A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Bobby, the Coward
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Robert Harron [Bobby], W. Chrystie Miller [Bobby’s grandfather], Gladys Egan [Bobby’s sister], Florence La Badie [girl next door], William J. Butler [the father], Verner Clarges (Vernon Clarges) [the rich husband], Grace Henderson [the rich wife], Jack Dillon [policeman], Francis J. Grandon [policeman], Alfred Paget [policeman], Joseph Graybill [first thug], Guy Hedlund [second thug], Edward Dillon [on street], Edna Foster [on street], J. Jiquel Lanoe [on street], Jeanie Macpherson [on street], W.C. Robinson [on street], Kate Toncray [on street], Walter Long, Tammany Young

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Dell Henderson. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 13 July 1911. / [?] Biograph 35mm spherical format?

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive [35mm nitrate negative].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 May 2017.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 42; Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.