William Elmer

William Elmer

Born: April 25, 1869
Died: February 24, 1945
in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA

Movies for William Elmer...

The Magnificent Ambersons
Title: The Magnificent Ambersons
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Neway (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Condemned
Title: Condemned
Character: Pierre
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
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The Night Hawk
Title: The Night Hawk
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enough he heads for the more comfortable expanse of the open spaces.
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The Whipping Boss
Title: The Whipping Boss
Character: Spike (as Billy Elmer)
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.
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In Search of a Thrill
Title: In Search of a Thrill
Character: Percy (the valet)
Released: November 20, 1923
Type: Movie
After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with an old friend, writer Adrian Torrens, who disparages her lifestyle. Ann sees him befriend an Apache dancer and she believes he finds women in need of salvation more appealing.
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Iron to Gold
Title: Iron to Gold
Character: Bat Piper
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she is married to his enemy, he decides to hold her captive.
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The Foolish Age
Title: The Foolish Age
Character: Cauliflower Jim (as Billy Elmer)
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
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Big Town Round-Up
Title: Big Town Round-Up
Character: Jerry Casey
Released: July 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Tom Mix played Larry McBride, a cowboy who, "goes to city, dresses up to date and gets into thrilling and humorous adventures."
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The Road Demon
Title: The Road Demon
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer. O'Malley is hoping to land a contract with a Japanese firm, if only his car wins the Los Angeles-Phoenix auto race. Hap enters, but O'Malley's driver, Luther McCabe causes the race to be lost. Higgins discovers that McCabe is in league with O'Malley's competition, so for the next race, in Fresno, he takes over when McCabe drops out and wins the race.
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Prairie Trails
Title: Prairie Trails
Character: Rod Blake
Released: December 25, 1920
Type: Movie
Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father (Charles K. French) will give his blessings only if Tex works on his sheep ranch. Tex, a cattleman through and through, refuses and gets his aggressions out by stirring things up at the local saloon.
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Davis
Released: May 15, 1920
Type: Movie
"Squint" Taylor owns a ranch and has a much older mining partner. When the partner is fatally wounded, he makes Taylor promise to take care of his daughter Marion. Taylor is more than happy to do his bidding, but Marion and her uncle are both involved with William Carrington, who is trying to cheat them out of her share of the mine.
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Pinto
Title: Pinto
Character: Lousy
Released: January 10, 1920
Type: Movie
When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
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Alias Mike Moran
Title: Alias Mike Moran
Character: Tick Flynn
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder. However, when war breaks out Larry is drafted into the army. Before he is taken in, though, he and Elaine are rescued from gangsters by an ex-con named Mike Moran. It turns out that Moran wants to join the army but they won't take him because of his record. Larry, who doesn't want to go into the army because it will interfere with his plans to marry Elaine, comes up with an idea he thinks will work out for all concerned. Complications ensue.
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The Dub
Title: The Dub
Character: Burglar Bill
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
John Craig is a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail.
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He Comes Up Smiling
Title: He Comes Up Smiling
Released: September 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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Coals of Fire
Title: Coals of Fire
Character: Ben Roach
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon by townspeople, but Rev. Charles Alden, the town minister, finds himself attracted to her. One day at Nell's father's bar, a traveling salesman gets a young woman intoxicated, intending to "have his way" with her. Nell sees this and gets the bartender to save the young woman's virtue, but just at that moment Rev. Alden walks in and mistakenly believes that Nell has gotten the girl drunk. Complications ensue. - From IMDB
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: Props
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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The Firefly of France
Title: The Firefly of France
Character: Aide to Von Blenheim
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme's innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris' Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly's whereabouts.
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The Bravest Way
Title: The Bravest Way
Character: (as Billy Elmer)
Released: June 16, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that orientals were traditionally (and stereotypically) cast as villains at the time. In The Bravest Way, Hayakawa carries self-sacrifice to the nth degree. He is so devoted-in a perfectly platonic manner-to the widow of his best friend (Tsuri Aoki) that he loses the love of his American fiancee (Florence Vidor). Lost film.
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Playing the Game
Title: Playing the Game
Character: Hodges (as Billy Elmer)
Released: April 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
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The Family Skeleton
Title: The Family Skeleton
Character: 'Spider' Doyle
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Thing We Love
Title: The Thing We Love
Character: Kenwood's Agent
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Just prior to America's declaration of war, Margaret Kenwood of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company determines that the plant should produce munitions to support the Allies. Rodney Sheridan, her sweetheart and a vice president of the company, remains unimpressed with Margaret's patriotism until he begins to suspect that the plant's president is involved with a group of German spies.
