George A. Williams

AKA: G.A. Williams, George Williams, George Albert Williams
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1854-08-11

Kinnickinnic, Wisconsin, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {90}

Dr. Taylor

1922-10-02 0

The Long Chance

Harley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother dies. He becomes suspicious of the motives of Bob McGraw, a young engineer who has come to town to inve ...
Genre :Western

Mort Frame

1921-12-24 0

The Fire Eater

Partners "Smilin' Bob" Corey and Jim O'Neil are forest rangers sent to peacefully "penetrate" Paradise Valley, which is scheduled to become part of a national park. Although the townspeople are sullen ...
Genre :Western

Various Role

1917-02-24 0

The Hazards of Helen

The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed ...
Genre :Action

The Oil Representative

1924-12-15 0

Thundering Romance

A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Western

Bill Adams

1925-11-13 6

Hurricane Hal

A young Texan known as "Hurricane Hal," saves Bill Adams from Mexican bandits. In gratitude, Adams gives Hal a job on his ranch ...
Genre :Western

Calvert Carter

1922-09-11 0

In the Days of Buffalo Bill

Western film serial featuring Buffalo Bill ...
Genre :Western

Tom - Ruth's sweetheart

1914-08-05 0

The Operator at Black Rock

The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Black Hill

1917-06-01 0

The Further Adventures of Stingaree

The movie serial sequel to the popular original series featuring Stingaree. Both are now lost. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Tom O'Grady - Section Foreman

1914-12-05 0

The Stolen Engine

A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a sid ...
Genre :Thriller

The Construction Boss

1916-05-20 0

One Chance in a Hundred

Billy Warren, timekeeper on the construction job, arouses the enmity of Brent and Easton when he resents their bullying of the other men. Pay day finds the men celebrating in riotous fashion, and Bren ...
Genre :Thriller

Duncan - Secret Service Detective

1915-03-06 0

The Death Train

The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capture two of the trio, but one of them gets away, pursu ...
Genre :Thriller

The Chief Dispatcher

1916-05-27 0

The Capture of Red Stanley

Red Stanley's band has successfully robbed the express car and the members are making good their escape when they come upon Helen and her girl chum riding in the woods. The girls are set upon but they ...
Genre :Thriller

Chilton - Dealer in Antiques

1916-06-24 0

The Mysterious Cipher

Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blandin ...
Genre :Thriller

Houk - a Detective

1914-12-12 0

The Flying Freight's Captive

Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground fro ...
Genre :Thriller

Wilkens - the Paymaster

1915-01-16 0

The Broken Circuit

Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the thieves escape on a hand car. With her feet still bound by wire, Helen endeavors to pursue on foot, ...
Genre :Thriller

Pop Bates

1916-05-13 0

The Bridge of Danger

The new superintendent's first order on taking the post eliminates the men whom he terms old, which costs "Pop" Bates his job as Helen's relief operator. His next declaration is that active railroad w ...
Genre :Thriller

The President of the Western Railway

1916-05-06 0

The Human Telegram

To prevent a three mile journey around the mountain the telegraph wires at the construction camp have been strung over the precipice from the station on the mountain top. The operator is discharged wh ...
Genre :Thriller

Railroad President Benton

1916-04-08 0

The Record Run

The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awarding of large mail contracts. ...
Genre :Thriller

Spud Hogan - Tommy's Pal

1915-03-27 0

The Girl at Lone Point

Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle the safe. The yeggmen escape aboard a passing freight ...
Genre :Thriller

Haddon, the Contractor

1914-11-21 0

The Plot at the Railroad Cut

In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, ...
Genre :Thriller

G.H. Manning

1914-11-18 0

His Nemesis

With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the crash. The scoundrel cleverly contrives to throw suspicion upon Reynolds, an old and faithful emplo ...
Genre :Drama

Corning - Conductor

1915-04-03 0

A Life in the Balance

King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and the train commences to roll down hill. Helen sees King' ...
Genre :Thriller

Passenger Conductor

1915-04-10 0

The Girl on the Trestle

A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, knowing that a passenger train is due within a few minutes, climbs aboard a freight car which coasts ...
Genre :Thriller

Williams - Owner of the Boss Mine

1915-04-17 0

The Girl Engineer

A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jumping onto the engine and pulling the throttle wide open, eventually exposing the unscrupulous villai ...
Genre :Thriller

