William Dyer

William Dyer

Born: March 9, 1881
Died: December 22, 1933
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
William Dyer was an American film actor in the silent era.

Movies for William Dyer...

Sagebrush Trail
Title: Sagebrush Trail
Character: Blind Pete
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shopgirl Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
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Gun Justice
Title: Gun Justice
Character: Red Hogan
Released: December 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.
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Texas Buddies
Title: Texas Buddies
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes over as pilot figuring another attempt will be made and this time the Sheriff will be there.
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Honor of the Mounted
Title: Honor of the Mounted
Character: U.S. Marshal Hatton
Released: June 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: Gravedigger (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
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Code of Honor
Title: Code of Honor
Character: Sheriff Asa Smyth (as Wm. Dyer)
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.
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The Desert of the Lost
Title: The Desert of the Lost
Character: Steve Wolfe
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.
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Gun Gospel
Title: Gun Gospel
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that will insure the shipments and ensure a guaranteed delivery. Granger Hume is hired to help Wells-Fargo deliver on their promise.
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Spurs and Saddles
Title: Spurs and Saddles
Character: Bud Bailey (as Bill Dyer)
Released: July 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Mildred is traveling West in search of her long-lost father when she catches the roving eye of wicked dance-hall proprietor "Hawk" Kent. She turns him down flat and Kent has his henchman Blaze frame her in a crime. To keep herself out of jail, Mildred is compelled to work in Kent's dive, until the gallant Jack comes to her rescue.
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The Fighting Three
Title: The Fighting Three
Character: Timothy
Released: July 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy. While she is performing at the town opera house, D'Arcy is found murdered and young Jack is accused of the heinous deed.
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The Man in the Saddle
Title: The Man in the Saddle
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart confirms this and refunds the losses but writes to his old pal Jeff Morgan, a former gunfighter, telling him of his predicament. Morgan sends his son, Jeff, Jr., a superb rider and dead shot but otherwise an awkward lout; at the insistence of Pauline, Stewart places Jeff in charge of a camping party. Laura Mayhew, a city girl in league with Lawrence, sends up a flare signal at night, and while Jeff chases some bears into the woods, Lawrence and his men hold up the camp.
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Looking for Trouble
Title: Looking for Trouble
Character: Sheriff Tom Plump
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.
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Hard Boiled Yeggs
Title: Hard Boiled Yeggs
Character: Dave
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the money and the 'Cafe', and the thugs try, through various means, to see that Billy meets his demise. But Billy manages to thwart their efforts, with the help of a pretty young girl.
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The Pony Express
Title: The Pony Express
Character: Bartender
Released: September 3, 1925
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
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Perils of the Wild
Title: Perils of the Wild
Character: Black John
Released: August 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Movie serial Perils of the Wild
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Crushed
Title: Crushed
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
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Singer Jim Mckee
Title: Singer Jim Mckee
Character: Hamlin Glass
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Title: Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Col. Horatio Higginbotham
Released: December 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
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Gun-Shy
Title: Gun-Shy
Released: September 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A milquetoast Easterner who on a trip to the Wild West is mistaken for a U.S. marshall.
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Don't Shoot
Title: Don't Shoot
Character: Boss McGinnis
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
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The Cowboy King
Title: The Cowboy King
Character: Hadley
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
"Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman fought back...
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Fightin' Mad
Title: Fightin' Mad
Character: Obadiah Brennan (as William J. Dyer)
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 Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Ash Brent
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
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Cyclone Bliss
Title: Cyclone Bliss
Released: January 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Title: The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Character: Hauck
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
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The Screaming Shadow
Title: The Screaming Shadow
Character: Jake Williams
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
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The Trail of the Octopus
Title: The Trail of the Octopus
Character: Sandy MacNab
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
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The Four-Bit Man
Title: The Four-Bit Man
Released: August 21, 1919
Type: Movie
The Four-Bit Man is a silent Western short.
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Man's Desire
Title: Man's Desire
Character: Slim Dorgan
Released: July 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
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The Red Glove
Title: The Red Glove
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
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The Little White Savage
Title: The Little White Savage
Character: Larkey
Released: February 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English survivors of a shipwreck.
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Who Will Marry Me?
Title: Who Will Marry Me?
Character: Karl Kremer
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.
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All Night
Title: All Night
Character: Bradford
Released: November 29, 1918
Type: Movie
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
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'49–'17
Title: '49–'17
Character: J. Gordon Castle
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
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Anything Once
Title: Anything Once
Character: Jethro Quall
Released: October 8, 1917
Type: Movie
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
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Triumph
Title: Triumph
Character: David Montieth (as William J. Dyer)
Released: September 2, 1917
Type: Movie
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
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Come Through
Title: Come Through
Character: McGinnis (as Bill Dyer)
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
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The Reward of the Faithless
Title: The Reward of the Faithless
Character: Peter Vlasoff
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
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Black Orchids
Title: Black Orchids
Character: Proprietor of L'Hibour Blanc
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
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Broken Fetters
Title: Broken Fetters
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Great Problem
Title: The Great Problem
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.