William Burgess

William Burgess

Born: August 19, 1867
Died: October 30, 1948
in Newcomerstown, Ohio, USA

Movies for William Burgess...

Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Man with Dog
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Wild Money
Title: Wild Money
Character: Spreckett (as William Burress)
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Racketeers in Exile
Title: Racketeers in Exile
Character: Thornton
Released: March 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Charlie Gaunt (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: George S. Harris - Grocery Proprietor
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Abercrombie's Friend
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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The Little Colonel
Title: The Little Colonel
Character: Dr. Scott
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: Butts
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Banker, Patsy's Boss
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Minister
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Mr. Barrett - Mary's Father
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Feldman
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Bedside
Title: Bedside
Character: Oscar Bernstein - Music Critic
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Customer (as William Burress)
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Title: Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Character: Thomas Barnum
Released: November 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
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Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Title: Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Character: Hop Tup
Released: April 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Roger Colby (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Dad Sipes
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: Colonel Small
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Colonel Bellock
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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Fluttering Hearts
Title: Fluttering Hearts
Character: Father
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
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The Girl Who Ran Wild
Title: The Girl Who Ran Wild
Character: Johnny Cake
Released: October 9, 1922
Type: Movie
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her father's murderer. She shows no interest in anything until the new schoolmaster persuades her to tidy herself and get some education. Believing the schoolmaster to be in love with some other girl, M'liss decides to run off with another man.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Dr. Hugo Schmidt
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
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Paid in Advance
Title: Paid in Advance
Character: Regan (as William Burress)
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
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Lord and Lady Algy
Title: Lord and Lady Algy
Character: Brabazon Tudway
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Waggoner
Released: October 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so doing, he rescues his foster sister Fay Larkin, who is coveted by lecherous Mormon elder Wagoner. As was the case in Riders of the Purple Sage, the Mormons are villains simply because they are Mormons.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
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Kultur
Title: Kultur
Character: The Kaiser
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Just prior to World War I, the Kaiser sends Baron von Zeller to inform Emperor Franz Josef of Austria that he is ready to declare war on France. Sensing the impending crisis, the French War Office dispatches secret agent René de Bornay to investigate the situation, and upon his arrival, he cultivates the friendship of Franz Josef's mistress, the Countess Griselda von Arenburg.
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A Soul for Sale
Title: A Soul for Sale
Character: Hale Faxon (as William Burress)
Released: November 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest bidder. At the cost of her daughter's reputation, Mrs. Pendleton accepts money from elderly broker Wilbur Simons, and later tries to force Neila into a marriage with a dissolute old millionaire named Hale Faxon.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Freiheer Von Wittzchaeft
Released: August 17, 1917
Type: Movie
An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an attempt to abscond with a list of undercover German operatives.
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Fires of Conscience
Title: Fires of Conscience
Character: Randolf Sneed
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Rowley
Released: December 21, 1914
Type: Movie
The School for Scandal is a 1914 silent comedy.