Robert Cain

Robert Cain (June 4, 1886 — April 27, 1954) was an American actor who worked in the cinema during the silent era from 1915 to 1932. He retired with the advent of sound, and his last film dates back to 1932 (Rasputin and the Empress.)

Life and career

Cain was born on June 4, 1886, in Chicago, Illinois.

Cain made his screen debut in 1915, playing Gerald in Martha Morton's The Bachelor's Romance, alongside John Emerson, Lorraine Huling, and George LeGuere. The same year, he was seen in five other movies: James Kirkwood's The Dawn of a Tomorrow, James Durkin's The Running Fight, Hugh Ford's The White Pearl, Joseph Kaufman's When Youth Is Ambitious, and Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter's Lydia Gilmore.

The 1910s and the 1920s kept Cain busy with roles in several movies. His last screen credit was in 1927 in the role of Niles McCray in Ralph Graves' Rich Men's Sons, starring Graves, Shirley Mason, and Frances Raymond. After this, he had two more minor, uncredited roles—in Monta Bell's Man, Woman and Sin (1927) and in Richard Boleslawski and Charles Brabin's Rasputin and the Empress (1932).

Death

Cain died on April 27, 1954, in New York City, New York, at the age of 67.

Selected filmography

• The Bachelor's Romance (1915)
• The Dawn of a Tomorrow, by James Kirkwood (1915)
• The Running Fight, by James Durkin (1915)
• The Foundling, by John B. O'Brien e Allan Dwan (1915)
• The White Pearl, by Hugh Ford, Edwin S. Porter (1915)
• When Youth Is Ambitious, by Joseph Kaufman - cortometraggio (1915)
• Lydia Gilmore , by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter (1915)
• My Lady Incog., by Sidney Olcott (1916)
• The Eternal Grind, by John B. O'Brien (1916)
• The Innocent Lie, by Sidney Olcott (1916)
• Envy, by Richard Ridgely (1917)
• Kidnapped, by Alan Crosland (1917)
• The Co-respondent, by Ralph Ince (1917)
• The Hungry Heart, by Robert G. Vignola (1917)
• The Seven Deadly Sins, by Theodore Marston, Richard Ridgely (1917)
• Men, regia di Perry N. Vekroff (1918)
• Her Final Reckoning, by Émile Chautard (1918)
• The Death Dance, by J. Searle Dawley (1918)
• He Comes Up Smiling, by Allan Dwan (1918)
• A Woman of Impulse, by Edward José (1918)
• A Woman's Experience, by Perry N. Vekroff (1918)
• The End of the Road, by Edward H. Griffith (1919)
• Paid in Full, by Émile Chautard (1919)
• Secret Service, by Hugh Ford (1919)
• Peg o' My Heart, by William C. de Mille (1919)
• Reported Missing, by Henry Lehrman (1922)
• Burning Sands, by George Melford (1922)
• The Tiger's Claw, by Joseph Henabery (1923)
• Three Weeks, by Alan Crosland (1924)
• The Golden Bed, by Cecil B. DeMille (1925)
• Wings of Youth, by Emmett J. Flynn (1925)