Date of birth: 1888-11-14
Place of birth: Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Woods Morrison, James W. Morrison

James Morrison, born James Woods Morrison, was an American silent movie actor with over 180 film credits. He later published two novels, Road End (1927) and April Luck (1932). He taught speech and drama classes at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for many years.

1921-08-08
The impoverished Harlow family of New England is forced to take in summer boarders. Teenaged niece T

1914-07-12
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she h

1915-04-22
Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She g

1921-07-01
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budg

1913-02-19
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the

1922-12-15
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culpr

1917-01-28
Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she

1911-03-14
Margaret is the older and Betty the younger of two sisters. Their brother Jack brings a young unmarr

1912-04-03
At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The sev
1912-04-09
The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens
1912-01-01
Short film about the large-scale rebellion in British India against the East India Company's rule in

1911-10-27
Fatty comes up with a plan to prank his cowboy buddies. He announces that his sister Kitty is coming

1911-08-20
A frustrated, protective father tries to stop his secretaries from falling in love with his charming
1911-07-26
Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain sma
1911-08-05
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Wind
1912-05-08
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few we
1912-06-12
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer fo
1912-07-29
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
1912-08-13
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country sw

1913-05-16
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the

1926-04-18
The story of David Scanlon - a former gunfighter turned farmer, who sells the family homestead in fa

1912-12-31
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin sta

1916-06-12
Crook Dave Darcy gets reformed by working in a steel mill owned by someone who witnessed his crime.

1919-03-08
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets
1911-07-15
One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking
1914-11-19
An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a larg

1912-04-02
Left with the care of his little grandchild through the death of his daughter, old Mr. Blinn tries i

1922-02-06
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at leas

1911-02-20
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent

1917-12-23
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
1911-04-15
When little Dot and little Tot hear about the Easter Eggs, the stork and the Easter Babies, they are

1911-06-30
This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia W
1911-07-14
Mrs. Nag objects to her husband having a pretty female stenographer in his office, and orders him to

1918-03-12
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice,
1911-09-08
Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherr
1911-09-23
This is an extraordinary novelty, telling the story of love, courtship and marriage, simply through
1914-02-25
Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maud
1914-03-04
Young and pretty, Margery Dean, companion to Mrs. Sawyer, a wealthy lady, chances to meet Jack Drisl
1911-10-04
Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Mandy, the daughter of Captain Dale. Before she
1911-10-16
Before the Civil War, George Harris, a Yankee schoolteacher, takes charge of a southern country scho
1911-11-04
Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a

1914-03-10
Keen competition is aroused among a group of young artists in New York City by the announcement of a

1914-04-14
Unable to support her baby boy, Grace Devereaux, a widow, leaves him at an orphan asylum.
1914-04-18
In a jewelry store, Grace Norris, a wealthy girl, unnoticed by the salesman, absent-mindedly takes a
1914-04-22
Although deeply in love with his wife, Smith is intensely jealous of her and when she receives a not
1911-11-25
Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gamblin
1911-12-26
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solic

1916-11-03
Wealthy capitalist, Clinton Reynolds, and his wife, Laura, have lost their son, Arthur, kidnapped an
1926-02-01
Silent version of the Franz Lehar operetta.

1914-03-16
Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gain

1912-02-02
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from
1912-02-19
Howard Peyton served two years for forgery. Jerry Grafton, a genteel crook, is on the lookout for hi
1912-03-04
Lulu Leach is a reader of dime novels. One day she is reading a terrifying tale of anarchists. A for
1912-03-23
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the rec
1912-04-13
Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald

1917-09-12
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present;
1914-05-09
George Darrel presents Helen Gray, his fiancée, with a very valuable engagement ring of antique desi
1914-05-18
Dorothy Danesbridge is spoiled by her father and aunt, and through the influence of Phyllis, an old
1914-06-01
On account of an urgent business call, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie hurriedly close their summer home at Huds
1913-01-19
At the circus, Betty takes a notion to a baby elephant and induces her father to buy it. He takes it
1912-08-23
Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a pe
1912-09-02
Left with two small children, Mrs. Morgan finds it difficult to make both ends meet. Polly, her daug

