William E. Shay
1907
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
1911
'Tween Two Loves
A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consol…
1911
Sweet Memories
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about he…
The Lighthouse Keeper
Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keep…
1912
A Cave Man Wooing
George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically incl…
1912
A Timely Repentance
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisur…
Shamus O'Brien
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the…
1912
Up Against It
Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that h…
1913
His Hour of Triumph
Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part o…
1914
Neptune's Daughter
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister,…
1915
Kreutzer Sonata
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is…
1915
Sin
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
1915
The Clemenceau Case
This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own,…
1915
The Soul of Broadway
Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces Wi…
1915
The Two Orphans
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm i…
1916
A Daughter of the Gods
A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring…
1917
The Eternal Sin
Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has…
1917
The Lone Wolf
When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster…