Duke Worne

Duke Worne

Howard "Duke" Worne (December 14, 1888 – October 13, 1933) was an American director and actor of the silent era. He directed more than 70 films between 1919 and 1931. He also appeared in 27 films between 1914 and 1928. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California. In 1930, Worne married silent film actress Virginia Brown Faire, to whom he remained married until his death three years later in 1933.

  • Title: Duke Worne
  • Popularity: 2.212
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1888-12-14
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Also Known As: Howard "Duke" Worne, Howard Worne
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Duke Worne Movies

  • 1914
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    Damon and Pythias

    Damon and Pythias

    5 1914 HD

    The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

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  • 1915
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    Just Jim

    Just Jim

    1 1915 HD

    When Jim is released from prison, he returns to his Chinatown neighborhood determined to lead a virtuous life. While walking, he hears a woman's...

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  • 1928
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    The Chinatown Mystery

    The Chinatown Mystery

    1 1928 HD

    Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought...

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  • 1916
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    The Purple Mask

    The Purple Mask

    1 1916 HD

    Cunard turns into The Queen of the Apaches, an outlaw who steals from the rich to gives to the poor, always leaving a purple mask behind as a...

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  • 1915
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    Gene of the Northland

    Gene of the Northland

    1 1915 HD

    Jeanne La Roche lives alone with her brother in the great northwestern country. Jacques is a ne'er-do-well and has fallen under the suspicion of the...

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  • 1918
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    The Craving

    The Craving

    5 1918 HD

    An Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his...

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  • 1917
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    The Scrapper

    The Scrapper

    4.5 1917 HD

    Bored with the ranch, Buck's girl goes off to the city and gets involved (innocently) in a brothel. When Buck brings a herd of cattle to town, a...

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  • 1917
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    The Trail of Hate

    The Trail of Hate

    5.5 1917 HD

    When bandits capture the wife of a US army lieutenant stationed in the Philippines, along with her lover, the choice is his whether to forgive.

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  • 1917
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    The Tornado

    The Tornado

    5.5 1917 HD

    The Tornado mostly followed pulp Western formula -- bad guys hold up a town, take a girl hostage, and the hero rides to the rescue. But there were a...

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  • 1916
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    The Gay Lord Waring

    The Gay Lord Waring

    1 1916 HD

    Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for...

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  • 1917
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    Who Was the Other Man?

    Who Was the Other Man?

    1 1917 HD

    While waiting in a hotel lobby for instructions from his government, Ludwig Schumann, an agent of the Black Legion, is enchanted by Marion Washburn,...

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  • 1914
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    The Phantom Violin

    The Phantom Violin

    1 1914 HD

    Awakened during the night by a thunderstorm, a young Parisian woman hears a violin playing in the house next door. The following morning, she becomes...

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  • 1917
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    John Ermine of the Yellowstone

    John Ermine of the Yellowstone

    1 1917 HD

    As a baby, John Ermine is stolen from a wagon train by the Crow Indians and is adopted by Chief Fire Bear. John grows to manhood, ignorant that he is...

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  • 1916
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    From Broadway to a Throne

    From Broadway to a Throne

    1 1916 HD

    Just before a big bout, Jimmie, a New York prize fighter, gets a lucky medal from his friend Billy. Herman Marlex, a chronic teller of tall tales...

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  • 1915
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    The Campbells Are Coming

    The Campbells Are Coming

    5 1915 HD

    In 1857, Mary McLean leaves her sweetheart in the Scottish Highlands to teach school in India, where her father is a missionary. In India, the new...

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  • 1921
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    The Star Reporter

    The Star Reporter

    1 1921 HD

    This episodic melodrama was adapted from the novel The Mysterious Mr. Trent, by Wyndham Martyn.

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  • 1923
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    The Eagle's Talons

    The Eagle's Talons

    1 1923 HD

    A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters into adventures and danger in various corners of...

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  • 1925
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    The Pride of the Force

    The Pride of the Force

    1 1925 HD

    The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film

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  • 1920
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    The Screaming Shadow

    The Screaming Shadow

    1 1920 HD

    Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.

