William Shea

William Shea

Born: October 6, 1856
Died: November 5, 1918
in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

Movies for William Shea...

A Daughter of Two Worlds
Title: A Daughter of Two Worlds
Character: Slim Jackson
Released: January 5, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Meeting
Title: The Meeting
Released: February 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This seems to be the first film in a short-lived Captain Barnacle series that Vitagraph started at the beginning of 1917. Young Bobby Connelly was one of the first star child actors and his character Sonny Boy links the two series he did for Vitagraph, the "Sonny Jim" series from 1914 to 1915 and the "Bobby" series in 1917.
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Walls and Wallops
Title: Walls and Wallops
Character: Police Chief
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with Lawrence (also Larry) Semon directing this. It is about cops, capers, and a love interest.
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
Title: The Blue Envelope Mystery
Character: George
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.
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A Villainous Villain
Title: A Villainous Villain
Character: Old Man Dukkets
Released: September 8, 1916
Type: Movie
The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.
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The Marriage of Molly-O
Title: The Marriage of Molly-O
Character: Denny McGuire
Released: August 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O prefers the company of carriage driver Larry O'Dea, who unfortunately is just as broke as she is. Or is he?
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The Man from Egypt
Title: The Man from Egypt
Character: Mr. Mazuma
Released: July 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
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A Night Out
Title: A Night Out
Character: McMahon
Released: January 31, 1916
Type: Movie
A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
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Beached and Bleached
Title: Beached and Bleached
Released: October 21, 1915
Type: Movie
The new stenographer is right there when it comes to class which does not escape the notice of her boss. He showers attentions upon her and asks her out to the beach with him the following Sunday. She accepts. It is perfect day for her Boss. She enters into the spirit of everything and he has things all his own way. She even ignores the glances of other men and when a certain one gets too fresh, the fresh one takes a beating at the hands of the boss. But then the boss wakes up. It was only a dream.
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You Can't Beat It
Title: You Can't Beat It
Character: Brother Steve
Released: October 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into a hotel to have a game of poker. He protests wildly and at last escapes long enough to phone Dill, his young wife, who is anxiously awaiting his return. He's going to be very late. At home, Mrs. Pike receives a telegram telling her that her brother Steve will be there soon and he is anxious to meet Bill..
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The Boarding House Feud
Title: The Boarding House Feud
Character: Billy's Uncle
Released: April 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees his opportunity when his uncle Battledore is suddenly called out of town. He hangs out a "Boarders Wanted" sign in front of his uncle's house, then with a big roll of bills the young man, just after Mrs. Drexel has given all the servants a raking over, lures them all away from her. When her boarders troop down to breakfast and find no breakfast awaiting them they all quit on the spot with feelings beyond description.
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The Lady of Shalott
Title: The Lady of Shalott
Character: Captain Starboard
Released: March 26, 1915
Type: Movie
On discovering that their beau, Timothy, the village schoolmaster, is quite unable to choose between them for a life partner, Ivy and Lily Skinner agree to draw lots. Ivy, who is of a romantic, novel-reading nature, loses and is broken hearted. She seeks solace in her favorite, Tennyson, and in reading "The Lady of Shalott" becomes imbued with the determination to die as did the heroine in the book.
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A Wireless Rescue
Title: A Wireless Rescue
Character: Old Welch - Polly's Father
Released: March 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
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Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Title: Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Character: Clancy
Released: December 25, 1914
Type: Movie
A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
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Hearts and Diamonds
Title: Hearts and Diamonds
Character: Uncle William
Released: September 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
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A Train of Incidents
Title: A Train of Incidents
Released: July 3, 1914
Type: Movie
Comedian John Bunny on a train all confused.
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Two Stepchildren
Title: Two Stepchildren
Character: Joe's Uncle Jabez - an Old Farmer
Released: July 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.
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The Maid from Sweden
Title: The Maid from Sweden
Character: John Haines - the Plasterer
Released: June 5, 1914
Type: Movie
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden. The new maid creates quite a stir in the staid and fashionable home of Mrs. Cook. While capering about in her room above, she brings down the ceiling. Mrs. Cook saves her from being discharged and then calls up the plasterer, whose name is John Haines, a widower, and the father of Bert, the chauffeur, in love with Marie Cook, their daughter. John fixes the ceiling, and on his return home finds a note from his son saying he is going to be married and suggests his father follow his example. John tells the news to Luna, proposes to her, and without a second's hesitation, she accepts him.
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Tangled Tangoists
Title: Tangled Tangoists
Released: April 23, 1914
Type: Movie
John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets involved in a nice bit of physical comedy when her gawkiness makes the dance lesson less than successful.
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The Hero
Title: The Hero
Released: February 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maude is simply crazy about him. She will not consider the attentions of Syd, her brother Bert's pal. One day Maude sits dreaming in the parlor, a book of daring adventures lying open in her lap. Syd enters and tries to make love to her.
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Sawdust and Salome
Title: Sawdust and Salome
Character: Uncle Jerry
