Vernon Steele
Know for: Acting
Born: 1882-09-16
Place of birth: Santiago, Chile
Also know as:
Temptation (1923)
A wealthy New York City stockbroker who sets out to prove that women are corrupted by wealth.
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in...
Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Captain Blood (1935)
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
The Wanters (1923)
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns...
The Witness Vanishes (1939)
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an...
The Panther Woman (1918)
Orphan Patience Sparhawk grows up poor until she becomes the ward of the wealthy Miss Tremont. Eventually out of gratitude Patience marries Miss...
The Supreme Sacrifice (1916)
David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however,...
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...
Polly of the Circus (1917)
When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But...
His House in Order (1920)
A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.
The Silk Express (1933)
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to...
The Firing Line (1919)
Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves,...
Big News (1929)
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
The King's Vacation (1933)
The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
No matarás (1937)
Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive...
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Where Sinners Meet (1934)
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to...
Kidnapped (1938)
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922)
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her...
Design for Living (1933)
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Time Out for Romance (1937)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
North of the Yukon (1939)
In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of...
The Highest Bidder (1921)
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry...
Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943)
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police....
The Vampire (1915)
The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving...
Human Desire (1919)
The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child,...
Madame Bovary (1949)
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social...
They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...
The Phantom Honeymoon (1919)
Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle,...
The Bill of Rights (1939)
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political...
The Great Flirtation (1934)
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Lloyd's of London (1936)
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure,...
For the Defense (1922)
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness...
Silks and Satins (1916)
On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....
The Witness for the Defense (1919)
Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Flight to Fame (1938)
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Hearts in Exile (1915)
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds...
Out of the Chorus (1921)
Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into...
Her Great Match (1915)
While vacationing in America, Prince Adolph of Syravia meets Jo Sheldon and they fall in love. Wealthy Mr. Bote, a friend of Jo's family whose...
Alice Adams (1970)
Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In...