Biography
Helen Holmes (June 19, 1892 – July 8, 1950) was an American silent film actress, producer, director, screenwriter and stuntwoman. She is most notable for starring in the 1914–1917 serial The Hazards of Helen. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Movie Credits
40-Horse Hawkins
1924-04-21
Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling,
Stormy Seas
1923-07-01
Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in sto
Perils of the Rail
1926-10-22
A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipm
Whispering Smith
1926-03-28
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransac
Whispering Smith
1916-06-05
Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give eve
Stars of Yesterday
1931-12-31
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
The Operator at Black Rock
1914-08-05
The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff ar
The Fast Freight
1925-07-01
Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by
Into the Depths
1914-09-15
Neglected by her husband, Beth Stanford becomes interested in Arthur, his friend. Although their fri
The Stolen Engine
1914-12-05
A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engi
The Death Train
1915-03-06
The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is
The Flying Freight's Captive
1914-12-12
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discover
The Black Diamond Express
1914-12-19
When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Hel
The Escape on the Limited
1914-12-26
Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track,
The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
1915-01-02
Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejec
The Broken Circuit
1915-01-16
Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the
Battling Brewster
1924-12-01
An action movie serial that premiered in 1924
The Fast Mail's Danger
1915-01-23
Down and out, Bob, an engineer, drifts into town. His condition excites Helen's sympathy. Using her
The Little Engineer
1915-01-30
While Hastings, the engineer of Freight No. 3205 is at lunch- in the Lone Point station, Bobby Heywo
The Red Signal
1915-02-13
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passin
The Engineer's Peril
1915-02-20
Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a
The Open Drawbridge
1915-02-27
Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight c
The Railroad Raiders of '62
1915-03-20
Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experienc
The Girl at Lone Point
1915-03-27
Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train be
Helen's Sacrifice
1914-11-14
In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lo
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
1914-11-21
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a tele
His Nemesis
1914-11-18
With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the
A Life in the Balance
1915-04-03
King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lon
The Girl on the Trestle
1915-04-10
A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, k
The Girl Engineer
1915-04-17
A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jum
A Race for a Crossing
1915-04-24
Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a ma
The Box Car Trap
1915-05-01
Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brak
The Broken Train
1915-05-22
Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps int
The Human Chain
1915-06-05
Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes
The Girl at the Throttle
1914-11-28
Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally sho
Nerves of Steel
1915-09-11
Detective Strong is warned that an attempt will be made to free the crooks he is taking to the penit
A Railroader's Bravery
1915-05-29
When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs th
Near Eternity
1915-06-19
A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He
The Midnight Limited
1915-07-03
Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggm
A Wild Ride
1915-07-10
The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Rea
A Deed of Daring
1915-07-17
Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, t
The Girl on the Engine
1915-07-24
When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Divi
The Fate of Number One
1915-07-13
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who at
The Substitute Fireman
1915-08-07
A warm friendship springs up between Quirkly and Helen, when the fireman saves the girl's life. In h
The Limited's Peril
1915-08-14
Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a
A Perilous Chance
1915-08-21
Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons
Train Order Number Forty-Five
1915-08-28
Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl tel
The Broken Rail
1915-09-04
Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone P
A Girl's Grit
1915-09-18
After robbing the bank at Orlock, Cherry and Newton make their getaway. When on the outskirts of Lon
A Matter of Seconds
1915-09-25
Dawson, a newcomer to the division, meets Helen while the girl is riding in the freight engine with
The Runaway Boxcar
1915-08-02
Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express mes
The Watertank Plot
1915-10-09
Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to b
A Test of Courage
1915-10-16
Confronting Helen at the Lone Point Switch Tower, Denning and his pal imprison the girl in a clothes
The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
1915-11-06
Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fire
A Desperate Leap
1915-11-27
As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station
When Rogues Fall Out
1915-12-25
Holmes, the president of the S.L. Railway, has been trying very hard to secure a new franchise for h
Medicine Bend
1916-07-03
Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
Judith of the Cumberlands
1916-07-31
Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whis
The Diamond Runners
1916-08-28
Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
The Lone Hand
1922-10-16
Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, b
The Flaw in the Alibi
1914-06-29
It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the
Fighting Fury
1924-08-24
A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ran
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
1915-02-06
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet,
The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
1915-05-07
Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same tr
Kaintucky Bill
1914-07-07
The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the
In Danger's Path
1915-06-26
Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she cho
The Girl and the Game
1915-01-02
Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue,
The Fatal Fortune
1919-12-15
A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure.
Hills of Missing Men
1922-02-26
A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and b
A Lass of the Lumberlands
1916-01-02
15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
The Lost Express
1917-09-17
A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it
Crossed Signals
1926-09-28
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headqu
On His Wedding Day
1913-03-31
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory
The Pay Train
1915-06-11
Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is
The Leap from the Water Tower
1915-01-09
Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making
The Car of Death
1914-08-28
In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recogniti
The Californian
1937-07-18
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing
Mistaken Orders
1925-06-29
Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent
Dude Cowboy
1941-12-12
A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeite
The Lost Express
1925-07-28
Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
Outwitted
1925-01-01
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfei
Barriers of the Law
1925-03-26
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, t
The Manager of the B & A
1916-09-25
Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening h
The Railroad Raiders
1917-04-09
A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. I
The Hazards of Helen
1917-02-24
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes
The Lost Mail Sack
1914-10-07
A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the
Webs of Steel
1925-10-01
Helen Webb (Helen Holmes) is willfully wooed by a man with a mysterious past (Bruce Gordon) who join
The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.
The Hazards of Helen: Episode 3 - The Girl at the Throttle
1914-11-28
Blake, fireman of a light engine, receives a message that his wife is dangerously ill. Benton, his e
The Sign of the Cactus
1925-01-04
A mysterious rider, known as Whitehorse Cactus, steals from the dishonest water company in order to