Thomas Commerford
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 1, 1855
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Dawn and Twilight
A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
The Girl at the Cupola
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees. His workmen have grown old and antiquated in his employ. Through the influence of his daughter, the general managership is passed over to her fiance,—one Jack Berry —a young man, well trained in the school of modern methods.
A Freight Train Drama
Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
The Hour and the Man
A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry
Having declared himself in on a jolly college dinner, Mr. Dubley, member of the class of '88, counted on having a Hot Old Time. Now at a College Dinner the main idea is to get a flying start. It was to be a Dry dinner, so most of the sons of Bohunkus were doing what a Camel does just before crossing a Desert. At 8:15 the Crowd was herded into the banquet hall. Dr. Dubley found himself marooned between two pious elders. The Oysters had been warming up since 6:30. Fortunately, the soup was not warm enough to scald the thumb of a willing longshoreman who had been brought in as an extra waiter.
The Fire Cop
Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he tells her that he has been awarded a medal for bravery.
How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home
Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.
The False Order
The sensational crux of jealous revenge in "The False Order" is a head-on collision of two enormous locomotives. A realistic effect that heavily discounts any stage device ever materialized to thrill.
The Understudy
Stella Le Vere, an ambitious but struggling actress, is abandoned by her husband and is forced to leave her baby girl, Grace, in the care of an orphan asylum. Later, the child is adopted by a well-to-do and kindly family named Thornton, who bring Grace up in ignorance of her identity.
A Husband Won by Election
Edna Dusenberry, the charming twenty-year old daughter of Senator Dusenberry, is in love with handsome young Walter Force. John Cartwright, a corrupt politician and candidate for mayor, makes a deal with the Senator whereby he is to receive the hand of Edna in marriage.
Filmography
as Hotel Owner
as David Whiting Sr.
as Joyce's Grandfather
as Chief Physician
as Eldridge
as Professor of Bonhunkun College
as Uncle Caspar
as Ethel's Father
as Huxley - the Old Soldier
as Stranger
as Willard, her uncle
as The Doctor
as Conway, a storekeeper
as Dr. Burns
as The Judge
as The Client
as High Priest Old Jim
as James Wiley
as William Morgan
as Senator Dusenberry
as Mr. Thornton
as Dan Mason - Nellie's Father
as James Speedon - the Railroad Superintendent
as Judge Gray
as Pete Kelly
as Silas Wilson - Jessie's Father