Sidney Ainsworth Filmography

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Boys Will Be Boys

Actors: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Sydney Ainsworth, Edward M. Kimball

Synopsis: Peep O'Day (Will Rogers) is the illiterate pauper of a small Southern town. When he gets the news from Judge Priest (Edward Kimball) that he has inherited a fortune from a relative back in Ireland, Peep's life changes overnight. He decides to use his money to experience the childhood he never got Read More

1921
Hold Your Horses

Actors: Tom Moore, Sylvia Ashton, Naomi Childers, Bertram Grassby

Synopsis: Tom Moore stars in this comedy-drama, which was based on Rupert Hughes' Saturday Evening Post story, "Canavan." Irish immigrant Dan Canavan (Moore) is working as a street cleaner when he is trampled by a horse belonging to socialite Beatrice Newness (Naomi Childers). He is left with the imprint of Read More

1921
The Invisible Power

Actors: House Peters, Irene Rich, DeWitt Jennings

Synopsis: In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is harassed by a detective who is looking for one of the ex-con's former gang mates. When the con refuses to cooperate, the detective frames him and gets him sent back to the Read More

1921
Doubling for Romeo

Actors: Will Rogers, Sylvia Breamer, Raymond Hatton, Al Hart

Synopsis: It is said that every actor wants to play Shakespeare. Will Rogers would seem a likely exception to that rule, but here he is in this silent, taking a stab (albeit comic) at Romeo. Slim (Rogers), of course, begins as a cowpuncher but his boss switches from cattle to sheep, throwing him out of Read More

1921
Poor Relation

Actors: Will Rogers, Sylvia Breamer, Wallace MacDonald, Sydney Ainsworth, George B. Williams

Synopsis: In spite of many attempts to bring Will Rogers superstardom in silent films (he was already one on Broadway), it wasn't until sound came in that he found his niche. Here, he and director Clarence G. Badger flounder as they try for pathos a la Charles Chaplin's The Kid. Rogers plays Noah Vale, a Read More

1921
Madame X

Synopsis: The role of Jacqueline Floriot -- the Madame X of the film's title -- is a tour de force for any actress. After having an affair she is thrown out of her home only to sink to the depths of drug addiction after her lover leaves her. Then twenty years later she murders a blackmailer to keep scandal Read More

1920
Out of the Storm

Synopsis: Margaret Hill (Barbara Castleton) is a poor factory girl who plans to commit suicide when she loses her job. But she is saved by Teddy Shale (Carrie Clark Ward), who finds her some work as a performer in a Barbary Coast dive. Albert Levering (Sydney Ainsworth) sees her act and believes that she Read More

1920
The Branding Iron

Synopsis: Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman (Barbara Castleton) escapes her homicidal father by marrying a rancher (Russell Simpson). History repeats itself, however, and the rancher turns out to be a brute who actually Read More

1920
Crimson Gardenia

Synopsis: It is Mardi Gras in New Orleans' French Quarter, and New Yorker Roland Van Dam (Owen Moore) has come down in search of excitement. When he puts on a mask and sticks a gardenia in his buttonhole, he finds more adventure than he bargained for. Because of the flower, Madelon Dorette (Hedda Nova) Read More

1919
Heartsease

Synopsis: Tom Moore has the starring role in this adaptation of Charles E. Klein's successful stage drama. Eric Temple (Moore) is a composer whose rival, both in romance and work, is Sir Geoffrey Pomfret (Sydney Ainsworth), a nobleman with few scruples. The woman they both love is Margaret (Helene Read More

1919
Brown of Harvard

Synopsis: The play by Rida Johnson Young and Gilbert Coleman helped set the standard by which all other college stories were drawn, and this was the first filmed version of it. Tom Moore plays Tom Brown, the rich college student who is despised by Gerald Thorne (Walter McGrail), who is working his way Read More

1918
On Trial

Synopsis: This picture, made by Essanay, was the first release by newly organized company First National. Robert Strickland (Sidney Ainsworth) has confessed to the murder of Gerald Trask (James Young, who was also the film's director). His attorney, through cross-examining Strickland's little daughter Doris Read More

1917
According to the Code

Synopsis: Before he became a dignified general-purpose actor, Captain E. H. Calvert was a busy silent film director. Made in 1916, Calvert's According to the Code was set during the Civil War, which had proven to be good "box office fare" the year previous by Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Lewis Stone plays Read More

1916