
Acting
Vinnie Burns
Born — Died
1897-07-01 — 1969-08-03
Place of birth
Utah, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Vinnie Burns was an American stage and screen actress. She appeared in about 50 feature films from 1911 to 1921.
Known for
6.0Bob Burton is a misogynist who spends time with other men who share his views, but Bob's friends play a role when he shows that he's not completely disgusted by his friend Harry's sister.
The Hater of Women
1912
Mr. Carlson of Arizona comes to New York where he is summarily swindled out of his funds and deserted by all his new “friends.” An anonymous friend out West learning of his plight offers him a position as engineer in a construction camp. After a few more travails he discovers his patron is Agnes, the girl he has come to love, and they are united in wedlock.
Mr. Carlson of Arizona
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Uncle John's Money
1917
6.0"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death.
Two Little Rangers
1912
No synopsis available yet.
The Face at the Window
1912
No synopsis available yet.
When Souls Are Tried
1915
Film credits
1920s · 2 titles
1910s · 58 titles
6.0Bob Burton is a misogynist who spends time with other men who share his views, but Bob's friends play a role when he shows that he's not completely disgusted by his friend Harry's sister.
The Hater of Women
1912
Mr. Carlson of Arizona comes to New York where he is summarily swindled out of his funds and deserted by all his new “friends.” An anonymous friend out West learning of his plight offers him a position as engineer in a construction camp. After a few more travails he discovers his patron is Agnes, the girl he has come to love, and they are united in wedlock.
Mr. Carlson of Arizona
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Uncle John's Money
1917
6.0"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death.
Two Little Rangers
1912
No synopsis available yet.
The Face at the Window
1912
No synopsis available yet.
When Souls Are Tried
1915
NRSatan decides to ruin the innocence of ambitious Everygirl , who has a beautiful voice and wishes to pursue a career singing in opera. He thus assumes human form and follows her in order to make sure that she accepts his terms.
The Temptations of Satan
1914
No synopsis available yet.
The Heart's Tribute
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Father's Night Off
1916
1.0A young couple is trying to get together while the girl's father is trying to break them up.
Cupid and the Comet
1911
4.7Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paved with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves his country home to see his fortune in London. He fails to find work at first and is almost starving when a wealthy sea-merchant takes him in as a cook's help. The cook takes an instant dislike to him and tortures him mercilessly. His garret is full of rats and he often goes without food. One day, a man on the street takes him for a beer and gives him a coin, which he uses to buy a cat.
Dick Whittington and His Cat
1913
NRIn this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arrives at his destination too late. Forced to retrace his steps, he seeks shelter in a little inn, forgetting that the hour of his birth is approaching. In the middle of the night he awakens, terrified with fright… Based on Wilkie Collins' novel “The Dream Woman”.
The Dream Woman
1914
A simple born man rises to power in Mexico but when the country is torn by war he travels to the US in search of arms to aid the fight. While there he saves Hiram and his sister Rosa with whom he becomes enamored. He feels the pull to stay with her but leaves her with the assurance he will return when the battle is won.
A Species of Mexican Man
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Jenkins' Jinx
1916
NRAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
Oliver Twist
1912
6.7Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.
Greater Love Hath No Man
1911
No synopsis available yet.
Teasing a Tornado
1915
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Beasts of the Jungle
1913
An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.
The Rogues of Paris
1913
NRNorma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes. Nelson, a detective, is called upon to solve the mystery.
The Woman of Mystery
1914
No synopsis available yet.
Two Smiths and a Haff
1916
No synopsis available yet.
A Romance of Mexico
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Hubby Puts One Over
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Chimes
1914
A banker's daughter, wearied with the dull routine of her life, becomes an artist's model under an assumed name. Her artist employer falls a victim to her beauty and loves her and she accepts his advances. Finding her faithless, and learning her identity by chance, he reveals all to her father, who drives her from his house. She derives a scanty living from singing in the streets and cheap cafés. She is accidentally found unconscious from weakness, by the artist, who rescues her from her misery.
A Slave of Satan
1913
NRSuffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
The Lost Bridegroom
1916
Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. For 23 chapters/adventures he and his boss's daughter set out to clear his name and catch the real culprit.
The Million Dollar Robbery
1914
No synopsis available yet.
