W.E. Lawrence

AKA: William Effingham Lawrence, William E. Lawrence, William Lawrence
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1896-08-22

Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {71}

Henchman

1937-03-31 4

Left-Handed Law

An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community. ...
Genre :Western

Sandy Adams

1936-09-20 0

Ride 'Em Cowboy

A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl. ...
Genre :Western

Cull Cole (as Wm. Lawrence)

1936-12-20 0

Empty Saddles

Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch. ...
Genre :Western

August

1933-06-22 0

Best of Enemies

Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue mut ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Philip Lund

1918-05-13 0

Mile-a-Minute Kendall

Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout. ...
Genre :Drama

Arthur Whitman

1921-05-22 0

Get Your Man

Story of a Scottish coal miner-turned-Northwest Mounted Police Officer. ...
Genre :Western

Snell

1936-01-29 0

Silver Spurs

Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holden to the Sheriff, the Sheriff gives Holden an alibi. Janet and Jim Fentriss then find Holden's secre ...
Genre :Western

Henchman Blackie

1936-12-01 6

The Boss Rider of Gun Creek

A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction. ...
Genre :Western

Henchman Hank Smith

1937-12-01 0

Sudden Bill Dorn

Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted ...
Genre :Western

Jim Clanton

1926-05-09 0

A Man Four-Square

A Man Four-Square is a screen version of William McLeod Raine's popular tale of a rancher who finds himself falsely accused of murder while attempting to help a friend in need. ...
Genre :Western

1914-04-12 0

The Battle of the Sexes

Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman sir ...
Genre :Drama

1914-11-14 0

The Folly of Anne

A picture from the short story of Ellen Farley in "The Cavalier," and screened by John O'Brian. The story is of a girl who tries to be an author and has the usual fate of such. The new interest comes ...
Genre :Drama

1924-08-16 5

The Reckless Age

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he fall ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Harry Hansum

1916-01-01 5.8

Flirting with Fate

In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Tom Gould

1922-11-12 0

The Love Gambler

Drifter Dick Manners arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland. When he wagers that he will be able to ride a wild bronco and kiss the ranchman's haughty daughter, Jean -- and wins -- he la ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Western

Lt. Rawkins

1923-08-17 0

Blinky

Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous military experience was as a Boy Scout. ...
Genre :Western

Ali-Baba

1917-11-05 5.2

A Little Princess

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara. ...
Genre :Drama

Lt. Morgan

1920-09-10 0

Bride 13

A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Pete

1914-06-16 0

Their First Acquaintance

Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him that evening for a real estate deal he had made in ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jake - the City Slicker

1914-07-19 0

The Painted Lady

Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in a department store in the city. There she meets Jake, a good-for-nothing, who promises to marry her ...
Genre :Drama

Graham Wilkes

1914-08-25 0

Granny

A country boarding house story ...
Genre :Drama

George (from the city)

1914-11-29 0

The Sisters

May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a city man, comes to town on a visit, falls in love with ...
Genre :Drama

Johnson

1915-02-14 0

How Hazel Got Even

Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic Club pugilistic exhibitions, and gains a local reputa ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Grant

1915-03-07 0

Minerva's Mission

Minerva comes home from school filled with the idea that she has a great mission in life. All society needs reformation. She has her maiden aunt come to live with her as chaperon, and Minerva immediat ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Bob

1915-05-04 0

Her Grandparents

Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged grandparents, with whom she lives. Her sweetheart, Bob, is ...
Genre :Drama

Tom Randall

1923-10-20 5.8

Cameo Kirby

Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama

Ned - the Girl's Lover

1915-07-11 0

The Mountain Girl

In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mountain Girl with her grandfather, a man of hoary age. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Wallace

1915-07-23 0

The Little Catamount

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Nephew of the Village Priest

1915-12-08 0

Her Mother's Daughter

Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her deathbed that she would enter a nunnery. Marie consi ...
Genre :Drama

Clem Brooks

1938-03-04 5

Frontier Town

Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stub ...
Genre :Western

Patron

1934-07-20 7

Blind Date

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

William Haverman (as William E. Lawrence)

1916-03-12 0

The Flying Torpedo

In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyon ...
Genre :War, Drama, Science Fiction

District Attorney

1939-03-17 6

Within the Law

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Burke (uncredited)

1939-04-07 6.2

Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Music

Guest (uncredited)

1939-05-19 6.4

It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Crime, Mystery

Gordon Andrews

1926-06-06 0

Hard Boiled

Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Self (archive footage)

2014-01-01 9

Flashback: The First World War

A collection of 2 minute documentaries that tell not only the historical facts of WW1, but also the stories of those most involved and others greatly affected by the day to day events. The deadly seri ...
Genre :Documentary

