Dorothy Boyd (14 April 1907 – 1996) was an English film actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1926 and 1940. She was born in Sanderstead, Surrey, England and died in England. Without any previous stage experience, she came to films when she appeared in three short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process, Knee Deep in Daisies (1926), The Sentence of Death (1927), and The Burglar and the Girl (1928). A director was impressed by her and brought her to the notice of Alfred Hitchcock who cast her in his feature Easy Virtue (1928).
Juliane "Liane" Haid was an Austrian actress and singer. She has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.
Arthur Hoyt was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.
Enid Georgiana Stamp Taylor was an English actress. Her childhood home was 17, Percy Avenue, in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, in what is now Tyne and Wear.
Dorothy Revier was an American actress.
Dorothy Vernon was a German-born American film actress.
Mary Carr, was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in silent pictures, especially Fox's 1920 Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, which was a great success. She was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Carr bore a strong resemblance to Lucy Beaumont, another famous character actress of the time who specialized in mother roles. As older actresses such as Mary Maurice and Anna Townsend passed on, Carr, still in her forties, seem to inherit all the matriarchal roles in silent films.
Joan Standing was an English actress best known for playing Nurse Briggs in the 1931 horror film Dracula. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1919 to 1940.
George Henry Irving was an American film actor and director.
Bergetta "Dorothy" Peterson was an American actress. She began her acting career on Broadway before appearing in more than eighty Hollywood films.
Olga Engl was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Verree Teasdale was an American actress born in Spokane, Washington.
Crauford Kent was an English character actor based in the United States. He has also been credited as Craufurd Kent and Crawford Kent.
Ida Wüst was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Jakob Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Tiedtke was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 190 films between 1914 and 1955.
Hans Ferdinand Junkermann was a German actor. He was married to the Austrian actress Julia Serda.
Georg Alexander was a German film actor who was a prolific presence in German cinema. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.
Anton Pointner was an Austrian stage and film actor. Pointner's career began on the stages of Austria and he performed in both silent and sound films in his native Austria, as well as in Germany and the United States.
Eduard Hoesch was an Austrian cinematographer and film producer.
Nora Cecil was an English-born American actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.
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