Robert Gordon

Acting

Robert Gordon

Born 1895-03-03 · Belleville, Kansas, USA

Robert Gordon was born in Belleville, Kansas, as Robert Gordon Duncan.

Acting credits

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin poster
NR

A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin

1918

No artwork available
10.0

Elizabeth Trent lives alone on a farm with her adopted son, Donald, having been deserted by her husband, John, years earlier when he went to Alaska to make his fortune.

Shattered Lives

1925

Missing poster
NR

When a woman's husband is presumed dead in the war, her sister, for her own unscrupulous reasons, attempts to get her remarried. But the husband, it seems, is not dead after all.

Missing

1918

The Reckless Moment poster
6.8

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

The Reckless Moment

1949

Dawn poster
7.0

Keith, an artist, begins to go blind as a result of having fallen out of a tree as a child. His fiancé Dorothy, a wealthy heiress, had previously said that she thought blind people were "disgusting", and he refuses to see her. Dorothy plans to have her father, an eye surgeon, perform an operation on Keith that may help him regain his sight, but things don't go as planned.

Dawn

1919

Call Her Savage poster
5.8

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

Call Her Savage

1932

Respectable by Proxy poster
10.0

Rich Southerner John Stanley Hale meets flirtatious actress Elizabeth Roddard, she induces him to marry her, but after several days of quarreling, he flees to Russia. After John's vessel is sunk in mid-ocean and he is reported dead, Elizabeth convinces her destitute and ailing friend Betty Blair to pose as John's widow in order to inherit his fine home in Alabama.

Respectable by Proxy

1920

My Husband's Other Wife poster
10.0

Popular actress Adelaide Hedlar, cherishes her career and ambitions more than a home and children, much to the chagrin of her husband, Dr. Mark Ridgewell. Following their divorce, Mark goes West, meets country girl Nettie Bryson and marries her. Meanwhile, Adelaide refuses to marry playwright Wilifred Dean until she is certain that her husband has remarried. Upon discovering Mark's marriage, she decides to win him back and subsequently travels West, meets Nettie and determines to regain Mark's love.

My Husband's Other Wife

1920

The Varmint poster
NR

John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding school and sent to Lawrenceville Academy. On the stage on the way to the school he meets a silent man whom Dink sizes up for a salesman and he proceeds to wax eloquent on the subject of his past career and the reason he was expelled from his previous school.

The Varmint

1917

The Moonshine Trail poster
9.0

After her father and two brothers are killed, Cynthia and her mother go to New York, where Cynthia gets a job in his office working for a wealthy stockbroker who's attracted to her.

The Moonshine Trail

1919

Mountains of Manhattan poster
7.0

Mountains of Manhattan is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan.

Mountains of Manhattan

1927

The Night Ship poster
7.0

After being marooned in the South Seas for six years, Bob Randall returns to his home in Faith Harbor, Maine.

The Night Ship

1925

The Super-Sex poster
7.0

The Super-Sex is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Robert Gordon, Charlotte Pierce and Tully Marshall.

The Super-Sex

1922

The Blood Barrier poster
10.0

Eugene Solari is fanatically jealous of his beautiful wife Enid. While on a mission for her father, she visits Major Trevor. Her husband finds out and, enraged, rushes to Trevor's house. Enid tries to beat him there to warn Trevor, but is too late--when she gets there Eugene shoots her and then kills himself, but not before he names Trevor as his killer. Trevor is arrested for his murder.

The Blood Barrier

1920

The Little American poster
6.3

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

The Little American

1917

'Blue Blazes' Rawden poster
5.7

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.

'Blue Blazes' Rawden

1918

Tom Sawyer poster
5.0

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).

Tom Sawyer

1917

No artwork available
9.0

A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.

A Yankee Princess

1919

Borrowed Husbands poster
8.0

A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.

Borrowed Husbands

1924

Bud's Recruit poster
5.8

This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a little boy who can't wait to go fight against the Kaiser, and who sets an unrelentingly patriotic (and militaristic) example for his draft-age, feminized brother and peace-lovin' mother.

Bud's Recruit

1918

Huck and Tom poster
NR

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Huck and Tom

1918

The Greatest Menace poster
8.0

A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him out.

The Greatest Menace

1923

Main Street poster
6.0

The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.

Main Street

1923

Captain Kidd, Jr. poster
NR

An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and her boyfriend an aspiring author, meet the desperate grandson and agree to share the treasure.

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919