The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)

From the log cabin to the White House-from a home made cradle to history's page

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

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George A. Billings

Abraham Lincoln

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Danny Hoy

Abraham Lincoln, 7 years old

Ruth Clifford

Ann Rutledge, first sweetheart

Nell Craig

Mary Todd / Mrs. Lincoln

Irene Hunt

Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Mother

Westcott Clarke

Thomas Lincoln, Father

Fay McKenzie

Sarah Lincoln

Charles K. French

Isom Enlow, Neighbor

Calvert Carter

Mr. Gollaher, Neighbor

M

Madge Hunt

Mrs. Gollaher

R

Raymond Lee

Austin Gollaher

I

Ida Mae McKenzie

Sarah Lincoln, 10 years old

E

Ed Burns

John McNeil

Pat Hartigan

Jack Armstrong, leader of Clary Grove gang

Otis Harlan

Denton Offut, Employer of Lincoln

J

Jules Hanft

James Rutledge

J

Julia Hesse

Mrs. Rutledge

Louise Fazenda

Sally, a country girl

Robert Bolder

A country politician

William Humphrey

Stephen A. Douglas

W

William McIllwain

Dr. Allen

Fred Kohler

Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market

Robert Milasch

Southern planter

G

George Reehm

Another planter

G

Genevieve Blinn

Mary Todd's sister, Mrs. Ninian Edwards

M

Mickey Moore

Willie Lincoln

N

Newton Hall

Tad Lincoln

F

Francis Powers

Richard J. Oglesby

H

Homer Willits

John Hay, Secretary to the President

J

Jim Blackwell

Tom, colored servant

A. Edward Sutherland

William Scott, Union soldier

Frances Raymond

Scott's mother

J

Jack Rollings

Union sentry

M

Merrill McCormick

Corporal of guard

F

Frank Newburg

Bixby, Union soldier

W

William F. Moran

John Wilkes Booth

John Steppling

Chairman of delegation

W

Wanda Crazer

Dancer

Walter Rogers

Gen U.S. Grant

Alfred Allen

Gen. George Meade

J

James Welch

Gen. Robert E. Lee

M

Myles McCarthy

Major, afterward General, Anderson

Earl Schenck

Colonel Rathbone

D

Dolly McClean

Miss Harris

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Cordelia Callahan

Mrs. Surratt

D

Dallas Hope

Stable boy

J

Jack Winn

Ned Spangler

Lawrence Grant

Actor at Ford's

I

Ivy Livingston

Actress at Ford's

K

Kathleen Chambers

Another actress

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Henry Rattenbury

Stagehand

W

W. L. McPheeters

Allan Pinkerton, Chief of Secret Service

Willis Marks

William H. Seward, Secretary of State

Nick Cogley

Simon Cameron, Secretary of War

C

Charles Smiley

Salmon P. Chase, Sec. of Treasury / Hugh McCulloch

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R. G. Dixon

Gideon Welles, Secretary of Navy

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Harry Kelsey

Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of Interior

J

Joseph Mills

Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General

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Fred Manly

Edward Bates, Attorney-General

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William von Hardenburg

James Speed, Attorney-General

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