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George Fawcett

Date of birth: 1860-08-25

Place of birth: Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as: George Deneale Fawcett, The Grand Old Man of Films

George Fawcett

Biography

George Fawcett was an American stage and screen actor as well as a three-time (in 1920 and 1921) film director. His screen acting career spanned the years 1915 to 1931.

Movie Credits

There You Are!
0

There You Are!

1926-11-28

George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.

Once a Gentleman
0

Once a Gentleman

1930-09-01

A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.

The Bad One
3.1

The Bad One

1930-05-03

In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for

Hollywood
4.3

Hollywood

1923-08-19

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l

Man of the Forest
0

Man of the Forest

1926-12-27

Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland)

True Heart Susie
3.5

True Heart Susie

1919-06-01

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feeling

Bill Haywood, Producer
0

Bill Haywood, Producer

1915-02-16

The great cowboy star takes over the reigns of a stranded production crew, offering the audience a r

The Flaming Frontier
3

The Flaming Frontier

1926-09-11

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to lea

Ebb Tide
0

Ebb Tide

1922-11-19

An old skipper, Captain Davis, has as his companions two derelicts -- one, Huish, is a Cockney, and

Tempest
3.1

Tempest

1928-05-27

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other off

The Woman with Four Faces
0

The Woman with Four Faces

1923-06-24

Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks,

John Smith
0

John Smith

1922-06-01

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work,

Hush Money
0

Hush Money

1921-11-01

The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé,

Flesh and the Devil
3.5

Flesh and the Devil

1926-12-25

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo

Polly of the Follies
0

Polly of the Follies

1922-01-30

A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum.

Nobody Home
0

Nobody Home

1919-08-24

A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of

Broken Barriers
0.5

Broken Barriers

1924-08-18

A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and fa

The Beloved Traitor
0

The Beloved Traitor

1918-02-24

Wanting her sweetheart, Judd Minot, a Maine fisherman, to develop his sculpting talents, Mary Garlan

Under Western Skies
0

Under Western Skies

1926-02-07

Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter o

Little Italy
0

Little Italy

1921-07-01

Rosa is told by her father that she must marry a man from her own clan. She refuses, and vows to mar

The Son of the Sheik
3.1

The Son of the Sheik

1926-09-05

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts

Go Straight!
0

Go Straight!

1925-04-27

Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywoo

The Great Divide
2.4

The Great Divide

1929-09-15

Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware

Manslaughter
2.6

Manslaughter

1922-09-24

Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto

Spring Fever
3.5

Spring Fever

1927-10-22

Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at a

Out of the Storm
0

Out of the Storm

1926-04-10

Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2.5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1924-08-11

A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on

The Private Life of Helen of Troy
1.8

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

1927-12-09

Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrand

Captain Salvation
2.9

Captain Salvation

1927-05-14

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standi

The Drums of Jeopardy
2.6

The Drums of Jeopardy

1931-03-01

A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter

The Mad Whirl
3.3

The Mad Whirl

1925-03-02

A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

A Trip to Paramountown
3.6

A Trip to Paramountown

1922-07-10

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat

Code of the Sea
3

Code of the Sea

1924-06-02

Young Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a Sailor. T

The Little Wildcat
0

The Little Wildcat

1928-12-08

A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their ti

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
0

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime

1923-03-19

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.

The Hope Chest
0

The Hope Chest

1918-12-29

Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manuf

The Hun Within
0

The Hun Within

1918-09-08

A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son i

Paying the Price
0

Paying the Price

1927-04-05

Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating a

I'll Get Him Yet
0

I'll Get Him Yet

1919-05-25

A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealt

Turning the Tables
0

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

Only 38
0

Only 38

1923-06-17

The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her

Swing High
3.3

Swing High

1930-05-18

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circ

The Merry Widow
3.4

The Merry Widow

1926-09-27

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Mont

Tide of Empire
3

Tide of Empire

1929-03-23

California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for ban

Love
2.8

Love

1927-11-29

In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and

His Captive Woman
3

His Captive Woman

1929-02-03

Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of

The Bedroom Window
0

The Bedroom Window

1924-06-08

William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collabora

The Cinderella Man
0

The Cinderella Man

1917-12-16

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house.

