George Lessey Movies

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...

A play based on a famous English case of a man being executed wrongfully on circumstantial evidence.

A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff...

Graft is a 1915 silent drama

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect...

A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution....

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.

For years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never paid rent. One day, railroad employee. George Lessey is...

A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing...

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

Why did the Governor want to resign?

Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a...

A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.