Charles Hill Mailes
Acting
Biography
Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of primarily the silent era. Mailes appeared in 290 films between 1909 and 1935. He married actress Claire McDowell in 1906 and the couple appeared in numerous silent films together. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: May 24, 1870
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Known For
Find Your Man
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
The Lighthouse by the Sea
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
The Unholy Garden
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
The Making of a Man
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
The Sunbeam
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Go and Get It
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Treason
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he does she is found guilt and sentenced to hang. Earlier Jeff learned that her assistant Colonel Jedcott is the real culprit and rides to the Governor for a pardon only to be waylaid by Jedcott on the return trip.
Filmography
as James Houghland
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)
as Statesman
as General Hawthorne
as Alfred de Jonghe
as Mary's Father
as Judge
as Doad
as Crawford Whitely
as Hadrian
as Benedict
as Patterson
as Saavedra
as Rufus Van Der Layden
as Duke de Granada
as Luther Winthrop
as Professor Witherspoon
as Stephen Phelps
as Judson Stoddard
as Silas Scott
as Cyrus Thornden
as Mexicali Burton
as Commodore Preble
as Jeff Morgan Sr.
as Maj. Mainard
as Charles Clifton
as Don Carlos
as Silas Henderson
as Kenton Crawford
as Señor Darcy
as Caleb Gale
as Don Juan Estrada
as Gregory Mills
as Attorney General
as District Attorney Searle
as The Lawyer
as Dr. Ernest Shepley
as Peter Harding
as Isom Chase
as Bill Ramsey
as Benedict
as Col. Wentworth
as Stryker
as Old Jim Eastman
as Mr. Wilson
as Don Carlos Pulido
as J.L. Rich (as C. Mailles)
as Dr. Livesey
as Angus Muir
as John Matthews
as Henry Laurens
as Escamillo Gomez
as Malcolm Somers
as Warden
as Homer Joy
as Matthew Wedgestone
as Sam Bullard (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Robert Carter
as Otis Kennedy
as Robert McGregor
as Josiah Wayne
as Charles W. Sherwood
as Mr. Wicks
as Pere Anatole later
as Robert Shepherd
as John Lysaght
as Major Dillon (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Whispering Smith (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Joe Dubois
as Duke of Osterley
as Clubman
as Detective
as Senator Wright
as Thomas Bell
as Reverend Israel Mount (as Charles Mailes)
as Count John Karpathy the 'Nabob'
as Prince Borgezi
as Dr. Davidoff (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Lord Mount Severn
as Arab Chief (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Mr. Everett
as The Ranch Owner
as Verda's Stepfather
as The Father
as A Parent
as The Yaqui Chief / Goldseeker
as The Lunatic (The Unfortunate Patient)
as The Father
as Sim Sloane
as The Son
as The Girl's Father
as Guido
as In Wagon Train
as Mr. Harding
as The Notary
as The Father
as First Woodsman
as The Father
as Rich Man in Other Town
as The Bartender
as The Old Man / A Pueblo
as Faro Kate's Husband
as A Gangster
as The Counterfeiter
as Kudge (as Charles H. Mailes)
as Cave Man
as Nora's Father
as Mexican Jim
as The Young Woman's Father
as The Mexican Girl's Father
as The Replacement Actor
as The Revenue Officer / Policeman
as The Mexican Sweetheart
as Blue Grass Pete's Pal
as The Doctor
as Jack's Sweetheart's Father
as The Rich Doctor
as The Janitor
as Mary's dad
as The Father, a Physician
as Mary's Father
as The Father
as Dick
as The Proprietor
as A Policeman
as Second Crook
as The Union commander
as A Priest / In Bar
as Farmhand / Rescuer
as In First Audience / At First Stage Door / Backstage
as Aristocrat
as Francois' Butler