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Monroe Salisbury is a Actor American born on 8 may 1876 at Angola (USA)

Monroe Salisbury

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Birth name Orange Salisbury Cash
Nationality USA
Birth 8 may 1876 at Angola (USA)
Death 7 august 1935 (at 59 years) at San Bernardino (USA)

Monroe Salisbury (May 8, 1876 – August 7, 1935) was an American actor. He appeared on the stage for several years and then became an early film star.

Salisbury was a matinee idol. He began his acting career on the stage in 1898, appearing in numerous romantic leads. He also appeared in five Broadway productions. He was in 42 silent movies between 1914 and 1922, working frequently with director Cecil B. DeMille. Salisbury, who appeared in several western films, also appeared in two talkies, in 1929 and 1930.

After his career was at an end, Salisbury died at a mental hospital from a fractured skull sustained during a fall.

Biography

Monroe Salisbury a commencé sa carrière sur scène en 1898, apparaissant dans de nombreux rôles romantiques. Il a également joué dans cinq productions de Broadway avant de tourner 42 films muets entre 1914 et 1922, puis deux films parlants en 1929 et 1930. Il travailla souvent avec le réalisateur Cecil B. DeMille.

Il est mort en hôpital psychiatrique à la suite d'une fracture du crâne subie lors d'une chute.

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Jane Darwell
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Monroe Salisbury (21 films)

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The Jade Box
Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Invisibilité
Actors Jack Perrin, Louise Lorraine, Francis Ford, Wilbur Mack, Leo White, Monroe Salisbury
Roles John Lamar
Rating43% 2.173122.173122.173122.173122.17312
John Lamar buys a Jade Box in Asia but it is stolen by his friend Martin Morgan. A cult, searching for the box because it contains the secret to invisibility, catches up with and abducts Lamar. After discovering the theft, the cult send a message to Martin and the pair's children: John Lamar's son, Jack, who is engaged to Martin Morgan's daughter, Helen. Jack searches for the Box while Martin attempts to discover the secret of invisibility for his own schemes.
The Barbarian
Directed by Donald Crisp
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Monroe Salisbury, George Berrell, J. Barney Sherry, Jane Novak, Alan Hale, Lillian Leighton
Roles Eric Straive
Rating52% 2.632212.632212.632212.632212.63221
The film is about Eric Straive, an educated man raised in the Canadian wilderness, who is subjected to the evils of Capitalism and greed when James Heatherton seeks to acquire the Straive estate.
The Silent Lie
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Miriam Cooper, Ralph Lewis, Charles Clary, Monroe Salisbury, Henry Arthur Barrows
Roles The Stranger

Lady Lou est forcée par son père adoptif, Hatfield, de travailler dans un saloon d'un camp de bûcherons. Grâce aux efforts d'un étranger secrètement amoureux d'elle, Lou part dans un camp voisin où elle rencontre Conahan, un bûcheron, avec lequel elle se marie. Son passé est révélé lors d'une confrontation avec Hatfield et son mari se détourne d'elle. Elle est encore une fois sauvé par l'intervention de l'étranger qui raconte la vérité sur la vie de Lou à son mari. Après leur réconciliation, l'étranger part seul dans la neige.
After Five
After Five (1915)
, 50minutes
Directed by Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Edward Abeles, Sessue Hayakawa, Betty Schade, Jane Darwell, Theodore Roberts, Monroe Salisbury
Roles Sam Parker
Rating46% 2.3228352.3228352.3228352.3228352.322835
Ted Ewing (Edward Abeles) invests both his own and the money of his fiancée, Nora Heldreth (Betty Schade), when a broker friend offers big investment returns. After the broker friend disappears, though, Ewing believes that he has squandered their money, and sets out on a course of action to recover it. He takes out a life insurance policy and then tries to get himself "accidentally" killed. His numerous attempts are to no avail. Next he hires some strong arms to kill him since they have apparently been following him anyway. He gives the money for his murder for hire to his valet, Oki (Sessue Hayakawa). But then the broker returns and Ewing discovers that his investment has doubled! With the strong arms after him, Ewing must straighten out the situation before it's too late.
The Goose Girl, 50minutes
Directed by Frederick A. Thomson
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Monroe Salisbury, Ernest Joy, Jane Darwell, James Neill, Horace B. Carpenter
Roles King Frederick

Count Von Herbeck (Neill), an ambitious chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein (Dunbar), secretly marries and has a daughter. At the urging of his dying wife, the count kidnaps the duke's infant daughter (Clark) and substitutes his own in the castle so that she may live in the style of a great lady.
The Squaw Man, 1h14
Directed by Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dustin Farnum, Red Wing, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Cecil B. DeMille, Hal Roach
Roles Sir Henry - Earl of Kerhill
Rating57% 2.855122.855122.855122.855122.85512
James Wynnegate (Dustin Farnum) and his cousin, Henry (Monroe Salisbury), upper class Englishmen, have been made trustees for an orphans’ fund. Henry loses money in a bet at a derby and embezzles money from “the fund” to pay off his debts. When war office officials are informed of the money missing from “the fund”, they pursue James, but he successfully escapes to Wyoming. In Wyoming, James rescues Nat-U-Rich (Lillian St. Cyr), daughter to the chief of the Utes tribe, from local outlaw Cash Hawkins (William Elmer). Cash plans on exacting his revenge on James but has his plans thwarted by Nat-U-Ritch who fatally shoots him. Later, James gets into an accident in the mountains and needs to be rescued. Nat-U-Ritch tracks him down and carries him back to safety. As she nurses him back to health, they become lovers and have a child. During an exploration in the Alps, Henry falls off a cliff. Before he succumbs to his injuries, Henry signs a letter of confession proclaiming James’ innocence in the embezzlement. Before Henry's widow Lady Diana (Winifred Kingston) and others arrive at James and Nat-U-Ritch’s residence in Wyoming to tell James about the news, the Sheriff recovers the murder weapon that was used against Cash Hawkins inside of the couples’ residence. Nat-U-Rich, facing the possibilities of losing both her son and her freedom, decides to take her own life.