Hot for Paris
0

Hot for Paris

1929-12-22

Rough sea dog John Patrick Duke has a weakness for women and strong drink. Little does he know that

Wild Company
2.5

Wild Company

1930-07-05

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

The Four Feathers
2.2

The Four Feathers

1929-06-01

An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from h

The Circle
2.5

The Circle

1925-09-22

Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . .

Innocents of Paris
0

Innocents of Paris

1929-01-02

A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.

The Wedding March
3.5

The Wedding March

1928-10-06

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

Paying the Piper
0

Paying the Piper

1921-01-16

Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He re

Hard-Boiled Haggerty
0

Hard-Boiled Haggerty

1927-08-21

After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Hagge

The Girl Who Stayed at Home
2.4

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

1919-03-23

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughte

Souls for Sables
0

Souls for Sables

1925-01-01

A lonely wife becomes obsessed with furs and keeps bad company in an effort to obtain more.

Lady of the Pavements
2.3

Lady of the Pavements

1929-01-22

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He te

The Valley of the Giants
0

The Valley of the Giants

1927-12-04

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the g

Ladies of Leisure
3.1

Ladies of Leisure

1930-04-05

Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich su

A Romance of Happy Valley
3.5

A Romance of Happy Valley

1919-01-26

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city

The Greatest Question
3

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

Personal Maid
1.5

Personal Maid

1931-09-12

Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
3.5

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916-09-04

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit

The Honeymoon
0

The Honeymoon

1929-12-31

The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves N

The Gamblers
0

The Gamblers

1929-06-29

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doe

Painting the Town
3.5

Painting the Town

1927-08-07

Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first st

Thank You
1.8

Thank You

1925-10-05

Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay

Panthea
0

Panthea

1917-01-07

A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.

The Branded Woman
0

The Branded Woman

1920-09-05

A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.

Dangerous Business
0

Dangerous Business

1920-11-28

Clarence Brooks is a shy, timid man working for Mr. Flavell. He is love with Flavell's daughter, Nan

The Sporting Venus
3.3

The Sporting Venus

1925-04-12

Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman

Fancy Baggage
0

Fancy Baggage

1929-01-26

In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pret

Sentimental Tommy
2

Sentimental Tommy

1921-03-26

Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
0

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal

1918-11-17

Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invad

Up the Ladder
2.1

Up the Ladder

1925-05-02

An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.

Burn 'Em Up Barnes
1.5

Burn 'Em Up Barnes

1921-08-01

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the

Two Can Play
0

Two Can Play

1926-02-21

Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fia

Beyond the Rainbow
0

Beyond the Rainbow

1922-02-19

Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her inv

Hearts in Exile
0

Hearts in Exile

1929-09-14

In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries

A Woman of Experience
2.6

A Woman of Experience

1931-07-08

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wan

Java Head
0

Java Head

1923-01-01

Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud

Men Are Like That
4.5

Men Are Like That

1930-03-22

A loud-mouthed lout alienates everyone except his patient wife.

Pied Piper Malone
2.5

Pied Piper Malone

1924-02-04

Pied Piper Malone (1924)

Peacock Feathers
0

Peacock Feathers

1925-10-18

Jerry Chandler falls for the lovely Mimi Le Brun and she with him. He proposes marriage but Mimi wan

His Children's Children
0

His Children's Children

1923-11-04

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch re

Hello Sister
0.5

Hello Sister

1930-02-07

Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her g

Scarlet Days
2.9

Scarlet Days

1919-11-18

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with

Wonder of Women
1.5

Wonder of Women

1929-07-20

The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devot

Snowbound
0

Snowbound

1927-05-01

Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail

The Enemy
2.8

The Enemy

1927-12-08

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. W

Hearts of the World
3

Hearts of the World

1918-03-11

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s

The Home Maker
0

The Home Maker

1925-11-22

A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion an

Forever
0

Forever

1921-10-16

Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson disco

The Price of Pleasure
0

The Price of Pleasure

1925-03-15

Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young mi

Idols of Clay
0

Idols of Clay

1920-11-28

A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.

