By Vlad Zakh · September 4, 2026
Alec B. Francis was a dignified British-born actor whose Hollywood career ran from the silent era into the early sound years and who was often cast as a kindly elder or clergyman. Oliver Twist drops an orphan among London pickpockets, Feet First dangles a shoe salesman from a skyscraper, The Bishop Murder Case stages murders as nursery rhymes, and Evangeline searches for a lost love after an Acadian village is torn apart. The Circle and Beyond the Rocks round out the list.
01 Alec B. Francis is in this adaptation about an orphan boy who escapes the workhouse only to fall in with a den of London pickpockets.
Directed by William J. Cowen · 1h 20m
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02 Alec B. Francis is in this Harold Lloyd comedy about a shoe salesman whose misadventures leave him accidentally dangling from the side of a skyscraper.
Directed by Clyde Bruckman · 1h 31m · Rated NR
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03 Alec B. Francis appears in this Philo Vance mystery where a brilliant detective investigates a series of murders staged to resemble gruesome nursery rhymes.
Directed by Nick Grindé & David Burton · 1h 28m · Rated PG
Stream: YouTube TV
04 Alec B. Francis appears in this silent adaptation about a young Acadian woman who searches for years for her lost love after their village is torn apart.
Directed by Edwin Carewe · 1h 30m · Rated NR
05 Alec B. Francis features in this silent comedy-drama about a young wife whose admiration for the aunt who scandalously abandoned her family decades earlier threatens her own marriage.
Directed by Frank Borzage · 1h 06m
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06 Alec B. Francis appears in this silent romance about a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage who falls for a dashing aristocrat.
Directed by Sam Wood · 1h 20m · Rated NR
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