Biography: William Desmond |
Long before there was a Hollywood, William Desmond was well known in Los Angeles theatrical circles. Desmond spent five years appearing with the west-coast Morosco Stock Company, the Burbank Theatre, and the Los Angeles Opera House. With his own stock... more
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Cast: William Desmond
Tags: Western
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"God Damn" O'Day (William Desmond) swears off gambling after he is falsely accused of murdering the husband of a saloon vamp, Denver Nell (Marguerite Clayton). Escaping from jail, God Damn manages to track down the real killer and later celebrates his...
Cast: Francis Ford
Length: 5rlmin
This crude melodrama starring William Desmond seems like it came from an earlier age when it's compared to other films of the roaring '20s, and in a way it did; this was a remake of the 1916 film starring J. Warren Kerrigan. Desmond plays John...
Cast: Arthur Rosson
Length: 5rlmin
The Robin Hood legend reached the West with this exciting oater starring the veteran William Desmond. Desmond plays a Wall Street tycoon who escapes to the West after being dumped by a girl. He becomes a highway robber known as "The Meddler," stealing...
Cast: Rosemary Thebv Virginia Brown Faire Jack Richardson
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 5rlmin
Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is bored with living on the ranch belonging to his father (Joseph J. Dowling). He leaves and heads south, where he applies for a...
Tags: Western
Length: 54min
Smiling Bill Flannigan (William Desmond), a once-renowned prizefighter, escapes West after accidentally killing an opponent in the ring in this muscular Universal western. The ex-boxer obtains the job of ranch cook and gets involved with the...
Cast: J.P. McGowan
Tags: Crime Thriller Action Crime
Length: 4rlmin
J.P. McGowan, who specialized in directing low-budget action pictures during the silent era, focuses on bootlegging here. Rita Wingate (Helen Holmes, the wife of J.P. McGowan in real life) is the member of a group of bootleggers headed by Steve...
Tags: Western
Length: 62min
The second version of novelist Henry Herbert Knibbs' western romance Overland Red, previously filmed in 1920 under that title and starring Harry Carey, The Sunset Trail featured veteran action star William Desmond as a disgraced former sheriff who...
Cast: Willard Louis Louise Lorraine Raymond Schrock
Length: 53min
In this tale of the Northwest Mounted Police, William Desmond goes through his paces without a lot of enthusiasm (and, at the age of 45, he was getting a bit old for leading man roles -- "Desmond is getting heavy," ~Motion Picture News noted). Bob...
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