Cast: May McAvoy

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring May McAvoy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Ben-Hur

1925 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Ramon Novarro · May McAvoy · Francis X. Bushman · Betty Bronson

Plot Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Lady Windermere's Fan

1925 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ronald Colman · Irene Rich · May McAvoy · Bert Lytell

Plot Mrs. Erlynne, a woman of dubious reputation, summons Lord Windermere on her return to London, revealing that she is his wife's mother, believed dead, and demanding money for her silence....

7.2

488 votes

7.2

488 votes

Three Women

1924 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast May McAvoy · Pauline Frederick · Marie Prevost · Lew Cody

Plot Although the heavily indebted Edmund Lamont is courting wealthy widow Mabel Wilton, he soon turns his affections to her daughter, Jeanne. Despite marrying the latter, he proceeds to have an...

6.6

25 votes

6.6

25 votes

The Jazz Singer

1927 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Al Jolson · May McAvoy · Warner Oland · Eugenie Besserer

Plot Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Mad Whirl

1925 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Main Street on the March! (S)

1941 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Edward L. Cahn

Cast John Nesbitt · Margaret Bert · Milton Kibbee · Barbara Bedford

Plot The film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how...

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Watch the Birdie

1950 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Jack Donohue

Cast Red Skelton · Arlene Dahl · Ann Miller · Leon Ames

Plot "Rusty" Cammeron tries to get out of debt by doing some free-lance newsreel photography, but his efforts fall woefully short and end in some kind of mishap. Lucia Corlaine rescues...

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The Enchanted Cottage

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John S. Robertson

Cast Richard Barthelmess · May McAvoy · Ida Waterman · Alfred Hickman

Plot A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets...

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The Terror

1928 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast May McAvoy · Louise Fazenda · Edward Everett Horton · Alec B. Francis

Plot Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as 'The Terror.'

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Kick In

1922 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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A Perfect Lady

1918 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Madge Kennedy · Jere Austin · Walter Law · Rod La Rocque

Plot A burlesque dancer overcomes the puritanism of a repressed small town.

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The Road to Glory

1926 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast May McAvoy · Leslie Fenton · Ford Sterling · Rockcliffe Fellowes

Plot May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.

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If I Were Single

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Sentimental Tommy

1921 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1919 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Ford

Cast Marguerite Clark · Mary Carr · Vivia Ogden · Gladys Valerie

Plot Mrs. Wiggs, a loving mother whose husband has abandoned her, supports her many children and lives in hope of her husband's return.

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Caught in the Fog

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Woman Under Oath

1919 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Florence Reed · Hugh Thompson · Gareth Hughes · David Powell

Plot After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer,...

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The Fire Brigade

1926 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William Nigh

Cast May McAvoy · Charles Ray · Holmes Herbert · Tom O´Brien

Plot Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor,...

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