Sharky - Agent of the Rival Road

1915-04-24 0

A Race for a Crossing

Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a mail contract. He opens a waste valve on the tank of the engine, and, when nearing Lone Point, the wat ...
Genre :Thriller

Gerald - Engineer of the Power Plant

1915-05-01 0

The Box Car Trap

Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus. As a result, the box car runs wild, trapping him inside. Before Helen can sidetrack the ...
Genre :Thriller

Deering - Head of the Wharf Rat Gang

1915-06-05 0

The Human Chain

Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes the package and throws it into the river. In order to recover the package, a human chain is formed b ...
Genre :Thriller

Griffin - a Traveler

1915-07-03 0

The Midnight Limited

Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggmen, see the money and trail the traveler to the station. The men learn the berth he is to occupy. Ha ...
Genre :Thriller

1915-07-10 0

A Wild Ride

The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Reardon, vowing vengeance, climbs back aboard his engine while Haley resumes his station. The fight is ...
Genre :Thriller

Norton - Chief of the Smuggling Gang

1915-07-17 0

A Deed of Daring

Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, the railroad officials order all employees to keep a strict watch for traffic of this nature. ...
Genre :Thriller

McKay - Division Superintendent

1915-07-24 0

The Girl on the Engine

When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Division Superintendent, rushes a guard of men to Lone Point. This temporarily blocks the rival road's p ...
Genre :Thriller

Gerald - Division Superintendent

1915-07-13 0

The Fate of Number One

Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibility. The criminals then place a note in the man's po ...
Genre :Thriller

Pike - Chief of the Railroad Detectives

1915-08-21 0

A Perilous Chance

Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons the detectives. The convicts escape from the trap and board a passing freight. Helen also succeeds ...
Genre :Thriller

Loring - Division Superintendent

1915-08-28 0

Train Order Number Forty-Five

Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl telegrapher receives a message which informs her that the freight of which Easton is conductor, is to w ...
Genre :Thriller

Markey - Division Superintendent

1915-09-04 0

The Broken Rail

Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone Point. Helen witnesses the accident and by quick work saves him from being run over. The girl is late ...
Genre :Thriller

Senator Brown

1916-07-08 0

To Save the Road

The vote stands a tie on the railroad bill that will mean ruin to the Western line should it pass the State Legislature. By getting Senator Brown, who is aboard a liner quarantined in the bay, to the ...
Genre :Thriller

The Doctor

1916-07-15 0

The Broken Brake

In a scuffle between the assistant foreman and a discharged employee at the mountain construction camp the latter's revolver is fired, bringing about a dynamite explosion that severely injures many of ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Burkett - Eleanor's Father

1916-06-22 0

In Death's Pathway

Burkett, superintendent of the Western Railway, opposes his daughter's friendship for Dick Benton, one of the company's lawyers, favoring the latter's fellow-worker, Guy Warren. Warren succeeds in put ...
Genre :Thriller

1st Foreign Agent

1916-07-29 0

A Plunge from the Sky

Agents of a foreign power are seeking to get possession of the plans of a new aeroplane motor invented by Dick Benton. Under cover of darkness they succeed in their scheme and are escaping in their au ...
Genre :Thriller, Action

The Sheriff

1916-08-05 0

A Mystery of the Rails

Jud Hendricks, foreman of the construction camp, is being blackmailed by Gypsy Joe, who knows of a dark page in the Hendricks' past. Hendricks and Tom Rasom are rivals for the favor of Helen, with Tom ...
Genre :Thriller

Sinton

1916-08-12 0

Hurled Through the Drawbridge

Learning that the driver of the Comet car has been disabled on the eve of the big race, Sinton, a gambler, bets heavily on its rival. But his plans go awry when Gordon, the owner of the Comet car, mee ...
Genre :Thriller

The Train Despatcher

1916-04-29 0

The Trail of Danger

Following the wreck of the pay-car, it is rifled by a band of conspirators. All but one of the band later succeed in making their escape from the town by automobile, but this one is forced to jump abo ...
Genre :Thriller

Engineer Trent

1916-06-03 0

The Spiked Switch

Trent returns to the throttle too soon after his recovery from illness. On the following day Ruth, his daughter, and Hume plan to elope. Trent, with a new fireman, is suddenly taken with a weak spell ...
Genre :Thriller

