Kate Bruce
- Title: Kate Bruce
- Popularity: 1.122
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1860-02-16
- Place of Birth: Columbus, Indiana, USA
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- Also Known As: Phyllis Forde
1 1915 HD
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
1 1914 HD
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than...
6.934 1920 HD
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out...
1 1910 HD
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a...
1 1911 HD
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he...
6.84 1919 HD
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
4.3 1912 HD
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...
1 1915 HD
1 1911 HD
A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
1 1912 HD
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
1 1912 HD
They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company...
1 1912 HD
Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends,...
1 1927 HD
Are Brunettes Safe?
5 1913 HD
After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the future, and the reflection of all that was dear in the...
1 1921 HD
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...
1 1913 HD
An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the...
1 1913 HD
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love,...
1 1912 HD
Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors...
1 1912 HD
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated...
1 1913 HD
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
1 1913 HD
A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that...
5.7 1913 HD
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders...
1 1913 HD
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease...
1 1913 HD
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was...
5.8 1913 HD
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he...
6.3 1914 HD
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant...
1 1915 HD
The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the...
4.9 1909 HD
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune,...
5.8 1912 HD
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...
1 1914 HD
At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the...
1 1916 HD
Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O...
5.4 1912 HD
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...
5.7 1912 HD
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
1 1913 HD
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble...
1 1912 HD
Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking...
4.5 1912 HD
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
1 1913 HD
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who...
1 1913 HD
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.
4.7 1910 HD
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...
5.5 1912 HD
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems...
1 1913 HD
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The...
4 1911 HD
A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.
6.3 1911 HD
After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the...
4.5 1910 HD
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...
3 1912 HD
Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money...
6.3 1912 HD
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...
4.5 1911 HD
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away....
4.7 1910 HD
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...
5 1910 HD
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
5 1910 HD
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals...
5.5 1929 HD
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take...
6 1909 HD
A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...
3.2 1908 HD
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...
5 1909 HD
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...
5 1910 HD
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...
6.7 1931 HD
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
1 1914 HD
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to...
1 1918 HD
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and...
10 1920 HD
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
6.8 1921 HD
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...
3 1908 HD
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...
3.8 1909 HD
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...
4.2 1909 HD
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...
5.3 1919 HD
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not...
1 1914 HD
The District Attorney came face to face with the man who he believed had murdered his father years before. This man was held for murder. The District...
7 1923 HD
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see...
5.2 1920 HD
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who...
5 1911 HD
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
7 1919 HD
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and...
1 1908 HD
A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but...
1 1916 HD
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the...
1 1918 HD
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in...
6.3 1909 HD
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's...
4.5 1909 HD
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...
4 1909 HD
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...
4.7 1910 HD
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through...
4 1911 HD
Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and...
7.083 1916 HD
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
5 1913 HD
A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.
5.6 1911 HD
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...
4 1909 HD
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...
1 1909 HD
Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
1 1910 HD
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...
1 1917 HD
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
1 1917 HD
A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
1 1917 HD
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a...
5.3 1916 HD
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in...
5 1910 HD
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
5 1910 HD
In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in...
1 1910 HD
A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a...
1 1910 HD
Ranch hand Bob Gorman loves pretty Molly Hendricks, and Daddy isn't happy about that. Then Bob is falsely accused of killing Mr. Hendricks. Soon we...
1 1910 HD
It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their...
6 1910 HD
The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor....
1 1918 HD
Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been...
5 1910 HD
The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to...
5.5 1910 HD
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a...
1 1910 HD
Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of...
1 1910 HD
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
1 1910 HD
Her trademarked curls hidden under a black wig, Mary Pickford stars as a wide-eyed Indian maiden. Two braves vie for the heroine's affections,...
1 1910 HD
Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy....
1 1911 HD
Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother,...
5 1909 HD
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...
5.5 1909 HD
Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry...
5 1913 HD
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...
1 1909 HD
Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order...
4 1909 HD
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...
1 1912 HD
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...
5 1912 HD
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood...
1 1912 HD
Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the...
4.2 1912 HD
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...
4 1912 HD
A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it...
1 1912 HD
When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are...
1 1912 HD
Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the...
4 1912 HD
Papa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his daughter's sweetheart, who tease him about it. The...
5 1913 HD
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for...
4 1909 HD
A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...
1 1911 HD
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps...
5 1913 HD
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her...
5.8 1919 HD
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers....
4 1909 HD
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the...
6 1918 HD
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies...
1 1917 HD
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him,...
1 1924 HD
A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a...
1 1913 HD
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds...
6.5 1910 HD
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....
1 1910 HD
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity. A motorist, a concert singer from the...
1 1910 HD
A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly...
5.5 1913 HD
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey,...
1 1916 HD
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there....
1 1913 HD
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where...
4 1955 HD
A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.
1 1911 HD
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.
1 1920 HD
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross...
1 1909 HD
A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when...
1 1910 HD
Poor Hiram didn't anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park.
1 1916 HD
When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him...
4 1909 HD
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...
1 1945 HD
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
5.8 1909 HD
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....
6.201 1909 HD
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...
5 1909 HD
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy...
1 1909 HD
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary...
4.5 1909 HD
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...
4.3 1909 HD
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...
1 1910 HD
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
4.2 1912 HD
Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.
4 1912 HD
Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on...
5 1911 HD
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower...
4.6 1910 HD
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce...
4 1910 HD
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young...
4.3 1910 HD
Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told...
5.3 1910 HD
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
5 1909 HD
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?
5.2 1909 HD
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...
5.6 1909 HD
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
5 1910 HD
In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in...
4.1 1911 HD
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...
5 1911 HD
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the...
3.7 1911 HD
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own...
4 1911 HD
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...
1 1908 HD
In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot...
5.9 1913 HD
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.