Darwin Karr
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 25, 1875
Place of Birth: Almond, New York, USA
Known For
Falling Leaves
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
Suds
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
The Unbeliever
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
Canned Harmony
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
The Detective's Dog
When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.
God Disposes
A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets. The father comes back and takes the revolver and goes out. Accidentally, the son breaks into his own father's office. The father happens to be working late that night. The son breaks in, tries to shoot his own father. By the intervention of God, the son is saved from a patricide.
Parson Sue
A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Of course the boys see the sign and immediately there is a sudden disposition among them to make use of soap, water and brush. One cowboy in particular is very much in love with the parson. He shows his affection only too plainly, and so the boys decide to play a trick on him. Their practical joke unintentionally is not only the means of frustrating a plot against the parson, but it brings the parson and her lover together.
The Sewer
A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
Burstup Homes' Murder Case
A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.
Filmography
as Charlie
as The Archduke
as “Lefty”
as Lt. Tony Britton, age 30
as The Rajah
as Alonzo
as Reggie Jellybone
as Major Neal
as Winnie's Father
as Mr. Greeneyes
as Dick - Billy's Friend
as John Forsythe - a Criminal
as Jack Howell
as Sergeant Karr
as Captain Lorenzo
as Ravishing Robert
as Will Mortimer - a Shadow
as John Stanhope
as Mr. Griswold Thompson
as Charles Knight Sr.
as James Harper - Secret Service Detective
as Frank Chance
as Lucky Bill