Bernard Siegel

Acting

Bernard Siegel

Born — Died

1868-04-19 — 1940-07-09

Place of birth

Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 10 titles

Mad Love poster
7.0

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

Mad Love

1935

Confession poster
6.2

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Confession

1937

Wells Fargo poster
5.5

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Wells Fargo

1937

The Case of Sergeant Grischa poster
7.2

This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

1930

Beau Ideal poster
4.5

An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

Beau Ideal

1931

The Wizard's Apprentice poster
7.7

This one has it all, the apprentice, the multiplying brooms, the buckets of water, everything that the Fantasia sequence has.

The Wizard's Apprentice

1930

The Wedding Night poster
5.9

While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.

The Wedding Night

1935

Broadway Serenade poster
6.6

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

Broadway Serenade

1939

East of Java poster
7.5

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

East of Java

1935

Shadow of Doubt poster
6.7

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

Shadow of Doubt

1935

1920s · 26 titles

The Phantom of the Opera poster
7.1

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

The Phantom of the Opera

1925

Wild Horse Mesa poster
7.0

Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.

Wild Horse Mesa

1925

Laugh, Clown, Laugh poster
7.4

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928

Drums of the Desert poster
7.0

John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.

Drums of the Desert

1927

The Man Who Paid poster
10.0

In the desolated wilds is a Trading Post, to which Oliver Thornton went to seek obscurity after being falsely convicted of a crime in the States. Fate brought him a wife, a girl from the wilds, and soon a child, and all was happy until his prison record became known to a villainous trapper who used this information to turn Thorton's wife against him. A lost film.

The Man Who Paid

1922

The Spaniard poster
8.0

In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.

The Spaniard

1925

Beau Geste poster
6.4

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

Beau Geste

1926

Ragtime poster
10.0

Club pianist Ted Mason writes a love song for Beth Barton. A rival named Goldie steals the song for her husband, Steve, to publish. Beth faces unfair blame from her friends and teacher because of the popular song. Ted proves he wrote it by creating an even better song, exposing the theft, and winning Beth back.

Ragtime

1927

Romance Ranch poster
7.0

Carlos Brent's grandfather informs him that he is rightful owner of a ranch in the possession of the Hendley family. A belated letter establishes his claim, but Carlos is reluctant to evict the usurpers because he loves Carmen, Hendley's daughter. He solves his problem by abducting and marrying Carmen, thus becoming the ranch's legal owner.

Romance Ranch

1924

Guardians of the Wild poster
10.0

A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.

Guardians of the Wild

1928

Dead Men Tell No Tales poster
6.5

Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and plunder the Lady Jermyn, a ship carrying a considerable amount of gold, and then destroy the ship and kill its crew. Rattray, who is in love with Santos' daughter Eve, agrees to pick up the pirate, his crew and their loot on his private yacht after the deed is done. However, young George Cole, a passenger on the Lady Jermyn who is also in love with Eve, survives the attack and sets out to find her.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

1920

A Stage Romance poster
7.0

A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young woman, Anna Damby, and Countess Koefeld. Kean, inspired by the Countess, becomes entangled in a plot involving Anna, her guardian, and a roué named Lord Melville. The story culminates in a benefit performance where Kean's passionate denouncement of the Prince of Wales leads to his downfall.

A Stage Romance

1922

Against All Odds poster
10.0

Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.

Against All Odds

1924

The Birth of a Soul poster
9.0

Mountain families feud.

The Birth of a Soul

1920

The Younger Generation poster
6.9

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.

The Younger Generation

1929

Ranger of the North poster
7.0

Ranger of the North is a 1927 American silent drama-western film directed by Jerome Storm.

Ranger of the North

1927

Thundergate poster
8.0

Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.

Thundergate

1923

Going Crooked poster
10.0

A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.

Going Crooked

1926

No artwork available
7.0

When the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he is fighting for her enemy, she cannot bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.

The Heart of Maryland

1921

Where Is This West? poster
9.0

John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take her half of their shared inheritance. Together, Harley and Sallie fight for ownership of the ranch with foreman Buck Osborne and his gang, who, to scare off the new owners, stage fake holdups, Indian battles, and gunfights.

