Eugenie Besserer
Date of birth: 1868-12-24
Place of birth: Watertown, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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Eugenie Besserer was an American actress who appeared in supporting roles, typically portraying a mother or grandmother, in films of the Silent and early talkies eras.
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The Jazz Singer
1927-10-06
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects
The Road Through the Dark
1918-11-01
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917-12-01
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. After
Twisted Trails
1916-12-11
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair
Beware of Strangers
1917-02-10
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
The Way of a Woman's Heart
1915-08-30
While on a tour a theatrical company meets with small success and is forced to close early in the se
A Just Punishment
1914-09-23
Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler a
Greater Wealth
1913-01-01
John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young,
Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916-02-07
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first
Friendly Enemies
1925-05-16
As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale s
The Coast of Folly
1925-09-21
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20
Monte Cristo
1912-10-14
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of be
Flesh and the Devil
1926-12-25
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo
Madame X
1929-08-17
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen
Mother, I Need You
1918-09-01
A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an ab
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1910-03-24
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
The Skyrocket
1926-02-14
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are
The Curse of Eve
1917-10-10
When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the
The Garden of Allah
1916-12-25
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden att
45 Minutes from Broadway
1920-08-30
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid fal
The Fighting Shepherdess
1920-03-01
A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranc
A Lady of Chance
1928-12-01
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
The Fire Brigade
1926-12-20
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,
Scarlet Days
1919-11-18
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with
The Yellow Lily
1928-05-28
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triump
Captain Salvation
1927-05-14
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standi
To the Last Man
1933-09-15
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison
In Gay Madrid
1930-05-17
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs
6 Hours to Live
1932-10-15
The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However,
Mister Antonio
1929-10-15
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in
Turning the Tables
1919-11-02
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortun
Anna Christie
1923-11-24
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough s
What Happened To Rosa
1920-12-08
A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman i
Speedway
1929-10-07
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest dr
Kindred of the Dust
1922-02-27
Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging to
The Strangers' Banquet
1922-12-31
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and
The Eyes of Julia Deep
1918-08-01
The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Ll
Illusion
1929-09-21
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated wit
Kiki
1926-04-04
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job
The Circle
1925-09-22
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . .
Lilac Time
1928-10-18
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit
The Gift Supreme
1920-03-30
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break
Thunderbolt
1929-06-20
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob
Her Reputation
1923-10-14
Discovering that he has only a brief time to live Louisiana plantation owner Andres Miro makes arran
Drums of Love
1928-01-24
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
Confessions of a Queen
1925-03-30
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolt
The Greatest Question
1919-12-27
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and hi
The Sin of Martha Queed
1921-11-03
Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believ
Scarface
1932-04-09
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots
When the Night Call Came
1914-06-12
When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses
The Blacksmith's Love
1911-08-16
The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend
A Fool and His Money
1925-01-01
John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a ca
The Lonely Road
Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi
Enemies of Children
1923-12-13
A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1930-10-10
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position
Little Orphant Annie
1918-12-31
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her
For the Soul of Rafael
1920-05-01
Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of
The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
1915-04-11
Betrayal and duplicity in the deserts of the Pasha before a happy resolution.
Slightly Used
1927-09-03
Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she in
A Royal Romance
1930-03-17
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his serv
Bright Lights
1925-11-15
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invent
Molly O'
1921-11-19
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to
The Sea Flower
1918-12-23
U.S. Secret Service agent Truxton Darnley attires himself as a sailor and boards a schooner owned by
The Scoffer
1920-09-01
Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the form
Fickle Women
1920-08-09
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e
The Circular Staircase
1915-09-20
Wealthy spinster, Rachel Innes rents a country house with her niece and nephew for the summer, only
Wandering Footsteps
1926-06-14
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess
When a Man Loves
1927-08-21
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in
Indian Summer
1913-05-22
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and t
The Rosary
1922-01-16
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with on
Seeds of Vengeance
1920-08-19
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, af
June Madness
1922-10-23
Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walkin
A Hoosier Romance
1918-08-18
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f
Almonds and Raisins
1984-08-31
This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and
The Still Alarm
1911-05-18
John Bird and Franklyn Fordham were once business partners, but because of Bird’s shady dealings the
Seven Faces
1929-12-01
A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation
The Carpet from Bagdad
1915-05-03
Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in
The Rendezvous
1923-11-11
The Night of Love
1927-01-22
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duk
The Price She Paid
1924-09-15
In order to save her extravagant mother from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, young society girl Mildr
The Brand of Lopez
1920-04-11
When a famed matador is forced to become an outlaw, he seeks to get revenge on the dancing girl who
The Still Alarm
1918-07-15
"Bird," a clerk in Fordham's drugstore, agrees to place a large sum of money in the store's safe for
The City of Purple Dreams
1918-01-10
Miss Otis nearly hits a derelict with her car, and out of sympathy she gives him some money and advi
The Breaking Point
1921-02-14
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken
The Light in the Clearing
1921-11-20
When Barton Baynes's mother and father die, his Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody provide a home for him.