Charles OgleFilmography

One Minute to Play

Actors: Red Grange, Mary McAllister, Charles Ogle, George Wilson, Ben Hendricks, Jr.

Synopsis: Real-life college gridiron hero Red Grange heads the cast of the football drama One Minute to Play. Though his father wants him to attend Parmalee College, Red Wade (Grange) opts for Claxton U because the latter school has a better football team. Once he's enrolled, however, he is persuaded by his Read More

Code of the West

Actors: Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Mabel Ballin, Charles Ogle, David Butler

Synopsis: Shy cowboy Cal Thurman (Owen Moore) falls for sophisticated city girl Georgie May (Constance Bennett) in this, the first of two versions of Zane Grey's story. When Georgie May haughtily rejects the poor cowpuncher, he sets out to stake his claim, gets in trouble with a gang of crooks, and later Read More

Contraband

Actors: Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Raymond McKee, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee (Wilson) inherits a run-down country newspaper from her uncle. With the help of eccentric Professor Pell (Raymond McKee) and Jed Tubal, an old printer (Luke Cosgrave), she starts Read More

Thundering Herd

Actors: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Tim McCoy

Synopsis: Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the studio's stalwart Jack Holt as a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre. The film's highlight, a breathtaking shot of wagons careening across Read More

Border Legion

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Helene Chadwick, Rockliffe Fellowes, Gibson Gowland, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: The second of four versions of Zane Grey's story of a dispirited ranch hand who joins a gang of outlaws, this silent western benefitted by the presence of veteran Vitagraph star Antonio Moreno. Moreno plays Jim Cleve, who heads West after being jilted by his girlfriend. He works for a while as a Read More

Secrets

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Winter Hall, Frank Elliott, George Cowl

Synopsis: After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental romance, which spans a period of nearly 60 years. Mary Carlton (Talmadge) is in her seventies and her husband, John (Eugene O'Brien), is deathly ill. While writing in her diary Read More

Flaming Barriers

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, Antonio Moreno, Charles Ogle, Robert McKim

Synopsis: A matinee idol of the pre-1920 years, Antonio Moreno was on the wane when, in 1921, the emergence of Rudolph Valentino sparked a demand for "Latin Lover" types. Moreno's 1924 vehicle Flaming Barriers was directed by George H. Melford, the man who started the Valentino craze with his direction of The Sheik Read More

Garden of Weeds

Actors: Betty Compson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Warner Baxter, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: This drama was based on the play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg (Rockliffe Fellowes), a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them. His latest fancy, Dorothy Delbridge (Betty Compson), refuses Read More

Merton of the Movies

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Viola Dana, DeWitt Jennings, Charles Sellon

Synopsis: This first of three film versions of the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly stage comedy Merton of the Movies stars Glenn Hunter in the title role. A small-town boy with big-time ideas, Merton heads to Hollywood, hoping to become a great dramatic star in films. Before long, he's on the verge of Read More

The Alaskan

Actors: Estelle Taylor, John St. Polis, Frank Campeau, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: Thomas Meighan single-handedly saves Alaska in this James Oliver Curwood tale of the Northwest, which was shot on-location in British Columbia and Alberta. The Holt family wants to stop big business from destroying Alaska's pristine beauty. The elder Holt is killed, and his son, Alan (Meighan), is Read More

Triumph

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Rod La Rocque, Victor Varconi, Charles Ogle, Theodore Kosloff

Synopsis: After the spectacular epic The Ten Commandments, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille returns to the drawing room for this pleasingly straightforward drama. King Garnet (Rod La Rocque) is the idle son of factory owner David Garnet (George Fawcett). He is in love with Ann Land (Leatrice Joy), the factory's Read More

The Bedroom Window

Actors: May McAvoy, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Edeson, George Fawcett

Synopsis: William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of Read More

Salomy Jane

Actors: Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: The second filming of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane's Kiss was given a sumptuous production by Paramount. This time around, the beautiful Jacqueline Logan portrayed the daughter of an outlaw leader (Charles Ogle) who saves a handsome stranger (Maurice "Lefty" Flynn) from a lynching. As it turns out Read More

Grumpy

Actors: Theodore Roberts, May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, Casson Ferguson, Bertram Johns

Synopsis: Even as a supporting player, character actor Theodore Roberts often dominated the scenes in which he performed. When he had an excellent starring vehicle, as he does here, every other actor practically becomes invisible. Old Bullivant, otherwise known as Grumpy (Roberts) is a crusty old man who Read More

Sixty Cents an Hour

Actors: Walter Hiers, Jacqueline Logan, Ricardo Cortez, Charles Ogle, Lucille Ward

