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Percy Standing

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia Percy Standing (26 October 1882 – 17 September 1950) was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was the son of Herbert Standing (1846–1923). Several of his brothers were actors including Sir Guy Standing, Wyndham Standing and Jack Standing. He was born in Lambeth, London and died in Placer County, California, USA.

Known For

A Modern Salome
10.0

When her father's death leaves Virginia Hastings facing a life of poverty, she breaks her engagement to Robert Monti to marry millionaire James Vandam. Unaccustomed to wealth, she entertains lavishly and flirts with many men, although her husband's secretary remains immune to her wiles.

A Modern Salome

1921
Her Fighting Chance
N/A

Corporal Blake is sent to apprehend the murderer of François Breault. All evidence points to Jan Thoreau as the guilty man. Blake arrives at Thoreau's cabin while he is away and is greeted by his wife Marie. Posing as a friend of her husband, Blake learns that Thoreau and Breault had quarreled shortly before the murder. This, together with Breault's dying accusation that Thoreau was his murderer, seems undeniable evidence. Blake, fascinated by Marie, agrees to let Thoreau escape, providing that she become his mistress. After much anguish, she consents. When Thoreau arrives, Blake arrests him but during the night Marie helps him escape. Blake goes in pursuit.

Her Fighting Chance

1917
Should a Husband Forgive?
N/A

After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a duel and is killed. Mary is thrown out by her husband's wealthy family and separated from her little boy, John Carroll, Jr. Years later, John Jr. falls in love with Ruth Fulton, the daughter of the horse trainer for Rex Burleigh. When her father dies, Ruth accepts Rex's offer to care for her, but she leaves the expensive apartment he has provided when she learns his true motives.

Should a Husband Forgive?

1919
The Captain's Captain
N/A

Louise Grayling escapes from a straight-laced aunt on a plea that she wants to visit her uncle, Captain Abe, on Cape Cod. Abe is henpecked by his housekeeper and rather looked down upon by the villagers who haunt his store. To give himself a fictitious glory he invents a fictitious brother, Amzon, who is a composite of all the pirates from Blackbeard to the food profiteers. Louise penetrates the deception and induced Abe to go away and come back as the fictitious brother.

The Captain's Captain

1919
Bonds of Love
N/A

A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.

Bonds of Love

1919
The Miracle of Love
8.0

Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name.

The Miracle of Love

1919
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N/A

When the United States enters World War I, a mother sends her two eldest sons off to the battlefields with a smile, although her heart is breaking.

Every Mother's Son

1918
Fires of Fate
10.0

Colonel Egerton, a British officer told he has only one year to live, who finds renewed purpose while traveling in Egypt. He rescues a young woman from an Arab prince and fights to protect tourists from hostile forces in the Libyan Desert.

Fires of Fate

1923
The Flame of Love
6.0

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

The Flame of Love

1930
A Game with Fate
N/A

After Henry Dawson and Robert Harwell quarrel at Elaine Huntington's garden party, Henry disappears and Robert is accused of murder. Although Robert is found guilty and sentenced to death, Elaine, who loves him, believes he is innocent and does everything in her power to help him.

A Game with Fate

1918
The Business of Life
N/A

Carrying on with the antique business of her deceased father, Jacqueline Nevers is asked to catalog James Desboro's collection. When they fall in love, it induces the jealousy of Elena Clydesdale, a married woman who is also in love with James.

The Business of Life

1918
Harmony Heaven
8.2

The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.

Harmony Heaven

1930
The Final Judgment
N/A

Actress Jane Carleson has three admirers: Henry Strong (a millionaire), Hamilton Ross (a chemist), and Murray Campbell (a district attorney). When Jane weds Campbell, Ross writes an anonymous letter to Campbell, warning him that Strong is after his wife.

The Final Judgment

1915
The Fall of a Nation
10.0

A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.

The Fall of a Nation

1916
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9.0

Florence Lawrence plays a woman who remarries and has a child, believing her first husband died, only for him to return.

His Wife’s Child

1913
The Final Problem
7.0

Holmes and Watson travel to Cheddar Gorge to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.

The Final Problem

1923
Life Without Soul
N/A

A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.

Life Without Soul

1915
The Song of the Soul
N/A

Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.

The Song of the Soul

1918
The Harbour Lights
10.0

A lieutenant saves an heiress from a wicked squire and is framed for murder.

The Harbour Lights

1923
The Desert Sheik
9.0

Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?

The Desert Sheik

1924