William Welsh

AKA: William Joseph Welsh, William Welch, William J. Welsh
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1870-02-08

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

Charles Denver

1916-12-24 6.2

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action, Science Fiction

Fisherman

1927-11-14 0

The Opening Night

When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress ...
Genre :Drama

Daniel Sullivan

1928-01-18 0

The Head of the Family

Silent Comedy of the battle of the sexes for dominance within the home. ...
Genre :Comedy

James Powell (as William Welch)

1928-01-15 0

Daredevil's Reward

Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, c ...
Genre :Western

George Clearwater (as William Welch)

1927-08-14 0

Chain Lightning

Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and ...
Genre :Western

Judge Elliott

1929-02-03 0

Come and Get It!

When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the street to clear his name. ...
Genre :Adventure

Governor Standish

1928-08-26 0

Lightning Speed

Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet is attempting to kidnap Be ...
Genre :Action

George Ainslee

1923-12-17 0

The Red Warning

Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After rustlers stole his cattle, Ainslee went off in search of a lost mine and fell victim to a killer. B ...
Genre :Western

John Henderson

1922-11-19 0

Ridin' Wild

Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to ...
Genre :Western

John Marshall

1925-05-11 0

The Fighting Ranger

After crashing his plane in the wilderness, a young airborne forest ranger is nursed back to health by a mountain man and his pretty daughter in this 18-chapter serial from Universal. ...
Genre :Action, Western

Bill Hayes

1926-10-31 0

The Man from the West

Art Louden, foreman of the Bar H Ranch, is contemptuous of the masculine city flappers and effeminate city sheiks who are vacationing on the ranch, and when reproached by the owner, Bill Hayes, for di ...
Genre :Western

John Lawrence

1935-04-12 0

Queen of the Jungle

A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radiu ...
Genre :Action

Sheriff Hayes

1926-05-15 6

The Set-Up

Cliff Barton, suspicious of the intentions of the local banker, Seth Tolliver, withdraws his money from the bank, hides it, and is later killed by two hirelings of the banker. Deputy Sheriff Art Strat ...
Genre :Western

Alexander Seaton

1927-06-05 0

The Western Rover

Returning to the family ranch after a spell as a circus performer, Art Hayes finds that a crooked ranch foreman has forced his father into bankruptcy. ...
Genre :Western

Ben Hanfer

1925-08-02 0

The Red Rider

White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he fall ...
Genre :Western

Grimes

1927-05-01 0

Hills of Peril

Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captu ...
Genre :Western

Hassan Bey

1913-12-20 0

The Conscience of Hassan Bey

From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter. Still she was obdurate. In his madness, he had poisoned his other love wit ...
Genre :Drama

1922-09-04 0

Top o' the Morning

Jerry O'Donnell arrives from Ireland to be with her father in America. However, she soon finds living with her stepmother unpleasant, Jerry leaves home and encounters John Garland, a millionaire, now ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

George Carroll

1922-12-24 0

The Flirt

Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mischa Hadley

1923-06-10 5.1

The Shock

A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama

Al Sheridan

1922-10-16 0

The Lone Hand

Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan and her father, Al Sheridan, who are fighting off a g ...
Genre :Western

The Father

1926-11-05 0

Obey the Law

When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, g ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

Harlu

1923-04-23 0

Dead Game

"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Te ...
Genre :Western

Bill Randolph

1923-06-28 0

Shootin' for Love

Duke Travis returns from the war suffering from shell shock and an inordinate fear of guns. His father, a ranch owner, refuses to accept Duke's disability and considers him a coward. ...
Genre :Western

Lafe Dorsey

1923-10-14 0

The Ramblin' Kid

The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her after he triumphs in a rodeo in spite of having been doped by his enemy, Sabota the Greek, a crafty rac ...
Genre :Western

1921-04-30 0

Crossed Clues

Crossed Clues is a 1921 silent Western. ...
Genre :Western

Prussian Officer

1918-12-21 6.1

The Heart of Humanity

The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as every ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