1912-09-03
Leaving England, in search of an American wife, young Cyril, son of the Earl of Creston, on reaching
1912-09-10
No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to h
1912-04-26
Mrs. Wentworth and her daughter Cecile are living at one of the fashionable hotels in the city. Jame
1912-06-01
Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter
1912-09-20
Beatrice Wilson, visiting her brother, a British officer in India, is sought in marriage by a native

1912-10-08
Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfri
1912-11-08
Fresh from her college matriculation. Ruth Grantland returns to her country home. She is courted by
1912-11-19
Mabel, the beautiful daughter of General Lewis, has considerable variety of her love affairs when sh
1912-06-17
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employe
1912-07-05
The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The ot
1912-12-09
Dolly Dillard jumps at the conclusion that George Gordon is playing her false, as he affectionately
1912-12-20
Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she

1918-12-21
Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West
1913-01-09
So much alike, you can't tell t'other from which, Edna and Alice, two twins, are receiving the atten

1917-08-13
When elderly Joseph Moreau and his young wife Therese offer refuge to starving young dramatist Paul
1927-09-26
Two young women transform from an innocent girls into a jazz mad flappers.

1926-04-18
The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling de

1925-11-15
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
1925-09-11
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film

1923-11-22
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become
1914-01-15
The two sons of Judge Stone, William and Wylie, are both in love with Nancy Sevier. Wylie is of a je
1914-06-23
Geoffrey Brooke, an African explorer, becomes a friend of Rodney Miller, a struggling young artist.
1914-07-02
Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a s
1914-07-04
While traveling in Italy, John Steele, a young American millionaire, is kidnapped by Antonio Perino,
1914-07-06
Betty, the only daughter of Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, is secretly loved by Tom Saunders, a farm han
1914-07-13
In the poor Italian quarter of New York lives Luigi, an Italian peasant and inventor, who is so abso
1914-07-23
Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for Am

1923-10-01
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his relea

1923-04-28

1913-05-21
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the bes

1916-09-11
Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and C

1916-08-14
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders o

1916-08-07
To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's ac

1916-04-29
The Twelfth Regiment is to leave for the front in the morning at seven, and Captain Steadwell, who h

1916-03-13
Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent politi
1916-01-03
Lillie's parents are caretakers of the property adjoining Mr. Montgomery's estate. He is a wealthy b

1915-11-09
Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colle
1912-07-12
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and
1912-07-19
You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Ja
1912-08-17
Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in
1915-10-23
Mr. Williams, a stern father and man of wealth, disinherits his son Hugh, for marrying Rose, a seams

1922-01-01
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
1915-07-30
Bob Hammond, a promising young boxer, is taken east by his manager to meet some of the better men in
1914-08-15
In a game of cards, Stillwell, a young Southerner, incurs the hatred of Collins, an unscrupulous sco
1913-01-22
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwi

1922-01-22
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy of marital complications and mix-ups.

1920-03-01
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One nigh
1913-03-27
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his
1913-03-28
With all the good influences and favorable surroundings of a model home, Mr. and Mrs. Gray cannot un

1920-01-01
While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling m

1920-01-05
To please her once wealthy mother, Amy Terrell fraternizes with members of high society who find her

1919-10-12
Lieut. Ralph Harrison is in love with Major Marston's wife, who pretends to love him. Harrison's mot

1913-04-11
Lester Phillips finds that the allurements of Beatrice Esmond, an adventuress, have attracted him, a
1913-05-24
While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by tele
1913-05-27
Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselve
1913-06-06
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in ange

