William Duncan

William Duncan

Born: December 16, 1879
Died: February 7, 1961
in Dundee, Scotland, UK

Movies for William Duncan...

Stuck with Each Other
Title: Stuck with Each Other
Character: Columnist
Released: October 17, 1989
Type: Movie
When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the criminal owners of the money.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Title: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character: Captain Inglis
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Law of the Pampas
Title: Law of the Pampas
Character: Buck Peters
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
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The Frontiersmen
Title: The Frontiersmen
Character: Buck Peters
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
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Bar 20 Justice
Title: Bar 20 Justice
Character: Buck Peters
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Dennis mine, has Dennis killed. Hoppy steps in to take over running the Dennis mine and learns Frazier's men sneak into and work the Dennis mine at night. Hoppy captures one of Frazier's men only to be captured in return by Frazier and left to die in a burning building.
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Hopalong Rides Again
Title: Hopalong Rides Again
Character: Buck Peters
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link, but in reality he is a cattle rustler who uses his dynamite to scatter the cattle in order capture some of them. Hoppy and Bar 20 guys ultimately capture the professor.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Blaine
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
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Three on the Trail
Title: Three on the Trail
Character: Buck Peters
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Ben Ide
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: William Duncan
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Wolves of the North
Title: Wolves of the North
Character: Alan Gray
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
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The Silent Avenger
Title: The Silent Avenger
Character: Phil Read
Released: April 20, 1920
Type: Movie
The Silent Avenger is an American silent action film
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Smashing Barriers
Title: Smashing Barriers
Character: Dan Stevens
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.
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The Fighting Trail
Title: The Fighting Trail
Character: John Gwyn
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
silent western
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Title: The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
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Through the Wall
Title: Through the Wall
Character: Paul Stanton (aka Coquenil)
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
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The Cost of High Living
Title: The Cost of High Living
Character: Jack
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan & Corinne Griffith about The Cost of High Living.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Philip Weyman
Released: April 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Far away, in the timberlands of the North, where the purity of woman is placed above all else, lived Josephine Adare, a kind, honest soul, whose face plainly bore an expression of deep sorrow and anxiety. Up to this, God's Own Country, came a man, Philip Weyman, to spend a year in that region. The man meets the woman and falls in love with her. He begs her to confide in him her great sorrow, which he sees she is constantly thinking of, but she tells him that she cannot do so.
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Love and Law
Title: Love and Law
Character: Jimmy
Released: November 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Jimmy and the Deacon are rivals for the rich widow's hand, and the Deacon with his little Flivver has so far won out.
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Marian, the Holy Terror
Title: Marian, the Holy Terror
Character: Dave
Released: May 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Marian, in truth a quiet and reserved girl from the East, in the new tonic atmosphere of Arizona seems to change her nature and through a series of misunderstandings is given the title of "The Holy Terror."
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The Little Sister
Title: The Little Sister
Character: First Prospector
Released: February 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Little Nell keeps house for her two brothers, who have a cabin near a placer claim, where they wash out pay-dust so rapidly that they have accumulated quite a store of it, which gives an added responsibility to the little girl, to watch its hiding place. She is further burdened with the care of a small baby sister
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A Friend in Need
Title: A Friend in Need
Character: Jimmy Donovan - the Chauffeur
Released: January 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Jimmy Donovan gets a passenger for his automobile to make an all-day trip to the Stanley Ranch. When they have almost reached their destination, the engine goes "dead," but the Stanley girls, riding broncos, come to the rescue and drag the car on to the ranch at the end of their ropes.
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By Unseen Hand
Title: By Unseen Hand
Character: Jimmy Norton
Released: January 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret Warrington. Arthur is in love with Margaret; she repels his advances, but he persists. Her uncle, however, rather favors the match, as he thinks Baxter is wealthy.
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Mother Love vs Gold
Title: Mother Love vs Gold
Character: Dick Mackey
Released: December 23, 1913
Type: Movie
A pair of precious loafers in a mining town learn from one of their "kidney" that Dick Mackey's partner, Bill Bryson, has died and that his gold dust is cached in Dick's cabin. They get sober and conclude to rob Mackey, but find that he is too quick on "the draw," and give it up.
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The Rustler's Reformation
Title: The Rustler's Reformation
Released: December 2, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Taming of Texas Pete
Title: The Taming of Texas Pete
Character: Texas Pete
Released: July 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Texas Pete, a gun-man, is "extra" bad when in liquor. This, however, does not terrify the ranch foreman, who discharges him for drunkenness. Pete laces on his hardware and lurches off, with the intention of shooting up the town where he pumped in his original trouble.
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Made a Coward
Title: Made a Coward
Character: Bud Harris
Released: July 10, 1913
Type: Movie
Bud Harris, a young miner with a reputation for courage, goes prospecting in the desert with Tom Jones in an attempt to locate a turquoise mine. Their water gives out and their horses die on the way. Bud thinks that Tom has water in his canteen and strikes him down.
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Sallie's Sure Shot
Title: Sallie's Sure Shot
Character: Fred
Released: July 4, 1913
Type: Movie
