Acting

Percy Verwayen

Known for

Acting

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Sepia Cinderella poster
5.2

A struggling songwriter abandons his girlfriend for a flashy woman after landing a hit.

Sepia Cinderella

1947

No artwork available
9.0

Little information is known about the nature of this film, it is considered lost.

The Simp

1921

Easy Money poster
9.0

Andy Simpson, constable, blacksmith and all-round mechanic of Millbrook, a thrifty little southern town, is looked upon as slow, plodding, and lacking in ambition by all save Margie Watkins, his sweetheart and daughter of the bank president. Margie, however, becomes attracted to J. Overton Tighe (a partner of James Bradford, notorious promoter of "wildcat" investments), who is newly arrived in town in an expensive car. Despite Andy's warnings, the townspeople eagerly buy shares in a phony stock promoted by Tighe.

Easy Money

1922

The Schemers poster
NR

A research chemist with a drug company, is close to success in his attempt to develop a chemical substitute for gasoline. Juan Bronson, who is the private secretary of, the president of the company, conspires with to steal Paul's formula.

The Schemers

1922

The Burden of Race poster
8.0

A young college educated black man meets a girl of Asian descent and falls in love with her. Their love story was caught up with events burdened up by a racial animosity.

The Burden of Race

1921

Fight That Ghost poster
8.0

Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them arrested. After a series of disasters--they ruin a customer's suit, their store blows up--they get a telegram notifying them that a man they once did a kindness for has left them quite a bit of money and a house, but in order to get the inheritance, they have to spend a night in the bedroom of the man's house. When they arrive there, they notice two things--the place is kind of creepy and a series of spooky incidents leaves them to believe the house is haunted.

Fight That Ghost

1946

Film credits

1940s · 3 titles

1920s · 7 titles

No artwork available
9.0

Little information is known about the nature of this film, it is considered lost.

The Simp

1921

Easy Money poster
9.0

Andy Simpson, constable, blacksmith and all-round mechanic of Millbrook, a thrifty little southern town, is looked upon as slow, plodding, and lacking in ambition by all save Margie Watkins, his sweetheart and daughter of the bank president. Margie, however, becomes attracted to J. Overton Tighe (a partner of James Bradford, notorious promoter of "wildcat" investments), who is newly arrived in town in an expensive car. Despite Andy's warnings, the townspeople eagerly buy shares in a phony stock promoted by Tighe.

Easy Money

1922

The Schemers poster
NR

A research chemist with a drug company, is close to success in his attempt to develop a chemical substitute for gasoline. Juan Bronson, who is the private secretary of, the president of the company, conspires with to steal Paul's formula.

The Schemers

1922

The Burden of Race poster
8.0

A young college educated black man meets a girl of Asian descent and falls in love with her. Their love story was caught up with events burdened up by a racial animosity.

The Burden of Race

1921

The Secret Sorrow poster
9.0

A recent young widow Anne Morgan is thrust into terrible poverty. Unable to care for both of her children, she persuades a prominent black doctor to adopt one of the boys.

The Secret Sorrow

1921

The Call of His People poster
10.0

Nelson Holmes, a black man posing as a white man, had advanced from office boy to general manager.

The Call of His People

1921

No artwork available
10.0

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

The Conjure Woman

1926