Directing

Leon De La Mothe

Born 1880-12-26 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Acting credits

The Red Glove poster
NR

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.

The Red Glove

1919

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9.0

Ranger Dave Mannion is deprived of his badge for allowing the notorious Braxton gang to drive diseased cattle past his border patrol. He suspects Eric Prang to be a spy for the gang and sets out to prove it.

Triple Action

1925

Riddle Gawne poster
NR

When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.

Riddle Gawne

1918

No artwork available
8.0

Trail Riders is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Lafe McKee, and Betty Baker.

Trail Raiders

1928

Pals poster
7.0

The dog, Rex, finds the baby abandoned in the mountains. Unfortunately, the nearest town has no orphanage and rough cowboy and wonder-dog owner Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself.

Pals

1925

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7.0

Trailin' Back is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Lafe McKee and Leon De La Mothe.

Trailin’ Back

1928

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10.0

The Painted Trail is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Betty Baker and Leon De La Mothe.

Painted Trail

1928

The Spotted Lily poster
NR

Wracked with illness and discarded by a wealthy and unscrupulous aristocrat, Yvonne Lamour seeks out her former sweetheart Anatole in order to beg him to care for her infant daughter Yvonne. She finds him in a monastery, now Pere Anatole, having joined to ease the pain of her leaving him. Soon after, Yvonne dies and little Yvonne grows to adulthood and falls in love with Jean Duval, a young violinist. When the war devastates the land, Anatole flees to America, taking Jean and Yvonne with him. There, beset by poverty, Jean endeavors to earn a living by playing the violin, but fails. In desperation, he pawns his violin to buy food and falls victim to the charms of Sonia Maroff, a wealthy woman whose fancy he has captured.

The Spotted Lily

1917

The Desert Hawk poster
8.0

A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.

The Desert Hawk

1924

Cyclone Bob poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cyclone Bob

1925

Ten Scars Make a Man poster
8.0

1924 American adventure film serial.

Ten Scars Make a Man

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by the same person. When this man is found dead suspicion falls on girl's father but the employer of murdered man confesses.

A Desperate Chance

1925

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre poster
7.0

The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachment, Chief Sitting Bull vows to reclaim the land of his fathers. A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull.

With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre

1927

The Road Agent poster
7.0

A rancher has left his spread to his long lost son, but only if he shows up to claim it. A mean-fisted fugitive from justice looks just like the missing heir and a plan for deception is hatched.

The Road Agent

1925

Her Moment poster
8.0

In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.

Her Moment

1918

Behind the camera

Ridin' Wild poster
10.0

Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.

Ridin' Wild

1925

No artwork available
10.0

Breezy Bob is a silent Western

Breezy Bob

1919

Vanishing Trails poster
9.0

A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune. Silent Joe (Farnum) arrives in an effort to discover the murderer and prove that he is the true heir. He and the heroine Lou (Anderson) have their adventures in the mountainous terrain with its "vanishing trails." They are aided by The Shadow (Orlamond), a demented scientist with his trained dog, and several remarkable, death-dealing inventions.

Vanishing Trails

1920

The Northern Code poster
8.0

When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, flees into the white wilderness. Years later her secret comes back to haunt her.

The Northern Code

1925

No artwork available
7.0

Silent romantic cowboy western short was billed as "A story of an inheritance of hatred!"

Vengeance and the Girl

1919

No artwork available
8.0

A dying lady tells a woman she must marry Frank Cameron. She unknowningly marries the almost always drunken Ford Cameron by mistake and immediately flees. Ford takes a job of ranch foreman and gives up drinking. Only after being attacted to a woman on the ranch does he suddenly remember he is already married.

The Uphill Climb

1919

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NR

In the 1830s, the tyrannical Spanish governor in old California finds himself in the midst of a rebellion and is out to get the rebel leader. A senorita, whose father is being persecuted by the governor, sets out to deliver the rebel leader in exchange for her father's freedom...but she falls in love with him.

Capistrano's bells

1930

No artwork available
NR

In the 1830s, the tyrannical Spanish governor in old California finds himself in the midst of a rebellion and is out to get the rebel leader. A senorita, whose father is being persecuted by the governor, sets out to deliver the rebel leader in exchange for her father's freedom...but she falls in love with him.

Capistrano's bells

1930

The Desert Rat poster
7.0

Steve Lanyon, known as the Desert Rat, returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it.

The Desert Rat

1919

When Pals Fall Out poster
7.0

When Pals Fall Out

When Pals Fall Out

1919

No artwork available
10.0

Second of 12 in the Franklyn Farnum two-reel Western series produced by Canyon Pictures Corp.

The Two Doyles

1919

The Desert Hawk poster
8.0

A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.

The Desert Hawk

1924

The Puncher and the Pup poster
8.0

The Puncher and the Pup

The Puncher and the Pup

1919

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8.0

Seeking refuge from an arranged marriage, Prince William flees to America where he secretly marries. When his father dies, he is persuaded to return to save his country but leaves before he can explain to his now pregnant wife. In despair she perishes. Her child, Fay, is raised to live for revenge. Years later when her father, the King, is forced to abdicate he comes to America with his son Franz. One evening Fay meets the young Prince and sets out to ruin him, which she does but when her father explains what really happened, she repents. In an unexpected twist a message arrives: the people of Moravia are clamoring for their King, and so Fay goes with her father and brother to face a new future across the sea.

The Red Virgin

1915

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9.0

Hell's Fury Gordon

Hell's Fury Gordon

1919

No artwork available
9.0

The Cowboy and the Rajah

The Cowboy and the Rajah

1919

No artwork available
NR

Brother Bill is a 1919 silent Western

Brother Bill

1919