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The Widow's Might
Title: The Widow's Might
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: January 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.
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Wolves of the Rail
Title: Wolves of the Rail
Character: Pablo Trilles (as Billy Elmer)
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.
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His Mother's Boy
Title: His Mother's Boy
Character: Banty Jones
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
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The Countess Charming
Title: The Countess Charming
Character: Detective Boyle
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Stanley Jordan, a wealthy young bachelor, attends a Red Cross Benefit at the country club where he meets and falls in love with Betty Lovering and unwittingly offends Mrs. Vandergraft, the social leader.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Girl at Home
Title: The Girl at Home
Character: Detective Hagen
Released: April 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying dividends. Jean Hilton, who has always loved Jimmie, offers to secretly stake him using her own inheritance. So Jimmie goes off to college, none the wiser, and gets tangled up with vampy cabaret singer Diana Parish.
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The Prison Without Walls
Title: The Prison Without Walls
Character: Horse Gilligan
Released: March 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth millions and the undiscovered "man higher up," grafting through his influence with prison wardens. He is also having an "affair" with Felice, Helen's maid, an ex-convict.
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Castles for Two
Title: Castles for Two
Character: Callahan
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.
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The Honorable Friend
Title: The Honorable Friend
Character: Murphy
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino's dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon arrival, she is married to Makino in a civil ceremony. However, Kayosho intends to keep Toki-ye for himself. This angers Goto, another employee. Kayosho was betrothed to Goto's niece, Hana. One day Kayosho is found dead in a pool.
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The Selfish Woman
Title: The Selfish Woman
Character: Jim
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also wants the job, and tries to persuade his son to give up the work, but Tom refuses. Tom falls for a society girl named Alice Hale, who marries him to bring prestige to her family. Initially, Alice plots against Tom, but Tom wins her over and they work together to defeat those who are plotting to destroy Tom's work.
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The Ragamuffin
Title: The Ragamuffin
Character: Kelly
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly agrees. As soon as she enters the house, Bob catches her, but then goes back to his bedroom after making her give her word not to take anything. Jenny breaks her promise...
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Morales
Released: October 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.
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Kindling
Title: Kindling
Character: Rafferty
Released: July 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Pregnant tenement dweller Maggie Schultz is being used by burglars....
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The Clue
Title: The Clue
Character: Detective Williams
Released: July 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, Alexis schemes to marry wealthy Eve Bertram, who loves him. Boris, meanwhile, falls in love with Christine Lesley, Eve's neighbor whom Eve's brother Guy, an amateur inventor experimenting with explosives, also loves.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: Turkish Officer
Released: April 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
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The Unafraid
Title: The Unafraid
Character: Jack McCarty
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love.
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Spike Mullins
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A young New York society man makes a bet that he can rob a house and get away without being caught by the police. Things turn out to be not as easy as they seem.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Ashby
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Robledo
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Half Breed
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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Ready Money
Title: Ready Money
Character: Jim Dolan
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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The Making of Bobby Burnit
Title: The Making of Bobby Burnit
Character: Biff Bates
Released: September 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must be invested, Agnes Elliston, Bobby's sweetheart, suggests that he take over his father's chain of stores. Soon Bobby becomes the dupe of various swindlers and charlatans, among them Sam Stone and Bobby's shady lawyer. With the help of Bobby's friend Biff Bates and Daniel Johnson, a loyal employee of Bobby's father, the swindlers are exposed in the newspaper and Bobby's inheritance is saved. Finally, after rescuing Agnes from Stone's advances, Bobby proposes to her, thus complying with all of his late father's wishes. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Trampas
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
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Shotgun Jones
Title: Shotgun Jones
Character: Hays
Released: April 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
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The Mothering Heart
Title: The Mothering Heart
Character: The Doorman
Released: June 21, 1913
Type: Movie
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
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The House of Darkness
Title: The House of Darkness
Character: Asylum Guard
Released: May 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
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The Left-Handed Man
Title: The Left-Handed Man
Character: Policeman
Released: April 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was great and in unraveling the mystery the detective she engaged used the scientific methods of today, making a brilliant detective story.