Henry B. Walthall
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Dante's Inferno is a 1935 American drama horror film starring Spencer Tracy and loosely based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. The film remains primarily remembered for a 10-minute depiction of hell realised by director Harry Lachman, himself an established post-impressionist painter. This was Fox Film Corporation's last film to be produced unde...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Marion Leonard•Mary Pickford
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola and based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Henry B. Walthall•Frank Powell
Her Forgotten Past (1933)
Her Forgotten Past is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Wesley Ford and starring Monte Blue, Barbara Kent and Henry B. Walthall.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Earle Foxe•Blanche Sweet
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
Somewhere in Sonora is a 1933 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne. It is a remake of the 1927 silent film of the same name. The story was based on a 1925 novel named "Somewhere South" by Will Levington Comfort.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lionel Barrymore•Stuart Holmes
Police Court (1932)
Police Court is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Lionel Belmore, and King Baggot. Directed by Louis King and released by Monogram Pictures, the screenplay was adapted by Stuart Anthony from his story. Police Court features an all-star cast from the silent film era.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Mae Marsh
Is There Justice? (1931)
Is There Justice? is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Rex Lease, Henry B. Walthall and Blanche Mehaffey. It is now considered a lost film.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Chester Conklin•Mary Alden
The Love Trader (1930)
The Love Trader is an early talkie pre-Code American romantic drama film preserved at the Library of Congress. It was directed by Joseph Henabery and starred silent greats Leatrice Joy, Henry B. Walthall, Barbara Bedford and Noah Beery. It was produced by an independent production company called Pacific Pictures and released through the Tiffany Pic...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Ruth Roland
In Old California (1929)
In Old California is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Burton L. King and starring Tom Keene, Helen Ferguson and Henry B. Walthall.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lon Chaney•Pat O'Malley
Fighting Love (1927)
Fighting Love is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander and starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall. The film survives complete. It is based on the 1925 novel If the Gods Laugh by the British writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anton Grot.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Helene Chadwick•Harry Northrup
The Rose of Kildare (1927)
The Rose of Kildare is a 1927 American silent romance film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Helene Chadwick, Pat O'Malley and Henry B. Walthall. An Irish singer arrives at the gold mining town of Kimberley in South Africa, where she encounters a former lover who left Kildare to seek his fortune. The film is believed to be lost, with no...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Francis McDonald•Alice Lake
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 American silent drama film based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne and directed by Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström. Prints of the film survive in the MGM/United Artists film archives and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is now considered the best film adaptation of Hawthorne's nov...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey•Helen Ferguson•Colleen Moore
The Unknown Soldier (1926)
The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan, and starring Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, and George Cooper. It was released on May 30, 1926, by Producers Distributing Corporation.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Joseph J. Dowling•Noah Beery
Dollar Down (1925)
Dollar Down is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. A print in the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one of its six reels missing. Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California, Dollar Down was the first of two features produced by Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Karl Dane
The Golden Bed (1925)
The Golden Bed is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is based on the novel Tomorrow's Bread by Wallace Irwin. Jeanie MacPherson wrote the screenplay.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Ben Alexander
Kentucky Pride (1925)
Kentucky Pride is a 1925 American silent drama film from Fox Film about the life of a horse breeder and racer, directed by the famed film director John Ford and starring Henry B. Walthall. It is among Ford's lesser-known works, but has been praised for sweetness and charm and its beautiful depiction of the life of horses and the relationship betwee...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Charles Emmett Mack
The Bowery Bishop (1924)
The Bowery Bishop is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell and starring Henry B. Walthall, Leota Lorraine, and Edith Roberts.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Victor Varconi
Boy of Mine (1923)
Boy of Mine is a 1923 American silent family drama film directed by William Beaudine that was based upon a short story by Booth Tarkington. It stars Ben Alexander, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Henry B. Walthall. Wendy L. Marshall stated that "Beaudine had the Midas touch when it came to directing children" in films like this and Penrod and Sam.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Shirley Palmer•Charlotte Stevens
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923)
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor is a 1923 American drama film directed by John Ford. It is considered to be a lost film. The film was adapted from the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Barbara Kent
The Unknown Purple (1923)
The Unknown Purple is a lost 1923 American silent mystery film that was written and directed by Roland West.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Cornelius Keefe•Tom Keene
The Kickback (1922)
The Kickback is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey and Henry B. Walthall.
