
Acting
Robert Gordon
Born 1895-03-03 · Belleville, Kansas, USA
Robert Gordon was born in Belleville, Kansas, as Robert Gordon Duncan.
Acting credits
NRA 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
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
NRWhen 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
6.8After 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
7.0Keith, 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
5.8A 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
10.0Rich 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
10.0Popular 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
NRJohn 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
9.0After 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
7.0Mountains of Manhattan is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan.
Mountains of Manhattan
1927
7.0After being marooned in the South Seas for six years, Bob Randall returns to his home in Faith Harbor, Maine.
The Night Ship
1925
7.0The 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
10.0Eugene 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
6.3A 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
5.7Rawden, 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
5.0Silent 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
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
8.0A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
Borrowed Husbands
1924
5.8This 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
NRThe adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Huck and Tom
1918
8.0A 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
6.0The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Main Street
1923
NRAn 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