Where Is This West?

1923

The Rescue poster
7.5

The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.

The Rescue

1929

The Far Call poster
8.0

A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.

The Far Call

1929

Blazing Days poster
10.0

While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".

Blazing Days

1927

The Fortieth Door poster
8.0

Aimee is a young girl betrothed to a rascal, Hamid Bey. An American archeologist, Jack Ryder, arrives to help the girl escape ending up in Bey's harem, but it takes the boy ten episodes to finally succeed.

The Fortieth Door

1924

The Divine Sinner poster
9.0

Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.

The Divine Sinner

1928

The Next Corner poster
10.0

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.

The Next Corner

1924

1910s · 24 titles

A Girl at Bay poster
NR

After Mary Allen drops a blood-stained knife, Judge Robert Craigin's dead body lies next to her. Mary secures a secretarial position with Judge Bruce Craigin, the dead man's younger brother. Professor Galt, a criminal psychologist, and Detective Hooker believe that Mary committed the crime. Craigin and Mary fall in love and are married. Galt persuades Craigin to let Mary furnish their new home because a clue to the solving of the murder is the artistic furnishings of the room in which the murder victim was found. The similarity between the decor of the house and the crime room convinces Craigin that Mary murdered his brother, but Thomas Gray confesses to the crime. He had been in the room waiting to avenge his wife's wrongs on Craigin. When Craigin attacked Mary, she lifted her paper-knife and fainted, and Gray killed Craigin, leaving the murder weapon in Mary's hand. Mary and Bruce find happiness together.

A Girl at Bay

1919

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation poster
NR

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

1917

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Who Violates the Law

1915

The Great Ruby poster
NR

The world's finest ruby was stolen from the bride of Prince Kassim's great-grandfather several generations ago in India by a marauding rajah. It's now several decades later and the British have conquered India, and one day the ruby shows up for sale by a wealthy London jeweler, Sir John Garnett. Garnett has his own problems--there have been a rash of thefts of his wife's jewels, and he hires a private detective named James Brett to investigate.

The Great Ruby

1915

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Country Blood

1915

The Woman Between Friends poster
NR

The friends of the story are John Drene, a sculptor, and Jack Graylock, a painter. Both men swear eternal friendship on the night before Drene's marriage.

The Woman Between Friends

1918

No artwork available
NR

Clara Angelo does not really love her husband, David, a distinguished Roman banker, who is old, ugly and bent. Unknown to her husband, her mother, Mrs. Brunschaut, has involved her in a foreign conspiracy, in order that she may add to the extravagance of her living.

The Man of Mystery

1917

Arsene Lupin poster
10.0

Story of the gentleman thief.

Arsene Lupin

1917

No artwork available
NR

Trilby parody with several key characters' names altered. Presumed lost.

Trilby Frilled

1916

The Road o' Strife poster
NR

15 chapter mystery serial: [1] “The House of Secrets,” released 5 April 1915; [2] “The Face of Fear,” released 12 April 1915; [3] “The Silver Cup,” released 19 April 1915; [4] “The Ring of Death,” released 26 April 1915; [5] “No Other Way,” released 3 May 1915; [6] “The Strength of Love,” released 10 May 1915; [7] “Into the Night,” released 17 May 1915; [8] “In the Wolf’s Den,” released 24 May 1915; [9] “The Iron Hand of the Law,” released 31 May 1915; [10] “The Inspiring Sword,” released 7 June 1915; [11] “The Valley of the Shadow,” released 14 June 1915; [12] “The Sacrifice,” released 21 June 1915; [13] “The Man Who Did Not Die,” released 28 June 1915; [14] “A Story of the Past,” released 5 July 1915; [15] “The Coming of the Kingdom,” released 12 July 1915.

