Charles H. France

Directing

Charles H. France

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Dancers poster
4.7

A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.

Dancers

1987

Sweeney's Dream poster
NR

While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government.

Sweeney's Dream

1913

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NR

When Buster Brown’s mother decides to advertise for a tutor, Buster, Mary Jane and faithful Tige do all they can to dissuade the applicants, but Herr Professor von Blitzen takes command of the situation.

Buster Brown's Education

1914

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NR

Buster Brown tosses a goat into the mix and pandemonium ensues.

Buster Brown Picks Out the Costumes

1914

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NR

Buster Brown and his sister Mary Jane try to play a prank on Mrs. Benton when she brings her baby to their house. But their father, wise to their antics, has a scheme of his own to thwart their plan.

Buster Brown Gets the Worst of It

1914

A Jolt for the Janitor poster
9.0

A comical story of the Flannigan Flats, showing how the janitor got the worst of it when, through his carelessness, water came in through the roof and leaked from one flat to another

A Jolt for the Janitor

1913

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6.5

A comedy about little Buster/Toto, who dreams that he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by cowboys.

Buster in Nodland

1912

The Gold Brick poster
9.0

Reporter Jones, a hustler, discovers a gold-brick displayed in a jeweler's window and sees a fine "feature story" in trying to sell this real gold-brick to farmers at $2.00 per.

The Gold Brick

1913

A Short Life and a Merry One poster
9.0

An imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand.

A Short Life and a Merry One

1913

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10.0

A short comic film in which young André delivers a telegram to the theatre. Once there, he has to stand in for an actor during a performance of Little Lord Fauntleroy. Despite the chaotic performance, he is very successful.

Andy Goes on the Stage

1914

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10.0

Mrs Grayson accidentally leaves her baby son at a shop and flies into a panic when she returns home to find him missing.

An Absent-Minded Mother

1914

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10.0

Mrs Grayson accidentally leaves her baby son at a shop and flies into a panic when she returns home to find him missing.

An Absent-Minded Mother

1914

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NR

A short comedy about a tramp who enters the home of a wealthy family, indulging in food and drink, and tries on the father's new boots. The mother scares him off, and then tries on the boots herself.

A Pair of Boots

1912

Papa's Dream poster
NR

Papa Ward, a portly and dignified person, sits drowsily smoking in his study as his adorable daughter, Fannie, comes and bids him good-night. Shortly thereafter Toby Bates appears on the outside of the house muffled up in auto garb and throws pebbles against the window of Fannie's boudoir.

Papa's Dream

1913

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10.0

Mr. Meekley, a baseball fan, has a flat tire on his way to a pennant game. He remains determined to make it to the game regardless of this and further setbacks. The film's climax was shot at a pivotal game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Getting to the Ball Game

1914

How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home poster
7.0

Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.

How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

1912