Walter Hiers

Walter Hiers

Born: July 18, 1893
Died: February 27, 1933
in Cordele, Georgia, USA
Walter Hiers (1893–1933) was an American silent film actor who died from pneumonia in 1933, aged 39. During his two decade-long acting career, spanning from 1912 to 1932, he starred in 101 films.

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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: Old Grad
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Dancers in the Dark
Title: Dancers in the Dark
Character: Ollie
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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A Private Scandal
Title: A Private Scandal
Character: Honest John
Released: December 30, 1931
Type: Movie
There is a sensational jewel robbery at the home of one of the leaders of the Boston Back Bay aristocracy, and a Count d'Alencourt is arrested on the basis of a long police record involving jewel thefts and later convicted. The story follows the activities of his accomplices who escape, led by Daniel Treve. Daniel and a gang-member hide out in a small Connecticut town, where Danny marries a local girl, Mary Gate, when her guardians try to railroad her in a reform school when she refuses to marry their son. She is the innocent means by which Danny gets the stolen jewels to New York. Danny tells her he only went through with the marriage to save her, and gives her money to live on until she can obtain a position. He them leaves New York determined to quit the rackets and make himself worthy of her. She then provides the way in which he can.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: Ukelele Player
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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A Holy Terror
Title: A Holy Terror
Character: Traveling Salesman (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
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A Wireless Lizzie
Title: A Wireless Lizzie
Character: Walter
Released: March 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the car runs out of control. Walter and his sweetheart, Mary, plan to elope but they discuss their plans in front of an open microphone at the broadcast station, and Mary's father hears it and sets out to stop their elopement.
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Speedy
Title: Speedy
Character: Soda Fountain Cook (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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Blondes by Choice
Title: Blondes by Choice
Character: Horace Rush
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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A Racing Romeo
Title: A Racing Romeo
Character: Sparks
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
When Red Walden loses out in the annual town motor race, Aunt Hattie Wayne and her niece Sally advise him to pay more attention to his garage.
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Beware of Widows
Title: Beware of Widows
Character: William Bradford
Released: May 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Title: The Wrong Mr. Wright
Character: Bond
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Husband Hunters
Title: Husband Hunters
Character: Sylvester Jones
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by their Bradshaw ratings. They befriend Lettie Crain, a country girl who comes near being deceived by Bartley Mortimer, a rich playboy. She is saved by another girl, Cynthia Kane, whose life Mortimer has ruined, and Lettie finds happiness with Bob Garrett, a poor but honest working man.
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Weak, But Willing
Title: Weak, But Willing
Character: Walter
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A devilish courtship.
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A Rarin’ Romeo
Title: A Rarin’ Romeo
Character: Romeo
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Porter
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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The Triflers
Title: The Triflers
Character: Chick Warren
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Marjorie Stockton is a fickle flapper who has loads of suitors. She won't give any of them the time of day, however, until she meets her match in the equally fickle Monte Covington.
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Along Came Ruth
Title: Along Came Ruth
Character: Plinty Bangs
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
When young Ruth Ambrose ( Viola Dana ) arrives in Action, Maine, she rents a room above the furniture store of Israel Hubbard. After he leaves her in charge of the shop, her vivacious charm advances sales, producing a profitable business and Ruth soon begins a romantic relationship with the storekeeper's nephew, Allan ( Raymond McKee ).
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Christine of the Hungry Heart
Title: Christine of the Hungry Heart
Character: Dan Madison
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Christine weds Stuart Knight only to discover he prefers the high life to married life. When Dr. Alan Monteagle comes along, Christine is drawn to him. But, still determined to stick to her wedding vows, she runs from him, only to get in a car accident with her husband, who happened to be riding by with one of his floozies.
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The Virgin
Title: The Virgin
Character: Sam Hawkins
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The Virgin (1924)
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Hold Your Breath
Title: Hold Your Breath
Character: Freddie
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Walter Hiers
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Title: Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Character: John Percival Billings
Released: March 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Rusty Snow
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts.
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Bought and Paid For
Title: Bought and Paid For
Character: James Gilley
Released: April 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry the wealthy Robert Stafford despite her lack of love for him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him.
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Her Gilded Cage
Title: Her Gilded Cage
Character: Bud Walton
Released: April 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A romance about a dancer seeking love and fame from Paris cabarets to New York society.
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Sham
Title: Sham
Character: Montee Buck
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
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Oh, Lady, Lady
Title: Oh, Lady, Lady
Character: Willoughby Finch
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A silent film version of the Kern-Bolton-Wodehouse "Princess Theatre" musical. The story concerns an engaged young man, Bill, whose ex-fiancée arrives unexpectedly on his wedding day. Meanwhile, comic complications arise because of a couple of crooks, the bride's mother dislikes the groom, and the nuptials are called off. Bill works to convince his old flame that he was not worthy to marry her; but his clumsy efforts do not make him look good to his new fiancée.
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Thomas Beene
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Tommy Robbins
