The Amateur Gentleman is a 1926 American silent drama film produced by Inspiration Pictures and distributed through First National Pictures. Sidney Olcott directed it as a vehicle for star Richard Barthelmess.
The story was previously adapted into a 1920 British silent film, and it was filmed again in 1936 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Amateur Gentleman is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
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Cast
Richard Barthelmess as Barnabas Barty
Dorothy Dunbar as Lady Cleone Meredith
Gardner James as Ronald Barrymaine
Nigel Barrie as Sir Mortimer Carnaby
Brandon Hurst as Peterby
John Miljan as Viscount Devenham
Edwards Davis as John Barty
Billie Bennett as Duchess of Camberhurst
Herbert Grimwood as Jasper Gaunt
Gino Corrado as Prince Regent
Sidney De Gray as Captain Chumley
Hans Joby as Captain Slingsby
Production notes
The film was shot at Clune studios on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, and at the Samuel S. Hinds house in Pasadena.