1916-06-17 0

A Race Through the Air

The 84th film in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Auditor Blake

1916-07-01 0

The Engineer's Honor

Circumstances make Helen think that Jack, the engineer and son of the road's auditor, is guilty of the theft of $50 that comes to light through a shortage in her accounts. Gypsy Joe, the real thief, g ...
Genre :Thriller

Greggs - the Diamond Dealer

1916-08-19 0

With the Aid of the Wrecker

Greggs, returning from abroad with a large consignment of precious stones, thwarts the first attempt of Gentleman Joe and his accomplice to rob him at his hotel, but they follow him aboard the train t ...
Genre :Thriller

Superintendent Waller

1916-08-26 0

At Danger's Call

Helen, discharged by the superintendent without justification, comes to the rescue when a flat car, loaded with dynamite, is tearing to certain destruction down the grade, bearing the mischievous son ...
Genre :Thriller

The Bank Official

1916-09-02 0

The Secret of the Box Car

Escaping after an early morning bank robbery, Gentleman Joe and his pal succeed in boarding a freight train headed toward Lone Point. Fearing rightly that a warning has been sent down the line, they s ...
Genre :Thriller

Benton

1916-09-09 0

Ablaze on the Rails

Helen, by a courageous leap from a motorcycle, reaches the burning boxcar in which the detectives are imprisoned and succeeds in applying the brakes in time to bring it to a stop and save them from al ...
Genre :Thriller

Kent - the Veteran Engineer

1916-09-16 0

The Hoodoo of Division B

The new superintendent scoffs at the men's fear of Engine 3615, and declares that it must be put into service at once. Engineer Kent, a veteran of the road, refuses to take the throttle and is dischar ...
Genre :Thriller

The President of the Road

1916-09-23 0

Defying Death

Dick Benton, a young attorney of the railroad, is on his way to the Capitol to deliver evidence involving Riggs in a conspiracy arising out of a fight with the railroad over a franchise. At Lone Point ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Benton - Dick's Father

1916-09-30 0

The Death Swing

Stallings' plot to spoil the demonstration of Dick Benton's newly invented safety stop for trains seems certain of success when the locomotive is sent running wild down the tracks. Helen saves the day ...
Genre :Thriller

The Butler - Ex-Telegrapher

1916-10-07 0

The Blocked Track

On a visit to the State Prison with Superintendent Melvin of the construction camp near Lone Point. Helen gains the friendship of Butler, a former telegrapher who had been wrongfully convicted on circ ...
Genre :Thriller

'Dad' Morley

1917-02-10 0

The Prima Donna's Special

Helen, station agent and telegraph operator at Lone Point, is in despair over a broken sounder when Morley, who has dropped off a passing freight, offers to fix it for her. Recognizing in him a man wh ...
Genre :Thriller

George Summers

1917-02-17 0

The Sidetracked Sleeper

Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram stating that his wife, who is ill, will be on the midnight express. He calls in ...
Genre :Thriller

The Sheriff

1917-02-03 0

The Death Siding

Helen, the telegraph operator at the Lone Point Station, shields Miguel, a greaser, under suspicion of having stolen some horses, until the real thieves are caught. ...
Genre :Thriller

The President of the Railroad

1916-10-14 0

To Save the Special

Film 101 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

The President of the Railroad

1916-10-21 0

A Daring Chance

Film 102 in the Hazards of Helen series. ...
Genre :Thriller

Landers - the President of the Railroad

1916-10-28 0

The Lost Messenger

Film 103 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Superintendent Purdy

1916-11-04 0

The Gate of Death

Film 104 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

The President of the Railroad

1916-11-11 0

The Lone Point Mystery

Film 105 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Grayson

1916-11-18 0

The Runaway Sleeper

Film 106 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Purdy

1916-11-25 0

The Forgotten Train Order

107th film in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Morton of the United Fruit Growers

1916-12-02 0

The Trial Run

Film 108 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Superintendent of the Road

