Percy Hilburn


Biography

Filmography

 

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Iron Man (1931)
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The Unholy Three (1930)
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Redemption (1930)
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Good News (1930)
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Way for a Sailor (1930)
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The Rogue Song (1930)
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Children of Pleasure (1930)
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The Mysterious Island (1929)
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His Glorious Night (1929)
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West of Zanzibar (1928)
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The Cossacks (1928)
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Man, Woman, and Sin (1927)
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The Demi-Bride (1927)
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After Midnight (1927)
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Body and Soul (1927)
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Valencia (1926)
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The Flaming Forest (1926)
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Memory Lane (1926)
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The Blackbird (1926)
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Beverly of Graustark (1926)
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Ben-Hur (1925)
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The Great Divide (1925)
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Confessions of a Queen (1925)
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The Tower of Lies (1925)
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The White Desert (1925)
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The Dixie Handicap (1925)
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Women Who Give (1924)
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Broken Barriers (1924)
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The Eternal Struggle (1923)
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Hearts Aflame (1923)
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The Storm (1922)
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The Man with Two Mothers (1922)
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The Old Nest (1921)
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Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)
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Snowblind (1921)
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The Poverty of Riches (1921)
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The Branding Iron (1920)
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Dangerous Days (1920)
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The Woman and the Puppet (1920)
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Godless Men (1920)
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The Girl from Outside (1919)
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The World and Its Woman (1919)
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Sis Hopkins (1919)
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Shadows (1919)
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The Stronger Vow (1919)
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When Doctors Disagree (1919)
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The Pest (1919)
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Flame of the Desert (1919)
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A Japanese Nightingale (1918)
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Innocent (1918)
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The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
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The Narrow Path (1918)
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The Hell Cat (1918)
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The Call of the East (1917)
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The Cost of Hatred (1917)
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On the Level (1917)
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The Crystal Gazer (1917)
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The Winning of Sally Temple (1917)
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The Evil Eye (1917)
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A School for Husbands (1917)
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The Sunset Trail (1917)
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Her Strange Wedding (1917)
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The Yellow Pawn (1916)
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A Gutter Magdalene (1916)
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The Years of the Locust (1916)
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The Race (1916)
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Tennessee's Pardner (1916)
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The House with the Golden Windows (1916)
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The Selfish Woman (1916)
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To Have and to Hold (1916)
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Each Pearl a Tear (1916)
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The Goose Girl (1915)
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The Explorer (1915)
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The Puppet Crown (1915)
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Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian Still in the opening scene, Russian playboy Fedya (John Gilbert) revels with his Gypsy friends, especially Renée Adorée as Masha, when he’s distracted by Lisa (Eleanor Boardman) and old friend Victor (Conrad Nagel), in MGM’s Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.
Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Has Not Promised Thyself... Director Fred Niblo clinging to silent-film conventions, shifting from a fledgling pre-revolutionary Russian romance to a high Orthodox wedding, in a lofty MGM soundstage, John Gilbert as rogue Fedya and Eleanor Boardman as smitten Lisa, in Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.
Way For A Sailor (1930) -- (Movie Clip) That's What I Call Seafood Merchant sailors on leave in Singapore, John Gilbert as Jack and Jim Tully as Ginger and planning a scam to stretch their funds when they encounter their abusive crew boss “Tripod” (Wallace Beery) from the ship, in the middle of being fleeced by a pleasure-boat pimp (Sôjin Kamayama), in MGM’s Way For A Sailor, 1930.
Way For A Sailor (1930) -- (Movie Clip) You'd Drop Dead Ten Times A Day Back to London after a wild world-wide tour, sailor Jack (John Gilbert), with buddy Ginger (Jim Tully) remembers to take a run at pay clerk Joan (Leila Hyams, her first scene), though she’s not interested, early in MGM’s Way For A Sailor, 1930, also starring Wallace Beery.
West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) You Poor Blind Idiot Opening scenes, magician Flint (Lon Chaney) is alarmed to learn that his wife and assistant (Jacqueline Gadsdon) plans to leave him for sly African ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.
West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Gold Of The Congo Spooky voodoo in Africa mystifies ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who doesn't yet know that his old enemy Crane (Lon Chaney), supported by "Doc" (Warner Baxter), has hunted him down seeking revenge, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.
West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Too Low Doc (Warner Baxter) can't understand why his boss, magician-turned African ivory hijacker Flint (Lon Chaney), is so cruel to his apparent captive Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be his unfaithful wife's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.
West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Made A Terrible Wreck Now legless ex-magician Flint (Lon Chaney), come to Africa to get even with ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who stole his now-deceased wife, confronts him with Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be Crane's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.
Ben-Hur (1925) -- (Movie Clip) The Young Prince Introduction of the titular hero Judah (Ramon Novarro), about Jerusalem, meeting Esther (May McAvoy), the daughter of his family's trusted slave, early in MGM's Ben-Hur, 1925.
Ben-Hur (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Jehovah Smite You! As the Roman governor arrives in Jerusalem, Tirzah (Kathleen Key), sister of the hero Judah (Ramon Novarro), knocks a tile from the roof, causing a dust up with his heretofore welcomed old friend Messala (Francis X. Bushman), now a Roman officer, in MGM's Ben-Hur, 1925.
Ben-Hur (1925) -- (Movie Clip) The Prophets Are Fulfilled Rejoining the three wise men, introducing the shepherds, spectacular trick photography and Mary (Betty Bronson) with child, still in the opening reel of MGM's epic Ben-Hur, 1925.
Ben-Hur (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Pagan Rome Gaudy credits, prologue and large sets opening the famous MGM 1925 production of Ben-Hur, starring Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman, produced by Irving Thalberg.

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