Philippe DeLacy Filmography

Born:: July 25, 1917 in Nancy, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Arguably the silent era's most beautiful child and a forerunner in many ways of the following decade's Freddie Bartholomew, French-born Philippe DeLacy's personal story reads like a penny-dreadful melodrama in which he would later act: Born during World War I, the already fatherless Philippe lost...Read More

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Sins of the Children

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams, Clara Blandick

Synopsis: This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal when he is forced to move to the desert to help his tubercular son recover. It takes two years, and during that time, the businessman's partner has written him off as a business Read More

1930
Sarah and Son

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Gilbert Emery, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife is devastated to discover that her husband has sold their son to a wealthy couple and left her. The woman begs the couple to return the infant, but the heartless duo refuses. The woman goes on to become an opera star and at the peak of her fame, again goes to the Read More

1930
One Romantic Night

Actors: Lillian Gish, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great Lillian Gish. The star plays Alexandra, a mittel-European princess who falls in love with Dr. Hafler (Conrad Nagel), her brother's tutor. Alas, affairs of state demand that Read More

1930
Wiegenlied

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Gilbert Emery, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Wiegenlied is the German-language version of the early-talkie weepie Sarah and Son. The plot remains substantially the same, with the heroine losing her child when her no-good husband gives the kid up for adoption. Becoming a world-famous opera singer in Europe, she returns to America to fight for Read More

1930
The Redeeming Sin

Actors: Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, Philippe DeLacy, Lionel Belmore

Synopsis: In this drama, a dancer's brother is wounded during a church robbery; the town doctor appears, rats on the boy and then lets him die. Later the doctor and the dancer become lovers which makes the boy's partner insane with jealousy. He attacks the physician, and believing he is dead, blackmails the Read More

1929
General Crack

Actors: John Barrymore, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who pays him. He is currently working for the Austrian Emperor. His mission is to abscond with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. En route, the hero marries a gypsy and leaves Read More

1929
The Marriage Playground

Actors: Mary Brian, Fredric March, Huntly Gordon, Lilyan Tashman, Kay Francis

Synopsis: In this moving drama, a young woman is forced to take care of her many brothers and sisters while their wealthy parents live life in the fast-lane. She is saved by an American who has come to Italy for vacation. He becomes her friend, and the children come to adore him. They eventually fall in Read More

1929
Square Shoulders

Actors: Louis Wolheim, Philippe DeLacy, Anita Louise

Synopsis: Child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan's final film on his DeMille-Pathe contract was the military-academy drama Square Shoulders. After the death of his mother, young Tad (Coghlan) is made a ward of a newsboy's home. Proud of the Distinguished Service Cross left to him by his reportedly dead war-hero Read More

1929
The Royal Rider

Actors: Ken Maynard, Olive Hasbrouck, Philippe DeLacy, Joseph Burke

Synopsis: Royal Rider is an amusing mixture of traditional western fare and Ruritanian melodrama. Ken Maynard plays Dick Scott, a rodeo star who takes his Wild West show to the mythical kingdom of Alvania. Here he becomes pals with the country's boy-king Michael (Philipe De Lacey). Inevitably, our hero Read More

1929
Four Devils

Actors: John Farrell MacDonald, Anders Randolf, Claire McDowell, Jack Parker, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two of them have grown to be lovers. Though they appear inseparable, trouble ensues when a usurper takes the girl away. The picture is considered a lost work -- no copies are Read More

1929
Napoleon's Barber

Actors: Otto Matieson, Natalie Golitzin, Frank Reicher, Helen Ware, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Director John Ford made his talking-picture debut with the 3-reel (32-minute) Fox "featurette" Napoleon's Barber. Faithfully adapted from a vaudeville sketch by Arthur Caesar, the film is little more than a shaggy-dog story about an anarchistic French barber (Frank Reicher) who regales his Read More

1928
Mother Machree

Actors: Belle Bennett, Philippe DeLacy, Neil Hamilton, Victor McLaglen, Ted McNamara

Synopsis: Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone musical score and sound-effects track. The story begins in a tiny Irish village at the turn of the century. Having lost her husband to a lightning storm, Ellen McHugh (Belle Bennett Read More

1928
Broken Mask

Actors: Cullen Landis, Barbara Bedford, William V. Mong, Wheeler Oakman

Synopsis: For a humble "B" picture, The Broken Mask was able to assemble an impressive cast. Cullen Landis stars as an Argentine dancer who is unable to find work because of his horribly scarred face. While seeking out employment in New Orleans, Landis is reaquainted with another Argentine, popular dancing Read More

1928
The Four Feathers

Actors: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the last rendering during the silent era. Here, Richard Arlen stars as Harry Faversham, the British officer who resigns rather than fight against rebels in Egypt. When four of Read More

1928
The Way of All Flesh

Actors: Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous films, The Last Laugh and Variety, and would later be echoed in The Blue Angel. Jannings' powerful performance, along with his acting in The Last Command, would win him the first Read More

1927
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable songs. Director Ernst Lubitsch fashioned a gloriously schmaltzy, delightfully artificial rendition of the 1924 Lehar opera, which in turn was based on the 1902 play In Old Read More

1927
The Magic Garden

Actors: Joyce Coad, Margaret Morris, Philippe DeLacy, Raymond Keane

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Gene Stratton-Porter novel The Magic Garden was given a splendid (if economical) screen treatment by FBO Pictures in 1927. As ever, the story concerns Amaryllis Minton (Joyce Coad), a spoiled girl who is sent to live with her country-squire Uncle Paul (William V. Mong). Redeemed by Read More