General John Harvey

1936-10-04 6

Cavalry

Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its c ...
Genre :Western

Malcolm Gale

1925-09-06 5

The White Outlaw

Jack Lupton loves three things in the world, Buck his dog, Scout his horse and the lovely rancher's daughter Mary Gale. But his beloved horse Scout was driven off by man's cruelty and finding freedom, ...
Genre :Western

Aboto

1920-04-04 0

Trailed by Three

The story of a girl who for months was in perpetual peril; on land, on sea, everywhere, Orient, Occident, and the Antipodes. ...
Genre :Western

Thomas Gordon

1927-04-05 0

Paying the Price

Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder. ...
Genre :Crime

Jeffrey Neilson

1923-08-27 0

Shadows of the North

Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war, leaving Pancake to run the mine. During Ben's absence three claim jumpers take possession of the m ...
Genre :Western

John Allen

1932-07-08 5.5

Beyond the Rockies

A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers. ...
Genre :Western

1929-11-24 0

Skinner Steps Out

William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignifica ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor Singleton

1915-07-16 0

The Eleventh Dimension

A professor seeks to prove life after death by reviving a dead body. ...
Genre :

Pa Stoddard

1931-09-11 7

Sundown Trail

Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, eve ...
Genre :Western

Leonard Dare - the Actor / Manager

1913-10-30 5

His Hour of Triumph

Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he retu ...
Genre :Drama

Conductor

1935-09-01 6

Diamond Jim

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady. ...
Genre :Drama

Jim's father

1916-09-26 0

The Foolish Virgin

A 1916 film. ...
Genre :Drama

Dad Mercer

1931-10-29 0

Freighters of Destiny

A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father. ...
Genre :Western

William Trubus

1913-11-24 5

Traffic in Souls

A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Chief Campbell

1916-05-15 0

Elusive Isabel

Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle. ...
Genre :Drama

King Neptune

1914-04-25 1

Neptune's Daughter

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible. ...
Genre :Fantasy

Abner Benson, Ed's Father

1926-11-08 0

Benson at Calford

The first entry in the Collegians comedy short series, with 4th of July celebrations. ...
Genre :Comedy

Benson

1930-09-25 0

The Love Trader

A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island o ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Bessie's father

1916-09-03 0

The Narrow Path

Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds. She becomes an orphan when her father, in a drunken stupor, kills her mother, ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Williams

1928-10-21 1

Companionate Marriage

Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based o ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1915-12-13 0

The Primrose Path

Too poor to pay for medicine, Ned Templeton, a struggling young artist living in Paris, lapses into a prolonged illness. To save her husband's life, Joan Templeton sells herself to a rich art dealer, ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Meagan

1926-09-01 0

Frenzied Flames

Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is openly despised by one of the smoke-eaters, who has a yen for our hero's sweetheart. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Pa Benton

1920-09-17 0

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse

The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Juryman (Uncredited)

1934-08-06 4.714

One More River

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship. ...
Genre :Drama

1915-05-21 0

Courtmartialed

Jules, the son of French General Bleriot, agrees to give a masked blackmailer his father's secret military papers when threatened with exposure of his gambling debts. Masked, Jules steals the papers, ...
Genre :Drama

John Benson

1915-06-25 0

Conscience

Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the rights to an invention. After Grant breaks up a fight in a bar between drunken Dave Wilson and an old ...
Genre :Drama

David Duncan

1915-06-18 0

The White Terror

Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Croo ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Weathers

1929-11-03 0

The Mississippi Gambler

He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beautiful daughter of a Southern gentleman; yet she fell ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Walsh

1916-02-28 0

The Lords of High Decision

Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees, Wayne Craighill joins the old man's mining business. Adding to the strain between father and son, ...
Genre :Drama

Gubetta

1917-03-15 0

The Eternal Sin

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's ...
Genre :Drama

1922-02-28 0

The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each episode in the series was a story complete in itself. ...
Genre :Drama

David Messiter

1924-01-28 0

The Man from Wyoming

Ned Bannister, manager of a sheep ranch, is accused of the murder of David Messiter, a neighboring cattle rancher. Bannister's employer, Halloway, would like to own the cattle rancher's spread. When H ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Western

Rene's Sister's Assailant

1915-05-06 0

Rene Haggard Journeys On

Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime. His sister had been lured from home and abandoned by the villain. Desolate at first after some time ...
Genre :Drama