Synopsis: Hefty comedian Walter Hiers stars in this tepid comedy. Jimmy Kirk (Hiers) is a soda jerk in love with Mamie Smith (Jacqueline Logan), the daughter of a banker (Charles Ogle). In spite of his lowly position, Jimmy has aspirations and leases a four-foot plot in hopes of building a store. Although Read More

Ruggles of Red Gap

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson, Fritzi Ridgeway, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this adaptation of the Harry Leon Wilson novel. Ruggles comes into the life of Cousin Egbert (Ernest Torrence) when he and his wife, Mrs. Effie (Louise Dresser), travel to Paris. The Read More

The Covered Wagon

Actors: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Ernest Torrence, Charles Ogle, Alan Hale, Ethel Wales

Synopsis: James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The Covered Wagon, chronicling the largest wagon train to ever cross the valley of the Platte River. The film takes place in 1848, when two wagon trains -- one led by Jesse Read More

Garrison's Finish

Actors: Jack Pickford, Madge Bellamy, Charles A. Stevenson, Tom Guise, Frank Elliott

Synopsis: Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins (Clarence Burton) and Lilly Allen (Ethel Grey Terry), dope jockey Billy Garrison (Pickford) and cause him to be disqualified from the Carter Handicap. His bad luck Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of Read More

Kick in

Actors: Betty Compson, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy, Gareth Hughes, Kathleen Clifford

Synopsis: The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida Bergere writing the scenario. Bergere was at the typewriter once again when the story returned to the screen in 1922. This production, with its more lavish budget and fine Read More

If You Believe It, It's So

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Pauline Starke, Joseph J. Dowling, Theodore Roberts, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Even though Thomas Meighan was well-cast in this comedy-drama, meant as sort of a lower-echelon Miracle Man, it's that scene-stealer, Theodore Roberts, who runs away with the show. Meighan plays Chick Harris, a thief who picks an old man's pocket at Grand Central Station. The old man, a country Read More

Our Leading Citizen

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, William P. Carleton, Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The casting of Thomas Meighan and Lois Wilson as the two leads was impeccable. "Lazy Dan" Bentley (Meighan) may be a lawyer by profession, but all things considered, he'd rather be Read More

The Young Rajah

Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley, Pat Moore, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as an Indian rajah. At least, that's how Paramount saw things, and that's really the only excuse for the creation of this drama. The Judds, Caleb (Spottiswoode Aitken) and Read More

Manslaughter

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This Cecil B. DeMille morality play came at just the right time -- the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and William Desmond Taylor murder were both still fresh in the public's mind. Leatrice Joy plays Lydia Thorne, a rich society girl who is addicted to thrills. Because of her reckless driving, she Read More

North of the Rio Grande

Actors: Jack Holt, Bebe Daniels, Charles Ogle, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering Southern Arizona. With revenge on his mind, Bob Haddington (Jack Holt) turns himself into Velantrie, the leader of a gang of outlaws. At a mission, he meets and falls for Val Read More

Thirty Days

Actors: Wallace Reid, Wanda Hawley, Cyril Chadwick, Charles Ogle, Herschel Mayall

Synopsis: At the time this film was released, its star, Wallace Reid, was supposedly spending some time in a sanitarium, getting a much needed rest. The truth was that he had been hospitalized for his morphine addiction, which would kill him within a few months. Reid looks tired and strained here, and this Read More

The Woman Who Walked Alone

Actors: Dorothy Dalton, Milton Sills, Wanda Hawley, Fred Vroom

Synopsis: This drama is based on the novel The Cat That Walked Alone by John Colton, and its cast was a combination of well-known feature players and stars just a shade past their prime. Iris Champney (Dorothy Dalton) is forced into a marriage with the elderly Earl of Lemister (E.J. Radcliffe). When he Read More

Her Husband's Trademark

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson, into a more glamorous role here. She plays the stunning Lois Miller, who weds wheeler-dealer James Berkeley (Stuart Holmes). But Lois is nothing more than a trophy wife who he Read More

A Homespun Vamp

Synopsis: May McAvoy was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most popular stars when she appeared in this pleasant comedy-drama. She's Meg Mackenzie, the orphaned niece of two stingy Scotsmen, Donald and Duncan Craig (Charles Ogle and Guy Oliver). She's kept busy taking care of their home in the Read More

After the Show

Actors: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Charles Ogle, Eve Southern, Carlton S. King

Synopsis: While Cecil B. DeMille busied himself with lavish sex comedies and garish historical melodramas, his director brother William C. deMille (note the lower case) was content with subtler human dramas. The "other" DeMille's After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee Read More

