A busy character actor of the early silent era, dark, brooding L. Rogers Lytton (born Oscar Legare Rogers) was usually cast in villainous roles. A member of the Vitagraph stock company, Lytton scored a hit lampooning his trademark wickedness as the leering Sir Simon Blackheart in The Fates and Flora Fourflush (1914), a send-up of blood-and-thunder serials featuring Vitagraph's great diva, Clara Kimball Young. Later that same year, Lytton was one of the misguided pacifists in the studio's war-preparedness melodrama The Battle Cry of Peace. This controversial film was directed by Wilfred North, who five years later helmed His Brother's Keeper (released 1921), a rare "supernatural" silent drama in which Lytton, as a greedy railroad vice president, uses hypnotism to achieve his nefarious goals.
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A Sainted Devil
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1924 | |||
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Zaza
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1923 | |||
| 1922 | ||||
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Child Shall Lead Them
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1922 | |||
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Silver Wings
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1922 | |||
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Forbidden City
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1918 | |||
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Message of the Mouse
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1917 | |||
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Panthea
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1917 | |||
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Salvation Joan
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1916 | |||
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The Battle Cry of Peace
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1915 | |||
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Shadows of the Past
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1914 | |||
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The Prince of Evil
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1913 | |||
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The Wood Violet
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1912 |