1927
Faithful Wives

Actors: Wallace MacDonald, Edythe Chapman, Doris May, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Faithful Wives begins as condemned prisoner Tom Burke (Wallace MacDonald) contemplates his impending appointment with the executioner. It seems that Tom's problems stem back to his unfortunate marriage. When his wife (Myrda Dagmara) decided to play the field, Tom saw red, and the result was Read More

1927
The Tigress

Actors: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Frank Leigh, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Produced by Columbia Pictures, The Tigress is set in Spain, where a band of gypsies help themselves to the livestock on a lavish estate. The villain murders the head gypsy then places the blame on the master of the estate, Jack Holt. The gypsy's chieftain's daughter Dorothy Revier vows revenge Read More

1927
Love

Actors: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: This MGM-ized adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was originally titled Heat but was changed to Love when someone at the studio pointed out the possible implications of having the opening title read "John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Heat." Heavily updated and revised, the film bore scant Read More

1927
Is Zat So?

Actors: George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, Katherine Perry, Cyril Chadwick, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Though Is Zat So? was playwright/actor James Gleason's Broadway breakthrough, Gleason himself did not appear in the first film version. The stars of this 7-reel silent are George O'Brien as boxer Ed Chick Cowan, Edmund Lowe as Cowan's manager Hap Hurley (the Gleason part) and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Read More

1927
Don Juan

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Warner Oland, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Read More

1926
Beau Geste

Actors: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian

Synopsis: Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the foreign legion. Beau is the youngest of three brothers who fall into an ethical dilemma when their aunt resorts to stealing valuable jewelry from the family's collection to Read More

1926
My Neighbor's Wife

Actors: E.K. Lincoln, Helen Ferguson, Edwards Davis, Herbert Rawlinson, William Russell

Synopsis: Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father advances him $40,000 to make the picture with the understanding the feature must make a profit. The feature takes several comic looks at the industry, with William Russell Read More

1925
A Lover's Oath

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Kathleen Key, Edwin Stevens, Hedwig Reicher

Synopsis: Artistic backgrounds and trick photography were the draws in this romantic drama, based on The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As Ben Ali, Ramon Novarro practically disappears in the midst of all the camera work and set design, as does his co-star Kathleen Key (who, incidentally, was a descendent of Read More

1925
Happy Warrior

Actors: Malcolm McGregor, Alice Calhoun, Mary Alden, Anders Randolf, Olive Borden

Synopsis: Vitagraph had already made successful pictures out of two of A.S.M. Hutchinson's novels when they filmed this one. Because of his father's secret marriage, Ralph (Malcolm McGregor) is cheated out of his inheritance. Nevertheless, his Aunt Maggie (Mary Alden) prepares him to someday take the place Read More

1925
The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Actors: Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody, Mae Busch, Percy Marmont

Synopsis: The wooden performances by a usually fine cast of players suggest that the script to this melodrama -- based on the poem The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service -- is to blame. Barbara LaMarr plays "the lady known as Lou," who is stuck performing in a divey South American cabaret where her Read More

1924
Peter Pan

Actors: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter Pan, made famous on the stage by Maude Adams. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and even Gloria Swanson thought they were perfect for the role, but Barrie's own choice was Betty Bronson Read More

1924
Rosita

Actors: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated German director Ernst Lubitsch (it was also Lubitsch's first American-made film). But at least the story, adapted from the novel Don Cesar de Bazon, came closer to Read More

1923
Divorce

Actors: Jane Novak, John Bowers, James Corrigan, Edythe Chapman, Margaret Livingston

Synopsis: The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap opera geared toward women film fans. Jane Novak and John Bowers star as Jane and Jim Parker, a happily wed couple with a little boy, Dickie (Philippe DeLacy). Jim works for Read More

1923
A Doll's House

Actors: Alan Hale, Alla Nazimova, Philippe DeLacy

Synopsis: Henrik Ibsen's play had already been filmed twice before, in 1917 starring Dorothy Phillips, and in 1918 with lsie Ferguson. But this time around the star was dramatic actress Alla Nazimova, who had played Nora Helmer on stage in New York twice -- once in 1907 and again in 1918. The biggest Read More

1922
Without Benefit of Clergy

Actors: Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding, Evelyn Selbie, Otto Lederer, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: John Holden, an English engineer living in Lahore, India, (Thomas Holding) sees pretty Ameera (Virginia Brown Faire) being mistreated by a money-lender (Otto Lederer). He rescues her and finds out that she and her mother (Evelyn Selbie) are very poor. It seems like the only way for them to keep Read More

1921

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Philippe DeLacy Filmography

Sins of the Children

Sarah and Son

One Romantic Night

Wiegenlied

The Redeeming Sin

General Crack

The Marriage Playground

Square Shoulders

The Royal Rider

Four Devils

Napoleon's Barber

Mother Machree

Broken Mask

The Four Feathers

The Way of All Flesh

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Magic Garden

Faithful Wives

The Tigress

Love

Is Zat So?

Don Juan

Beau Geste

My Neighbor's Wife

A Lover's Oath

Happy Warrior

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Peter Pan

Rosita

Divorce

A Doll's House

Without Benefit of Clergy

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