Alec B. Francis
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Alec B. Francis was an English actor, largely of the silent era. He appeared in more than 240 films between 1911 and 1934.
Francis in 1916
Theodora Fitzgerald and her father Captain Fitzgerald (played by Gloria Swanson and Alec B. Francis) talk to Lord Hector Bracondale (Rudolf Valentino) in a scene still for the 1922 silent drama Beyond the Rocks.
Saved from the Titanic
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Saved from the Titanic is a 1912 American silent short film starring Dorothy Gibson, an American film actress who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Premiering in the United St
Alec B. Francis
…A Reformed Santa Claus (1911, Short) Saved from the Titanic (1912, Short) – Father Robin Hood (1912, Short) – Sheriff of Nottingham…
1912 advertisement of film
In this promotional photograph for Saved from the Titanic, actress Dorothy Gibson wears the same cardigan in which she was rescued by the Carpathia.
Film still of Alec B. Francis (left) as "Father", Gibson as herself, and John G. Adolfi as "Ensign Jack"
In this publicity photograph, Gibson is attired in the actual clothes she was wearing during the disaster.