John Gilbert
The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and released by Columbia Pictures. The film, which involves a Grand Hotel-style series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship, is notable as the last feature film of silent film icon John Gilbert and the first Columbia feature to include The Three...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lillian Gish•Lionel Barrymore
Fast Workers (1933)
Fast Workers, also known as Rivets, is a 1933 pre-Code drama film starring John Gilbert and Robert Armstrong as construction workers and romantic rivals for the character played by Mae Clarke. The film, which is based on the unproduced play Rivets by John McDermott, was directed by an uncredited Tod Browning. The supporting cast features Virginia C...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•J. Warren Kerrigan•Dorothy Dalton
Queen Christina (1933)
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933 by Walter Wanger and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It stars Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in their fourth and last film together.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lila Leslie
Downstairs (1932)
Downstairs is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film. It stars John Gilbert as a charming but self-serving chauffeur who wreaks havoc on his new employer's household, romancing and fleecing the women on the staff, and blackmailing the employer's wife. Gilbert had written the story in 1928 for a proposed silent film that was never produced.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Ruth Stonehouse•Enid Markey
Gentleman's Fate (1931)
Gentleman's Fate is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Leonard Praskins. The film stars John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page, and Marie Prevost. The film was released on March 7, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, just seventeen days after Wolheim's untimely death.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Frank Keenan•Helen Dunbar
The Phantom of Paris (1931)
The Phantom of Paris is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by John S. Robertson and written by Bess Meredyth, Edwin Justus Mayer and John Meehan. The film stars John Gilbert and Leila Hyams, and is based on the 1913 novel Chéri-Bibi et Cécily by Gaston Leroux. The film was released on September 12, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The studio...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Jeanne Eagels•Helen Dunbar
West of Broadway (1931)
West of Broadway is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Ralph Graves, Bess Meredyth, Gene Markey, and James Kevin McGuinness. The film stars John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans and Ralph Bellamy. The film was released on November 28, 1931, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Gladys Brockwell
Redemption (1930)
Redemption is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Fred Niblo, produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring John Gilbert. This production is Gilbert's first talking film, but it was not released until months after the premiere of His Glorious Night, his second "talkie". Redemption is based on the 1918 Broadway play of th...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lois Moran•John Miljan
Way for a Sailor (1930)
Way for a Sailor is a 1930 American Pre-Code film starring John Gilbert. The supporting cast includes Wallace Beery, Jim Tully, Leila Hyams, and Polly Moran. The film was directed by Sam Wood, who insisted on no screen credit. The film is reputed to be so bad that the studio might have used it to sabotage leading man Gilbert's career in the sound e...
Starring: John Gilbert•Alison Skipworth
Desert Nights (1929)
Desert Nights is a 1929 American silent adventure/romantic drama film starring John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, and Mary Nolan. Directed by William Nigh, the film is the last silent film starring John Gilbert.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Ruth Clifford
His Glorious Night (1929)
His Glorious Night is a 1929 pre-Code American romance film directed by Lionel Barrymore and starring John Gilbert in his first released talkie. The film is based on the 1928 play Olympia by Ferenc Molnár.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Doris Pawn
The Cossacks (1928)
The Cossacks is a 1928 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and directed by George Hill and Clarence Brown. The film stars John Gilbert and Renée Adorée and is based on the 1863 novel The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•John Miljan
Four Walls (1928)
Four Walls is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh and starring John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, and Carmel Myers. The film is based on the play of the same name by George Abbott and Dana Burnet. Four Walls is now considered lost. The film was remade in 1934 as Straight Is the Way.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•George Pearce
The Masks of the Devil (1928)
The Masks of the Devil is a lost 1928 American drama silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings, Svend Gade and Frances Marion. The film stars John Gilbert, Alma Rubens, Theodore Roberts, Frank Reicher and Eva von Berne. The film was released on November 17, 1928, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Helen Jerome Eddy•Alison Skipworth
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone. The film, released with a synchronized score and sound effects, was based on a 1924 best-selling novel by Michael Arlen, The Green Hat, which he adapted as a four-act stage play in 192...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lila Leslie
Love (1927)
Love is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert who had starred in the 1926 blockbuster Flesh and the Devil.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lila Leslie
Man, Woman and Sin (1927)
Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is a silent film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Monta Bell and John Gilbert, and stars Gilbert and stage actress Jeanne Eagels in one of her rare film appearances. The film is obscure but survives complete, but has yet to be released on VHS or DVD.
Starring: Jean Hersholt•Enid Bennett•Alison Skipworth
The Show (1927)
The Show is a 1927 silent American drama film directed by Tod Browning, based upon Charles Tenney Jackson's 1910 novel The Day of Souls.
Starring: Fritzi Ridgeway•Alison Skipworth•Herschel Mayall
Twelve Miles Out (1927)
Twelve Miles Out is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford. It is based on the 1925 Broadway play Twelve Miles Out by William Anthony McGuire.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•George Pearce•Claire Anderson
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
Bardelys the Magnificent is a 1926 American silent romantic film directed by King Vidor and starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman. The film is based on the 1906 novel of the same title by Rafael Sabatini. It was the second film of the 19-year-old John Wayne, who had a minor role.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Paul Lukas
La Bohème (1926)
La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the 1896 opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in a tragic romance in which a tubercular seamstress sacrifices her life so that her lover, a bohemian playwright, might pen his masterpiece. Gish, at the height of her influence with Metro-...
