William T.  Hayes

William T. Hayes

Movies for William T. Hayes...

Terry of the 'Times'
Title: Terry of the 'Times'
Released: August 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
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Prize Puppies
Title: Prize Puppies
Character: Ring Steward
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Needy Ham Hamilton is mistaken for a dog show judge and he takes advantage of the situation for material gain.
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Toot Sweet!
Title: Toot Sweet!
Character: Salesman (as Will Hays)
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.
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Ace of Action
Title: Ace of Action
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Two families feud over possession of a valuable waterhole.
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The Love Fighter
Title: The Love Fighter
Character: Danny Martin
Released: April 30, 1926
Type: Movie
A short film about a man who rescues a wounded dog from the battlefields of WWI and brings him home to America.
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A Fraternity Mixup
Title: A Fraternity Mixup
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A group of girls in al all-girl college dormitory spend a wild night among thieves, cross-dressing boys and wild animals like a man-eating gorilla. Blue Ribbon comedy produced by Joe Rock, directed by Percy Pembroke, starring Alice Ardell and Gale Henry.
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Character: G. W. Battles
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
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Piccadilly Jim
Title: Piccadilly Jim
Character: Peter Pett
Released: November 1, 1919
Type: Movie
American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim." When he overhears his American cousin by marriage, Ann Chester, giving her candid opinion of him, he decides to return to America to try to reform. He meets Ann on the boat, using another name. Unable to find work in New York, he goes to his step aunt Mrs. Peter Pett's home to be near Ann. Jim then helps Ann kidnap pampered cousin Ogden Pett whose overindulgence has created disruption in the household.
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American Buds
Title: American Buds
Character: Sam
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.
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The Awakening of Ruth
Title: The Awakening of Ruth
Character: Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.