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".
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.736 |
Birthday | 1843-08-10 |
Place of Birth | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | William Chrystie Miller, W. Christie Miller, |
1909
A Corner in Wheat
6.163/89
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 an...
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A Corner in Wheat
1912
The Old Actor
5.4/18
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 thea...
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The Old Actor
1911
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
5.5/8
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 becaus...
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1910
Ramona
4.7/16
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permis...
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Ramona
1910
A Child of the Ghetto
5/2
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 s...
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A Child of the Ghetto
1912
Man's Genesis
4.6/7
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by...
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Man's Genesis
1913
The Adopted Brother
4.7/3
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 and hi...
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The Adopted Brother
1911
The Primal Call
4/2
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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The Primal Call
1910
Her Terrible Ordeal
5/2
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 loca...
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Her Terrible Ordeal
1910
The Lesson
4.3/3
Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
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The Lesson
1912
Getting Rid of Trouble
0/0
The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle.
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Getting Rid of Trouble
1910
Over Silent Paths
4.7/3
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 t...
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Over Silent Paths
1912
A Sailor’s Heart
0/0
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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A Sailor’s Heart
1910
The Two Brothers
0/0
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 n...
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The Two Brothers
1910
The Thread of Destiny
0/0
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 b...
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The Thread of Destiny
1910
The Oath and the Man
4.5/2
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 ma...
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The Oath and the Man
1910
In the Season of Buds
0/0
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 adoles...
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In the Season of Buds
1910
May and December
5/1
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 imp...
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May and December
1910
A Lucky Toothache
0/0
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 ca...
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A Lucky Toothache
1910
Simple Charity
0/0
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
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Simple Charity
1910
A Plain Song
0/0
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. The...
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A Plain Song
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
5/1
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 trunk...
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The Unwelcome Guest
1912
The Informer
0/0
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 durin...
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The Informer
1912
My Baby
4.5/2
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 l...
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My Baby
1912
An Indian Summer
4/1
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 is...
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An Indian Summer
1912
Lena and the Geese
4.2/4
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 a...
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Lena and the Geese
1910
Sunshine Sue
0/0
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
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Sunshine Sue
1912
A Temporary Truce
4/1
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 dr...
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A Temporary Truce
1913
The Little Tease
5/1
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 unsuspectin...
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The Little Tease
1911
The Lonedale Operator
6.083/48
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 Lonedale Operator
1912
The Sunbeam
6.3/14
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 Sunbeam
1911
The Lily of the Tenements
0/0
A struggling young seamstress supports her elderly parents by working at home. The landlord offers free rent for sex, but she declines. He threatens f...
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The Lily of the Tenements
1910
Her Father's Pride
0/0
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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Her Father's Pride
1910
Examination Day at School
0/0
A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly ridiculed in a...
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Examination Day at School
1910
That Chink at Golden Gulch
5/2
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 a...
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That Chink at Golden Gulch
1912
The Mender of Nets
5.9/7
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, his form...
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The Mender of Nets
1913
A Timely Interception
4.8/2
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 post...
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A Timely Interception
1912
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
0/0
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another wors...
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1913
The Blue or the Gray
0/0
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 swa...
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The Blue or the Gray
1909
To Save Her Soul
4/1
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 curate...
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To Save Her Soul
1909
The Renunciation
4.3/3
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 fiancé from...
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The Renunciation
1910
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
0/0
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 n...
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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
1910
The Converts
0/0
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 Converts
1910
On the Reef
0/0
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 chil...
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On the Reef
1909
The Day After
4/1
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, a...
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The Day After
1911
His Trust
4.1/23
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 ki...
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His Trust
1911
His Daughter
4/1
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical p...
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His Daughter
1908
The Zulu's Heart
5/5
A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.
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The Zulu's Heart
1911
Fisher Folks
0/0
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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Fisher Folks
1909
A Trap for Santa Claus
5.6/19
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
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A Trap for Santa Claus
1913
Pirate Gold
0/0
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 wi...
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Pirate Gold
1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
0/0
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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An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
1913
The Work Habit
0/0
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 u...
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The Work Habit
1913
The Stopped Clock
0/0
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reporte...
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The Stopped Clock
1912
The Chief's Blanket
0/0
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 wat...
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The Chief's Blanket
1913
The Tender Hearted Boy
0/0
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.
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The Tender Hearted Boy
1912
The Sands of Dee
5.6/4
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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The Sands of Dee
1913
His Mother's Son
0/0
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. La...
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His Mother's Son
1912
Under Burning Skies
4.7/3
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 fresh-fa...
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Under Burning Skies
1913
A Welcome Intruder
0/0
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A Welcome Intruder
1910
The Honor of His Family
0/0
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 deserter...
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The Honor of His Family
1911
Teaching Dad to Like Her
0/0
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 meet...
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
1910
The Newlyweds
5/1
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 id...
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