Harry Benham

The husband was stern, solemn and never could understand why anyone should laugh. The wife didn't have much sense, perhaps, but she was full of life...

A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.

Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa

The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the...

Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help...

The affluent Carnabys have now dwindled in fortune and family, leaving just Lucy and her brother, Gordon in financial straits. Situations escalate as...

The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé, Bert Van Vliet, runs down and injures newsboy...

The greenhouse proprietor did not take any heart in his work, for he firmly believed he was destined to be a great painter. The result was he...

The girl's father is Gunga Ras, a Hindu student of the occult. The girl's uncle is found dead and the lover blamed, but she personally investigates...

J. Courtleigh Brice, son of a self-made father, lives abroad where he does little except spend the money his father has left and lament the fact that...

In the course of a fashionable reception at her home, a young girl quarrels with her suitor. Piqued by a fancied wrong, the girl with complaisance...

A lawyer is given the execution of a will, which bequeaths to the child of a disinherited son a large fortune. The disinherited son is now dead. The...

A wealthy miner, having no near relatives, leaves his two little daughters to the guardianship of a former chum of his, who had left the west with a...

She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.

Age old tale of a couple marooned.

The wealthy old bachelor returned to his home after a visit to his club, and found waiting him news that his time on earth was pitifully brief. He...

Happy in the love of his devoted wife and their child, a young businessman found life's pathway pleasant. Then the greatest of sorrows came; his wife...

A foolish quarrel with his sweetheart and a desire for adventure caused a young man to enlist in the United States Navy. Soon after his departure his...

Among the suitors of a wealthy widow was a middle aged scientist, and while the woman was glad to regard him as a friend, she did not see how she...

The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a...

The head of the ribbon counter was the most popular clerk in the store. Customers liked him, employees admired him and even "the boss" regarded him...

A young girl, who had talent as a violinist, came to New York determined to win fame on the concert stage. She found the field overcrowded, but...

Effie Marchand refuses to marry a man she has never met, but who has been picked out by her mother, is exiled to boarding school Then, when sculpting...

Melodrama in which the rich arrogant George gives money to poor Frank and Jane, so he may spend a night with Jane. Jane goes along with it because...

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

A young lord elopes with an employee's daughter. The visit of a lady to her home causes the young wife to leave her husband. Years later the peer...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young...

The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right...

A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.

This elaborate and well-staged silent version of Hertz' play is exceedingly well produced for 1913: it starts off by introducing the actors by name...

The story of country girl Pamela Congreve who driven by revenge rises through London society to seek justice against the villain who caused her...

With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of...

Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital. One of the girls poisons...

A good example of the clever light comedy Thanhouser produced for its Falstaff label, while other studios cranked out broad slapstick comedies. Harry...

Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to...

A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).

Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod,...

An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all...

Over the years, an old gardener observes a romance develop between a young boy and girl. 20 years after they break up over a misunderstanding, the...

Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie...

A painter in New York City discovers that he has inherited a harem. Since he's already married and his wife would definitely not approve, he must...

Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).

A Southern girl helps an escaped Union soldier in the midst of the Civil War.

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser...

Cecilia is a spunky Irish girl from a struggling family, faced with the imminent death of her mother.

Florence, a romantic "slavey" (a maidservant) works in a boarding house. She spends her days lost in daydreams of becoming a Juliet to a handsome,...

Sick of life in the city after his fiancée deserts him, Merrill Day goes to the country for a rest with his sister and niece. There he meets Joan,...

An adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel starring Sherlock Holmes.

Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Ellida was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, and spent many hours near the water's edge. While she was still scarcely more than a child, one of...

Farm girl Dorothy, clashes with her traditional father over her ambition to become a writer and eventually leaves to pursue her dreams after meeting...

Sisters Phyllis and Alithea are kept in the countryside until they reach the age of eighteen when their guardian, the Squire, takes them to London....

When telegraph operator Dan Boynton is dismissed shortly after his marriage, he and his new bride Alice decide they will take their honeymoon at the...

The young girl has two devoted suitors. She makes her choice yet manages to remain devoted friends with her former suitor as well. After marriage,...

Years after Barry Thornton disappears from Panama while under suspicion of stealing American defense plans for the canal, his daughter Eleanor, now...

Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out....

A priest is trying to help a poor family when nearby the father is hit on the head by a criminal who then throws him off a bridge into the water...

A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at...

Having misused funds held in his trust by investing them with his friend, Henry Lowe, Robert Reardon appeals to his future son-in-law, James Calvin,...

To avoid marrying the elderly suitor her aunt has chosen for her, young socialite Ivis Van Astor decides to hire Horatio Worthington to pose as her...

Comte Paul De Valreas is attracted to Frou Frou, the frivolous wife of Henri De Sartorys and the indifferent mother of their young son Georges. Paul...

An old man has an ingenious plan to circumvent the customs officials and for a time it works like a charm.

Her Ladyship, the Countess, had a faithful little page, whom she chose as her constant companion. The Lady was wooed by a wicked Baron, whom she...

The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a...

The merchant had succeeded in business because he was utterly heartless and had ground down all opposition. His employees hated him, his competitors...

After complaining about her dull life, shop girl Sally Manvers falls asleep on the roof of her apartment. Drenched from a downpour, Sally awakens and...