
Acting
Wayne Arey
Born 1880-04-12 · Rock Falls, Illinois, USA
Acting credits
4.4An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
King Lear
1916
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Valkyrie
1915
NROn his way to visit his fiancée, the young man saw her on the front steps in earnest conversation with a stranger. The stranger took the girl's hand, mounted his horse, and rode away. Instead of waiting for an explanation, the girl's sweetheart angrily demanded one. Hurt by his attitude, she refused to give it.
The Mistake of Mammy Lou
1915
3.5In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge as a maid. In this woodland community, she attends church and the path to Salvation becomes clear to her. Through Mary's faith, the injured folk of the countryside are healed. However, her old employer, whose lustful advances she'd previously spurned, still has designs on her.
The World and the Woman
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Necklace of Pearls
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Outcasts of Society
1915
No synopsis available yet.
P. Henry Jenkins and Mars
1915
10.0The Long Arm of the Secret Service
The Long Arm of the Secret Service
1915
No synopsis available yet.
The Conscience of Juror No. 10
1915
8.0Based on Browning's poem, a widowed Duchess raises a son that decides to abandon modern ways and act like it's the medieval days. When he wishes to marry, a young woman is found and plays along believing it's all a joke.
The Flight of the Duchess
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Whispered Word
1916
A convent-raised girl falls under her father's executor's dark influence after her uncle dies. As she turns to evil and threatens society with her wealth, a doctor helps restore her true nature.
Saint, Devil and Woman
1916
1917 American silent mystery film directed by Ernest C. Warde.
Her Beloved Enemy
1917
Born in a prospector's camp, orphaned by a flood and taken care of by relatives to whom she was unwelcome, Mercy grew up dodging blows and curses with equal dexterity and indifferent success.
Mercy on a Crutch
1915
10.0An optimistic girl survives city life as a shoe shine till she ends up in children's court. Just as she helps her geranium, Sally, to grow, a kindly judge sees her potential and takes her to his mother's country home to flourish.
The Shine Girl
1916
NRWith younger brothers and sisters to support, Peggy takes on the task-heavy job as maid for Mrs. Stuyvesant. Peggy also manages to help the woman's children, a lovelorn daughter and a son who is the unwilling tool of spies.
Pots-and-Pans Peggy
1917
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Woman and the Beast
1917
NRAfter learning that her stepfather, John Braun, is a spy, Ruth leaves him and starts out upon a cross-country journey. In her travels, she sees a plane crash to earth and rushes to assist its pilot, John Barker. The two fall in love and are married. In the midst of their honeymoon, war breaks out and John is called to his post, leaving Ruth alone with only the servants to protect her. In John's absence, the enemy invades the countryside, commandeers the Barker house and imprisons Ruth in her room. Meanwhile, John takes leave to search for his wife. Managing to get through the enemy line, he arrives just as Ruth, enraged at the action of the invaders, dynamites the cellar of the house. As the building explodes, Ruth and John escape in his plane.
War and the Woman
1917
6.7The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice within a scene via superimposition, but that's in a flashback-within-a-mirror scene. There are a couple such scenes where La Badie's reflection in the mirror reflects her reflective melancholy mood.
The Woman in White
1917
No synopsis available yet.
The Silent Co-Ed
1915
7.0Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend, Blanche. Blanche has been working steadily in the theater, and she helps Adele get work. The young girl finds romance with Vincent Harvey, an aspiring composer. One day Adele suffers an accidental fall out of a window.
It Happened to Adele
1917