fortune through speculation and seeks help from John Bigelow to recover it, offering Jean as a reward. Bigelow, suspicious of Rallston, discovers the truth about the widow and Jean's father, and rescues the widow from the sanitarium.

The Master Hand

1915

Stolen Orders poster
NR

A renegade American and his innocent daughter become entangled in the snares of German secret agents during the First World War.

Stolen Orders

1918

The Social Leper poster
NR

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. The warning comes true after Adrienne's ex-husband, John Dean, meets Warren, an old friend, and tells him the story of his marriage to Adrienne. He tells how her frivolity and malice caused both the death of their only child, and after their divorce John’s romance with Lorraine Barkley who left him for lawyer Henry Armstrong. Enraged by Adrienne's treachery, Warren goes to her apartment and kills her. Dean arrives after Warren has fled and is arrested for the murder. Believing that Dean is innocent, Lorraine persuades Armstrong to defend him. After a last-minute confession by John is cleared.

The Social Leper

1917

No artwork available
NR

Years ago Peggy Sloane, only daughter of old Cornelius Sloane, familiarly known as the Professor, an antique dealer, met millionaire art dealer Stuart Watson and was prevailed by his hypnotic power to go through a marriage ceremony with him. A week passed and she returned, broken in spirit and body. Later, when her baby was born, she died. One night, while playing chess, old Sloane learns of the return to America of this man Watson and resolves to be revenged.

The Greater Will

1915

Carnival poster
7.0

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealous husband.

Carnival

1921

The Rising Generation poster
7.0

A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.

The Rising Generation

1928

Bolshevism on Trial poster
5.0

Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.

Bolshevism on Trial

1919

Wanted, A Mother poster
NR

Neglected by her grief-stricken father, a doctor, after the tragic death of his wife, little Eileen Homer changes the wording of her father's ad for a governess to read: "Wanted, a mother." After much melodrama that’s just what she gets.

Wanted, A Mother

1918

The Cabaret poster
8.0

Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a portrait model by four artists--Jaffrey Darrel, Ned Lorrimer, Dick Turner and Stanley Sargent--all of whom become fascinated with her. Helene leaves the Village when Ned's jealousy disrupts the camaraderie of the quartet and becomes a stage star. Meanwhile, all of the artists have attained success except Jaffrey, who refuses to taint his art with commercialism.

The Cabaret

1918

Carnival poster
9.0

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

Carnival

1931

The Stolen Paradise poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Stolen Paradise

1917