William H. Turner

William H. Turner

Born: October 21, 1861
Died: September 27, 1942
in County Cork, Ireland

Movies for William H. Turner...

Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: I.N. Tree
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Love Me Tonight
Title: Love Me Tonight
Character: Bootmaker (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
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The Last Performance
Title: The Last Performance
Character: Booking Agent
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
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Driftin' Sands
Title: Driftin' Sands
Character: Don Roberto Aliso
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.
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Red Hot Leather
Title: Red Hot Leather
Character: Morton Kane
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.
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The Texas Streak
Title: The Texas Streak
Character: Surveyor Logan
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
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The Phantom Bullet
Title: The Phantom Bullet
Character: Judge Terrill
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
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Her Big Adventure
Title: Her Big Adventure
Character: Silas Merriwell (as William Turner)
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He finds work as a bellhop in a fancy Los Angeles hotel. Meanwhile, Silas' secretary, Betty Burton (Grace Darmond), wins a thousand dollars in a contest and uses the money to vacation in the very same hotel.
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Three Pals
Title: Three Pals
Character: Maj. Wingate
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
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The Pony Express
Title: The Pony Express
Character: William Russell
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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Where Was I?
Title: Where Was I?
Character: Jones
Released: August 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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White Thunder
Title: White Thunder
Character: Charles Evans
Released: May 23, 1925
Type: Movie
The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.
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The Power God
Title: The Power God
Character: Jarvis Humphries
Released: May 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Detective Jennings (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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The Garden of Weeds
Title: The Garden of Weeds
Character: Theater Manager
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
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Fast and Fearless
Title: Fast and Fearless
Character: Judge Brown
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Lightning Bill Lewis sets out to capture Gómez, the leader of a ruthless gang that has been tormenting a border town. He prevents Gómez from kidnapping his girl, Mary, but Gómez escapes. With the aid of Captain Duerta, Lightning Bill pursues the gang, and when it is captured by Mexican soldiers he is free to marry.
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The Enemy Sex
Title: The Enemy Sex
Character: Blaineey
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
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The Darling of New York
Title: The Darling of New York
Character: Close, the Master Mind
Released: December 3, 1923
Type: Movie
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
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Blow Your Own Horn
Title: Blow Your Own Horn
Character: Dinsmore Bevan
Released: November 11, 1923
Type: Movie
World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.
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Other Men's Daughters
Title: Other Men's Daughters
Character: President of the Board
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
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The Nation's Peril
Title: The Nation's Peril
Character: Adm. Lyons
Released: November 22, 1915
Type: Movie
A naive young woman's strong anti-war sentiments get her into trouble in this silent cautionary tale. She is such a devout pacifist that she spurns her lover when she learns that he has invented an aerial torpedo. Instead, she gets involved with a foreigner who swears that he totally shares her beliefs. Unfortunately, he is a foreign spy in disguise. At his urging, the innocent girl steals her ex-beau's plans and delivers them to the spy. When she learns that he is the enemy, she fights him and with a sword kills him. It is still not enough to stop the enemy from attacking an American port city.
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Traffic in Souls
Title: Traffic in Souls
Character: Isaac Barton
Released: November 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.