A Wise Fool

Actors: James Kirkwood, Alice Hollister, Ann Forrest, Alan Hale, Fred Huntley

Synopsis: This confusing melodrama finds Jean Jacques Barbille (James Kirkwood) as the wealthy young man from a small town in Quebec. Returning from a tour of Europe, he meets Carmen Delores (Alice Hollister), the daughter of a Spanish adventurer. The two are married, much to the dismay of the other women Read More

The Affairs of Anatol

Actors: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its reputation suggests. Wallace Reid stars as New York socialite Anatol DeWitt Spencer, who after only a few day's marriage has become bored with his new bride Vivian (Gloria Read More

Miss Lulu Bett

Actors: Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren

Synopsis: For a silent screen star, Lois Wilson showed a truly charming lack of ego -- how many other beauty contest winners would be happy playing an ugly duckling like this film's title character? But Wilson did and she felt this was the best film of her career. She was aided by the capable direction of Read More

What Every Woman Knows

Actors: Lois Wilson, Conrad Nagel, Charles Ogle, Fred Huntley, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by James M. Barrie. If he remained faithful to Barrie, he risked having a wordy, rather static picture. If he took cinematic liberties, Barrie disciples would be furious -- as Read More

Crazy to Marry

Actors: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Lila Lee, Laura Anson, Edwin Stevens, Lillian Leighton

Synopsis: Crazy to Marry was one of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's most delightful feature-length vehicles. Arbuckle plays a doctor who hopes to cure criminals via brain surgery. In one hilarious sequence, Fatty surgically recovers several valuables-watches, gems etc.-from the abdomen of plug-ugly Bull Montana. Read More

Gasoline Gus

Synopsis: Because of the scandal that befell comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in 1921, his Paramount starring feature Gasoline Gus never received an American release. A pity, since the film was (from all accounts) his best feature-length vehicle thus far. Arbuckle of course plays the title character, a Read More

What's Your Hurry?

Synopsis: Wallace Reid plays one of his speed demon roles in this picture, which is based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "The Hippopotamus Parade" by Byron Morgan. Dusty Rhoades (Reid) leaves just about everybody in the dust when he steps on the gas pedal. But this talent does nothing to win over Read More

Treasure Island

Synopsis: Treasure Island was the third of Fox's "Sunshine Kiddies" series, a group of literary adaptations starring child actors in adult roles. Little Francis Carpenter was cast as Robert Louis Stevenson's youthful hero Jim Hawkins, who after coming into possession of a valuable map embarks upon a Read More

Jack Straw

Synopsis: This light comedy was based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. While Maugham's witty dialogue is sorely missed, the silent still shows the fine directorial hand of William C. De Mille, elder brother of Cecil B. De Mille. Iceman Jack Straw (Robert Warwick) falls in love with Ethel Parker Jennings Read More

Brewster's Millions

Actors: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Betty Ross Clarke, Fred Huntley, Marion Skinner, James Corrigan, Jean Acker

Synopsis: This second of seven film versions of the old theatrical chestnut Brewster's Millions starred Roscoe Arbuckle, better known to his fans as Fatty. The rotund comedian plays a young lawyer who inherits a vast fortune. But in order to claim his legacy, he must spend a million dollars within a set Read More

Midsummer Madness

Synopsis: The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story, His Friend and his Wife. Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. Read More

The Dub

Synopsis: Paramount's silent matinee idol Wallace Reid plays John Craig, a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail -- but of course they don't realize that Read More

Alias Mike Moran

Synopsis: Wallace Reid could have appeared in a filmed version of the classified ads and made a fortune for his home studio of Paramount. In the inconsequential Alias Mike Moran, Reid plays a craven coward who pays a former convict to take his place in uniform during World War 1. When the imposter is Read More

Valley of the Giants

Synopsis: When his mother (Alice Taaffe) dies, Bryce Cardigan (Wallace Reid) and his lumberman father James (Charles Ogle) bury her in a glade they own and have named the Valley of the Giants. The two men swear to protect this land, but when Bryce returns from college he discovers that his father is in dire Read More

Hawthorne of the USA

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too busy setting up United Artists in 1919 to appear in the film version. The popular Wallace Reid takes over as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne, a young man who wins a tidy sum at Read More

We Can't Have Everything

Synopsis: We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware that her wealthy husband Peter (Thurston Hall) is cheating on her, socialite Charity Cheever (Kathlyn Williams) nonetheless remains faithful to him, spurning the affections of Read More

Source

Synopsis: Van Twiller Yard (Wallace Reid) has drifted from his well-to-do roots and landed on the skids. Along with several other derelicts, he is shanghaied and taken off to a lumber camp, where he is put to work. The superintendent's daughter, Svea Nord (Ann Little), snubs Yard when he is knocked out by Read More

Too Many Millions

Synopsis: Walsingham Van Dorn (Wallace Reid) has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy, but wicked, uncles. The uncles had foreclosed on poor Desiree (Ora Carewe) and her father, leaving them homeless. While Van Dorn is throwing money away on everything under Read More