Released: February 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bareback rider from traveling circus. Bringing her home, his family's pernicious double-standards are revealed.
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Those Troublesome Tresses
Title: Those Troublesome Tresses
Released: August 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa. The men buy horse hair to make the women believe it is hair of another woman; the women pretend to have received love letters. Final match result: women seem more jealous than men.
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Cupid Through a Keyhole
Title: Cupid Through a Keyhole
Character: Jack Wearyfoot - the Tramp
Released: May 24, 1913
Type: Movie
While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by telegram, Lila Lane gets herself shut in the storeroom. Here she is found later by her sweetheart, Harry Eschert, who has returned for some forgotten papers.
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The Mouse and the Lion
Title: The Mouse and the Lion
Character: A Gangster
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulting with Maime, a female accomplice, overhears some of their threats. He is discovered and kicked out of the place by Hanks. The next day, Tim, half starving, picks up a purse in the street which he has seen a lady drop. He is tempted to steal it, but in the end gives it back to her. Burling sees this, is struck with the boy's honesty, and being in need of a page boy, hires him and dubs him "Buttons."' Maime visits Burling and leaves him an address to come to investigate a robbery which has occurred at her home. Tim recognizes her as she goes out, follows her and has his suspicions confirmed by seeing her with one of the gang on the street. He goes to warn his master, but Burling has already gone.
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The Classmate's Frolic
Title: The Classmate's Frolic
Character: The Organ Player
Released: February 4, 1913
Type: Movie
A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.
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Nothing to Wear
Title: Nothing to Wear
Released: October 7, 1912
Type: Movie
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Unknown role
Released: October 6, 1912
Type: Movie
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
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The Bond of Music
Title: The Bond of Music
Character: Pierre le Noir, Vian's Neighbor
Released: August 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Released: May 14, 1912
Type: Movie
American horror crime movie from 1912.
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Aunty's Romance
Title: Aunty's Romance
Character: The Attorney
Released: May 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Title: Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Released: March 23, 1912
Type: Movie
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
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Chumps
Title: Chumps
Character: Mr. McSorley - the Climax
Released: January 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.
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Father and Son
Title: Father and Son
Released: January 15, 1912
Type: Movie
A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry.
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The Life Boat
Title: The Life Boat
Character: Old Capt. Bill - the Father
Released: November 25, 1911
Type: Movie
Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people that he has secured a good position, is saving money, and will be home before long. A year or two later he arrives in town and on his way to his home passes the old saloon he used to patronize. He cannot resist the temptation, and goes in. He falls in with a lot of bad fellows and is robbed. Ashamed to go home, he ships on board a sailing vessel.
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The Child Crusoes
Title: The Child Crusoes
Released: September 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a stowaway. When out to sea a few days, he is discovered, and is about to be disciplined, when the captain's daughter, May, intercedes. A terrific storm strikes them, and the ship is dashed to pieces. The captain, with the assistance of Jack, builds a little raft, and with little May, they set out for an island which they can hardly discern, as it is so many miles away. After drifting for many hours, they at last reach the island, which is inhabited by a savage tribe.
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A Friendly Marriage
Title: A Friendly Marriage
Character: The Butler
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
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Two Overcoats
Title: Two Overcoats
Character: Peter Dempsey
Released: June 24, 1911
Type: Movie
Solomon keeps a clothing store, he has in stock two overcoats of exactly the same make and pattern. Michael Gallagher, who is passing by and in need of an outer garment, notices Solomon's display and buys one of the coats. Shortly after the first sale, Peter Dempsey, a bachelor, happens along and takes quite a fancy to the remaining twin overcoat and Solomon makes another sale. Gallagher and Dempsey dine, at the same time, in the same restaurant. Finishing his meal, Gallagher leaves hurriedly and takes Dempsey's coat, quite naturally mistaking it for his own. When Dempsey is through with his meal, he puts on Gallagher's coat quite satisfied that it is his own. That night Dempsey goes to call on his sweetheart, who admires his new overcoat, and as she helps him off with it, a letter in a woman's hand-writing falls out of the pocket.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Jarvis Lorry
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Sir Pitt Crawley
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
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A Tin-Type Romance
Title: A Tin-Type Romance
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1910
Type: Movie
Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops.
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The Telephone
Title: The Telephone
Character: Laughing man
Released: October 29, 1910
Type: Movie
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
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Auld Robin Gray
Title: Auld Robin Gray
Character: Auld Robin Gray
Released: October 18, 1910
Type: Movie
Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.
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Ito, the Beggar Boy
Title: Ito, the Beggar Boy
Released: June 18, 1910
Type: Movie
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Mechanical
Released: December 25, 1909
Type: Movie
An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Title: Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Released: December 1, 1908
Type: Movie
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
Title: The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
Released: August 20, 1907
Type: Movie
An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.