Biography: William Worthington |
A former opera singer and stage actor/director, William Worthington entered films as a leading man in 1913. Worthington's more notable screen roles included General George Washington in The Spy and Damon in Damon and Pythias (both 1914). From 1917 to... more
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Cast: Russell Simpson
Tags: Western
Length: 65min
Cecil B. DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation released this routine silent western starring brunette Mabel Ballin as an aspiring singer who marries the church organist (Andre deBeranger). He turns out to be a heel, unfortunately, and Ballin...
Cast: Patsy Ruth Miller
Length: 7rlmin
In this taut silent mystery, a young woman mends her recently broken heart by reluctantly accepting a young lawyer's proposal. To save her tarnished reputation (for her ex-lover turned out to be married) she asks her old beau to give back her...
Cast: Roscoe Karns Wade Boteler
Tags: Action Sports Drama
Length: 3rlmin
World War I veteran Frank Mayo wasn't Afraid to Fight in the battlefields of France. But when he becomes a professional boxer, it's a different story. Hoping to raise enough money to pay for his sister's medical bills, Mayo isn't a likely prospect for...
Cast: Phyllis Haver Frank Mayo
Length: 53min
Former Mack Sennett comedienne Phyllis Haver starred in this silent melodrama about a callous girl who marries for convenience in order to inherit an eccentric uncle's fortune. The chosen groom is honest auto mechanic Frank Mayo, who soon suffers the...
Cast: Hoot Gibson Russell Powell
Length: 5rlmin
Driven out of town by the local bully, Universal's rumpled cowboy star Hoot Gibson hops a freight train, only to be declared a hero for shooting a couple of fleeing bank robbers. The noble deed was actually performed by the train's brakeman, but...
Length: min
Popular light leading man Johnnie Walker stars in this modest silent comedy from modest producer Robertson-Cole (the future RKO). He plays Thaddeus Plummer, whose job is to bore holes in furniture to make it look antique. Nicknamed "The Worm,"...
Cast: Josef Swickard William Worthington
Length: min
Sylvia Lacey (Edith Roberts) is sent to relatives in New England when her irresponsible artist father dies penniless. She is sent to a farm in a small mill-town when she can't get along with the family. There she meets the overseer of the farm who...
Out of the Silent North (1922)
Cast: Barbara Bedford
Length: 5rlmin
This was yet another Northwoods drama released in the summer of 1922, supposedly to cool off sweaty theater patrons with its snow scenes. Englishman Reginald Stannard (Harris Gordon), in search of a mine, shows up at a small French Canadian trading...
Tags: Western
Length: 5rlmin
Best known for western series starring the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, Universal of the '20s also issued several non-series oaters. Tracked to Earth, a minor effort to be sure, featured all-purpose leading man Frank Mayo as a railroad...
Length: min
Keith Rollins is more virile and manly than your usual minister -- perhaps that's because he's played by Frank Mayo. The small town where he preaches is being run by Jim Boyd (George Marion), whose methods are less than scrupulous. Rollins decides to...
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