Date of birth: 1872-06-20
Place of birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Frederick Bryant Esmelton


1928-10-01
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on th

1925-09-12
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his w

1927-12-10
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood,

1927-10-23
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its ow

1923-08-27
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by invitin

1925-02-23
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the d

1923-05-13
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them to

1918-08-11
Rosalie Lane's sister dies from overwork at the Treadwell mills. Asking the company for enough money

1919-06-29
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.

1923-01-01
Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as

1925-05-23
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Ama

1928-10-20
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to h

1923-05-06
Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross

1928-03-23
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p

1926-10-03
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees

1925-10-31
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a

1927-12-10
Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs th

1931-04-17
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed

1923-12-03
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandf

1917-04-01
A 1917 film directed by Joseph A. Golden & Julius Steger

1923-08-19
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men w

1926-10-14
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a loc

1928-09-26
A woman thinks a small dog is an angel pet in this silent comedy. This film is presumed to be lost.

1924-01-12
A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks

1919-09-07
The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was ba

1928-06-20
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each

1919-05-11
Olivia Dangerfield and her brother are hired as servants in the household of the meticulous Mrs. Fal

1923-03-04
Mary Grant, whose husband was killed in the war, has to support herself and her young son Tom by wor