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Tom Terriss is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter British born on 28 september 1872 at London (United-kingdom)

Tom Terriss

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 28 september 1872 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 8 february 1964 (at 91 years) at New York City (USA)

Tom Terriss (né le 28 septembre 1872 et mort le 8 février 1964) est un acteur et réalisateur britannique.

Usually with

Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
(1 films)
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
(4 films)
Pedro de Cordoba
Pedro de Cordoba
(2 films)
Gordon Begg
Gordon Begg
(2 films)
Matthew Betz
Matthew Betz
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Tom Terriss (14 films)

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Actor

Sunnyside
Sunnyside (1919)
, 34minutes
Directed by Charles Reisner, Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Tom Wilson, Olive Ann Alcorn, Henry Bergman, Tom Terriss
Roles Young Man from the City (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2963253.2963253.2963253.2963253.296325
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). His love interest in the village is the girl played by Edna Purviance. He loves her, but is disliked by her father. He rides a cow into a stream and is kicked off. Unconscious, he dreams of a nymph dance. Back in reality a city slicker is hurt in a car crash and is being cared for by Edna. He appears to have an eye for Edna too. Chaplin tries to win her back. When Charlie is rejected after attempting to imitate the slicker, the result is ambiguous—either tragic or a happy ending. Critics have long argued as to whether the final scene is real or a dream.

Director

The Bandolero
The Bandolero (1924)
, 1h20
Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Pedro de Cordoba, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Renée Adorée, Gordon Begg

Manuel Granado rediscovers a son he thought had died years before to see him engaged to the daughter of the bandit who had kidnapped the son and turned him into a matador.
The Third Degree
The Third Degree (1919)

Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Alice Joyce, Hedda Hopper, Gladden James, Anders Randolf, Herbert Evans, L. Rogers Lytton

As described in a film magazine, Howard Jeffries, Sr. (Randolf) marries again, and the film reveals that the new Mrs. Howard Jeffries, Sr. (Hopper) and Robert Underwood (Evans), the rather fast college roommate of Howard Jeffries, Jr. (James), had been more than just friends. Howard Jr. marries Annie Sands (Joyce), who had been a lovely waitress in the college town. When the father hears who the bride is, there is a flare up and the young couple leave the house. Underwood opens a curio store, but loses money that does not belong to him. He writes to Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. and says that if she does not come to him, he will shoot himself. Howard Jr. remembers that Underwood owes him some money and goes to collect it, but there gets drunk and passes out on the sofa. Underwood hides him, and Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. arrives and tells Underwood that she will have nothing to do with him. After she leaves, Underwood shoots and kills himself. This sound awakes Howard Jr., who is captured by the police and, under the hypnotic strain of the third degree, confesses to murder. When it is learned that a young woman had called on Underwood, the police try to pin the crime on Annie. She suspects that it was the other Mrs. Jeffries, and gets her to provide evidence to show that it was a suicide, but, to protect her fellow relative, Annie allows the police to believe that she had made the visit. After the trial, Howard, Sr. still wants to end his son's marriage on the sly, but a lawyer who is a family friend convinces Mrs. Jeffries, Sr. to confess to her husband, and the family conflicts are resolved.
The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse (1919)
, 1h
Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Alice Joyce, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Templar Saxe, Mary Carr

As described in a film magazine, John Burkett Ryder (Randolf), "the richest man in the world," seeks to discredit a judicial decision which works against his financial interests by discrediting its author, Judge Rossmore (Hallam), and has impeachment charges initiated against the judge in Congress. Shirley Rossmore (Joyce), the judge's daughter, learns of her father's trouble and returns from Paris, where she has won success as an author. She is loved by Jefferson Ryder (Nagel), son of the magnet. Determined to force the millionaire's hand, she publishes The American Octopus under a pseudonym with a main character based upon Burkett. He is attracted by the book and brings its author Shirley, whom he knows as Sarah Green, into his home to write his biography. She uses this opportunity as the chance to obtain two letters that will clear her father's name. John aids her in obtaining the documents, but is discovered and denounced as a thief. Shirley cannot allow the man she loves so branded, so she reveals her identity. The millionaire "lion" had already been won over by the charm of the "mouse," so there is a happy resolution.
The Spark Divine
The Spark Divine (1919)

Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Actors Alice Joyce, Eulalie Jensen, Mary Carr

As described in a film magazine, the Van Arsdale's come into sudden wealth and raise their naturally sweet and sentimental child Marcia (Joyce) into a beautiful and cultured woman who is cold and calculating and with a heart of ice. She becomes known in society as the girl who challenges any man to arouse sentiment in her. When bankruptcy threatens the family, they believe their only salvation is their daughter's marriage to a millionaire. Robert Jardine (Carleton) is the man they select. Robert believes he sees the woman beneath the shell of Marcia, and when she coldly tells him that she will marry him only for his wealth, he agrees on the condition that she "will a wife - and a mother." Marcia keeps her part of the marriage agreement, but apparently cares nothing for her own child. Gradually the spark of mother-love brightens, but she is ashamed of her show of sentiment. Then the child is kidnapped, and Marcia is fraught with the fears that only a mother can know, showing the real woman in her. Then her child is brought to her, and it turns out that the kidnapping being a "frame" on the part of her husband.
The Triumph of the Weak
The Triumph of the Weak (1918)

Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Actors Alice Joyce, Walter McGrail, Eulalie Jensen, Adele DeGarde, Templar Saxe, Bernard Siegel

Frank Merrill, a Great Lakes pilot, loses his life in a storm and his wife, Edith, to support her child leaves for the city where she steals and is imprisoned. Three years later, upon her release, she takes her child from the state orphanage and goes to another city where she secures employment in a department store. She marries the superintendent, Jim Roberts. Mabel, who served time with Edith, is freed and arranges with Mickey Bill to enlist the aid of Edith in a robbery under threat of exposure. The burglary is committed, and when Mabel is trapped Edith, rearing a revelation of her past, says that she is responsible. In a trap laid by Detective Jordan to get Mabel the truth comes out and Edith's past is laid bare to her husband. He forgives her and the thieves are rounded up.

Scriptwriter

The Bandolero
The Bandolero (1924)
, 1h20
Directed by Tom Terriss
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Pedro de Cordoba, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Renée Adorée, Gordon Begg
Roles Writer

Manuel Granado rediscovers a son he thought had died years before to see him engaged to the daughter of the bandit who had kidnapped the son and turned him into a matador.