Harry Gilbey

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Harry Gilbey
OccupationActor
Years active1908 - 1921 (film)

Harry Gilbey was a British actor who appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including After Dark (1915). [1]

After Dark is a 1915 British silent crime film directed by Warwick Buckland and starring Flora Morris, Harry Royston and Harry Gilbey. It is an adaptation of the 1868 play of the same title by Dion Boucicault. A baronet's son marries a barmaid in order to qualify under the inheritance terms of a will.

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The Vicar of Wakefield is a 1913 British silent historical drama film directed by Frank Wilson and starring Violet Hopson, Harry Royston and Chrissie White. The film is an adaptation of the 1766 novel The Vicar of Wakefield by the Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith.

Kissing Cup is a 1913 British silent sports film directed by Jack Hulcup and starring Harry Gilbey, Chrissie White and Cecil Mannering. The film's title is an allusion to the poem Kissing Cup's Race by Campbell Rae Brown. A jockey manages to escape a gang of kidnappers and makes it to Sandown in time to win his race.

Barnaby Rudge is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Tom Powers, Stewart Rome and Violet Hopson. It was an adaptation of the novel Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens which was set amidst the 1780 Gordon Riots in London.

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  1. Goble p.49

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