1913-07-02
Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, t
1913-08-28
That the way to a man's heart is by means of his appetite, is strikingly shown. Mother-in-law comes
1913-10-07
Although deeply in love with his wife, Dorothy, Mr. Thomson's jealousy is aroused by her attentions
1914-08-21
No sooner have Jimmy and Mary, a newly-married couple, entered their new home when Jimmie receives a
1914-09-07
A new theatrical star is born when Ivy Liversedge, daughter of Silas, an unsuccessful playwright, sc
1914-09-29
Known as a saloon-keeper, a politician and a bad man, Regan becomes the sworn enemy of Phil Riordan,
1913-07-18
To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she
1913-12-04
A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl.
1915-10-14
Dr. Williams is so deeply immersed in his work he unconsciously neglects his wife. Newell Russell, a
1913-12-16
The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Bett

1913-12-22
Though her father forbids her to marry Jack Harvey, a poor young artist, Molly Wilson becomes his wi
1914-02-03
A rural comedy.
1914-02-06
Sue's father has chosen Percy; Sue's mother has chosen Patterson, while Sue has chosen Jack. Mother
1915-09-25
Harris, a young adventurer into the big snows of the Northwest, through an accident, becomes a great

1915-09-06
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-gr
1915-08-09
Under an assumed name, Phineas courts a widow and makes love to his own wife. He lands in court with
1915-06-12
The leader of "The Sons of the Brazen Joss," one of the Tongs, or Chinese social organizations, is m

1915-05-22
Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to

1915-04-24
Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, r
1915-03-31
When Rupert's uncle tells him he must quit his writing and offers him a real job in his tannery, the
1915-03-23
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a
1915-02-20
Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrop
1915-02-19
Willfull, headstrong and inclined to be sporty, but withal, a very lovable girl, Thomasin Webb (call
1915-01-17
Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playm
1915-02-13
John Morrison, Wall Street financier, is in the habit of bringing home to his wife daily a bunch of
1914-10-01
When Pierre Larosse, a trapper, calls on his sweetheart, Jeanne Coudert, to present her with the ski
1914-10-31
On shipboard, Edwin Forrester, a middle-aged Scotchman, makes the acquaintance of Tom Munroe, a conf
1914-11-25
Twins in all but disposition, Netty and Letty quarrel continually. Letty goes to spend a few days at
1914-12-01
Becoming imbued with a lawless spirit, Tom, a street waif of twelve, holds up an old woman with a to

1919-03-24
To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncl

1918-03-31
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an Americ

1914-02-14
Jabez Morton goes to a nearby field to drive some cows to an upper pasture. He pulls down part of Ca
1914-12-14
Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fi
1914-02-19
An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier a

1914-02-21
Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the

1915-08-05
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense a

1917-04-09
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the

1924-09-15
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generatio

1912-05-31
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Mauric
1917-05-13
Elga Pulaski and her brother Ossip live in Warsaw. They belong to a secret society whose goal is to

1923-03-18
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another da

1912-05-05
Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.
1912-01-13
Willie Green, off for college, tearfully kisses Ma and Pa and Sister good-bye. Arrived on the campus

1912-09-17
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the

1912-10-06
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguise

1913-02-06
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office.
1912-08-09
A romantic comedy in which two new neighbours initially cannot get along, but their staff get along

1924-09-21
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy a

1921-01-01
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventur

1917-09-19
Andrew Maxwell is so intent on creating a universal language that he completely neglects his wife, L

1921-04-01
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petwo

1923-05-28
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o

1912-09-21
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning

1923-02-04
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is s

1923-10-22
An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler,

1918-03-01
When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arreste

1912-09-12
The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneez

1918-05-05
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boar

1921-01-01
Dick Audaine, known affectionately as the "Imp," is engaged to Phyllis Ericson, even though she is i
1911-07-29
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
1911-05-16
Jack Howard, through hard work, has at last placed himself in a comfortable position and finds himse
1915-04-07
A small boy, Bobby, substitutes some counterfeit which is intended for stage use for a real roll of

1925-09-12
In order to protect Grant Demarest from a siren named Margot, Stuart Ames attempts to disillusion hi