Men of Steel
0

Men of Steel

1926-07-11

Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two

Betty of Greystone
0

Betty of Greystone

1916-02-20

After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been

The Habit of Happiness
2.7

The Habit of Happiness

1916-03-12

Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This

Tillie the Toiler
0

Tillie the Toiler

1927-06-05

Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire nam

Lessons in Love
0

Lessons in Love

1921-05-01

Lawyer Hanover Priestley plots with his friend Henry Winkley to marry off young heiress Leila Caltho

Two Weeks
0

Two Weeks

1920-01-25

The Fighting Cub
0

The Fighting Cub

1925-07-27

A determined copy boy achieves his aspiration of becoming a journalist after unearthing the hideout

The Way of a Maid
0

The Way of a Maid

1921-11-30

A silent film comedy.

The Old Homestead
0

The Old Homestead

1922-10-08

Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.

Joanna
0

Joanna

1925-12-14

Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollar

The Crisis
2.6

The Crisis

1916-12-21

Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the da

The Talk of the Town
0.5

The Talk of the Town

1918-09-28

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand

Riding to Fame
0

Riding to Fame

1927-07-01

Our crippled heroine inherits virtually nothing but debts upon the demise of her father. The one tan

The Majesty of the Law
0

The Majesty of the Law

1915-08-26

The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later h

Her Love Story
0

Her Love Story

1924-10-06

When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's

The Frame-Up
0

The Frame-Up

1915-11-08

Richard Sears, "The Power" of the city, arranges for alderman Luke Simms to be elected mayor so that

The Heart of Texas Ryan
2

The Heart of Texas Ryan

1917-02-25

To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raide

The Breaking Point
0

The Breaking Point

1924-05-04

Assuming that he has killed the husband of the woman he also loves, Judson Clark flees through a bli

Moongold
0

Moongold

1921-05-08

The tragedy of Pierrot and Pierrette worked out against a velvety midnight setting.

A Lost Lady
0

A Lost Lady

1924-12-18

A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband but soon becomes bored. She

West of the Water Tower
0

West of the Water Tower

1924-01-06

Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is

The Railroader
0

The Railroader

1919-03-09

The Sporting Chance
0

The Sporting Chance

1925-07-21

Pat Winthrop becomes engaged to Bob Shelby, a southerner who owns Kentucky Boy, a horse entered in t

Drums of Fate
0

Drums of Fate

1923-02-18

Believing her husband, Laurence Teck, (Maurice B. Flynn) to be dead in the African jungle, Carol (Ma

Babs
0

Babs

1920-07-05

Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is suppor

Some Pun'kins
0

Some Pun'kins

1925-09-29

In the rural village of Mosville, inventor and fire chief Lem Blossom, the son of a pumpkin farmer,

Shirley Kaye
0

Shirley Kaye

1917-12-29

Shirley Kaye is the vivacious daughter of Egerton Kaye, president of the great Union Central Railroa

The Verdict
0

The Verdict

1925-04-16

Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, f

In Every Woman's Life
0

In Every Woman's Life

1924-09-28

Sara Langford, an American girl in Paris, is courted by Count Desanges, who loves her but is conside

Nobody
0

Nobody

1921-07-24

When financier John Rossmore is found murdered in his library, suspicion points to his butler Hedges

Rich Men's Sons
0

Rich Men's Sons

1927-05-20

Idler rich-boy Arnold Treadway is the son of the president of a big railroad company who is forced b

Prowlers of the Sea
0

Prowlers of the Sea

1928-06-20

Carlos De Neve, a young Spanish military officer, is given an important post to prevent gun-smugglin

The Isle of Doubt
0

The Isle of Doubt

1922-09-10

Eleanor Warburton, the daughter of a penniless father and a socially ambitious mother, is loved by w

His Wife's Husband
0

His Wife's Husband

1922-05-14

Olympia Brewster marries John Brainerd to escape a life of drudgery and immediately realizes that he

Just Like a Woman
0

Just Like a Woman

1923-03-18

After living in a boarding school for some years, Peggy Dean accepts the invitation of her Aunts Abi