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  • 1924
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    The Empire Builders

    The Empire Builders

    1 1924 HD

    Australian Rex [Snowy] Baker stars in this USA film. Rex as Captain William Ballard of the Territorials is sent to make a treaty with the natives....

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  • 1928
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    Ships of the Night

    Ships of the Night

    1 1928 HD

    In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals...

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  • 1927
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    The Wheel of Destiny

    The Wheel of Destiny

    1 1927 HD

    After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling carnival, Stanley...

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  • 1929
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    Bride Of The Desert

    Bride Of The Desert

    1 1929 HD

    Calhoun is the Miner's wife being driven frantic by husband Mason when Laidlaw staggers into her cabin seeking refuge from a posse on his trail.

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  • 1922
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    Nan of the North

    Nan of the North

    1 1922 HD

    A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorite that contains a powerful element called...

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  • 1929
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    Anne Against the World

    Anne Against the World

    1 1929 HD

    Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The...

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  • 1929
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    The Devil's Chaplain

    The Devil's Chaplain

    1 1929 HD

    Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret...

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  • 1921
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    A Yankee Go Getter

    A Yankee Go Getter

    1 1921 HD

    Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budget silent melodrama produced by Benjamin F....

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  • 1921
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    Dangerous Paths

    Dangerous Paths

    1 1921 HD

    Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film

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  • 1930
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    The Midnight Special

    The Midnight Special

    1 1930 HD

    A thrilling drama of young love and the great sacrifice made by railroad workers that we may travel in safety. (Print ad- Evening News, Tonawanda,...

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  • 1927
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    The Silent Hero

    The Silent Hero

    2.5 1927 HD

    Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade...

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  • 1928
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    The Man from Headquarters

    The Man from Headquarters

    1 1928 HD

    A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message. While investigating, he meets a beautiful...

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  • 1927
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    Daring Deeds

    Daring Deeds

    1 1927 HD

    William Gordon, Jr. is the rebellious heir to a million dollar airplane business. He leaves home in search of adventure, and falls in love with...

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  • 1927
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    Daring Deeds

    Daring Deeds

    1 1927 HD

    William Gordon, Jr. is the rebellious heir to a million dollar airplane business. He leaves home in search of adventure, and falls in love with...

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  • 1919
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    The Trail of the Octopus

    The Trail of the Octopus

    5 1919 HD

    Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed...

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  • 1924
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    The Sword of Valor

    The Sword of Valor

    1 1924 HD

    American romantic comedy which had the well known Australian actor Snowy Baker as a cast member. The daughter of a Spanish don falls in love with an...

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  • 1928
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    Phantom of the Turf

    Phantom of the Turf

    1 1928 HD

    When a wealthy recluse apparently commits suicide, his trusted friend John Nichols (Rex Lease) is put in charge of the estate. Nichols is ordered to...

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  • 1921
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    The Blue Fox

    The Blue Fox

    1 1921 HD

    Silent adventure serial starring Ann Little. Episodes: 1) Message of Hate, 2) Menace from the Sky, 3) Mysterious Prisoner, 4) A Perilous Ride, 5) A...

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  • 1924
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    Do It Now

    Do It Now

    1 1924 HD

    At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in the east and goes west to settle a dispute over oil...

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  • 1925
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    Easy Going Gordon

    Easy Going Gordon

    1 1925 HD

    Gordon Palmer is a lazy and cowardly rich man's son. When he and his fiancée, Aileen Merton, are held up by two crooks, Slug Williams and Beef...

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  • 1926
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    The Heart Of A Coward

    The Heart Of A Coward

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1926
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    The Boaster

    The Boaster

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1927
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    The Cruise of the Hellion

    The Cruise of the Hellion

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    Isle of Lost Men

    Isle of Lost Men

    1 1928 HD

    The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.

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  • 1925
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    Ten Days

    Ten Days

    1 1925 HD

    Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speeding and sentenced to 10 days in jail. He is given...

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  • 1922
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    The Secret Code

    The Secret Code

    1 1922 HD

    A lost silent Western short.

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  • 1922
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    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    1 1922 HD

    A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each...

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  • 1927
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    Heroes in Blue

    Heroes in Blue

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Showdown

    The Showdown

    1 1923 HD

    The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.

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