Charles Kent
Acting
Biography
Charles Kent was an American actor and director in silent films.
Born: June 17, 1852
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Richard III and The Merchant of Venice, as well as less frequently filmed plays such as Henry VIII and The Winter's Tale.
An Easter Lily
The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood candor. Following his family’s African American maid to the laundry, Sonny Jim befriends her daughter Lily and shares his teddy bear. With Easter approaching, Mother Dear buys her boy a new outfit and readies her home for relatives. Sonny Jim talks about the coming festivities with his playmate. When he learns that she does not have holiday clothes, he appropriates the white frock of his visiting cousin and invites Lily to join his family for Sunday worship.
A Tale of Two Cities
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
His Official Appointment
This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is an old man, who has spent all he owns on influencing a government appointment. His faithful black servant, Amber (Hal Wilson), cares for him as he waits to hear from the Capitol. No one there intends to do anything but make fun of him, even sending a false appointment, to his shame.
Twelfth Night
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'
The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India
Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.
A Florida Enchantment
Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.
The Bond of Music
Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
Fortunes of a Composer
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.
Filmography
as Mr. Olgivie
as Rev. Luther Enschede
as Angus McKenzie
as Gen. Quintard
as Andrew Geddes
as Ben Lee
as Hap Barlow
as Col. Harrington
as John Emerson
as George Winton
as Colonel Culpepper
as Williams
as Grand Duke of Paxitania
as Mr. Curtis, as an old man
as Uncle Bob
as St. George Temple
as Lt. Tony Britton, age 70
as Godfrey Lovell
as Duke de Segni
as Mr. Martindale
as The Master
as Dr. Lefone - a Chemist
as Henry Gray
as Major Horton
as Brutus Belamy
as Sidney Belgradin
as Father Lamplugh
as Col. Armistead
as Jacques
as Francois Vian, an Old Musician
as Duke de Berac
as Samuel Hermann - the Composer
as Mr. Blinn - an Old Man
as Dr. Manette
as John Sedley
as The Husband
as The Boy
as Malvolio