Personal Info
Birth date
1880-02-28 (145 Years)
Day of death
1927-04-25
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Sacramento, California, USA
Also known as
Earle Raphael Williams
Earle Williams
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Filmography
The Skyrocket
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In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.You'd Be Surprised
6.5
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A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.The Man from Downing Street
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Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.The Eternal Struggle
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Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
4.667
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Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.Diplomacy
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Heroine Dora de Zares comports herself in a most mysterious fashion in this spy mystery.A Rogue's Romance
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A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian police. One night, while Picard watches an Apache dance, he learns that one of his three adopted children is seriously ill. When his car breaks down, Picard politely forces Helen Deprenay to loan him her auto, and leaves his cross as security. The next day, the police pursue Picard to the Deprenay home where the prefect warns Helen about Picard. Helen writes to the entreating Picard, and refuses to see him until he proves himself of worth to society. Disguised as Scotland Yard agent Armand DuBois, Picard is present at the Deprenay home when a necklace is stolen. After Helen covers for him, Picard catches the thief in an attempt to swindle the entire community in a stock market scheme. He informs the police that Picard no longer exists, and escapes with Helen to a new life.The Seal of Silence
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Dr. Hugh Loring, whose hobby is heredity, has evolved the theory that physical or mental peculiarities of children reveal the parents. The doctor's intense desire for children is only equaled by his wife's aversion. On the occasion of the doctor admonishing his wife for being friendly with an admirer she leaves him, and when her child is born she swears Ruth Carden, an employee of her husband's, who has accompanied her, to secrecy, so that she may keep from the doctor his greatest joy. Mrs. Loring dies, and Ruth returns to the doctor's office, leaving the child in the care of the nurse. Three years later the nurse finds it necessary to give up the child, and the doctor, who has fallen in love with Ruth, is stunned, for he believes that the child is hers.The Girl in His House
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When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years later, Armitage discovers that his former girlfriend has just become a widow, thus he sails back to America in hopes of rekindling the romance.Say It with Diamonds
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American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.You Never Know
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Eddie Manning, on a secret mission in Central America, is apparently penniless, and he becomes friends with a street urchin named Muggsy. When Muggsy is knocked down by a car, Manning meets its owner, Miriam Folansbee, and she offers him a job as a chauffeur. There is a plot to overthrow the country and Inez, a dancer at a cafe, tells Manning that Carlos Medina is the leader of the revolutionaries.The Gamblers
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Mrs. Travers, a society leader, is madly in love with Arthur Ingraham, a rising diplomat. Arthur is not in love with her and avoids her advances. He is in love with Beatrice Langton, a young debutante, to whom he becomes engaged. Mrs. Travers is furious.The Goddess
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A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.The Silver Car
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After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his life, and discovers his true identity is Arthur Grenvil, the son of the Earl of Rosecarrel. Trent falls in love with Grenvil's sister, Daphne, and sets out to win the Earl's approval. He discovers that the Earl is being blackmailed by Count Michael Temesvar, the prime minister of Croatia, over some documents.The Red Barrier
4
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A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.The Love Doctor
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A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
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A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held by the French Ambassador, Vicomte de Jarlais. They are also instructed to get the Ambassador out of the way and make it appear that he has committed suicide. His mysterious disappearance arouses the United States Secret Service officersThe Soul Master
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Deserted by his wife Arline, who absconds with their baby daughter Ruth as well, Robert Travers loses all faith in women. Years later, Travers, now known as the man without a soul, is the owner of a chain of department stores in which young Ruth Carroll is employed as a ribbon clerk. Finding himself strangely attracted to the girl, he takes a fatherly interest in her and offers Ruth a position in his office. Laura Wilson, who wants Travers for herself becomes jealous and tries to lure the girl away but Travers comes to realize she is his own daughter.The Diver
5
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Rita, who is in love, makes a false accusation against the “Nymph”, one of her rivals in love. But when the “Nymph” rescues Rita's daughter from the water, she has regrets, and retracts her accusation.Bunny and the Bunny Hug
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Norman Winthrop, a surveyor, accidentally meets John Bunny, an Irish watchman of a building. He introduces him to Tom and Will Hawley, two of his friends, at a little poker game in which Bunny pockets all the winnings. Talking over the matter the next day, the three men agree that it would be a great joke to introduce Bunny into society.The Ancient Mariner
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Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in favor of Victor Brant, a wealthy roué. On the night before they are to elope, an old sailor gives Brant a strange potion to drink and then unfolds before his eyes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Deeply touched by this story about the consequences of the wanton destruction of innocent beauty, Brant leaves without Doris. After some time, he returns and finds to his pained satisfaction that Doris, having overcome her infatuation for him, has again turned her tender attentions toward Joel.Red Signals
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Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.The Juggernaut
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Back in college, John Ballard saved Philip Hardin's life. Twenty years later, John is the district attorney and Philip is president of a railroad notorious for its accident record. When John brings a suit against the railroad, Philip threatens to reveal a ruinous secret about John unless he drops the case. Meanwhile, a railroad inspector discovers that the trestle over which an express train carrying Philip's daughter is about to pass is in eminent danger of collapse.The Christian
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Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gains fame and affluence. John Storm, her country sweetheart, believing he has lost Glory forever, enters a monastery, tries to forget her, cannot kill his love, returns to the world, becomes a famous slum worker and friend of the poor.Saving an Audience
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Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
6
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An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.The Adventurous Sex
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A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards Niagara Falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart.Acting
1927Say It with Diamonds as Horace Howard
1927She's My Baby as John Wilbur
1927Red Signals as Mary Callahan
1926You'd Be Surprised as Mr. Black
1926Diplomacy as Sir Henry Weymouth
1926The Skyrocket as William Dvorak
1925The Ancient Mariner as Victor Brandt
1925The Adventurous Sex as The Adventurer
1924Borrowed Husbands as Major Desmond
1923The Eternal Struggle as Sgt. Neil Tempest
1923Masters of Men as Lt. Breen
1922You Never Know as Eddie Manning
1922The Man from Downing Street as Capt. Robert Kent
1921The Silver Car as Anthony Trent
1920The Purple Cipher as Leonard Staunton
1920A Master Stroke as Yale Durant
1920Captain Swift as Captain Swift
1919Hornet's Nest as Ashe Colvin
1919A Rogue's Romance as Jules Marin / M. Picard
1919Two Women as John Leighton
1919The Highest Trump as John Paget / Richard Paget
1918The Man Who Wouldn't Tell as Hawtrey Burke
1918The Girl in His House as James Armitage
1918The Seal of Silence as Dr. Hugh Loring
1917The Love Doctor as Dr. Ordway Brandt
1917Transgression as Stephen Page
1917The Stolen Treaty as Geoffrey Wynne
1917The Soul Master as Robert Travers
1917Apartment 29 as Stanley Ormsby
1917Arsene Lupin as Arsene Lupin
1916The Nuremberg Watch as Christopher Race
1916My Lady's Slipper as Lieutenant Francis Burnham
1915Count 'Em as Unknown
1915The Goddess as Tom Barclay
1915The Juggernaut as John Ballard
1915His Phantom Sweetheart as Jack Courtney
1914Warfare in the Skies as Richard Lawrence - the General's Son
1914My Official Wife as Sacha
1914The Christian as Brother John Storm
1913The Diver as John Hawley
1913Their Mutual Friend as John Richardson
1913The Carpenter as Harry Faulkner
1913The Tiger Lily as Henry
1913Bunny and the Bunny Hug as Unknown
1913Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship as Sherman Avery
1913The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance as Walter P. Cross - Minister of Foreign Affairs
1912Song of the Shell as Dr. Ferguson
1912The Red Barrier as Lieutenant Bruce
1912A Fortune in a Teacup as Walter Brown, a Young Politician
1912The Hindoo's Curse as Unknown
1912Coronets and Hearts as Cyril - Son of the Earl of Creston
1912The Bond of Music as Lt. Oscar Mulbach, a German Spy
1912The Party Dress as Lydia's Sweetheart, Paul
1912Saving an Audience as Matthew
1912The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton as Dr. Howard Baldwin
1912The Gamblers as Unknown
1912The Spider's Web as Lester - A Swindler
1912His Father's Son as Dick Livingston
1912The Seventh Son as One of the Beecham Brothers
1912The Love of John Ruskin as John Ruskin
1912Father and Son as Jack
1912Willie's Sister as Willie's Room-Mate
1912The Heart of the King's Jester as The King's Jester
1911The Military Air-Scouts as Lieutenant Wentworth
1911An Aeroplane Elopement as George Pinckney
1911One Flag at Last as Captain Jack Myers
1911A Friendly Marriage as Lord Francis Towne
1909The Poor Musician as Unknown
1908Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy as Marcus Brutus