The Amateur Gentleman is a 1926 American silent drama film produced by Inspiration Pictures and distributed through First National Pictures. Sidney Olcott directed it as a vehicle for star Richard Barthelmess.Progressive Silent Film List: The Amateur Gentleman at silentera.comThe Silents: Silent Feature Films 1910-36 page 11, c.1998 by Robert B. Connelly
The story was previously adapted into a 1920 British silent film, and it was filmed again in 1936 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Amateur Gentleman is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.The Amateur Gentleman at Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1926
Cast Richard Barthelmess as Barnabas Barty Dorothy Dunbar as Lady Cleone Meredith Gardner James as Ronald Barrymaine Nigel Barrie as Sir Mortimer Carnaby Brandon Hurst as Peterby John Miljan as Viscount Devenham Edwards Davis as John Barty Billie Bennett as Duchess of Camberhurst Herbert Grimwood as Jasper Gaunt Gino Corrado as Prince Regent Sidney De Gray as Captain Chumley Hans Joby as Captain Slingsby
Production notes The film was shot at Clune studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, and at the Samuel S. Hinds house in Pasadena.The Amateur Gentleman at sidneyolcott.com
References
External links
AFI Catalog
The Amateur Gentleman at website dedicated to Sidney Olcott