George Lessey Movies

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

This silent mystery is considered a lost film.

John Manley one day learns to his great sorrow that Caroline Hastings, whom he was going to ask to be his wife, is already betrothed to another.

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose...

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing...

A play based on a famous English case of a man being executed wrongfully on circumstantial evidence.

Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His...

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

Two brothers are separated after the death of their father. One grows up to be a politician, while the other gets involved in corruption.

A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.

20 two reels episodic dramatic serial now lost. (1) Liquor and the Law (1915); (2) The Tenement House Evil (1915); (3) The Traction Grab (1915); (4)...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

Orphan Lois Walton is treated unkindly by her aunt, who has her placed in a reformatory. She and the other inmates are badly abused but are afraid to...

This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US...

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution....

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a...

This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF...