William Black

William Black

Born: December 31, 1870
in Irvington, New York, USA

Movies for William Black...

Follow the Leader
Title: Follow the Leader
Released: December 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
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The Golf Specialist
Title: The Golf Specialist
Character: Guest in Lobby with Letter
Released: August 22, 1930
Type: Movie
At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
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The Line-Up
Title: The Line-Up
Character: Edward Farron
Released: December 18, 1929
Type: Movie
The Line-Up (1929)
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Deputy Sheriff
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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Ramshackle House
Title: Ramshackle House
Character: Keesing
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Pen Broome, who lives with her father (Henry James) on their rundown estate, tries to help Counsel out. Riever's men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him.
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The Highest Bidder
Title: The Highest Bidder
Character: Mr. Steese
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
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Flying Pat
Title: Flying Pat
Character: Detective
Released: November 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a friend of Robert's, offers to teach her how to fly. One day while aloft in the plane, the craft takes a sudden nosedive and crashes. The pair walk away uninjured and find shelter in a roadhouse. Robert, upon hearing of this, becomes jealous of Pat's spending so much time with Endicott, which angers Pat. She decides to leave Robert and slips out of the house to catch an evening train, but unfortunately, Endicott is also aboard the train. Robert finds out about that, too. Complications ensue.
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The Hidden Truth
Title: The Hidden Truth
Character: The Sheriff
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.
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The Hell Cat
Title: The Hell Cat
Character: Pancha's Father
Released: November 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dyke, whose attentions she repeatedly rebuffs. Jim and his men attack Pancha's ranch, burning it to the ground and killing her father. The outlaw carries her to his cabin, where Wan-o-mee, his jealous squaw, tries to stab the girl....
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The Prussian Cur
Title: The Prussian Cur
Character: Wolff von Eidel
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.
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The Floor Below
Title: The Floor Below
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her assignment is to explain the clue that links the Hope Mission, a derelict home run by millionaire Hunter Mason and his secretary, Monty Latham, with a series of local robberies. When Hunter discovers Patricia in his office, he assumes that she is a crook in need of reforming and takes her into his home to be cared for by his mother.....
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Title: The Secret of the Storm Country
Character: Mr. Burnett (as W.W. Black)
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
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The Greatest Power
Title: The Greatest Power
Character: Bradford Duncan
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Miriam Monroe and John Conrad are two young scientific workers who, independently of each other, have discovered a chemical called exonite. Miriam discovered it while searching for a cure for cancer, while Conrad used it as a basis for a powerful explosive.
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The New York Peacock
Title: The New York Peacock
Character: Graham
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy Martin is sent to New York to put through a war contract for his father, a new England manufacturer, and takes $100,000 as a security. The munition broker's secretary, a crook, tells Graham, a gambling house keeper, of Billy's coming. Miller is detailed to lure him to the gambling house.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Joe Gargery
Released: January 8, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Sex Lure
Title: The Sex Lure
Character: Bill Bernton
Released: November 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Wealthy capitalist, Clinton Reynolds, and his wife, Laura, have lost their son, Arthur, kidnapped and possibly dead. Attempting to write a wrong in his factory, he adopts the daughter of one of his workers who is killed on site. The girl, Rose, grows up resentful of her adoptive father and as she grows older, seduces him in order to break up his marriage. Long lost Arthur returns and, finding his parents' married life in disarray, becomes romantically involved with Rose in order to end the relationship she has forged with his father. Reynolds comes to his senses and makes amends with Laura, at which point Arthur leaves Rose.
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Ambition
Title: Ambition
Character: James Grant (as W.W. Black)
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Jude Hunter (Katherine Hughes) is a committed musician who is in the middle of preparing for the biggest and most important performance of her life. When mysterious, unprecedented, and seemingly connected deaths occur as the competition draws near, she begins to feel unsafe, thinking that she might be the next target.