William Desmond

William Desmond

Born: January 23, 1878
Died: November 3, 1949
in Horseheads, New York, USA
Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles.

Movies for William Desmond...

Savage Fury
Title: Savage Fury
Character: Allen (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
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. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Code of the West
Title: Code of the West
Character: Settler (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
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 Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action.
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Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Capt. Boncour
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
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 tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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Strange Confession
Title: Strange Confession
Character: Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1945
Type: Movie
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 the death of the scientist's son.
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Showboat Customer (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
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 gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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The Return of the Durango Kid
Title: The Return of the Durango Kid
Character: Street Ambusher (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor.
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The Climax
Title: The Climax
Character: Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1944
Type: Movie
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 obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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The Mummy's Ghost
Title: The Mummy's Ghost
Character: Museum Tourist (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1944
Type: Movie
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...
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Phantom Lady
Title: Phantom Lady
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
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Phantom of the Opera
Title: Phantom of the Opera
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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The Lone Star Trail
Title: The Lone Star Trail
Character: Bartender Mike
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
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 aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
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Cheyenne Roundup
Title: Cheyenne Roundup
Character: Pete
Released: April 12, 1943
Type: Movie
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 role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Williams - Banker
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
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 white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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The Silver Bullet
Title: The Silver Bullet
Character: Townsman
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Townsman
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
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 poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Title: Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Character: Bartender
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl's father.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Title: Where Did You Get That Girl?
Character: Tourist
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
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 contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Irish Cop
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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 inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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The Boys from Syracuse
Title: The Boys from Syracuse
Character: Citizen
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
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, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Bill Brine
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
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 being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Dock Official
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
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 who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Bailiff
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
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, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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The Vigilantes Are Coming
Title: The Vigilantes Are Coming
Character: Anderson, Vigilante Member
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
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 write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Treachery Rides the Range
Title: Treachery Rides the Range
Character: Bill
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
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 signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Tim
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
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 gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Captain of the 'Viking'
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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The Broken Coin
Title: The Broken Coin
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Wagon Master
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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Headin' for the Rio Grande
Title: Headin' for the Rio Grande
Character: Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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 lovely lady (Eleanor Stewart). As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner (Warner Richmond) for killing bad guy Red Dugan (James Mason) and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo (Syd Saylor), show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows? - Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
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 infamous Barbary Coast.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Title: Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Character: Foreman Burke
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
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 an island's oil reserves.
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Powdersmoke Range
Title: Powdersmoke Range
Character: Happy - Bartender
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
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Courage of the North
Title: Courage of the North
Character: Gene Travis
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain.
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The Roaring West
Title: The Roaring West
Character: Jim Parker
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.
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Social Error
Title: Social Error
Character: Policeman
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
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 of a kidnapped heiress.
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The Call of the Savage
Title: The Call of the Savage
Character: Allen
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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The Ghost Rider
Title: The Ghost Rider
Character: Guard
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
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 card. Bull remembers the deck of cards that fell when he fought Dave had no aces and the Rascob's set out after him. Trapped in a cabin, Dave receives unexpected help from Bullard.
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Title: Cyclone of the Saddle
Character: Wagon Master
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.
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The Cowboy and the Bandit
Title: The Cowboy and the Bandit
Character: Sheriff Pete
Released: April 2, 1935
Type: Movie
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 against gang leader Larkin. Finding a wounded Scarface he helps him recover. Arrested by Larkin's stooge Sheriff, and with another lynch mob after him, he once again needs Scarface's help.
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Born to Battle
Title: Born to Battle
Character: John Brownell
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their ranches and to see if a pair of nesters have anything to do with it. After discovering the nesters, pretty Betty Powell and her rickety old father, are incapable of rustling, Tom instead turns his attention to the huge, swaggering bully of a foreman, Nate Lenox.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Wild Waters
Title: Wild Waters
Character: Sheriff Manning
Released: March 3, 1935
Type: Movie
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 entire valley.
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Timber Terrors
Title: Timber Terrors
Character: Royce Horter
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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 Old Parker and a Mountie named McGee. Morton and his Mountie sidekick, Corporal Tiny Anderson, hit the tundra and Morton saves Mildred Boyd from a tormentor.
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Rustlers of Red Dog
Title: Rustlers of Red Dog
Character: Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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 settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
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When Lightning Strikes
Title: When Lightning Strikes
Character: Marshal Jack Stevens
Released: December 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
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Frontier Days
Title: Frontier Days
Character: Sheriff Barnes
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
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 Pinto Kid, investigating cattle rustlers, accidentally drops his glove at the murder scene and now has a price on his head. He has Beth Wilson turn him and use the reward money to reclaim the note. Now he has to escape jail and find the real killers.
