Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Dec 1 2023, 5:53:32 UTC Actor. He was a veteran performer of the silent film era, whom appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1936. He made his big screen deb...
Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : May 5 2024, 4:42:08 UTC Tiny, blue-eyed Ann Christy started in Silent films with a bit part in Long Pants (1927) with Harry Langdon. She was then signed by o...
June Walker was an American stage and film actor.
Note: Some secondary sources and her California death index state that she was born in 1900. On her U.S. passport application from 1923, she stated t...
Conway Tearle was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era. He appeared in 93 films between 1914 and 1936. He was the half-brother of actor Godfrey Tearle.On December 16, 1931, Conway a...
Actress. Born in Oxford, Maryland, she began her career on stage and in vaudeville, where she met and married actor Charley Grapewin. Together with her husband, she appeared in the Christie Comedies fi...
People who have made significant contribution to silent films: actors, directors, writers, etc.
Top grossing silent films in the United States as calculated by Variety magazine in 1932. The dollar amounts are not adjusted for inflation.
The Birth of a Nation (1915) - $10,000,000
The Big Parade (1925) - $6,400,000
Ben-Hur (1925) - $5,500,000
Way Down East (1920) - $5,000,000
The Gold Rush (1925) - $4,250,000
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - $4,000,000
The Circus (1928) - $3,800,000
The Covered Wagon (1923) - $3,800,000
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - $3,500,000
The Ten Commandments (1923) - $3,400,000
Orphans of the Storm (1921) - $3,000,000
For Heaven's Sake (1926) - $2,600,000
Seventh Heaven (1926) - $2,400,000
Abie's Irish Rose (1928) - $1,500,000
Actors
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Lew Cody
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
William S. Hart
Harry Cary Sr.
Victoria Forde
D.W. Griffith
Buster Keaton
Edith McAlpin
Tom Mix
Mabel Normand
Mary Pickford
Directors
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Charley Chaplin
Cecil B.DeMille
D.W. Griffith
William S. Hart
Samuel Goldwyn
Mabel Normand
Hal Roach
Mack Sennett
Writers
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