 By 1915 Sherman was appearing in silent films usually playing playboys, until D. W. Griffith cast him as the villain in the classic film, "Way Down East" (1920).He continued playing villains or playboys in films, as he had in the theatre, throughout the 1920s, in such films as "Molly O'" (1921), "A Lady of Chance" (1929) and later in talkies such as "Ladies of Leisure" (1930), and "What Price Hollywood?