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Elmer Booth is a Actor American born on 9 december 1882 at Los Angeles (USA)
William Elmer Booth (9 December 1882 - 16 June 1915) was an American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, California and was the elder brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
Elmer began acting in touring stock companies as a teenager and achieved great success in the stock company at the Central Theater in San Francisco from 1903-1906. Between 1910 and 1915 he starred in 40 movies; one of those was D. W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), cited by many film experts as the first gangster movie. Playing The Snapper Kid, a Manhattan street tough engaged in a turf war on the Lower East Side, Booth interpreted the gangster as a cocky, enterprising antihero, far different from the standard teeth-gnashing movie bad guys of the time. His groundbreaking performance created a new character type and paved the way "for all the Cagneys, Bogarts, and Robinsons who later shot their way across the screen."
Booth died at the age of 32 in a car crash in Los Angeles, caused by actor and director Tod Browning. D.W. Griffith, who planned to give Booth an important role in Intolerance, delivered the actor's graveside eulogy.
^ Brownlow, Kevin (1968). The Parade's Gone By. Ballantine Books. p. 342.
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Elmer began acting in touring stock companies as a teenager and achieved great success in the stock company at the Central Theater in San Francisco from 1903-1906. Between 1910 and 1915 he starred in 40 movies; one of those was D. W. Griffith's The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), cited by many film experts as the first gangster movie. Playing The Snapper Kid, a Manhattan street tough engaged in a turf war on the Lower East Side, Booth interpreted the gangster as a cocky, enterprising antihero, far different from the standard teeth-gnashing movie bad guys of the time. His groundbreaking performance created a new character type and paved the way "for all the Cagneys, Bogarts, and Robinsons who later shot their way across the screen."
Booth died at the age of 32 in a car crash in Los Angeles, caused by actor and director Tod Browning. D.W. Griffith, who planned to give Booth an important role in Intolerance, delivered the actor's graveside eulogy.
^ Brownlow, Kevin (1968). The Parade's Gone By. Ballantine Books. p. 342.
^ findagrave.
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The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Pickford, W. Chrystie Miller, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Jack Pickford, Elmer Booth
Roles The Hired Hand
Rating64%
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. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly hired kindly young housekeeper (Mary Pickford); she and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Grace Henderson, Harry Carey, Elmer Booth, Henry B. Walthall
Roles The Brother
Rating64%
A physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. It is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to help crack the safe. They lock the daughters in an adjacent room, and the drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall. The resourceful girls use the telephone to call their brother who has returned to town. He gets the message and organizes a rescue party.
Brutality (1912)
, 33minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Miller, Mae Marsh, Lionel Barrymore, Clara T. Bracy, Elmer Booth, William J. Butler
Roles Actor In Oliver Twist
Rating52%
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Walter Miller, Robert Harron, Jack Pickford
Roles 2nd Clan Member
Rating58%
Friends (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Charles Hill Mailes, Robert Harron
Roles Homme au saloon
Rating55%
L'histoire débute dans un saloon fréquenté par des chercheurs d'or et où réside Dora, une jeune fille orpheline. Dora et Dandy Jack s'aiment mais il doit lui annoncer son départ pour le nord, les mines s'épuisant. Arrive alors Grizzley Fallon, ami de Dandy Jack, qui prend sa place dans le cœur de Dora [..]
Gold and Glitter (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith, Frank Powell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, William J. Butler, Gertrude Bambrick, Walter P. Lewis
Roles The Husband
Rating56%
In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lillian Gish, Claire McDowell, William J. Butler, Henry B. Walthall, Harry Carey, Charles Hill Mailes
Roles Second Woodsman
Rating61%
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Lillian Gish, Elmer Booth, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller, Alfred Paget, Harry Carey
Roles Snapper Kid, Musketeers Gang Leader
Rating65%
The film is about a poor married couple living in New York City. The husband works as a musician and must often travel for work. When returning, his wallet is taken by a gangster. His wife goes to a ball where a man tries to drug her, but his attempt is stopped by the same man who robbed the husband. The two criminals become rivals, and a shootout ensues. The husband gets caught in the shootout and recognizes one of the men as the gangster who took his money. The husband sneaks his wallet back and the gangster goes to safety in the couple's apartment. Policemen track the gangster down but the wife gives him a false alibi.
My Baby (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith, Frank Powell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, W. Chrystie Miller, Alfred Paget, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Kirby
Roles At table
Rating61%
The Painted Lady (1912)
, 12minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Blanche Sweet, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, William J. Butler, Lionel Barrymore
Roles un participant à l'Ice Cream Festival
Rating58%
L'ainée de deux sœurs est très proche de leur père. Contrairement à sa sœur cadette qui se maquille, elle n'attire pas les hommes. Un jour, lors une fête, un homme s'approche et s’intéresse à elle pour la première fois. Seulement, celui-ci a dans l'idée de profiter de la situation pour dépouiller le père de la jeune fille [..]
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Walter Miller, Mary Pickford, Robert Harron, Lionel Barrymore, Christy Cabanne, Harry Carey
Roles A Thief
Rating62%
Howard, un jeune homme trop timide pour déclarer sa flamme à une jeune fille, finit par attirer son attention en la sauvant de bandits venus pour la voler.
Two Daughters of Eve (1912)
, 18minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claire McDowell, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Gish, Gertrude Bambrick, Christy Cabanne, Harry Carey
Roles Backstage
Rating70%
A Beast at Bay (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Pickford, Edwin August, Alfred Paget, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Christy Cabanne
Roles ?unconfirmed
Rating58%
The Narrow Road (1912)
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Elmer Booth, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Jack Pickford, Christy Cabanne, Max Davidson
Roles Jim Holcomb
Rating59%
Deux hommes sortent de prison après avoir purgé leur peine. L'un est décidé à suivre le droit chemin, tandis que le deuxième a d'autres projets.
, 17minutesDirected by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors W. Chrystie Miller, Claire McDowell, George Nichols, William J. Butler, Donald Crisp, Elmer Booth
Roles Assaulted Prisoner
Rating60%