Alice Davenport

Acting

Alice Davenport

Born 1864-02-29 · New York City, New York, USA

Alice Davenport (née Shepphard; February 29, 1864 – June 24, 1936) was an American film actress. She appeared in 140 films from 1911 to 1930. Davenport made her stage debut at age 5. She married silent actor, director, and talkie character actor Harry Davenport. They divorced in 1896. Actress Dorothy Davenport was their daughter. She married, secondly, to Edwin H. Morse. [biography from Wikipedia]

Acting credits

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

Tony America poster
NR

Tony comes to America virtually the slave of his padrone, who holds him in debt for his passage money. But Rosa Picciano marries him to escape parental discipline and Tony hopes for freedom at last, but Rosa makes it plain that she does not love him.

Tony America

1918

Ramona poster
NR

Silent version of the 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson novel originally ran 3 hours but all but 50 minutes of that are now lost.

Ramona

1916

Spotlight Sadie poster
9.0

Sadie Sullivan leaves Ireland to live with her married sister in New York. Troubled by her worthless brother-in-law, discouraged with her low-paying five-and-dime-store job, Sadie reads a story about a chorus girl who married a millionaire, she decides to join a musical-comedy company. Having befriended mission clergyman Reverend John Page, Sadie reads a Bible backstage and is surprised at the other girls' loose morals. Her "saintly" reputation among the others inspires press agent Jack Mills, looking for a new angle, to devise a routine built around Sadie, now billed as "The Saintly Show Girl."

Spotlight Sadie

1919

Making a Living poster
5.7

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

Making a Living

1914

The Star Boarder poster
5.2

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

The Star Boarder

1914

Hello, Mabel poster
5.3

Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.

Hello, Mabel

1914

Skirts poster
8.0

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Skirts

1921

Mabel's Strange Predicament poster
5.4

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

Mabel's Strange Predicament

1914

Caught in a Cabaret poster
5.8

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

Caught in a Cabaret

1914

Those Country Kids poster
4.1

Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court. When a rivaling suitor named Reddy appears, the men fight for Mabel’s hand. Although successful, Roscoe witnesses Reddy fall into a well and instantly calls for help. As the police fish Reddy out of the well, the young lovers see their chance at freedom and run off to elope.

Those Country Kids

1914

The Dude Wrangler poster
10.0

In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.

The Dude Wrangler

1930

Caught in the Rain poster
5.8

When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.

Caught in the Rain

1914

Wife and Auto Trouble poster
5.0

A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.

Wife and Auto Trouble

1916

Love and Rubbish poster
4.5

Two groundskeepers compete for the attention of a pretty park visitor. When the woman’s daughter goes missing, the two set out to rescue her.

Love and Rubbish

1913

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day poster
5.4

A henpecked husband's innocent friendship with a married woman leads to chaos.

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

1915

No artwork available
NR

Charlie is trying to impress Minnie, who is interested in another fellow, but having trouble with his flirting, so he goes to see a 'Trouble Mender'. The trouble mender-a man who spends his time moving through sliding panels, materializing hillbilly henchmen and himself-comes up with a radical solution, he will kill him. No more life, no more problems! But then Minnie throws over the other guy and Charlie must find a way out of his bargain!

Love and Bullets

1914

No artwork available
NR

The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols.

The Under-Sheriff

1914

Cursed by His Beauty poster
NR

Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.

Cursed by His Beauty

1914

The Riot poster
NR

When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.

The Riot

1913

A Noise from the Deep poster
5.5

Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.

A Noise from the Deep

1913

The Water Dog poster
5.0

The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

The Water Dog

1914

Fatty's Magic Pants poster
5.5

'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.

Fatty's Magic Pants

1914

The Ragtime Band poster
4.9

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

The Ragtime Band

1913