Starring: Louis Wolheim•Alison Skipworth•John Miljan
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Flesh and the Devil is an American silent romantic drama film released in 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the novel The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lila Leslie
The Big Parade (1925)
The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes a fri...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•John Miljan
The Merry Widow (1925)
The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, and Tully Marshall, with pre-fame uncredited appearances by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Renée Adorée•Virginia Brown Faire
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström. The film was written by Victor Seastrom and Carey Wilson, based on the Russian play He Who Gets Slapped by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was completed by Andreyev in August 1915, two mo...
Starring: Billie Dove•Alison Skipworth•Catherine Dale Owen
His Hour (1924)
His Hour is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor. This film was the follow-up to Samuel Goldwyn's Three Weeks, written by Elinor Glyn, and starring Aileen Pringle, one of the biggest moneymakers at the time of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer amalgamation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Ernest Torrence
Just Off Broadway (1924)
Just Off Broadway is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and written by Frederic Hatton and Fanny Hatton. The film stars John Gilbert, Marian Nixon, Trilby Clark, Pierre Gendron, and Ben Hendricks Jr. The film was released on January 20, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Marian Nixon
The Lone Chance (1924)
The Lone Chance was a 1924 silent American drama film directed by Howard M. Mitchell and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is now considered lost.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Victor McLaglen
A Man's Mate (1924)
A Man's Mate is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and written by Charles Kenyon. The film stars John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Noble Johnson, Wilfrid North, Thomas R. Mills, and James Neill. The film was released on March 16, 1924, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•John Miljan
Romance Ranch (1924)
Romance Ranch is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Howard M. Mitchell and starring John Gilbert, Virginia Brown Faire and John Miljan.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Joan Crawford•Paulette Duval
The Snob (1924)
The Snob is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film starred Norma Shearer and John Gilbert, together with Phyllis Haver, Conrad Nagel, and Hedda Hopper. The film was written by Monta Bell, and was based on the novel The Snob: The Story of a Marriage by Helen Reimensnyder Martin.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Lois Moran•Catherine Dale Owen
The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
The Wife of the Centaur is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Mayer Pictures in April 1924. Metro had acquired the movie rights to Cyril Hume's debut novel Wife of a Centaur in November. A novelist imagines that ...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Paul Lukas
The Wolf Man (1924)
The Wolf Man is a 1924 American silent drama film that starred John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, before they signed with the newly formed MGM. Directed by Edmund Mortimer, the film's story was written by Reed Heustis, and written by Fanny and Frederic Hatton. The Wolf Man is now considered lost.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Catherine Dale Owen
Cameo Kirby (1923)
Cameo Kirby is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John Ford which starred John Gilbert and Gertrude Olmstead and featuring Jean Arthur in her onscreen debut. It was Ford's first film credited as John Ford instead of Jack Ford. The film is based on a 1908 play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The story had been filmed as a silen...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•William S. Hart
The Exiles (1923)
The Exiles is a 1923 American adventure film directed by Edmund Mortimer and written by Frederick J. Jackson and John Russell. It is based on the 1894 novel The Exiles by Richard Harding Davis. The film stars John Gilbert, Betty Bouton, John Webb Dillion, Margaret Fielding and Fred Warren. The film was released on October 14, 1923, by Fox Film Corp...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Louise Glaum
Madness of Youth (1923)
Madness of Youth is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm and starring John Gilbert, Billie Dove and George K. Arthur.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•J. Warren Kerrigan
St. Elmo (1923)
St. Elmo is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm. Distributed by Fox Film Corporation, the film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans.
Starring: Colleen Moore•Alison Skipworth•Enid Markey
Truxton King (1923)
Truxton King is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm. The film stars John Gilbert while he was a player for Fox Film Corporation and is based upon the novel Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Bessie Barriscale
While Paris Sleeps (1923)
While Paris Sleeps, aka The Glory of Love, is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel The Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert. Whoever wrote the screenplay adaptation went uncredited, but some sources claim it was Wyndham Gittens. Special effects were by Floyd Muelle...
Starring: Billie Dove•Alison Skipworth•Sessue Hayakawa
Arabian Love (1922)
Arabian Love is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm and starring John Gilbert, Barbara Bedford and Barbara La Marr. It is not known whether the film currently survives. It was partly filmed on location in the Mojave Desert.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Doris Pawn•Enid Markey
A California Romance (1922)
A California Romance is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Charles E. Banks. The film stars John Gilbert, Estelle Taylor, George Siegmann, Jack McDonald and C.E. Anderson. The film was released on December 24, 1922, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Gayne Whitman
Calvert's Valley (1922)
Calvert's Valley is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring John Gilbert, Sylvia Breamer and Philo McCullough.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Frank Keenan
The Love Gambler (1922)
The Love Gambler is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Joseph Franz and written by Jules Furthman. The film stars John Gilbert, Carmel Myers, Bruce Gordon, C.E. Anderson, W. E. Lawrence and James Gordon. The film was released on November 12, 1922, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Helen Dunbar
Monte Cristo (1922)
Monte Cristo is a 1922 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Emmett J. Flynn. It is based on the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, which was adapted by 19th century thespian Charles Fechter and written for this screen version by Bernard McConville. John Gilbert plays the h...
