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A Modest Hero is a american film of genre Drama directed by Dell Henderson released in USA on 8 september 1913 with Walter Miller
A Modest Hero (1913)
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Actors
Walter Miller
(The Husband)
Lillian Gish
(The Wife)
Charles Hill Mailes
(First Thief)
John T. Dillon
(Second Thief)
Charles West
(A Crook / Cleaning Man)
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