1923-01-01 0

One of Three

An adventuress traps Norroy into her apartment, then, with the aid of several men, gets the new secret code from him. He turns the laugh on all of them by staging their capture and proving that he had ...
Genre :Drama

General Lemuel Siddall

1924-09-15 4

The Price She Paid

In order to save her extravagant mother from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, young society girl Mildred Gower is forced to accept the proposal of Lemuel Siddall, a wealthy man she loathes. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Lawyer for the Plantiff

1924-04-07 0

The Law Forbids

Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peggy move to a farm town, while Paul remains in the ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Samuel Grimes

1923-04-16 0

The Town Scandal

Broadway chorus girl Jean Crosby visits her sister in Murphysburg and finds that not only has her brother-in-law, Lysander Sprowl, squandered all the money she has sent, but the leading male citizens- ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Matthew Harlow

1923-01-01 0

Around the World in 18 Days

Film serial. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Italian convict

1924-10-10 0

The Western Wallop

Parolee Bart Tullison becomes foreman of Anita Stillwell's ranch near the Nevada border. While Anita considers Bart a coward because he will not pursue cattle rustlers across the border, Jefferson Bra ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Max Gossman

1921-05-09 0

Reputation

Actress Fay McMillan finds her child, Pauline, whom she deserted years ago, in an orphanage, but Monty, her financer, objects to her taking the girl back. ...
Genre :Drama

Circus Manager

1921-05-30 0

The Man Tamer

A young woman becomes a lion tamer in a circus. The circus manager is in love with her, but she only has eyes for a millionaire's playboy son. ...
Genre :Adventure

1923-10-03 0

Beasts of Paradise

Philip Grant attempts to reclaim five million dollars in gold stolen from his fathers' steamer by a submarine. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Mystery

José Remado

1925-07-18 0

Don Dare Devil

Jack Bannister returns to his home in South America, bringing with him some Wyoming cowboys. At a fiesta, he meets Menocal, an old friend, who is murdered moments later by Bud Latham, an American band ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Banker Conner

1925-02-08 0

Flying Hoofs

Sheriff Frank Moody has sworn to bring to justice a notorious bandit known only as The Raven, but, as he hunts for the unknown outlaw, circumstantial evidence and village gossip suggests that Henry Mo ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Percival Wade

1926-01-31 0

The Demon

A band of marauders are burning the property of ranchers in Slocum Valley. Dane Gordon, Percival Wade's silent partner, poses as an ex-convict, joins the gang, and falls in love with Goldie Fleming, s ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Western

Dan McCarthy

1922-02-06 0

The Scrapper

Malloy, a young Irish construction engineer just out of college, is assigned to a project and immediately falls in love with the contractor's daughter, Eileen. The contractor's secretary, who also lov ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Paine

1927-09-27 0

The Isle of Forgotten Women

Directed by George B. Seitz. With Conway Tearle, Dorothy Sebastian, Gibson Gowland, Alice Calhoun. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance

Charlie Ryan

1925-08-23 0

Fighting the Flames

Horatio Manly Jr. (William Haines), the only son of Judge Horatio Manly (David Torrence), is disowned by his father for obstructing firemen during a hotel fire. He later redeems himself by rescuing a ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

James Marston

1927-01-20 0

Wandering Girls

A small-town, jazz-mad girl, Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier), becomes involved with a pair of society thieves, Maurice Dumond (Armand Kalis) and Maxine (Mildred Harris), and finds herself falsely accus ...
Genre :Drama

'Dynamite' Dyer

1926-01-24 0

Western Pluck

Rowdy Dyer, the weak but tough-acting son of wealthy rancher Dynamite Dyer, greets the stage in which his sister Clare is arriving by disguising himself as a bandit. He fires a shot that causes the ho ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Henry Mortimer

1925-12-06 0

Two-Fisted Jones

While hunting for a missing man out west, Jack Wilbur falls in love with Mary Mortimer, a beautiful girl whose ranch is in danger of being seized by Bart Wilson, a crooked moneylender. ...
Genre :Drama, Western