Sheldon Lewis
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sheldon Lewis (April 20, 1868 – May 7, 1958) was an American actor of the silent era best known for his antagonistic roles. He appeared in 93 films between 1914 and 1936.
Born: April 19, 1868
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
The Darling of New York
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Don Juan
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Seven Footprints to Satan
Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies. The couple are kidnapped and held prisoner at a mysterious, creepy house. Strange things are afoot at Satan's house.
Wolves of Kultur
Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships.
The Exploits of Elaine
Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand, Elaine enlists the aid of Craig Kennedy to unmask the killer
The Red Kimona
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The Sky Rider
The disinherited nephew of an aviation magnate plots to get a share of his uncle’s millions. He causes the near-death of his cousin when a bomb placed in his plane explodes in mid-air. He then hires thugs to abduct the uncle in order to force him to give over part of his fortune, but is foiled by the arrival of a cousin and police.
Filmography
as J. W. Dolson
as Lawyer Hawkins
as Matt Daley
as Robert Earlton
as The Thing
as David Hampton
as Achmet Zek
as Witchdoctor
as The Spider
as Mulatto Mike
as Wanakee
as Bartender
as Doc Slade
as Jacob Feldman
as 'Breed'
as The spy
as Hank Tolliver
as James Clark
as Jules
as Gentleman of Rome (uncredited)
as Ratburn
as Ivor Johnson
as Boris Kosloff
as Uncle Nicholas Welby
as Maj. Mike Connel
as Piet Kroon
as Bull McLeod
as District Attorney
as Flint Bastille
as Big Jim
as Michael Collins
as Single Tooth Wilson
as Pugin
as Serpent Smith
as King Louis
as Albert Edward Sassoon
as Drexel Draig
as Giovanni
as Henri DuBois
as Richard Manners
as Jacques Frochard
as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
as White Cloud
as Richard Bannister
as Roger Barclay
as Dr. Scarely
as George Harmon
as Mr. Fleming
as Legar, The Iron Claw
as Charles Cramp
as Perry Bennett / The Clutching Hand