Starring: John Wayne•Spencer Tracy
The Long Chance (1922)
The Long Chance is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Jack Conway and starring Henry B. Walthall, Marjorie Daw and Ralph Graves.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Rita Hayworth
Flower of the North (1921)
Flower of the North is a surviving 1921 American silent northwoods drama film directed by David Smith and produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It starred Henry B. Walthall and Pauline Starke and is based upon the novel of the same name by James Oliver Curwood.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Arthur V. Johnson•Marion Leonard
The Confession (1920)
The Confession is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken, based on the play of the same name by Hal Reid. The film stars Henry B. Walthall as Father Bartlett, a priest who refuses to reveal the identity of a killer after hearing his confession, even though Bartlett's brother Tom is on trial for the crime.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Mary Pickford
A Splendid Hazard (1920)
A Splendid Hazard is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Henry B. Walthall. The film is based on the 1910 book of the same name. The film was produced by the Mayflower Photoplay Company. It is not known whether the film currently survives; this suggests that it may be a lost film.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Frank Powell
The False Faces (1919)
The False Faces is a 1919 American silent action film written and directed by Irvin Willat, based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance, and starring Henry B. Walthall as Michael Lanyard, the "Lone Wolf," and Lon Chaney as Karl Ekstrom, the villain. A complete print of the film survives at the George Eastman House and at the Turner Film Library. It wa...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Earle Foxe
His Robe of Honor (1918)
His Robe of Honor is a 1918 American silent crime drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Henry B. Walthall, Mary Charleson and Lois Wilson.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey•Mae Marsh
Humdrum Brown (1918)
Humdrum Brown is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Henry B. Walthall, Mary Charleson and Dorothy Clark.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey
With Hoops of Steel (1918)
With Hoops of Steel is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Eliot Howe and starring Henry B. Walthall, William De Vaull and Mary Charleson.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey•Rosemary Theby
Burning the Candle (1917)
Burning the Candle is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Henry B. Walthall, Mary Charleson and Frances Raymond.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey
The Misleading Lady (1916)
The Misleading Lady is a 1916 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Berthelet and starring Henry B. Walthall, Edna Mayo and Sidney Ainsworth. It is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard which has been made into films on several occasions. It marked the screen debut of Edward Arnold.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Edward Arnold•Pauline Starke
The Truant Soul (1916)
The Truant Soul is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Henry B. Walthall, Mary Charleson and Patrick Calhoun.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Claire Du Brey•Joseph J. Dowling
Ghosts (1915)
Ghosts is a 1915 silent film drama based on the famous 1881 play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. It was directed by George Nichols. D. W. Griffith produced the film and Erich von Stroheim served in several capacities as technical advisor, wardrobe assistant and costume designer. George Siegmann was an assistant director. The film had an alternate or workin...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Noah Beery
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a 1914 silent horror film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film is based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and his 1849 poem "Annabel Lee".
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lionel Barrymore
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
Home, Sweet Home (1914) is an American silent biographical drama directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Earle Foxe, Henry Walthall and Dorothy Gish.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Marion Leonard•Mary Pickford
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Judith of Bethulia (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biogr...
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lionel Barrymore
The Mirror (1913)
The Mirror is a 1913 short silent film directed by Anthony O'Sullivan.
Starring: Spencer Tracy
Oil and Water (1913)
Oil and Water is a 1913 film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The supporting cast includes Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lionel Barrymore•Dorothy Gish
Three Friends (1913)
Three Friends is a 1913 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.
Starring: Spencer Tracy•Lionel Barrymore•Dorothy Gish
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
The House with Closed Shutters is a 1910 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and released by the Biograph Company. Prints of The House with Closed Shutters exist in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, and the Library of Congress.
Starring: Spencer Tracy
In Old California (1910)
In Old California is a 1910 American silent Western film. It was the first film shot in Hollywood, California. It was directed by D. W. Griffith of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The film is a melodrama about the Mexican era of California.
Starring: Arthur V. Johnson•Marion Leonard•Spencer Tracy•Mary Pickford
Ramona (1910)
Ramona is a 1910 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. Through a love story, the early silent short explores racial injustice to Native Americans and stars Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall. A copy of the print survives in the Library of Congress film archive. The film was remade in...
Starring: Frank Powell•Spencer Tracy
Rose O'Salem-Town (1910)
Rose O'Salem-Town is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
Starring: Spencer Tracy