Edwin August
Edwin August (born Edwin August Phillip von der Butz; November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919. August co-founded Eaco Films in 1914. He wrote novels under the pen name Montague Lawrence.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5518 |
| Birthday | 1883-11-10 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | Edwin August Phillip von der Butz, Montague Lawrence, |
1930
Romance of the West
9/1
Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unwanted attentions of a drunk, and learns that she h...
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Romance of the West
1911
The Long Road
0/0
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his famil...
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The Long Road
1912
The Sands of Dee
5.6/4
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he...
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The Sands of Dee
1914
Waifs
0/0
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for th...
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Waifs
1912
The Old Actor
5.4/18
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the thea...
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The Old Actor
1910
The Fugitive
4.7/7
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective s...
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The Fugitive
1914
Into the Lion's Pit
8/1
Marius goes into the lion's pit, taking his life into his hands to save the girl who has been brutally left to die by Marius' rival.
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Into the Lion's Pit
1912
A Beast at Bay
5.6/9
A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new suitor refuses to get mixed up in a street brawl,...
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A Beast at Bay
1912
The Lesser Evil
5.3/9
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
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The Lesser Evil
1912
One Is Business, the Other Crime
5.8/10
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
1910
Winning Back His Love
4/2
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
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Winning Back His Love
1911
A Country Cupid
5.6/5
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without h...
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A Country Cupid
1911
The Revenue Man and His Girl
4.5/2
In the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still; along the way, she meets dashing Edwin August. Ms. We...
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The Revenue Man and His Girl
1912
The Eternal Mother
4.8/4
John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refus...
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The Eternal Mother
1912
The School Teacher and the Waif
4.8/4
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but w...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
7.411/140
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Pride of the Yankees
1915
The Bomb Throwers
0/0
"Red Mike" Davis, a notorious bomb thrower, has been landed in jail through the activities of Lawrence, the district attorney. During his incarceratio...
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The Bomb Throwers
1910
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
5/1
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
1912
Twixt Love and Ambition
8/1
Silent one-reel melodrama
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Twixt Love and Ambition
1929
Side Street
5.857/7
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Side Street
1913
The Courage of the Commonplace
5.5/5
A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger siblings, dreams of going to college, which she's...
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The Courage of the Commonplace
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
5.5/2
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1909
Getting Even
3.8/4
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all th...
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Getting Even
1909
The Lure of the Gown
3.7/3
"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a maste...
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The Lure of the Gown
1915
When It Strikes Home
0/0
Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but chil...
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When It Strikes Home
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.828/1187
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.338/474
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1912
Under Burning Skies
4.7/3
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-fa...
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Under Burning Skies
1909
The Son's Return
5.6/9
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his...
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The Son's Return
1910
The Song That Reached His Heart
5.2/12
A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he listens to a record of the song his fiancée used to sing him.
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The Song That Reached His Heart
1913
The Calling of Louis Mona
8/1
Louis Mona is left to the care of the monks of the monastery of San Luis, who have brought him up with love and care. Louis, who is devoted to his sur...
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The Calling of Louis Mona
1914
An Evil of the Slums
8/1
A young man who visits a shady bar and gets involved with the criminals there, by a misunderstanding becomes a murder suspect. An older man who regret...
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An Evil of the Slums
1911
The Rose of Kentucky
5.7/8
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger br...
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The Rose of Kentucky
1909
The Welcome Burglar
2.5/1
“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very close. The scene where the husband gets into the room...
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The Welcome Burglar
1942
Gentleman Jim
7.174/69
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...
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Gentleman Jim
1910
The Golden Supper
4.5/2
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after t...
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The Golden Supper
1912
The Good for Nothing
5.5/2
A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove himself to his father and father-in-law as an editor.
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The Good for Nothing
1911
His Daughter
4/1
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical p...
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His Daughter
1911
The Making of a Man
6.3/3
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father f...
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The Making of a Man
1910
Simple Charity
0/0
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
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Simple Charity
1911
Madame Rex
0/0
Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to assume the management of the Gambling Casino, of which he w...
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Madame Rex
1912
Lena and the Geese
4.857/7
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same a...
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Lena and the Geese
1922
The Blonde Vampire
0/0
Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that she prefers Tom Smith, a man from the underworld, becaus...
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The Blonde Vampire
1942
Over My Dead Body
8/1
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) a...
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Over My Dead Body
1938
Safety in Numbers
7/1
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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Safety in Numbers
1943
Mr. Lucky
6.957/46
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Mr. Lucky
1937
Marked Woman
6.553/77
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Marked Woman
1938
The Rage of Paris
5.85/20
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of he...
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The Rage of Paris
1918
A Broadway Scandal
0/0
Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he's shi...
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A Broadway Scandal
1918
The City of Tears
0/0
Chorus girl Rosa Carillo (Carmel Myers) finds herself in dire straits when the troupe she works with is disbanded and her last fifty dollars is stolen...
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The City of Tears
1911
A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
0/0
The daughter of a poor seamstress takes a package to the house of her mother’s wealthy employer and meets the lady’s son. The son requests a date and...
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A Wreath of Orange Blossoms
1910
A Child's Stratagem
3.5/1
Mrs. Walton wilfully and mistakenly presumes that her husband is unfaithful, and demands a divorce. Devastated by the impending breakup of her home, t...
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A Child's Stratagem
1911
The Failure
4/1
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes...
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The Failure
1910
The House with Closed Shutters
5.3/27
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's...
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The House with Closed Shutters
1911
Conscience
0/0
As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's out...
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Conscience
1909
The Renunciation
4.4/4
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from...
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The Renunciation
1912
When Kings Were the Law
0/0
Over the Kingdom of Romanda there reigned a King who was greatly influenced by his favorite, whom he devotedly loved. He presents her with a necklace...
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When Kings Were the Law
1910
The Message of the Violin
0/0
A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart.
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The Message of the Violin
1911
The Voice of the Child
0/0
A businessman neglects his wife, who is tricked into believing he is having an affair. She packs to leave him, but is distracted by their little girl,...
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The Voice of the Child
1911
The Trail of Books
0/0
Upset that her parents are getting ready to separate a little girl grabs a handful of books and heads off to school without anyone’s knowledge. When h...
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The Trail of Books
1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
3.7/3
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage...
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1910
A Child's Impulse
6.2/4
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the sev...
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A Child's Impulse
1925
Scandal Street
8/1
When a film star is killed in a car crash during the shooting of his latest pictures, the producers replace him with a near identical man and try to p...
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Scandal Street
1921
The Idol of the North
9/1
Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Wal...
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The Idol of the North
1918
The Mortgaged Wife
0/0
After Ralph Carter steals $50,000 from the bank where he is employed, his wife Gloria phones bank official Jerome Harris, a wealthy man who has loved...
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The Mortgaged Wife
1916
The Yellow Passport
0/0
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she re...
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The Yellow Passport
1929
Dreary House
7/1
On the day of her wedding to Paul, Mary Wheeler is given the deed to a mysterious old house that is occupied by a strange housekeeper named Nancy Crow...
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Dreary House
1916
The Social Highwayman
0/0
Curtis Jaffray's mother, an Italian peasant, must steal to support herself, but genetic tendencies as well as economic necessity contribute to her pen...
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