Priscilla Dean
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 25, 1896
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
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.
Drifting
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
The Exquisite Thief
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
Under Two Flags
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he becomes the hated rival of his commander, Chateauroy, who despises Victor's breeding and also competes for the same woman. Victor is beloved of Cigarette, an Algerian camp follower, who saves his life, though he loves another.
Outside the Law
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
The Virgin of Stamboul
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
Law of the Sea
A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
The Wicked Darling
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
White Tiger
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Somebody Lied
Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
Filmography
as Miss Porter
as Esther Clay
as Jane Andrews
as The Neglected Wife
as Helen Wayne
as 'Freddie' Hayden
as Emily Dale
as Anita Gray
as Nancy Bell
as Marie Duquesne
as Dolores
as Kate Masterson
as Sylvia Donovan
as Cassie Cook / Lucille Preston
as Joan Lowrie
as Cigarette
as Lady Vivienne
as Dorcas Remalie
as Fay McMillan, later Laura Figlan • Pauline Stevens
as Molly Madden (Silky Moll)
as Sari - a beggar girl
as Mary Stevens
as An Adventuress
as Marie
as Gertie Jones
as Blue Jean Billie
as Doris Macon
as Daphne Trowbridge
as Colette
as Ruth Orton
as Jacala Auehli
as Mary Butler
as Joy Fielding / Edna
as Mary
as Morn Light
as Mrs. Graham
as Dolly
as Artist's Wife
as Alice
as The Heroine
as In Tenement Hallway