William Humphrey

William Humphrey

Born: January 2, 1863
Died: October 4, 1942
in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for William Humphrey...

False Pretenses
Title: False Pretenses
Character: Newman
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue.
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Get That Man
Title: Get That Man
Character: Mr. Brownlee
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.
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The Fighting Pilot
Title: The Fighting Pilot
Character: F.S. Reynolds
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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Are We Civilized?
Title: Are We Civilized?
Character: Napoleon
Released: June 5, 1934
Type: Movie
1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. This film was meant to denounce Hitler prior to US involvement in WWII
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: The Music Publisher
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Allison, addled actor
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Jim - City Editor
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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Tangled Destinies
Title: Tangled Destinies
Character: Professor Hartley
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
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The Cowboy Counsellor
Title: The Cowboy Counsellor
Character: Judge Kendell
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Bank Director
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Napoleon
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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Murder at Midnight
Title: Murder at Midnight
Character: Colton
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Mr. Cotton
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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Devil-May-Care
Title: Devil-May-Care
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
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The Actress
Title: The Actress
Character: Mr. Telfer
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
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The Silent Lover
Title: The Silent Lover
Character: Cornelius Sherman
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
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The Dice Woman
Title: The Dice Woman
Character: Ship Captain
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells her his car for a diamond bracelet. The car has been stolen and the police arrest her, but she escapes and takes refuge on a freighter bound for China. She has no money and has to work her way there. Her father learns of her destination and hires Hamlin to bring her safely home.
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The Volga Boatman
Title: The Volga Boatman
Character: Head of the Tribunal
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: M. Debienne (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Lady Robinhood
Title: Lady Robinhood
Character: Governor
Released: July 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolution.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Attorney for Defense
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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Drusilla with a Million
Title: Drusilla with a Million
Character: John Thornton
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Lord Alvanley
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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The Arizona Express
Title: The Arizona Express
Character: Henry MacFarlane
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Stephen A. Douglas
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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The Man Life Passed By
Title: The Man Life Passed By
Character: The Lawyer
Released: December 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
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The Social Code
Title: The Social Code
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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Scaramouche
Title: Scaramouche
Character: The Chevalier de Chabrillane
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Groom's Friend
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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The Way of a Woman
Title: The Way of a Woman
Character: Nathan Caspar (as William Humphreys)
Released: July 27, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
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Polishing Up
Title: Polishing Up
Character: Dr. Reynolds
Released: August 14, 1914
Type: Movie
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young girls. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is at the same hotel, planning a little "playing around" of her own.
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Uncle Bill
Title: Uncle Bill
Character: John Mason
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's nephew, is candidate for Governor and, on the eve of Uncle Bill's arrival, Mason and his political constituents are in secret conference with Murray of the money powers. Meantime, Julia, Mason's wife, goes on a little joy ride with Jack Trent, husband of Vivien, her friend who is on a joy ride with Mason's father, a delightful old rogue. Gladys, Julia's hoydenish sister with whose photo Uncle Bill has previously fallen in love, is left home alone.
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A Princess of Bagdad
Title: A Princess of Bagdad
Character: The Caliph
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discovery of a treasure cave may be the key to freeing his son.
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The Butler's Secret
Title: The Butler's Secret
Character: Alfred Dixon
Released: June 6, 1913
Type: Movie
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in anger, declaring that he will live his life as beat pleases him. That night, Alfred Dixon, the father, hears a noise by the safe in his bedroom, where he is sleeping, and shoots at the intruder who escapes unharmed.
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Mixed Identities
Title: Mixed Identities
Character: Sparkins Carter
Released: April 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Edna and Alice, the twins, get positions as stenographers in the offices of Mr. Redman and Mr. Carter. Redman is short and fussy, Carter, stout and nervous. They happen to be friends, and exchange phone confidences about their new stenographers. Both flirt with the girls. Redman invites Alice to dinner and gives this as a reason in refusing Carter's invitation to the Club. Carter, not to be outdone, dispatches a note to Edna who has gone home, asking her to meet him at Stanley's restaurant. While he waits, Redman enters the restaurant with Alice. Carter, believing her to be Edna, follows, but they have disappeared into a private dining room. Edna arrives and is perplexed at not finding Carter. She enters and meets him in the hallway, to be accused of having just entered with another man. She denies it. They get a dining room where they enjoy an excellent meal. Alice leaves Redman to phone her mother. Carter leaves Edna to get a cigar.
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The Money Kings
Title: The Money Kings
Character: James Montepier - the Father
Released: July 15, 1912
Type: Movie
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Title: Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Released: March 23, 1912
Type: Movie
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
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The Heart of the King's Jester
Title: The Heart of the King's Jester
Character: The King
Released: January 3, 1912
Type: Movie
A short drama directed by William Humphrey.
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An Aeroplane Elopement
Title: An Aeroplane Elopement
Character: Mr. Brooks - Maud's Father
Released: November 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to marry George, as he is a splendid fellow, but her father will not listen to her. So she decides to elope. Maude meets George at the machine and together they fly up into the air. Mr. Brooks, who has been apprised of his daughter's intentions, starts in pursuit.
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A Message from Beyond
Title: A Message from Beyond
Character: Mr. Morrison - Jack's Father
Released: November 4, 1911
Type: Movie
Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a life of ease and idleness, from which his father tries to arouse and induce him to interest himself in the large steel business, of which he is the head. Jack refuses to go to work: his father disowns him and tells him to leave the house.
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The Death of King Edward III
Title: The Death of King Edward III
Released: August 5, 1911
Type: Movie
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was celebrated for his wars with the Scottish king and his battles with France. He started the "One Hundred Years' War." In his invasions of France, he was accompanied by his eldest son, "The Black Prince,"
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Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Title: Picciola; or, The Prison Flower
Character: Comte de Charney, a Prisoner
Released: April 29, 1911
Type: Movie
Comte de Charney is sentenced to life imprisonment for political conspiracy. In the same prison, Girhardi, an Italian, is confined. He has a beautiful daughter named Theresa, who visits her father and sees de Charney exercising in the prison yard. She is sympathetic and looks upon the Count as an interesting and attractive person.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: The Duke D'Evremon
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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Hako's Sacrifice
Title: Hako's Sacrifice
Released: July 23, 1910
Type: Movie
Poor Hako, a Japanese boy, is sold into bondage to a cruel fisherman who makes his life a burden and even more wretched than his physical deformities and weakness.
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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Sir Toby Belch
Released: February 4, 1910
Type: Movie
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'
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Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Title: Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Released: January 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Released: December 25, 1909
Type: Movie
An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
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The Life of Moses
Title: The Life of Moses
Released: December 4, 1909
Type: Movie
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910. A Vitagraph advertisement in the Moving Picture World (31 Dec. 1909) refers to The Life of Moses as a "Biblical Film-de-Luxe". It is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
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Benedict Arnold
Title: Benedict Arnold
Character: Major Andre
Released: November 16, 1909
Type: Movie
Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray West Point into the hands of the British, and to that end enters into negotiation with Major Andre, as the representative of the British General.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
Released: April 30, 1909
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
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The Judgment of Solomon
Title: The Judgment of Solomon
Released: January 2, 1909
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
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Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Title: Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Character: Napoleon Bonaparte
Released: January 2, 1909
Type: Movie
Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.
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Napoleon, the Man of Destiny
Title: Napoleon, the Man of Destiny
Character: Napoleon
Released: January 2, 1909
Type: Movie
Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled Napoleon overlooking the beach of St. Helena.