William R. Dunn

William R. Dunn

Born: May 23, 1888
Died: March 24, 1946
in Astoria, New York, USA

Movies for William R. Dunn...

Sundown
Title: Sundown
Character: Kipsang's Victim (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
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Stanley and Livingstone
Title: Stanley and Livingstone
Character: Chuma
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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Painted Ponies
Title: Painted Ponies
Character: Pinto Pete
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Guillet (as William Dunn)
Released: July 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
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The Redeeming Sin
Title: The Redeeming Sin
Character: Gaston
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Lupin is the lover of Joan of the Apaches. She is attracted by Paul de Gafilet, nobleman and sculptor. She visits him in his studio and resolves to abandon her underworld career for his sake. Lupin vows revenge but is frustrated by Joan. The latter's affection for Paul turns to rage when she sees him embracing another woman. Joan joins with her confederates to steal some jewels from a statue of the Madonna in a church. She learns that the woman she is jealous of is Paul's sister, attempts to halt the robbery but fails. Paul is injured by the thieves and Joan held captive.
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The Undercurrent
Title: The Undercurrent
Character: Ivan
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
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I Want to Forget
Title: I Want to Forget
Character: Helgar
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Prior to the declaration of World War I, dancer Varda Deering was a member of the Austrian secret service, but later became a loyal citizen of the United States. In America, she captivates many men but cares for none of them until she meets Lieutenant John Long. At first, he regards Varda as little more than a social butterfly, but gradually comes to recognize her goodness and falls in love with her. While John is away on a war-related diplomatic mission, Varda agrees to aid the U.S. Secret Service in procuring classified documents from August Von Grossman, an agent whom she had known in Austria.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Character: Grat Dalton
Released: November 26, 1918
Type: Movie
When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.
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The Princess of Park Row
Title: The Princess of Park Row
Character: Kronski (as William Dunn)
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought the land in good faith, sends Prince Niclos to America to negotiate a loan on the king's collateral so that the land can be bought and given back to the people.
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The Secret Kingdom
Title: The Secret Kingdom
Character: Juan
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial.
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For a Woman’s Fair Name
Title: For a Woman’s Fair Name
Character: Bolles (as William Dunn)
Released: February 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Right after a husband and wife (Robert Edeson and Eulalie Jensen) arrive home from their honeymoon, the husband goes to fetch his sister from boarding school. While he is away, the wife's friend and neighbor, McGregor (Harry Morey), invites her to a party, and she accepts. On the way back home, they're involved in an accident, and McGregor takes the wife, who's unconscious, to recover at a nearby roadhouse. Unfortunately, McGregor's coke fiend brother (William R. Dunn) is there partying, and he threatens to put a seamy spin on the innocent situation and tell all.
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The Juggernaut
Title: The Juggernaut
Character: Phillip Hardin
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Back in college, John Ballard saved Philip Hardin's life. Twenty years later, John is the district attorney and Philip is president of a railroad notorious for its accident record. When John brings a suit against the railroad, Philip threatens to reveal a ruinous secret about John unless he drops the case. Meanwhile, a railroad inspector discovers that the trestle over which an express train carrying Philip's daughter is about to pass is in eminent danger of collapse.
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The Spirit of the Poppy
Title: The Spirit of the Poppy
Character: Jack Murray
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity. Helene Ford has been injected with heroin by an unscrupulous physician, causing her to act irrationally. Her husband Stephen, a noted artist, hires a model whom Helene, inflamed by their friend Jack Murray, suspects of having an affair with Stephen. The model is also addicted to drugs and convinces Stephen to try heroin to forget his troubles. Both Stephen and Helene then become addicted to drugs. They abandon their home and then separate, after which Stephen resorts to crime to support his heroin addiction. During an escape from the police after a robbery, Stephen encounters Helene again, this time near death. She sacrifices her own life to shield her husband, but Stephen and his former model plunge to their deaths.
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The Caballero's Way
Title: The Caballero's Way
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A Cisco Kid story.
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A Modern Jekyll and Hyde
Title: A Modern Jekyll and Hyde
Character: Bill Hykes - Jethro's Henchman
Released: December 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Title: A Cure for Pokeritis
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
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Making Good
Title: Making Good
Character: Bert Austin - Billy's Rival
Released: August 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Young Billy Burns is in love with Irene Brander, to whose father he is private secretary. Irene returns his affection, but is very much afraid that her father will force her to marry Bert Austin, a young society and club man of his choice. Billy, seeing that this is imminent, goes boldly to Irene's house and asks her father for her hand.
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Chamber of Forgetfulness
Title: Chamber of Forgetfulness
Character: The Young Man from the West
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends his son away until, after a dozen years, he discovers she was true; whereupon he summons his son and, after a bit, they reconcile at her grave.
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Saved from the Titanic
Title: Saved from the Titanic
Character: Jack's pal
Released: May 13, 1912
Type: Movie
A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard because her fiance is a sailor and her parents have just been reminded of the dangers of the sea. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy.
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The Seventh Son
Title: The Seventh Son
Character: One of the Beecham Brothers
Released: April 3, 1912
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother.
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For the Honor of the Family
Title: For the Honor of the Family
Character: Maj. Jarvis
Released: January 27, 1912
Type: Movie
On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to redeem himself, joins an Indian regiment as a private, and leaves England.
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Love Finds the Way
Title: Love Finds the Way
Character: Wallace Hardy - Jack's Rival
Released: January 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy about an overprotective father who locks up his daughters in order to 'protect' them from their two cowboy friends. The friends call in the help from a widow who knows Johan, in the hope she can mollify him. She can, and additionally steals his heart, so in the end there are three happy couples.
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Alma's Champion
Title: Alma's Champion
Character: Stephen Bradish
Released: January 10, 1912
Type: Movie
Henry Talbot, the son of the president of the V.C.A.R.R., desiring to get a more comprehensive knowledge of the railroad, accepts a position as engineer on his father's road. Alma Randall, the niece of Stephen Bradish, general manager of the railroad, is reluctant in recognizing him in his position and he in turn makes it very unpleasant for her, so much so that she leaves his home. Going to the railroad station, she enters the cab of the engine driven by her sweetheart and there tells him her story. In the meantime Bradish, missing the girl and learning that she is on the express, orders a special, which overtakes the train driven by Talbot. Bradish is informed by the conductor that Alma is not aboard. At a reception given by her friends in honor of Alma's birthday, Henry is invited. As a surprise Henry's father and Bradish are also present. Bradish assumes the authoritative with Alma.
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The Mate of the 'John M'
Title: The Mate of the 'John M'
Character: Jim - the Mate of the John M
Released: October 4, 1911
Type: Movie
Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Mandy, the daughter of Captain Dale. Before she leaves for boarding school, she hurries to the ship to say good-bye to it, her father and Jim. Six years have now passed, and Mandy has grown to a big and handsome girl. As Captain Dale is going to make another trip, Mandy asks him if she cannot go along. Mandy's school chum's brother wishes to go also, and the Captain gives his consent. Jim grows a little jealous at the young man's presence on board.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.