He started working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s ; the most notable being The Blot in 1921.

* The Blot ( 1921 )

Windsor costarred with Louis Calhern in Weber's The Blot ( 1921 ).

* The Blot ( 1921 )

Since McShane, she has been married twice, first to an American businessman which ended after five months and then to film producer Phillippe Blot.

An adaptation of A Blot in the ' Scutcheon was to follow in 1912, and another Griffith film, The Wanderer ( 1913 ) reproduces the theme of Pippa Passes with a flutist instead of a singer.

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Their first movie was a silent film made in 1921 that was never released, and is believed to have been destroyed at the time.

However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).

The Apache and the Tango were scandalous dances for their elements of eroticism, the latter popularized in a 1921 silent film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, that made its lead actor, Rudolph Valentino, a sex symbol for his ability to Tango.

Scene from the 1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( film ) | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films.

Valentino first met Winifred Shaughnessy, known by her stage name, Natacha Rambova, an American silent film costume and set designer, art director, and protégée of Nazimova, on the set of Uncharted Seas in 1921.

In 1921, the Photokinema sound-on-disc system developed by Orlando Kellum was employed to add synchronized sound sequences to D. W. Griffith's failed silent film Dream Street.

* Nigel de Brulier in the silent films The Three Musketeers ( 1921 ) and The Iron Mask ( 1929 ), and talkie remakes The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ) and The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ).

Holloway made his film debut in a 1921 silent comedy called The Rotters.

* Demos ( film ), a 1921 silent film

* The Sheik ( film ), a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino

Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ), The Motorist ( 1906 ), Conquest of the Pole ( 1912 ), Himmelskibet ( 1918 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), L ' Huomo Meccanico ( 1921 ), Paris Qui Dort ( 1923 ), Aelita ( 1924 ), Luch Smerti ( 1925 ) and The Lost World ( 1925 ).

* Camille ( 1921 film ), a 1921 American silent film starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller

The first screen adaptation appears to have been a silent 1921 Dutch-UK co-production directed by Maurits Binger and Frank Richardson.

* A 1921 silent German film Lady Hamilton directed by Richard Oswald with Liane Haid as Hamilton and Conrad Veidt as Nelson

* Retribution ( 1921 film ), an Australian silent film by Armand Lionello

* a 1921 silent western written / produced by and starring William S. Hart

* Hayward Mack ( 1879 – 1921 ), American silent film actor

This story was filmed in 1921 as part of a series of silent films starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.

The earliest film version was Fox's 1921 silent version.

* The Return ( 1921 film ), a silent British film by Fred Paul

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

* 2002 – George Nader, American film and TV actor ( b. 1921 )

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

A Movie poster # Lobby cards | lobby card for the film Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 film ) | Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1921

* 1921 – Jack Clayton, British film director ( d. 1995 )

* 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director ( d. 2002 )

* 1921 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, created the MPAA film rating system ( d. 2007 )

It was serialised from 1921 to 1928 and was adapted into the first wuxia film, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ( 1928 ).

* January 25 – Diana Barrymore, American stage & film actress ( b 1921 )

* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( film ), a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino, based on a novel by Ibanez

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

" The film is noteworthy for its invocation of silent film techniques and an insistence on the jump-cut for effect.

A silent film of one of these early streetcars in Berkeley can be seen at the Library of Congress website: " A Trip To Berkeley, California "

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

He therefore rejected the new Hollywood craze and proceeded to develop a silent film.

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

Category: English silent film actors

One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies.

The genre dates from the silent era, and the most famous examples of this type of film would be those produced by Monty Python.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

During the 1930s, the silent film comedy was replaced by dialogue from film comedians such as the W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers.

The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

DeMille remade his early hit The Squaw Man twice, once as a silent film The Squaw Man ( 1918 ) and then as a sound film The Squaw Man ( 1931 ).

* Cleopatra ( 1912 film ), a silent film created in 1912 by Helen Gardner