1916-12-09 0

The Lineman's Peril

Film #109 in the Hazards of Helen series ...
Genre :Thriller

Banker Randall

1916-12-16 0

The Midnight Express

Film #110 in the Hazards of Helen series. ...
Genre :Thriller

Hedley

1916-12-23 0

The Vanishing Box Car

Film 111 of the Hazards of Helen film series ...
Genre :Thriller

Purdy - the Rancher

1916-12-30 0

A Race with Death

Film #112 in the Hazards of Helen series. ...
Genre :Thriller

Division Superintendant

1917-01-06 0

The Mogul Mountain Mystery

Bert Morgan and "Squint" Booth are freight agents for rival railroads concerned in getting the contract for hauling the gold ore produced by the Mogul Mountain mine. The contract finally falls to the ...
Genre :Thriller

Chief Dispatcher

1917-01-13 0

The Fireman's Nemesis

Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and will take his place that night as a fireman on the local freight. On his way home he stops at the sta ...
Genre :Thriller

Stanton Grey

1917-01-20 0

The Wrecked Station

Helen, the telegraph operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram for Sydney Wayne, superintendent of the Graham Gravel plant, advising him that the plant has changed ownership and that Stanton Grey ac ...
Genre :Thriller

Fleming

1917-01-27 0

The Railroad Claim Intrigue

Barstow, a crook, conceives the idea of buying old automobiles, staging "accidents" with them, and settling with the railroad. At the Lone Point crossing one of his machines is hit by the train and th ...
Genre :Thriller

Henry FIelding - Banker

1914-06-29 0

The Flaw in the Alibi

It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier. ...
Genre :Drama

Barnaby Forest

1922-02-13 0

Headin' West

Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to disembark via parachute when he arrives at a familiar spot. He lands in the midst of a cattlemen's d ...
Genre :Western

The Storekeeper

1922-05-27 0

Never Let Go

Campbell is disgraced and removed from the service. He saves the girl who was being carried off and rounds up the crooks. ...
Genre :Western

Aaron Duncan - Jeanne's Father

1922-06-10 0

The Jaws of Steel

The Jaws of Steel is a 1922 Silent Western. ...
Genre :Western, Action

Zeb Plunkett

1914-07-07 0

Kaintucky Bill

The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge joke, Kaintucky Bill takes the oath of office. ...
Genre :Drama

Scott McPherson

1922-07-24 0

Perils of the Yukon

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled int ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

The Governor (as George Williams)

1916-04-22 0

The Governor's Special

The film is directed by James Davis from a story by Edward T. Matlack. In this episode Helen Gibson performs one absolutely breathtaking stunt, which just shows how dangerous it was to act for silent ...
Genre :Thriller

O'Malley - Section Foreman

1915-06-11 5.3

The Pay Train

Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is thrown into a cattle car; grabbing a revolver which one of the men has dropped, she shoots the wire ...
Genre :Thriller

Cleland - the Trainmaster

1915-01-09 0

The Leap from the Water Tower

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Lear ...
Genre :Thriller

Rev. Haskins

1914-08-28 0

The Car of Death

In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recognition in a serial that started getting released two months later. She became the audacious star of "Th ...
Genre :Thriller

The Constable

1915-02-06 5.8

The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight

Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard a ...
Genre :Thriller

Judge

1924-03-03 0

The Phantom Horseman

Sheriff Bob Winton sets out to capture a mysterious bandit named "The Hawk," a phantom rider who is admired by the townspeople, because he steals from the Williams Lumber Co., a ruthless outfit determ ...
Genre :Western

Sheriff

1923-01-30 6

The First Degree

Sam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter concerns sheep-stealing he assumes it to concern the murder of his brother, Will. ...
Genre :Drama

1916-01-30 7

The Dumb Girl of Portici

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Silas Prescott

1918-12-02 0

The Dawn of Understanding

The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nin ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Hardy

1916-02-21 0

The Wrong Door

Young industrial tycoon Philip Borden is smitten by musical-comedy star Miss Frou Frou, who in daily life is Fern Hardy, the foster daughter of a repentant thief who is pressured into robbing Borden's ...
Genre :Comedy

The Boy's Father

1925-05-13 1

The Queen of Aces

"In "Queen of Aces" released through Universal she [Wanda Wiley] appears as an athletic young woman whom her prospective father-in-law characterizes as a he-woman and forbids her to come to a party in ...
Genre :Comedy

John Gates

1914-10-07 0

The Lost Mail Sack

A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack and rifle the contents. Morrison, postmaster at Bell, ...
Genre :Drama