Milton J. Fahrney, sometimes credited as Milton H. Fahrney or simply Milton Fahrney, was an actor and director during the silent film era.
He worked for Albuquerque Film Manufacturing Company and Nestor Film Company.
He featured comedian George Ovey in films. [1]
He married Alexandra Phillips, a screenwriter.
He directed the Cub Comedies. [2] He engaged Louise Horner to play a role in the Jerry series. [3] Fahrney wrote and directed dozens of shorts for the series. [4]
Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.
Louis Joseph Vance was an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer. He created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as the Lone Wolf.
Herbert Banemann Rawlinson was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films.
Stella LeSaint was an American silent film actress.
George Overton O’Dell, known as George Ovey professionally, was an American film actor and comedian. Ovey was born December 13, 1870, in Trenton, Missouri. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1915 and 1951, but he is best known as the character "Merry Jerry" in dozens of short films known as the "Cub Comedies" that were produced in the mid-1910s by Mutual Films and directed by Milton Fahrney. Ovey died September 23, 1951, in Hollywood, California.
Frederick J. Jackson, also known professionally as Fred Jackson and Frederick Jackson and under the pseudonym Victor Thorne, was an American author, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and producer for both stage and film. A prolific writer of short stories and serialized novels, most of his non-theatre works were published in pulp magazines such as Detective Story Magazine and Argosy. Many of these stories were adapted into films by other writers.
Acquitted is a 1916 American silent mystery film produced by the Fine Arts Film Company and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. Paul Powell directed a screenplay by Roy Somerville based on a 1907 short story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Tod Browning served as an uncredited writer.
An Affair of Three Nations is a 1915 American silent film directed by Arnold Daly and Ashley Miller, and produced by Pathé Frères Films. It is based on a story by John T. McIntyre. The film was the first in the "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" series, and was followed by The Menace of the Mute. It stars Arnold Daly, Sheldon Lewis, William Harrigan, Charles Laite, Charles Krauss, George Melville and Louise Rutter. As with a lot of silent films, it is not known whether the film currently survives.
The House of Fear was a 1915 American silent mystery film based on a story by John T. McIntyre. It was the third and final film in the Ashton-Kirk, Investigator series, all directed by Ashley Miller and Arnold Daly and starring Daly.
Alfred Emory Johnson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As a teenager, he started acting in silent films. Early in his career, Carl Laemmle chose Emory to become a Universal Studio leading man. He also became part of one of the early Hollywood celebrity marriages when he wed Ella Hall.
Rosetta Dewart Brice, known professionally as Betty Brice, was an American actress in many silent films.
Thomas R. Mills, billed as Tom Mills, was an actor and director of silent films. He was a theater actor until he joined Vitagraph to make films.
Maie B. Havey, born Marie Judge, was an American screenwriter active during the earliest years of Hollywood. During her decade in the industry, she is credited with 70 screenplays.
William Robert Daly was an actor and director of silent films in the U.S.
William E. Shay was an American actor of stage and silent films. He had leading roles including in The Clemenceau Case (1915), and A Daughter of the Gods (1916).
Her Husband's Faith is a 1916 American silent short film directed by Lloyd B. Carleton. The film is based on a story by Paul Machette. Eugene De Rue developed the screenplay. This domestic society drama's features Dorothy Davenport, T. D. Crittenden and Emory Johnson.
Edna Hunter was an American stage and film actress of the silent film era, who appeared in more than a dozen films between 1915 and 1918.
Willis Lewis Robards (1873–1921) also known as Walter Edwards, was an American actor, film director, and film producer. He acted in stage, and in cinema during the silent film era. He is known for his work on the films When Shadows Fall (1916), Mothers of Men (1917), and The Three Musketeers (1921).
This is a list of known on-screen appearances made by Joe Martin (orangutan), a film star of the 1910s and 1920s.
Lionel Adams was an American silent film and theater actor.