Rob Ralston is forced to go to "town" for supplies, and "Injun" Jim, a sneaking rascal, announces that he proposes to jump his claim. This arouses the official ire of Fred "the star wearer," and he soundly trounces the half-breed rascal. Now Fred has an intrepid sweetheart. Sally, who is a well-spring of information and is naturally hated by law-breakers. "Injun" Jim gets reinforcements and carries off the girl as a hostage. Fred senses they are making for the mine, so he girds on his guns and goes in the same direction. The desperadoes arrange to "dynamite" Sally, but she cuts the fuse in two by a well aimed shot after they have sought safety at a distance. This saves her sweetheart Fred, who rushes to her rescue, and they both retreat to a cabin. The dynamiters are obstinate and place another cartridge, so that the cabin will be blown to pieces. The daring Fred picks up the keg of powder and rushing out rolls it down on Injun Jim and his fellow mischief-makers. They are so dazed ...
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The Marshal's Capture
Title: The Marshal's Capture
Character: The Marshal
Released: June 24, 1913
Type: Movie
The marshal is compelled to arrest his brother-in-law for accidentally shooting a Mexican. His wife pleads for his release, but it is ineffectual. When he is asleep, she takes the calaboose keys from his pocket, but finds that the prisoner has been helped out by a "half-breed.". The marshal is awakened by her return and discovers that his keys are gone.
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The Only Chance
Title: The Only Chance
Character: Charley West - the Lineman
Released: June 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Charley West, a lineman, complains about his rickety old hand-car, and is given one that is up-to-date. He tries it out and finds he can send it sixty miles an hour. The train dispatcher, forgetting an oncoming special freight, allows a passenger train to leave the yard before he discovers his mistake.
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His Father's Deputy
Title: His Father's Deputy
Character: Deputy Jim Carter - the Sheriff's Son
Released: May 19, 1913
Type: Movie
John Wilson goes to the mountain-town bank to draw out the pay-roll. Sam Marvin and Ed Hanley "pike" this proceeding and ride on ahead, up the road, to await the coming of the superintendent in his auto. Jim Carter, the son of Sheriff Carter, also his deputy, observes their actions, and finds their pictures in prison records.
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The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver
Title: The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver
Character: The Shotgun Man
Released: April 9, 1913
Type: Movie
It was a time when men thought quick and shot quick, self-preservation being Nature's first law. The stage-coach, having the precious freight of two fair girls and much of Uncle Sam's mail, goes through on schedule time, despite the fact that a band of outlaws leagued to rapture the mail coach.
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The Life Timer
Title: The Life Timer
Character: Steve
Released: March 26, 1913
Type: Movie
Steve and Tom are rivals for the hand of Mona.
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The Sheriff of Yavapai County
Title: The Sheriff of Yavapai County
Character: Sheriff Bud O'Neill
Released: March 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Big "Bud" O'Neill, the sheriff of Yavapai County, is in love with Nellie Bowen, daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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The Range Law
Title: The Range Law
Character: Ted
Released: February 21, 1913
Type: Movie
Ted, the foreman of "The Diamond S. Ranch" is in love with Dora, Dad's daughter. Tafe is the leader of a band of desperate characters that have been terrifying the neighborhood for some time. He sees Dora and immediately decides to try and make an impression upon her.
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Jim's Vindication
Title: Jim's Vindication
Character: Jim - Pony Express Rider
Released: October 29, 1912
Type: Movie
An express rider is wrongly suspected of theft. When he is sentenced to imprisonment, friends help him to escape. In the pursuit that emerges, he manages to unmask the real thief.
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So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law
Title: So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law
Character: Red Reagan - a Prospector
Released: October 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Red Reagan, and two companions, Brooks and Mathis, lose their way while on a prospecting trip in the mountains. Fortunately they come to an Indian camp where they get food and water, and So-Jun-Wah a beauteous Indian maid, shows them the trail to the settlement.
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A War Time Romance
Title: A War Time Romance
Character: Jack Munroe
Released: July 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, was that of Arthur Deming, the young Confederate officer, and his Southern sweetheart, Alice Munroe.
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Jack Wright - Nellie's Brother
Released: January 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it is after banking hours, Mr. Mason puts the money in his house safe. He is overseen by Harry, who breaks into the safe and steals the money.
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A Cowboy's Best Girl
Title: A Cowboy's Best Girl
Character: Carl Graham, a Young Rancher, Glen's Best Friend
Released: January 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, and tells of the engagement. Lucy, who also had designs on Glen, congratulates Alice, but determines to break up the match.
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The Bully of Bingo Gulch
Title: The Bully of Bingo Gulch
Character: Wild Jim, the Bad Man of Bingo Gulch
Released: December 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Hiram Hughes, foreman on "Pop" Lynd's ranch in Bingo Gulch, has quit his job. He has had enough of "Wild Jim," who is the pest of the ranch. In despair, Pop goes to Bingo, where he places a sign on the post office, advertising for a new foreman. "Easy" Thompson, the star performer of the "Circle Bar Ranch" show, has had enough of circus life and resigns his job.
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A Romance of the Rio Grande
Title: A Romance of the Rio Grande
Character: Smith, an Old Settler
Released: December 12, 1911
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and supplying it to the Indians.
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Western Hearts
Title: Western Hearts
Character: A Gambler
Released: November 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Sam Long leaves his invalid wife to seek work in a neighboring town. He is unsuccessful in his quest and being penniless, and his wife in need of food and medicine, he steals a wallet of money from Dr. Lane. While returning home he loses the wallet on the road. It is found by some of the boys, who return it to the doctor.
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Told in Colorado
Title: Told in Colorado
Character: John Hunter
Released: October 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Told in Colorado is a short, silent thriller
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The Wheels of Justice
Title: The Wheels of Justice
Character: Richard Courtright
Released: September 14, 1911
Type: Movie
James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple to Hazen's new home in the country. Hazen has isolated himself here in the hope of finding security in complete loneliness.