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Gayne Whitman
The Yellow Stain (1922)
The Yellow Stain is a 1922 silent drama film released by Fox Film Corporation. The film stars John Gilbert and Claire Anderson. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Hardee Kirkland
Shame (1921)
Shame is a 1921 American film directed by Emmett J. Flynn. It is based on the story Clung by Max Brand, which appeared in the magazine All Story Weekly. This black and white silent film was distributed and produced by Fox Film Corporation. It is considered a drama and has a runtime of 90 mins. It is presumed to be a lost film.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•H.B. Warner•Ruth Clifford
Deep Waters (1920)
Deep Waters is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and written by F. Hopkinson Smith, Michael Morton and John Gilbert. The film stars Rudolph Christians, Barbara Bedford, John Gilbert, Florence Deshon, Jack McDonald, Henry Woodward, and George Nichols. The film was released on October 10, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Doris Pawn
The Busher (1919)
The Busher is a 1919 American drama film directed by Jerome Storm featuring Colleen Moore, and produced by Thomas H. Ince. The film still exists and is available on DVD from Kino Video, running 55 minutes. There is an alternate edition available from Grapevine Video. This version runs 63 minutes, including a longer opening exposition sequence, and ...
Starring: Lois Wilson•Alison Skipworth•Carmel Myers
For a Woman's Honor (1919)
For a Woman's Honor is a lost 1919 silent film drama directed by Park Frame. It stars H. B. Warner, a stage actor. John Gilbert has a co-starring role in the feature.
Starring: Roy Stewart•Alison Skipworth•Helen Jerome Eddy
The Man Beneath (1919)
The Man Beneath is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. An incomplete copy of the film is in the collection of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.
Starring: William Conklin•Alison Skipworth•Frank Mayo
The Red Viper (1919)
The Red Viper is a 1919 American silent film drama. It is anti-Communist themed and was produced during the red scare.
Starring: Sylvia Breamer•Alison Skipworth•Enid Bennett
The Dawn of Understanding (1918)
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph. It is based on the short story "The Judgement of Bolinas Plain" by 19th-century Western writer Bret Harte.
Starring: Colleen Moore•Alison Skipworth
Shackled (1918)
Shackled is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Louise Glaum, Charles West and John Gilbert.
Starring: Anna May Wong•Alison Skipworth•John Webb Dillion
Three X Gordon (1918)
Three X Gordon is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Ernest C. Warde and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson and Charles K. French.
Starring: Gareth Hughes•Alison Skipworth•Estelle Taylor
The Dark Road (1917)
The Dark Road is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Miller and starring Dorothy Dalton, Robert McKim and John Gilbert. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Brunton.
Starring: Barbara Bedford•Billie Dove•Alison Skipworth
The Devil Dodger (1917)
The Devil Dodger is a lost 1917 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Roy Stewart. It was produced and released by Triangle Film Corporation.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•Gertrude Olmstead
Golden Rule Kate (1917)
Golden Rule Kate is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Louise Glaum, William Conklin, Jack Richardson, Mildred Harris, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Reginald Barker from a story written by Monte M. Katterjohn and produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation.
Starring: Anna May Wong•Alison Skipworth•Barbara La Marr
The Hater of Men (1917)
The Hater of Men is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Charles Miller and starring Bessie Barriscale. It was produced by Kay-Bee Pictures and by Triangle Distributing.
Starring: William S. Hart•Alison Skipworth
The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)
The Millionaire Vagrant is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer and J. Barney Sherry.
Starring: Lois Wilson•Alison Skipworth•Frank Keenan
The Mother Instinct (1917)
The Mother Instinct is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and Roy William Neill and starring Enid Bennett, Rowland V. Lee and Margery Wilson.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•H.B. Warner•Enid Markey
Princess of the Dark (1917)
Princess of the Dark is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Charles Miller and starring Enid Bennett, John Gilbert, and Gayne Whitman.
Starring: Gayne Whitman•Alison Skipworth•H.B. Warner
Up or Down? (1917)
Up or Down? is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring George Hernandez, Fritzi Ridgeway and John Gilbert.
Starring: Alison Skipworth•George Hernandez•Enid Bennett
The Apostle of Vengeance (1916)
The Apostle of Vengeance is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas, and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher returns home from Vermont in order to settle a feud between two warring families.
Starring: Fritzi Ridgeway•Alison Skipworth
Shell 43 (1916)
Shell 43 is a 1916 American war film written by C. Gardner Sullivan, from a story by Edward Sloman, and starring H.B. Warner, Enid Markey, and John Gilbert.
Starring: Rowland V. Lee•Alison Skipworth•H.B. Warner