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in Tommy Robbins, who lives in an adjoining bungalow and whose wife Letty is devoted to the cabarets. Harry admires Letty as much as Tommy admires Grace, and suggests to his neighbor that they arrange an exchange of wives. The wives overhear their husbands' plotting to obtain divorces and, still in love with the men they married, conceive a counter-plan of a week of platonic trial marriages. Over the seven-day period, the wives make life so miserable for each other's husbands that the two men gladly return to their respective spouses.
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A City Sparrow
Title: A City Sparrow
Character: Tim Ennis
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
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The Fourteenth Man
Title: The Fourteenth Man
Character: Harry Brooks
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Miss Hobbs
Title: Miss Hobbs
Character: George Jessup
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about fifty years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl.
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Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Title: Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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QuaidE-Azam Zindahbad
Title: QuaidE-Azam Zindahbad
Character: Billy Inwood
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Upon finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses.
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What's Your Husband Doing?
Title: What's Your Husband Doing?
Character: Charley Pidgeon
Released: January 25, 1920
Type: Movie
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Bill Henry
Title: Bill Henry
Character: Salesman
Released: August 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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Leave It to Susan
Title: Leave It to Susan
Character: Horace Peddingham
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A Clarence G. Badger silent cowboy western kidnapping mistaken identity romantic comedy, based on a story by Rex Taylor; about a rich woman who gets lost in the West, and is found by an engineer who she mistakes for an outlaw. tHe plays along because he enjoys it, but then four real outlaws show up, and he tells them he was kidnapping her. They get found out, the girl gets one of the outlaws' guns and rescues them, and of course, they discover they love each other!
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When Doctors Disagree
Title: When Doctors Disagree
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
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Experimental Marriage
Title: Experimental Marriage
Character: Charlie Hamilton
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage. When the handsome Foxcroft Grey proposes marriage, Suzanne isn't sure she wants to give up her freedom, so she strikes a deal: From Saturday to Monday they will be husband and wife, but the rest of the week, she is single.
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Hard Boiled
Title: Hard Boiled
Character: Hiram Short
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A musical-comedy troupe headed by prima donna Corinne Melrose is stranded in the little town of Nilesburg, Arizona, when the show's manager leaves town with all the money. When Corinne spends her last cent on a train ticket for one of the girls, she is advised by the station agent to seek assistance from a kindhearted old lady called Aunt Tiny Colvin. Aunt Tiny takes Corinne in but confesses that she, too, is in dire financial straits because the moneylender to whom she owes $200, Deacon Simpson, has demanded repayment. The deacon, a married man, becomes enamored of Corinne and makes improper advances towards her. Corinne threatens to expose his behavior to his wife and the townspeople unless he surrenders Aunt Tiny's bank notes, and to avoid the scandal, he complies. Billy Penrose, a tenor who is in love with Corinne, arrives in Nilesburg with news of vaudeville openings in New York, but she has become enchanted by the little town and convinces him to settle there with her. - From AFI
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The Daredevil
Title: The Daredevil
Character: 'Buzz' Clendenning
Released: October 13, 1918
Type: Movie
When Roberta Carruthers' father, Capt. Carruthers, is killed in France during the war, she comes to live in the US with her uncle. When she finds out that her uncle is under the impression that his brother had a son and not a daughter, she decides to disguise herself as a male, and calls herself Bob.
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The Lesson
Title: The Lesson
Character: 'Tub' Martin
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and escort, Chet Vernon. Helen is so anxious to experience life in the big city that she falls in love with visiting New York architect John Galvin almost immediately after his arrival. Several weeks later, the two marry and move to New York, where, after a series of painful experiences, Helen finally realizes John's selfishness.
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Mrs. Slacker
Title: Mrs. Slacker
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
Susie organizes plays to benefit the Red Cross. She marries her hero, Robert, but finds out he did it to avoid the draft. She begs to be taken in his place and is soon captured by the enemy. Will Robert become the hero she believed he was?
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Tubby
Released: January 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Life's Whirlpool
Title: Life's Whirlpool
Character: Fatty Holmes
Released: November 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her former sweetheart (played by Alan Hale in his leading-man period). Their clandestine relationship finally comes out in the open when the nasty husband is killed by his irate tenants.
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The Mysterious Miss Terry
Title: The Mysterious Miss Terry
Character: Freddie Bollen
Released: August 19, 1917
Type: Movie
In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.
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God's Man
Title: God's Man
Character: Hugo Waldemar
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Arnold L'Hommedieu and his friends Archie Hartogensis and Hugo Waldemar go to New York to find work after being unfairly expelled from college. Arnold starts off as helpful and idealistic, but after being beaten down by life, he decides he is only after money and becomes an opium smuggler. His pals have fared no better: Archie becomes a drug addict and is in debt thanks to his spendthrift fiancee, while Hugo has lost his money after investing in a show that flopped. The two go to Arnold for financial aid. They await a shipment of opium, but the police are onto them and raid the hideout; only Arnold evades the cops.
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The End of the Tour
Title: The End of the Tour
Character: 'Skinny' Smith
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
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Seventeen
Title: Seventeen
Character: George Cooper
Released: November 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.
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The Conquest of Canaan
Title: The Conquest of Canaan
Character: Norman Flitcroft
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden scandalizes his small town and especially the proper Judge Pike. But through the love of young Ariel Taber, Joe shows the town who the real scoundrel is.
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For His Son
Title: For His Son
Character: At Soda Fountain (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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Her Awakening
Title: Her Awakening
Released: September 28, 1911
Type: Movie
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.