Hang on Cowboy
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Millionaire Billie
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1914
Shirley Christy, Champion Mile Runner of the World, has become a tramp and finds himself in the mountains of Arizona. In flashback we see that he was framed for cheating which led to his fall. He drifts into a mining camp where by chance he discovers the cheat who ruined him, up to his old tricks. He foils the new plot, wins the girl of his dreams and faces the world with new determination.
From Champion to Tramp
1915
The son of the sheriff of Arizona Territory is an outlaw. When he's captured and sentenced to hang his mother and two sisters plead with the Governor for mercy.
A Western Governor's Humanity
1915
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Her Wayward Sister
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Oh, You Uncle!
1916
No synopsis available yet.
The Great Lone Land
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Love and Bullets
1916
A youth, the only survivor of a shipwreck, is rescued by two old fishermen. One of the fishermen, who has a little girl the boy's age, decides to adopt him. Ten years later a New York lawyer comes to the fishing town and wants to adopt the child who is heir to a fortune, but the boy is old enough to decide for himself and chooses to stay. His money is entrusted to a banker, who faced with bankruptcy embezzles the cash while making the lad think it was lost in a bad investment. The banker also falls for the fisherman’s daughter, and they elope. He is a cad, and she soon returns home. The banker’s plans for a robbery go awry and he flees to the seaside pursued by his gang. After several struggles all is resolved happily.
The Monster and the Girl
1914
No synopsis available yet.
Pickles and Diamonds
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Advertising Did It
1915
No synopsis available yet.
Everygirl
1915
5.8A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."
A House Divided
1913
10.0Actress Letty Noon and Rev. David Warwick seek advice from a parson who tells the tale of a minister who falls for a dance hall girl named Wild Honey. After a jealous suitor frames the minister for murder, Wild Honey clears his name, and he realizes her love. When another suitor tries to shoot the minister, Wild Honey is wounded protecting him. The minister takes her to another town, and they live happily together.
Wild Honey
1918
5.0Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his daughter that she has no cause for fear. He immediately forgets the incident, as important military developments occupy his time. But soon Vinnie has a more serious complaint, and the Colonel is forced to act.
Broken Oaths
1912
No synopsis available yet.
A Desert Honeymoon
1915
When small town girl, Mary Carroll is jilted at the altar by slick city cad David Garrick she has a mental breakdown. The wedding had been set for 3:00 in the afternoon and each day at the appointed time Mary dresses in her wedding gown and waits forlornly. Witnessing this, Mary’s sister Grace swears vengeance. As time passes Grace moves to the city and finds success as a singer under the name Madame Mimi. One day Garrick attends one of her performances attempting to insinuate himself into her favor and Grace sees her chance for revenge.
Sorrows of Happiness
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Heartaches
1915
No synopsis available yet.
The Winning Number
1916
No synopsis available yet.
Planting Time
1912
7.0Daisy Jones had been married just a year when her husband failed to kiss her one morning, and she decided that he did not love her any more.
A Severe Test
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Invisible Ink
1913
No synopsis available yet.
The Girl and the Broncho Buster
1911
NRLoutish Teddy Brant feeling trapped by his marriage and family commitments to the sweet Rose and their infant daughter Helen fakes his suicide and embarks on a dissolute life. Thinking herself free Rose remarries, and time passes contently. Years later, Teddy, now a hopeless derelict, wanders the country straying one night into the waiting room of a train station. He sees a young girl being accosted by an elderly gentleman who tries to entice her home. Teddy thinks nothing of the incident until he finds a purse lying on the seat and learns that the girl is his daughter Helen. Teddy hastens after them and in the ensuing fight, strangles Helen's assailant and then flees. Helen is arrested for the murder but is acquitted when Teddy staggers into the police station and confesses to the crime.
The Derelict
1917
Irma is waiting for her escort to take her to a party when she falls asleep and has the most terrible dream. She dreams that she is a poor little girl in the country and has to do all the chores. She gets into all kinds of trouble helping the other children and finally falls in the brook. But just as she is bewailing her fate her mother wakes her and says that Bennie has come to take her to the party. The dream is over and Irma is glad that it was only a dream.
Irma in Wonderland
1916
No synopsis available yet.
True Hearts
1913
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Trooper 44
1917
No synopsis available yet.
The Silent Signal
1911
No synopsis available yet.
The War Extra
1914
No synopsis available yet.
A Terrible Catastrophe
1911