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The Way of the West
Title: The Way of the West
Character: 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames Gordon. His identity revealed, the Sheriff lets Gordon escape to go after the real killer.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Sheriff Campbell
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"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 noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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I Can't Escape
Title: I Can't Escape
Character: Parole Officer Donovan
Released: July 4, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
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Crack-Up
Title: Crack-Up
Character: Police Chief
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Daredevil flyer David flirts with a waitress. An orphan accidentally takes off in a biplane requiring an aerial rescue. The villain reports a fake robbery and turns the orphan in to welfare workers, but a loyal dog saves the day.
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The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: MacDonald
Released: April 22, 1934
Type: Movie
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 in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
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The Rawhide Terror
Title: The Rawhide Terror
Character: Tom Blake
Released: March 19, 1934
Type: Movie
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 known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens. Everyone is after the Rawhide Terror and the two brothers are destined to meet again.
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Border Guns
Title: Border Guns
Character: Dr. Jim Wilson
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
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Pirate Treasure
Title: Pirate Treasure
Character: Capt. Jim Carson
Released: January 29, 1934
Type: Movie
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.
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Fargo Express
Title: Fargo Express
Character: Sheriff Joe Thompson
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
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 him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
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Perils of Pauline
Title: Perils of Pauline
Character: Prof. Thompson
Released: November 5, 1933
Type: Movie
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 doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
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Strawberry Roan
Title: Strawberry Roan
Character: Colonel Brownlee
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem.
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Mr. Broadway
Title: Mr. Broadway
Character: 1st Suitor (archive footage)
Released: September 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: John Mulford
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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 outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Military Cabinet Officer
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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The Phantom of the Air
Title: The Phantom of the Air
Character: Thomas Edmonds
Released: May 21, 1933
Type: Movie
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Capt. Boncour
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
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 tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Rustler's Roundup
Title: The Rustler's Roundup
Character: San Dimas Sheriff Holden
Released: March 16, 1933
Type: Movie
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 attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.
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A Scarlet Week-End
Title: A Scarlet Week-End
Released: November 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.
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The Last Frontier
Title: The Last Frontier
Character: General Custer
Released: September 4, 1932
Type: Movie
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 deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
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Heroes of the West
Title: Heroes of the West
Character: John Blaine
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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Battling with Buffalo Bill
Title: Battling with Buffalo Bill
Character: John Mills
Released: November 22, 1931
Type: Movie
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 possession of a gold strike discovered in the area. A nearby Indian tribe is provoked to attack the town and the cavalry is called in.
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The Lightning Warrior
Title: The Lightning Warrior
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
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 Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Lacy
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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The Vanishing Legion
Title: The Vanishing Legion
Character: Milesburg Sheriff
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
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 her own to protect her rights.
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The Phantom of the West
Title: The Phantom of the West
Character: Martin Blair
Released: November 10, 1930
Type: Movie
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 killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
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No Defense
Title: No Defense
Character: John Harper
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
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 Vitaphone Company. It was distributed by Warner Brothers.
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No Children
Title: No Children
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
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The Mystery Rider
Title: The Mystery Rider
Character: Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy Western serial.
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The Vanishing Rider
Title: The Vanishing Rider
Character: Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
Released: January 16, 1928
Type: Movie
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud Osborne, as the notorious Butch Bradley, and a young Boris Karloff took care of the villainy.
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The Strings of Steel
Title: The Strings of Steel
Character: Ned Brown
Released: June 28, 1926
Type: Movie
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial.
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The Meddler
Title: The Meddler
Character: Richard Gilmore
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
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 out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
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The Burning Trail
Title: The Burning Trail
Character: Smiling Bill Flannigan
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
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 job on a ranch as a cook, and before he knows it he finds himself involved in a war between ranchers and sheepherders.
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Straight Through
Title: Straight Through
Character: Good Deed O'Day
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
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, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.
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Barriers of the Law
Title: Barriers of the Law
Character: Rex Brandon
Released: March 26, 1925
Type: Movie
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 leader locks her up in a brothel. She escapes and hides in the apartment of a man who turns out to be the chief of the government agents pursuing her gang. Complications ensue.
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Ridin' Pretty
Title: Ridin' Pretty
Character: Sky Parker
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing express that'll hold you spellbound.
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Outwitted
Title: Outwitted
Character: Jack Blaisdel
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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 his old gang. Vowing to get even with Jack, Tiger kidnaps the young man's fiancée, Helen (Holmes), bringing the girl to his hideout, a fancy yacht owned by Lucy Carlisle.
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The Sunset Trail
Title: The Sunset Trail
Character: Happy Hobo
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
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 on foot and finds on a dying man a map to a gold mine and a photograph of his daughter, who is none other than Louise.
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: William Desmond
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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The Extra Girl
Title: The Extra Girl
Character: Himself - Actor
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
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 instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
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The Extra Girl
Title: The Extra Girl
Character: Himself
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
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 instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
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Shadows of the North
Title: Shadows of the North
Character: Ben 'Wolf' Darby
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edison Marshall
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McGuire of the Mounted
Title: McGuire of the Mounted
Character: Bob McGuire
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
A film about a man named McGuire of the Royal Mounted Police.
