William Desmond
Popularity:0.059
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1878-01-23
Place of Birth:Horseheads, New York, USA
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Also Known As:William Mannion, The King of the Silent Serials, Bill Desmond

The Prince and Betty (1919)
Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a...

The Vanishing Rider (1928)
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud...

Peer Gynt (1915)
A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining...

Captain of His Soul (1918)
At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin. However, when Ebenezer...

The Rustler's Roundup (1933)
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their...

When Lightning Strikes (1934)
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.

Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make...

The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning...

The Policeman and the Baby (1921)
A crook returns home to find his mother dead and about to be buried in Potters Field. This prompts him to go out upon a "job" so that he may secure...

Master of His Home (1917)
Unhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a mother tries to convince her daughter to get an...

The Return of the Durango Kid (1945)
A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor.

Mr. Broadway (1933)
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

The Lightning Warrior (1931)
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy...

Song of the Gringo (1936)
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang,...

Phantom Lady (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

Wild Waters (1935)
A young man and his trusty dog go up against a gang of crooks that are building a dam out of shoddy materials, which could collapse and flood the...

The Extra Girl (1923)
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio...

The Last Frontier (1932)
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold...

Crack-Up (1934)
Daredevil flyer David flirts with a waitress. An orphan accidentally takes off in a biplane requiring an aerial rescue. The villain reports a fake...

The Broken Coin (1936)
A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.

Frisco Kid (1935)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of...

The Vanishing Legion (1931)
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of...

The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices...

Desert Command (1946)
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he...

The Burning Trail (1925)
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a...

Straight Through (1925)
O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl,...

The Meddler (1925)
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants...

Born to Battle (1935)
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their...

I Can't Escape (1934)
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.

The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn...

Pirate Treasure (1934)
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.

The Strings of Steel (1926)
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The First Central 3. Fighting for Love 4. The Power of...

Courage of the North (1935)
A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain.

The Three Musketeers (1933)
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he...

Winners of the West (1940)
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from...

Her Code of Honor (1919)
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French...

Frontier Days (1934)
Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note. The...

The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man...

Laughing at Life (1933)
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe...

Perils of the Yukon (1922)
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6....

Strawberry Roan (1933)
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem.

Fargo Express (1933)
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear...

Paws of the Bear (1917)
In Belgium, at the outbreak of the war, Russian agent Olga Raminoff shoots at a German general when the enemy enters town. Ray Bourke, an American...

Border Guns (1934)
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.

No Children (1929)
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

Shadows of the North (1923)
Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war, leaving Pancake to run the mine. During Ben's...

Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain...

The Extra Girl (1923)
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio...

The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a job on the Barton ranch and joins in the fight...

Custer's Last Stand (1936)
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.

Cyclone of the Saddle (1935)
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.

Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just...

Heroes of the West (1932)
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.

Gordon of Ghost City (1933)
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other...

The Call of the Savage (1935)
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

Headin' for the Rio Grande (1936)
Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of...

A Scarlet Week-End (1932)
A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.

The Ghost Rider (1935)
Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He kills two of them leaving an ace as his calling...

Social Error (1935)
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid...

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Code of the West (1947)
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from...

The Red Rider (1934)
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...

Timber Terrors (1935)
Inspector Dawson promises "Morton of the Mounted" a long-awaited vacation as soon as he solves the mystery of who killed an old fur trapper called...

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.

Song of the Saddle (1936)
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior...

The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio,...

Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal...

Junior G-Men (1940)
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the...

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb...

The Phantom of the Air (1933)
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention,...

The Phantom of the West (1930)
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real...

Fightin' Mad (1921)
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to...

Society for Sale (1918)
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry. They fall in love and when it...

The Last of the Ingrams (1917)
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules...

Down Rio Grande Way (1942)
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was...

The Silver Bullet (1942)
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.

Overland Mail (1942)
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are...

Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier...

The Lone Star Trail (1943)
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is...

Cheyenne Roundup (1943)
Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual...

No Defense (1929)
No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects by the...

McGuire of the Mounted (1923)
A film about a man named McGuire of the Royal Mounted Police.

The Iced Bullet (1917)
A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the...

The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921)
On her wedding day, Norma Huntley wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be, her secret -- that she mothered a child out of wedlock which...

Hello, 'Frisco (1924)
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

Savage Fury (1956)
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

Powdersmoke Range (1935)
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.

Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941)
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

Outwitted (1925)
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by...

Ridin' Pretty (1925)
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing express that'll hold you spellbound.

Barriers of the Law (1925)
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's...

A Sage Brush Hamlet (1919)
Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is why he is known as a sagebrush Hamlet.

The Naughty Nineties (1945)
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

The Mystery Rider (1928)
Silent cowboy Western serial.

Peggy (1916)
The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is...

The Way of the West (1934)
Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames...

Kilmeny (1915)
Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy, and drifts away with him and the gypsy band on...

The Dawn Maker (1916)
Half-breed Joe Elk wavers between the "civilized" nature of his white father and the passion of his Indian mother. He falls in love with Alice McRae,...

Naughty Marietta (1935)
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an...

The Sunset Trail (1924)
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues...

The Majesty of the Law (1915)
The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later help the families of those he condemns

The Climax (1944)
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad...

The Roaring West (1935)
A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.

Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest...

Strange Confession (1945)
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in...

Perils of Pauline (1933)
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil...

The Egg and I (1947)
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....

Oklahoma Jim (1931)
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.

Thunder Mountain (1947)
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch...

The Breathless Moment (1924)
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan, his confederate, to spend a year in a small town.

Women Men Love (1921)
Prosperous architect David Hunter, lives with his wife Evelyn, who loves gambling and admiration, as well as his small daughter Dora, and his...

Clancy of the Mounted (1933)
A Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in his brother, who was framed for the murder of a gold mine owner. Based on Robert W. Service's poem "Clancy...

Flying Colors (1917)
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business. When his wealthy relatives send him out to...

The Ace of Spades (1925)
15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon...

The Measure of a Man (1924)
Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his...