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Marie Walcamp:

Marie Walcamp began her career in vaudeville and eventually signed to Universal Studios in 1913. Had a character called “Tempest Cody”.

Couldn’t get much work after the declining popularity of serials.

--Selected filmography--
 * Memories (1913)
 * By Fate's Decree (1913)
 * The Doctor's Orders (1913)
 * The Girl and the Tiger (1913)
 * The Girl Ranchers (1913)
 * The Village Blacksmith (1913)
 * What the Wild Waves Did (1913)
 * Won in the Clouds (1914)
 * A Redskin Reckoning (1914)
 * The Phantom Light (1914)
 * Our Enemy's Spy (1914)
 * The Option (1914)
 * Olana of the South Seas (1914)
 * A Nation's Peril (1914)
 * The Brand of His Tribe (1914)
 * Cast Adrift in the South Seas (1914)
 * A Daughter of the Plains (1914)
 * The Flash of Fate (1914)
 * The Great Universal Mystery (1914)
 * The Half-Breed (1914)
 * Hiram and Zeke Masquerade (1914)
 * In the Wolves' Fangs (1914)
 * The Isle of Abandoned Hope (1914)
 * Johnnie from Jonesboro (1914)
 * The Jungle Master (1914)
 * The Law of the Lumberjack (1914)
 * The Law of the Range (1914)
 * The Legion of the Phantom Tribe (1914)
 * The Lure of the Geisha (1914)
 * A Mexican Spy in America (1914)
 * Rescued by Wireless (1914)
 * A Romance of Hawaii (1914)
 * The Silent Peril (1914)
 * The Trial Breakers (1914)
 * The Vagabond Soldier (1914)
 * Tempest Cody (1914)
 * Kidnapper (1914)
 * Terrors of the Jungle (1915)
 * The Test of a Man (1915)
 * The Toll of the Sea (1915)
 * The Torrent (1915)
 * The War of the Wild (1915)
 * The Yellow Star (1915)
 * The Awaited Hour (1915)
 * The Blood of His Brother (1915)
 * The Blood of the Children (1915)
 * The Broken Toy (1915)
 * The Circus Girl's Romance (1915)
 * The Crime of Thought (1915)
 * Custer's Last Scout (1915)
 * A Daughter of the Jungles (1915)
 * A Fight to a Finish (1915)
 * The Governor Maker (1915)
 * The Heart of a Tigress (1915)
 * In Jungle Wilds (1915)
 * The Jungle Queen (1915)
 * The Lost Ledge (1915)
 * The Oaklawn Handicap (1915)
 * Ridgeway of Montana (1915)
 * Surrender (1915)
 * Coral (1915)
 * A Double Deal in Pork (1915)
 * From the Lion's Jaws (1915)
 * Chasing the Limited (1915)
 * The Mysterious Contragrav (1915)
 * Hop (1916)
 * The Devil's Brew (1916)
 * The Flirt (1916)
 * John Needham's Double (1916)
 * Liberty (1916)
 * Discontent (1916)
 * The Human Pendulum (1916)
 * The Iron Rivals (1916)
 * A Railroad Bandit (1916)
 * The Money Lenders (1916)
 * Onda of the Orient (1916)
 * The State Witness (1916)
 * Tammany's Tiger (1916)
 * The Silent Terror (1916)
 * The Quest of Virginia (1916)
 * Where Are My Children? (1916)
 * The Leap (1916)
 * Liberty (1916)
 * Who Pulled the Trigger? (1916)
 * Her Great Mistake (1917)
 * The Indian's Lament (1917)
 * A Jungle Tragedy (1917)
 * The Star Witness (1917)
 * Steel Hearts (1917)
 * The Red Ace (1917)
 * Patria (1917)
 * The Kidnapped Bride (1917)
 * The Lion's Claw (1918)
 * Tongues of Flame (1918)
 * The Whirlwind Finish (1918)
 * The Red Glove (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Bucks the Trust (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Flirts with Death (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Gets Her Man (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Hits the Trail (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Plays Detective (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Rides Wild (1919)
 * Tempest Cody Turns the Tables (1919)
 * Tempest Cody's Man Hunt (1919)
 * The Dragon’s Nest (1920)
 * The Blot (1921)
 * Western Vengeance (1924)
 * Treasure Canyon (1924)
 * A Desperate Adventure (1924)
 * In A Moment of Temptation (1927)

Genie Gauntier Liggett:

Gauntier attended the Kansas City School of Oratory while in Kansas City. In 1904, she began her stage career.

It was a one-reeler, where she first met her long-time friend Sidney Olcott and Frank Marion.

Gauntier then returned to stage acting as the lead female role in George Ade's The County Chairman at Kansas City's Grand Opera House.

"I was not familiar with Ben Hur and the mere reading of the book would take two days. But this time my self-confidence [in writing] was unlimited and I promised. What is more by dint of working nearly two nights I turned in the script on schedule...and we turned out the greatest spectacle and money-maker up to that time."

-Gene Gauntier when asked to adapt Ben Hur in two days

Gene Gauntier Feature Players:


 * The Civil War-era (1912)
 * A Daughter of the Confederacy (1913) (adapted from Wallace Reid's stage play)
 * Mystery of Pine Camp(1913)
 * When Men Hate (1913)
 * For Ireland's Sake (1914)
 * A Daughter of Old Ireland (1914)
 * The Eye of the Government (1914)

Gauntier wrote and stared in many of the films her company produced, while Olcott is credited as the main director during this time. Gaunter Feature Players became competetors of Kalem and eventually faded into oblivion once Gauntier signed on with Universal Pictures and moved to Hollywood.

In 1914, June 11 was declared as "Gauntier Day" at the International Exposition of Motion Pictures.

--Selected filmography--


 * Why Girls Leave Home (1904) (stageplay)
 * The Paymaster (1904)
 * The Skyscrapers of New York (1904)
 * The Thaw-White Tragedy (1904)
 * The Girl Spy (1909)
 * An Incident of the Civil War (1909)
 * The Love Romance of The Girl Spy (1910)
 * The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy (1910)
 * The Girl Spy before Vicksburg (1910)
 * To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson: An Exploit of the Girl Spy (1911)
 * The Smugglers Lass (1915)
 * The Ulster Lass (1915)
 * Witches Gold (1920)