Robert Cain
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 3, 1886
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire, who has been diagnosed with an incurable dementia, becomes so despondent, he decides to commit suicide. He disguises himself as a vagrant, and wanders into the slums. As he tries to find the courage to kill himself, he is encountered by the young girl. She rationalizes him out of the cowardly act. Her genuine sweetness and strong faith, effects him to such an extent, he begins to believe a recovery is possible. Now the girl's sweetheart has been falsely accused of murder and only the millionaire's licentious nephew can give him an alibi.
Male and Female
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Paid in Full
A bookkeeper's embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss's romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.
He Comes Up Smiling
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Unseen Forces
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
Man-Woman-Marriage
Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then she discovers her faith, and everything turns out for the best. In several scenes Victoria has visions of love and marriage throughout history: she appears in the Stone Age, with a tribe of Amazonians, in the Middle Ages and in the Roman era.
Conductor 1492
A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.
The Golden Bed
Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.
Filmography
as Bartley Mortimer
as Dana Stuart
as Henry Morgan
as Gratton
as John Duane
as Mr. Bradin
as Savarac
as Christian
as Verchoff
as Richard Langford
as Robert Cain
as Fred Claxton
as Clyde Dunbar
as Sothern
as Cornelius Rysbroek
as Lance Bellew
as Garrett Chesterfield
as Andrew Dunn
as Frank Hardmuth
as Bruce Schuyler
as Aenold Crane
as Brigade Surgeon Fielding
as Ned Lytton
as Rupert Blake
as Lord Brockelhurst
as Clarendon Bromfield
as Robert Travers
as Captain Henry Dumont
as Joe Brooks
as Phillip Spencer
as Mr. Boresky
as Roger Hamilton
as Basil Gallatin
as Gossip
as Alan Breck
as Rocco Irwin
as Capt. Stewart
as Ernest Wharton
as Teddy De Veaux
as Capt. Featherstone
as Dist. Atty. Leech
as Holt's Nephew
as Gerald
as The Colonel's Henchman