Henchman Boyd Loomis

1937-09-04 5.2

Black Aces

When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is ...
Genre :Western

1924-06-21 0

Blue Wing's Revenge

A short melodrama. A girl is held hostage in an Indian village, but is rescued by Tom, after which they are chased by Indians. The Indian girl Blue Wing is also in love with Tom, but she puts a stop t ...
Genre :

Henri de Navarre

1916-09-04 7.071

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Fred Brown

1916-04-29 4.85

The Children in the House

A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank. ...
Genre :Drama

1916-01-01 0

Pathways of Life

A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red. ...
Genre :Drama

Tom Hazzard

1921-02-01 5.7

Ducks and Drakes

A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they h ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Francisco Lazaro

1921-11-20 0

Fightin' Mad

Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Poli ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

1914-05-16 5

Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Babe

1930-10-14 0

The Costello Case

An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1916-03-04 1

Daphne and the Pirate

Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Prince Ahmed

1923-11-26 5

The Thrill Chaser

In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes in ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

1918-09-16 0

Beans

Brewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not want to renew so hires shyster lawyer Wingate to help him. Brewster sends Betty to rene ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Steward / Doorman (uncredited)

1938-06-09 5.842

The Rage of Paris

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New Yo ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Prince Pampas

1918-08-18 0

Hands Up

A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess. ...
Genre :Adventure

Robert Gordon (as William E. Lawrence)

1924-01-21 0

The Whispered Name

Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), see ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Sebastian Pasquale

1921-10-31 0

Morals

Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is killed, she is left destitute and attaches herself ...
Genre :Drama

John Bigelow

1918-09-22 0

A Japanese Nightingale

A Japanese girl becomes a Geisha in order to avoid marrying a dastardly baron. ...
Genre :Drama

Dick Strong

1918-12-15 0

The Narrow Path

Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in her boardinghouse. Dick's sister Gladys, however, i ...
Genre :Drama

Photographer

1935-10-08 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, incl ...
Genre :Comedy

Fuentes

1922-08-05 5.6

Blood and Sand

Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. H ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Andre Baldarama (as William E. Lawrence)

1921-07-04 0

The Kiss

At the harvest fiesta, Don Luis Baldarama, owner of one of California's great ranchos, expects to announce the betrothal of his son, Audre, to Isabella Chavez, the daughter of a neighboring don named ...
Genre :

Ham (as William Lawrence)

1931-05-01 0

Hell Bound

Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Captain Boyd

1917-01-01 0

The Spirit of '76

Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Deputy Sheriff Dick Calvert

1915-02-17 0

The Deputy's Chance That Won

Mollie Owens, engaged to sheriff’s deputy Dick Calvert, is taken captive by outlaw Monk Turgis and imprisoned in the "death cabin” so called because everyone shunned it after of two mysterious murders ...
Genre :Western

1934-11-10 0

I'll Fix It

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he t ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Man in Dress Clothes

1934-07-12 5.5

Whom the Gods Destroy

Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show ...
Genre :Drama

1917-07-16 0

The Slacker

Robert Wallace, the elder son of a rich and indulgent father, marries Margaret Christy, a spirited patriot, so that he can escape the call to war. Discovering the reason for Robert's haste to get marr ...
Genre :Drama

Capt. William Putnam

1921-01-01 0

The Snob

Genre :Comedy

Monte Hanley

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

Alfred Wantez - A Violinist

1915-08-31 0

Hearts and Flowers

As violinist Alfred Wantez embarks on a concert tour leaving his wife Olga and son Billy at home he is attacked by a tramp on his way to the train. The tramp steals his clothes, knocks him unconscious ...
Genre :Drama

Lestrade

1915-06-17 0

Up from the Depths

Daire Vincent elopes with the revivalist Davids. He soon abandons her and their child, moving to New York where he becomes successful. Daire, after many hardships, becomes a dance hall singer to suppo ...
Genre :Drama

Stanley

1916-10-15 0

The Old Folks at Home

Senator John Coburn's son Steve, who associates more with gamblers, criminals and drug addicts than with his father's congressional cronies, impulsively murders his mistress' new lover. The senator tr ...
Genre :Drama

John Marshall

1921-01-09 0

Habit

Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has two suitors - struggling architect John Marshall, and wealthy clothing designer Charles Munson. Scorn ...
Genre :Drama

Richard Wells Jr.

1922-06-12 0

They Like 'Em Rough

Katherine Trowbridge, a rebellious young orphan, lives with her aunt and uncle, the Curtises, who desire a match between Katherine and Weathersbee but pretend to oppose the union, knowing she will be ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama