Masajiro Kaihatsu, known professionally as Yukio Aoyama, was an actor and assistant director in the United States during the silent film era. He appeared in about 60 silent films and serials [1] after immigrating from Tokyo to appear in films. [2] His son Arthur Aoyama (Arthur Kaihatsu) was a child actor. [3] Aoyama was one of several Japanese actors in Hollywood [4] and he was involved with a theater production of the Japanese tragedy, Matsuo. [5]
William Wallace Halleck Reid was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He also had a brief career as a racing driver.
Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.
Mabel Ballin, was an American motion-picture actress of the silent film era.
Charles Brabin was a British-American film director.
William Farnum was an American actor. He was a star of American silent cinema, and he became one of the highest-paid actors during this time.
Ann Little, also known as Anna Little, was an American film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s. Today, most of her films are lost, with only 12 known to survive.
Walter Miller was an American actor of the silent era and the early sound era. He appeared in nearly 250 films between 1911 and 1940.
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Richard Renchaw Neill Jr. was an American actor and screenwriter who worked in both the silent and sound eras. He performed in more than 200 films from 1910 to 1959, and during the early part of his long screen career, he wrote "several scenarios" for productions. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he died in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Ernest C. Joy was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1911 and 1920.
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A Japanese Nightingale is a 1918 American silent drama film adapted from the Onoto Watanna novel, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Fannie Ward, W.E. Lawrence and Yukio Aoyama.
William Canfield was an actor on stage and screen known for portraying villains. He was in the 1915 serial The Broken Coin and the 1918 war propaganda film Why America Will Win.
Yukio Aoyama.
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