Edwin R. Phillips
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Edwin R. Phillips.
Born: January 1, 1872
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Known For
Napoleon, the Man of Destiny
Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled Napoleon overlooking the beach of St. Helena.
The Bond of Music
Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
The League of Mercy
Helen, an heiress and the ward of Martin Talbot, is interested in charity and rescue work; she is vice president of the League of Mercy. Talbot's son makes love to her and her riches. In her visitations among the sick and poor she finds a young girl with a child. She takes the young mother to her home, aid and comforts her; tries to restore her to health. While she is thus engaged young Talbot, to whom she becomes affianced, enters. The young mother recognizes him as the father of her child. Helen gives back her engagement ring, denounces him and orders him from her home. The sick woman falls back dead. Helen adopts the child and brings it up as a member of her own household.
The New Stenographer
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
She Cried
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
In Northern Forests
A story of escape and manhunt in the Canadian forests.
Beau Brummel
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
Francesca di Rimini
The story of Canto V of the Inferno is briefly summarized. The film is a remake of The Two Brothers (a.k.a. Francesca di Rimini), and based on the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele D'Anunzio. Both films have Florence Turner and James Stuart Blackton starring and directing, respectively. The critics of the time panned the ending, which was said to be 'a pathetic fizzle'.
The Way of the World
A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker.
Filmography
as Prisoner (Archive Footage)
as Lord Ballarat (as E.R. Phillips)
as Red Grogan
as A German Infantry Officer
as Martin