His Trust
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His Trust is a 1911
1911 in film
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 23: D.W Griffith shows the first major close-up shot on film with the successful release of The Lonedale Operator proving his ever growing mastery of how to utilise film....

 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

. It concerns "The faithful devotion and self- sacrifice of an old negro servant," who is played in blackface
Blackface
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky...

. The film's sequel is His Trust Fulfilled
His Trust Fulfilled
His Trust Fulfilled is a 1911 drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Prints of this film survive in the film archives of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art.-Cast:* Wilfred Lucas - George* Claire McDowell - Mrs...

. Prints of the film survive in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

 and the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

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Cast

  • Wilfred Lucas
    Wilfred Lucas
    Wilfred Lucas was a Canadian stage and film actor, film director, and screenwriter.-Career:A native of Ontario, Canada, Lucas headed to New York City to work in the theater, making his Broadway acting debut in 1904 at the Savoy Theater in the production of The Superstition of Sue...

     - George
  • Dell Henderson
    Dell Henderson
    George Delbert Henderson was a Canadian actor, director and writer in films from the early silent days.-Biography:Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D.W. Griffith and, on a less prolific basis, Mack Sennett...

     - Col. Frazier
  • Claire McDowell
    Claire McDowell
    Claire McDowell was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945. Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films she appeared in numerous short & early feature films. She graduated to playing character and mother types...

     - Col. Frazier's wife
  • Edith Haldeman - The Fraziers' child
  • Linda Arvidson
    Linda Arvidson
    -Biography:Linda Arvidson was the first wife of film director D.W. Griffith . She played lead roles in many of his earliest films. While acting, she was sometimes credited as Linda Griffith...

  • Dorothy Bernard
    Dorothy Bernard
    Dorothy Bernard was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 87 films between 1908 and 1956.She was born Nora Dorothy Bernard in Port Elizabeth, South Africa to William H Bernard and Roy Elizabeth Ayrd. Her father was from Auckland, New Zealand, and her mother was born in Sligo,...

  • Kate Bruce
    Kate Bruce
    Kate Bruce was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 289 films between 1908 and 1931.She was born in Columbus, Indiana and died in New York, New York.-Selected filmography:* The Golden Louis...

  • Adele DeGarde
  • Gladys Egan
  • Francis J. Grandon
    Francis J. Grandon
    Francis J. Grandon was an American silent film actor and director who acted in almost 100 films and directed over 100.-Selected filmography:...

     - Confederate soldier
  • Joseph Graybill
    Joseph Graybill
    Joseph Graybill was an American silent film actor. He appeared in several films directed by D.W. Griffith.Graybill joined the Biograph Company around 1909 in New York City. By 1910 Griffith was the main director...

     - Union soldier
  • Guy Hedlund - Black servant
  • Grace Henderson
    Grace Henderson
    Grace Henderson was a stage actress and prolific performer in silent motion pictures. She made her professional debut at McKiver's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in 1877....

  • Harry Hyde
  • Adolph Lestina - Black servant/Confederate soldier
  • Jeanie Macpherson
    Jeanie MacPherson
    Jeanie MacPherson was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s....

     - Woman at farewell
  • Violet Mersereau
    Violet Mersereau
    Violet Mersereau was an American silent movie star.Her career spanned the years from 1908-1926. She was born in New York, New York and was educated there. As a young girl she played child parts in stock. She toured with Margaret Anglin and had a role in the original company of The Clansman. The...

  • W. Chrystie Miller
    W. Chrystie Miller
    W. Chrystie Miller was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 139 films between 1908 and 1914. He was born in Dayton, Ohio and died in Staten Island, New York.-Selected filmography:...

     - Man at farewell
  • Alfred Paget
    Alfred Paget
    Alfred Paget was an English silent film actor. He appeared in 239 films between 1908 and 1918.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

     - Messenger/Confederate soldier
  • Lottie Pickford
    Lottie Pickford
    Lottie Pickford was a Canadian-born silent film actress, socialite, and sister to Mary Pickford and Jack Pickford. Her career is often overshadowed by that of her siblings and though she was a notable figure in the 1920s her films and role in the Pickford acting family is now largely forgotten...

     - Woman at farewell
  • Vivian Prescott - Woman at farewell
  • W. C. Robinson
    W. C. Robinson
    W. C. Robinson was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 177 films between 1910 and 1932. He died in Maywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Daredevil Jack * Brute Force * Judith of Bethulia...

     - Union soldier
  • Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...

     - Confed. soldier delivering sword, death notice
  • Kate Toncray
    Kate Toncray
    Kate Toncray was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 178 films between 1905 and 1925. She was born in St...

    - Black servant (unconfirmed)
  • Charles West - Man at farewell
  • Dorothy West
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