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Night Life in Hollywood
Title: Night Life in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 1922
Type: Movie
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 stars.
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Perils of the Yukon
Title: Perils of the Yukon
Character: Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
Released: July 24, 1922
Type: Movie
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. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.
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Fightin' Mad
Title: Fightin' Mad
Character: Bud McGraw
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Police in Texas. On the way he meets Peggy Hughes, accompanying her Uncle Graham, a customs inspector, and he retrieves her hat from the rails of a train. At the headquarters, numerous scrapes and fights win him the admiration of, and friendship with, the men. Lazaro, a Secret Service agent, invites Mrs. Graham and Peggy, who are staying at the border station, for an automobile ride, and they are captured by bandits and held for ransom. Bud and his pals deliver the ransom and discover that Lazaro is the bandit chief. Lazaro refuses to release Peggy, but a jealous rival, Nita de Garma, causes his downfall and shoots him as the Border Police arrive to rescue the party.
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The Policeman and the Baby
Title: The Policeman and the Baby
Character: The Policeman
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
The Policeman and the Baby
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The Child Thou Gavest Me
Title: The Child Thou Gavest Me
Character: Tom Marshall
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
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 subsequently died. Her mother forbids her to reveal this. Only moments after the ceremony, it is discovered that the child, now three, is actually alive. Berkley, incensed at this turn of events, agrees to adopt the child and remain married for appearance's sake -- but when he finds the father, he will kill him.
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The Prince and Betty
Title: The Prince and Betty
Character: John Maude
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
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 tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic.
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A Sage Brush Hamlet
Title: A Sage Brush Hamlet
Character: Larry Lang
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
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.
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Her Code of Honor
Title: Her Code of Honor
Character: Eugene La Salle
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
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 man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
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Society for Sale
Title: Society for Sale
Character: Honorable Billy
Released: April 21, 1918
Type: Movie
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 turns out that her late father actually was a lord, they decide they now can marry.
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Captain of His Soul
Title: Captain of His Soul
Released: February 10, 1918
Type: Movie
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Master of His Home
Title: Master of His Home
Released: August 12, 1917
Type: Movie
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 abortion.
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Paws of the Bear
Title: Paws of the Bear
Character: Ray Bourke
Released: June 17, 1917
Type: Movie
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 traveler, gives her the protection of his name, but nevertheless both are sentenced to death. They are rescued by an allied rescue plane and later, bound for home, Ray meets an old college friend, Curt Schreiber, who is in the service of the German government. Schreiber has important papers to be delivered to Washington and, knowing that he will be searched on board ship, gives them to Ray. Olga beseeches Ray to give the papers up for her sake, but his word to Schreiber is sacred. Nearing America, Ray tells her that he will make an effort to return the papers if she will marry him.
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The Last of the Ingrams
Title: The Last of the Ingrams
Character: Jules Ingram
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules is driven from his house when banker Rufus Moore ( Robert McKim ) forecloses on the mortgage. Offered shelter by Mercy Reed ( Margery Wilson ), a woman who in her youth naively sinned and has remained rejected by the community ever since, Jules begins to reform. Climbing his way back to respectability, Jules attends church with Mercy, causing a storm of protest. Moore's wife Agnes urges the mob to violence, and as they attempt to tar and feather Jules and Mercy, Mercy delivers an eloquent speech condemning Moore as her betrayer. The mob then takes Moore as their victim, leaving Jules and Mercy in peace.
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The Iced Bullet
Title: The Iced Bullet
Character: The Author / Horace Lee
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
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 writer of the story comically tries to get the script read and accepted by a studio.
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A Gamble in Souls
Title: A Gamble in Souls
Released: December 9, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Dawn Maker
Title: The Dawn Maker
Character: Bruce Smithson
Released: September 23, 1916
Type: Movie
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, but Alice is in love with Bruce Smithson, who is an officer at the Hudson Bay Trading Company.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Rev. Donald Bruce
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
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 bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked after by her no-nonsense uncle Andrew Cameron (William H. Thompson). If Peggy's family had hoped that she would straighten up and behave herself in Scotland, they were sorely mistaken. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive with restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
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Peer Gynt
Title: Peer Gynt
Character: The Parson
Released: September 15, 1915
Type: Movie
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 fortune at others' expense, until he finds salvation in the love of Solveig.
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The Majesty of the Law
Title: The Majesty of the Law
Character: Jackson Morgan Kent
Released: August 26, 1915
Type: Movie
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
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Kilmeny
Title: Kilmeny
Character: Bob Meredith
Released: July 22, 1915
Type: Movie
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 their wanderings and is seen no more. In twelve years she becomes a great favorite with the gypsies, who have named her Kilmeny, but rather than be married to a brutal fellow, Barouche, she flees the camp.