William H. Brown

William H. Brown

Born: August 16, 1866
Died: February 3, 1924
in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for William H. Brown...

Little Eva Ascends
Title: Little Eva Ascends
Character: Richard Bansfield
Released: January 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Little Eva Ascends is a 1922 silent comedy
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The Fighting Chance
Title: The Fighting Chance
Character: Maj. Bellweather
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
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The Dancin' Fool
Title: The Dancin' Fool
Character: Gabby Gaines
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Judge Moore
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Sheriff Sandy Waddles
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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The Whispering Chorus
Title: The Whispering Chorus
Character: Stauberry
Released: March 28, 1918
Type: Movie
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
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Cheerful Givers
Title: Cheerful Givers
Character: Bob
Released: April 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
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The Bad Boy
Title: The Bad Boy
Character: Town marshall
Released: February 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary, he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth.
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The House Built Upon Sand
Title: The House Built Upon Sand
Character: Samuel Stevens
Released: December 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Father of the Bride of Cana / Warden
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Little Meena's Romance
Title: Little Meena's Romance
Character: The Butler
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
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Hoodoo Ann
Title: Hoodoo Ann
Character: Wilson Vance
Released: March 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.
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The Wolf-Man
Title: The Wolf-Man
Character: Henry West
Released: September 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
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A Yankee from the West
Title: A Yankee from the West
Character: Jan Hagnerg, Gunhild's Uncle
Released: August 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
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The Little Catamount
Title: The Little Catamount
Character: Dawson
Released: July 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor Dawson, another moonshiner, and arranges with Hattie's father to marry her. This does not agree with Hattie's ideas at all.
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Back to the Kitchen
Title: Back to the Kitchen
Character: The Ranchman
Released: October 16, 1914
Type: Movie
The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes on their lovemaking and rudely separates them. Following an idea which he worked on during a visit to New York, Pa writes to a Frenchman, a lawyer there, and tells him he will marry his daughter to a count the lawyer will provide. The lawyer accordingly looks up an Italian cook, decks him out with a red sash, etc., and sends him west for the easy money.
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The Courting of Mary
Title: The Courting of Mary
Character: Uncle Bill
Released: November 26, 1911
Type: Movie
A lost film. Mary the tomboy, and Owen, the sportsman, have an equal aversion to the opposite sex. . Meeting at the trout stream one day, Owen orders Mary off his side of the stream, where she has comfortably ensconced herself. But alas! Cupid has not lost his opportunity and the die is cast. Mary's uncle, although seemingly severe, has a tenderness for an interesting spinster of uncertain age and plans to get Mary married off at the behest of the spinster lady.