Less Than Kin

Synopsis: The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of convenience and "box-office insurance, are played by the popular Wallace Reid.) The story opens in Central America, where Lewis Vickers (Reid) has fled to escape Read More

Believe Me, Xantippe

Synopsis: Adapted from a popular stage play of the period, Believe Me, Xantippe was retooled as a vehicle for the even more popular Wallace Reid. The star was cast as George MacFarland, a wealthy young scamp with a thirst for adventure. With the help of an influential friend, MacFarland manages to break the Read More

Firefly of France

Synopsis: Played by Raymond Hatton, the "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer (Ann Little) is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Read More

Jules of the Strong Heart

Synopsis: Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules of the Strong Heart. Outwardly a brutish bully, lumberjack Jules Lemaire (Jules Lemaire) is actually a big bowl of porrage and proves it by adopting the orphaned child Read More

The Squaw Man

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille made The Squaw Man three times; this silent version was the second one. While the 1914 Squaw Man bears more historical significance (as it went a long way in establishing Hollywood as the heart of the film industry), this 1918 version is, by far, the better film, with higher Read More

Things We Love

Synopsis: Listed in some sources under the title The Thing We Love, this Wallace Reid vehicle was directed by another popular matinee idol, Lou Tellegen. Reid plays the young vice-president of an American munitions factory, which unbeknownst to our hero is being undermined by a gang of German-American Read More

Rimrock Jones

Synopsis: Rimrock Jones (Wallace Reid) is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find Read More

M'Liss

Actors: Mary Pickford

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The "terror" of Red Gulch, the hoydenish M'liss (Pickford) spends most of her time dragging her scraggly father Bummer Smith (Ernest Torrence) home from the local bordello. As such Read More

The Secret Game

Synopsis: Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in William C. DeMille's The Secret Game. Flying in the face of the "Yellow Peril" scare fomented by such reactionaries as William Randolph Hearst, the film cast Hayakawa as heroic Read More

A Romance of the Redwoods

Synopsis: Reportedly, director Cecil B. DeMille and leading lady Mary Pickford did not see eye to eye during the making of this lavish Western melodrama filmed on location among the giant redwoods in northern California. "Little Mary" actually plays a female her own age this time (maybe that was the Read More

Nan of Music Mountain

Synopsis: Handsome silent screen idol Wallace Reid takes a job as manager of a stage-line in this early silent western directed by the prolific George Melford. Reid's Henry DeSpain not only defeats the notorious Morgan gang but falls for the gang leader's (Theodore Roberts) lovely daughter, Nan (Ann Read More

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Actors: Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brien, Helen Jerome Eddy, Charles Ogle, Marjorie Daw

Synopsis: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play. Mary Pickford, 23 years old but looking at least ten years younger, stars as the spunky little girl who is left with her tight-lipped aunt Helen Jerome Eddy by her impoverished mother. It's an uphill Read More

Those without Sin

Synopsis: Richard Landry (C.H. Geldert) is a Southern aristocrat who works for the U.S. government in the days before the Civil War. Henry Mellon (Guy Oliver), a northern official is set on disgracing Landry and insults the man's daughter, Melanie (Blanche Sweet) when she gets in his way. As a result Read More

On Record

Synopsis: The second 1917 collaboration between husband-and-wife team actress Mae Murray and director Robert Z. Leonard was On Record, wherein the star is cast as the much-put-upon Helen Wayne. Accused of a crime she didn't commit, Helen is dragged into police headquarters, where she is subjected to the Read More

A Question of Seconds

The Surgeon's Temptation

Reform Candidate

Foul Play

The Star Spangled Banner

For Her Sister's Sake

Arms and the Woman

Synopsis: Running a whole 15 minutes, Edison's Arms and the Woman was adapted from a considerably longer story by Rex Beach. Having lost his family fortune at the gambling table, a young man desperately seeks out a quick source of revenue. He falls in with a scurrilous bandit, who inveigles the lad into Read More

Frankenstein

Michael Strogoff

Synopsis: One of the first full-length Jules Verne adaptations, Michael Strogoff served as a vehicle for Jacob P. Adler, legendary figure of the Yiddish stage (and the father of actor Luther Adler and acting coach Stella Adler). On a secret mission for the Czar, Michael Strogoff encounters several Read More

Bluebeard

Synopsis: The legend of Bluebeard's last wife formed the basis of this Edison fantasy film. Disobeying her husband's wishes, Bluebeard's missus takes a peek into her husband's "secret room." There she finds the dismembered heads of Bluebeard's previous spouses, a gory spectacle that leaves her quite dizzy. Read More