The Road o' Strife

1915

The Ogre and the Girl poster
8.0

This Ogre was not he of the fairy tales, but a kindly wealthy man of forbidding face to whom those who did not know him gave the name. Tiring of loneliness he decided to marry, and wooed the Girl who lived at the foot of the hill. On account of his great wealth the Girl's parents encouraged his suit, but she shrank from him

The Ogre and the Girl

1915

The Triumph of the Weak poster
NR

The opening picture finds Edith in prison where she has been for the last three years. She is a widow and her baby has been placed in an institution. She is paroled, finds her child and steals him from the asylum. After wandering around she finally obtains a position in a department store, where Jim Roberts, superintendent, falls in love with her. They are married, but she fails to tell him of her past. Mabel, also freed from prison, demands that Edith join with her and her side partner in a crime, under threat of exposing her past to Jim.

The Triumph of the Weak

1918

The Message of the Mouse poster
NR

A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. Meanwhile, the daughter has fallen in love with a fellow from the enemy camp, but all ends well as his true identity is revealed as a member of the U.S. secret service.

The Message of the Mouse

1917

The Glory of Yolanda poster
NR

A Russian peasant girl becomes a member of the Imperial Ballet.

The Glory of Yolanda

1917

The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch poster
NR

A royal princess gives her time to the Red Cross, and works alongside a young American doctor.

The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch

1915

The Wolf poster
NR

Upon his father’s death Jules Beaubien's is left a rich man but also one with a mission. Find his until now unknown half-sister, take her in and educate her. After investigating he discovers she has met a tragic fate after falling for a roue who had abandoned her. Swearing vengeance, he set off in a quest for justice in her name.

The Wolf

1914

Whom the Gods Destroy poster
NR

A tale set during the 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion against the British.

Whom the Gods Destroy

1916

In Honor's Web poster
10.0

Wealthy businessman Frank Powell falls in love late in life with Olive Meade, the sister of Governor Carroll Carson's wife Irene. One day Frank sees Olive embracing his younger brother Bert. As he leaves dejectedly, Frank discovers Irene, whose busy elderly husband neglects her, with society idler Rodney Foster.

In Honor's Web

1919

Within the Law poster
NR

Mary Turner is a young shopgirl who is unjustly convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison. Upon her release, she does everything possible to make the man who wronged her to suffer, always taking care to stray no further than the extremes of the law allow.

Within the Law

1917

The Cambric Mask poster
NR

John Sark is the owner of a piece of land coveted by Henry Murden, leader of the band of "White Riders," who has purloined the information that a railroad wishes to buy the property. Sark is a naturalist and has for an assistant Rose Ember. He discovers one of the rider's masks which is made of one of Rose's handkerchiefs, and this introduces a mysterious element into the love affair. The mask belonged to her father. The riders try to force Sark's hand, but are obliged to capture him. Rose, seeing Sark lead away, dons a mask and riding close to his horse, cuts his bonds. Sark kills Murden, and, finding that his savior was Rose, is once more happy in his love.

The Cambric Mask

1919

Everybody's Girl poster
9.0

Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It is all the home she has and the girls have to receive their company in the parks because there is no reception room, the millionaire owner of the Row having sublet the parlors. They see no harm in chance acquaintances. Then Florence meets Blinker, and real love comes into her life; but Blinker learns of what to him seems her promiscuous acquaintances and makes it plain that he cannot marry such a woman.

Everybody's Girl

1918

The Song of the Soul poster
NR

Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.

The Song of the Soul

1918

The Green God poster
10.0

Major Temple vainly tries to purchase of the priests the Green God he sees on a visit to China. He commissions Robert Ashton to get it for him, promising him the hand of his daughter in marriage.

The Green God

1918

The Stolen Treaty poster
NR

At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania set on negotiating a treaty with the United States, Geoffrey Wynne, apparently a society dandy, but in reality a secret service agent, meets the prince. During the reception, Wynne is summoned to Washington where he learns that the treaty has been stolen and is being held for $15,000,000 ransom. Discovering that one of the thieves is an Italian named Farnelli, Wynne enlists the aid of his fiancée, Irene Mitchell, in apprehending the thief. Irene meets the Italian who offers to accompany her to New York. En route, Wynne overtakes them, chloroforms Farnelli and rips off his disguise to reveal Prince Zarl. Zarl then admits that he has stolen the treaty in order to cover his gambling debts.

The Stolen Treaty

1917