W. Chrystie Miller

W. Chrystie Miller

W. Chrystie Miller (William Chrystie Miller; August 10, 1843 – September 23, 1922) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 139 films between 1908 and 1914. Miller frequently appeared in films directed by D.W. Griffith and was known to film audiences as the "Grand Old Man of the Photodrama". [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

  • Title: W. Chrystie Miller
  • Popularity: 0.762
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1843-08-10
  • Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
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  • Also Known As: William Chrystie Miller, W. Christie Miller
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W. Chrystie Miller Movies

  • 1913
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    A Welcome Intruder

    A Welcome Intruder

    1 1913 HD

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    The Honor of His Family

    The Honor of His Family

    1 1910 HD

    An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a...

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    Teaching Dad to Like Her

    Teaching Dad to Like Her

    1 1911 HD

    Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he...

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    Fisher Folks

    Fisher Folks

    1 1911 HD

    A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

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  • 1908
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    The Zulu's Heart

    The Zulu's Heart

    4.333 1908 HD

    A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

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    A Trap for Santa Claus

    A Trap for Santa Claus

    5.5 1909 HD

    The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

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    A Corner in Wheat

    A Corner in Wheat

    6.2 1909 HD

    On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

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    Pirate Gold

    Pirate Gold

    1 1913 HD

    Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves. Here fate intervenes...

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    An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

    An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

    1 1913 HD

    Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true to the end, though it seemed for a time as if his...

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    The Work Habit

    The Work Habit

    1 1913 HD

    After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease...

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    The Stopped Clock

    The Stopped Clock

    1 1913 HD

    No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was...

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    The Old Actor

    The Old Actor

    5.4 1912 HD

    An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...

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    The Tender Hearted Boy

    The Tender Hearted Boy

    1 1913 HD

    A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.

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    What Shall We Do with Our Old?

    What Shall We Do with Our Old?

    5.5 1911 HD

    An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job...

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    The Chief's Blanket

    The Chief's Blanket

    1 1912 HD

    When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to...

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    Ramona

    Ramona

    4.7 1910 HD

    Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...

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    A Child of the Ghetto

    A Child of the Ghetto

    4.5 1910 HD

    After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals...

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    The Sands of Dee

    The Sands of Dee

    5.6 1912 HD

    A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he...

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    His Mother's Son

    His Mother's Son

    1 1913 HD

    The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked....

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    Man's Genesis

    Man's Genesis

    4.6 1912 HD

    An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated...

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    The Adopted Brother

    The Adopted Brother

    4.7 1913 HD

    A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William...

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    The Primal Call

    The Primal Call

    4 1911 HD

    A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.

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    Her Terrible Ordeal

    Her Terrible Ordeal

    5 1910 HD

    A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son...

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    The Lesson

    The Lesson

    4.3 1910 HD

    Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

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    Getting Rid of Trouble

    Getting Rid of Trouble

    1 1912 HD

    The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle.

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    Over Silent Paths

    Over Silent Paths

    4.7 1910 HD

    In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

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    Under Burning Skies

    Under Burning Skies

    4.7 1912 HD

    Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a...

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    A Sailor’s Heart

    A Sailor’s Heart

    1 1912 HD

    A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.

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    The Newlyweds

    The Newlyweds

    5 1910 HD

    A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other...

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    The Two Brothers

    The Two Brothers

    1 1910 HD

    In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

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    In Life's Cycle

    In Life's Cycle

    1 1910 HD

    A story about two children that are made to promise they will not forget their recently departed mother. As the two children grow up the boy...

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    The Thread of Destiny

    The Thread of Destiny

    1 1910 HD

    The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved...

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    The Oath and the Man

    The Oath and the Man

    4.5 1910 HD

    A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest...

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    In the Season of Buds

    In the Season of Buds

    1 1910 HD

    It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their...

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    May and December

    May and December

    5 1910 HD

    The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to...

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    A Lucky Toothache

    A Lucky Toothache

    1 1910 HD

    Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of...

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    Simple Charity

    Simple Charity

    1 1910 HD

    A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.

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    A Plain Song

    A Plain Song

    1 1910 HD

    Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy....

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    The Unwelcome Guest

    The Unwelcome Guest

    5 1913 HD

    Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...

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    The Informer

    The Informer

    1 1912 HD

    The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...

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    My Baby

    My Baby

    4.75 1912 HD

    When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

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    Lena and the Geese

    Lena and the Geese

    4.2 1912 HD

    A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same...

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    An Indian Summer

    An Indian Summer

    4 1912 HD

    A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it...

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    Sunshine Sue

    Sunshine Sue

    1 1910 HD

    A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

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    A Temporary Truce

    A Temporary Truce

    4 1912 HD

    A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of...

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    The Little Tease

    The Little Tease

    5 1913 HD

    The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her...

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    The Lonedale Operator

    The Lonedale Operator

    6.082 1911 HD

    A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

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    The Lily of the Tenements

    The Lily of the Tenements

    1 1911 HD

    A struggling young seamstress supports her elderly parents by working at home. The landlord offers free rent for sex, but she declines. He threatens...

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    Examination Day at School

    Examination Day at School

    1 1910 HD

    A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly...

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    That Chink at Golden Gulch

    That Chink at Golden Gulch

    5 1910 HD

    In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in...

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    Her Father's Pride

    Her Father's Pride

    1 1910 HD

    A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity. A motorist, a concert singer from the...

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    The Sunbeam

    The Sunbeam

    6.3 1912 HD

    Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...

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    The Mender of Nets

    The Mender of Nets

    5.75 1912 HD

    A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further,...

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    A Timely Interception

    A Timely Interception

    4.8 1913 HD

    A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be...

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    The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

    The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

    1 1912 HD

    The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another...

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    The Blue or the Gray

    The Blue or the Gray

    1 1913 HD

    It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern...

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  • 1909
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    To Save Her Soul

    To Save Her Soul

    4.333 1909 HD

    Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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    The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

    The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

    1 1910 HD

    In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the boy, now a young man, gives the girl a ring and they...

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    The Renunciation

    The Renunciation

    4.375 1909 HD

    Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

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    On the Reef

    On the Reef

    1 1910 HD

    Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl...

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    The Converts

    The Converts

    1 1910 HD

    A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?

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    The Day After

    The Day After

    2.75 1909 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens,...

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    His Trust

    His Trust

    4.1 1911 HD

    A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

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    His Daughter

    His Daughter

    4 1911 HD

    William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...

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