John S. Robertson
Know for: Directing
Born: 1878-06-14
Place of birth: London, Ontario, Canada
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The Combat (1916)
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
The Misleading Widow (1919)
The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F....
Our Little Girl (1935)
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become...
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the...
Captain Salvation (1927)
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
The Phantom of Paris (1931)
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
Little Orphan Annie (1932)
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on...
The Single Standard (1929)
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
39 East (1920)
The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.
Grand Old Girl (1935)
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Annie Laurie (1927)
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
The Enchanted Cottage (1924)
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a...
One Man's Journey (1933)
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his...
The Crime Doctor (1934)
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well...
His Greatest Gamble (1934)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Wednesday's Child (1934)
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Shore Leave (1925)
"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a...
The Bright Shawl (1923)
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
The Meeting (1917)
Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This...
Away Goes Prudence (1920)
Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her...
Beyond Victory (1931)
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
The Girl of Today (1918)
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft,...
The Girl of Today (1918)
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft,...
Erstwhile Susan (1919)
Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries...
The Night Ride (1930)
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster...
Captain of the Guard (1930)
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's...
The Spanish Jade (1922)
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
The Road to Romance (1927)
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to...
A Dark Lantern (1920)
Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true...
The Make-Believe Wife (1918)
Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning...
Here Comes the Bride (1919)
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
The Test of Honor (1919)
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
Classmates (1924)
Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family. He enrolls at West Point but ends up having...
Captain Hurricane (1935)
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain...
Little Miss Hoover (1918)
Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the...
Soul-Fire (1925)
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in...
The Fighting Blade (1923)
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and...
Shanghai Lady (1929)
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict...
Sentimental Tommy (1921)
Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town....
New Toys (1925)
A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
Footlights (1921)
Exotic Russian actress Lisa Parsinova tires of her glamorous life on the New York stage and returns, under her actual identity as Lizzie Parsons, to...
Baby Mine (1917)
Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given...
Madonna of the Streets (1930)
Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
Shanghai Lady (1929)
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict...
Twenty-One (1923)
Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King.
Intrigue (1917)
While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust...