Robert Edeson
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 2, 1868
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known For
Walking Back
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Men
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
Luck
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Eve's Leaves
After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An over-protective sea captain forces his daughter Eve to pass as a boy. But she craves romance and sets her sights on a handsome American tourist (Boyd) who still thinks she's a boy when she shanghais him aboard her father's ship; then a lustful Chinese pirate (Walter Long) takes them prisoner. Joy, an appealing comedienne whose career nosedived when talkies came in, sparkles in both her tomboy and love-hungry phases. -Martin Rubin, Gene Siskel Film Center
The Ten Commandments
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
Swing High
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
The Rag Man
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.
The King of Kings
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Foolish Wives
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Dynamite
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Filmography
as James Bradford, Sr.
as Tom Johnson
as Don Mariana Delfina
as Mr. McCall
as General Garcia
as Pa Martin
as Swift
as Clinton J. Scollard
as Doctor
as Colonel Randall
as Wise Fool
as Don Fernando
as Ed Baker
as Bradford-Fish
as The General
as Dr. Brodie
as Joel Ketchum
as Winters
as Mr. Calhoun
as City Editor
as Detective Ed Burton
as Costigan
as Edgar Thatcher
as Judge Gresham
as William Flynn
as Judge Hopper
as Count Franz Cserhati
as Matthew - the Publican
as John Sutherland
as Chaplain Regan - aka Father Joe
as T.M. Bancroft
as Field Marshall
as Prince Nikita
as J.S. Bucks
as Cyrus Browning
as Captain Corbin
as Hobart Nelson
as Sanford Gillespie
as Don Esteban
as James P. Ryan
as Gen. Kinnard
as The Hawk
as Israel Cohen
as Mr. Bernard
as Amos Thompson
as Norman Carter
as Dr. Fergus Lansell
as Eb Hooker
as Frederick Hall
as Henri Duval
as Don Pedro de Quiros
as The Comandante
as Henry Van Courtlandt
as Redding - an Inspector
as Gaston Isbel
as Ralph Coombes
as Joe Dextry
as Self - Celebrity Actor (uncredited)
as Judge Templeton
as Mr. Adams
as Colonel Sapt
as Anthony De Lanni
as Andrew J. Hughes
as Jim Barton
as Richard Vane
as Frank Prentiss
as Arthur Nelson
as Jim Garrity
as Pierce
as Mortmain
as Oliver Wade
as Austin, the 'Sky Pilot'
as 'How' Landor
as Ned & Graehme Stewart