William Stowell

AKA: W.H. Stowell, Will Stowell
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1885-03-13

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {53}

Villain in Play

1913-02-03 0

The Millionaire Cowboy

During a wonderful exhibition of horsemanship and cowboy skill. "Dud," the foreman of the Diamond S ranch, is handed a telegram summoning him to Chicago to claim a fortune left him by an uncle. There ...
Genre :Western

Jack Sterling

1914-03-24 0

In Remembrance

Jack Sterling from up York State marries the daughter of old Squire Merton, takes her back to the big city and later becomes affluent in business, but is not as attentive to his wife as he should be. ...
Genre :Drama

One Feather, an Indian Renegade

1911-09-12 0

Dad's Girls

Dad, a likable old pioneer character, lived among the foot hills of the western mining region, on a ranch with his two daughters, Rose and Madge. As sort of a side issue he had been doing a little pro ...
Genre :Western

The Minister

1911-09-14 0

The Wheels of Justice

James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple to Hazen's new home in the country. Hazen has isola ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ed Gordon - the New Foreman

1912-08-07 4

The Girl at the Cupola

SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees. His workmen ...
Genre :

Sergeant Thomas

1912-07-26 0

A War Time Romance

Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, was that of Arthur Deming, the young Confederate o ...
Genre :Drama

Harry LeRoy

1918-01-01 0

The Girl o' Dreams

After his young wife dies, Phillip Fletcher, a millionaire and sculptor, makes his home on an uncharted desert island. Harry LeRoy, a cad who is courting the widow Mrs. Hansen, desires the widow's con ...
Genre :Drama

The Sergeant of Police

1912-03-29 0

All on Account of Checkers

Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her ...
Genre :Comedy

Fred Brown

1912-08-12 0

The Wreck of the Vega

Five years ago the world was shocked to hear of the sinking of one of the finest and fastest ore boats on the Great Lakes. During one of the worst storms in the memory of sailors this great boat, the ...
Genre :Thriller

Dalton - Robert's Friend

1912-09-09 0

The House of His Master

The blight of Sylvia Steem's otherwise happy young life, is her husband's crave for drink. ...
Genre :Drama

Big Al Flynn - the Wrestler

1912-11-13 0

The Lost Inheritance

1912 silent drama ...
Genre :Drama

Andy Brannigan

1912-12-02 0

The Fire Cop

Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he t ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Wright - the Young Engineer

1913-01-09 0

The False Order

The sensational crux of jealous revenge in "The False Order" is a head-on collision of two enormous locomotives. A realistic effect that heavily discounts any stage device ever materialized to thrill. ...
Genre :Drama

John Cartwright

1913-03-07 0

A Husband Won by Election

Edna Dusenberry, the charming twenty-year old daughter of Senator Dusenberry, is in love with handsome young Walter Force. John Cartwright, a corrupt politician and candidate for mayor, makes a deal w ...
Genre :Drama

Maj. Russell

1913-03-24 0

Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy

Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate general ...
Genre :Drama

Lester - the Incoming Clerk

1913-04-05 0

A Change of Administration

The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the change of administration. ...
Genre :Drama

Will de Weaver

1913-04-16 0

Dixieland

A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins si ...
Genre :Drama, War

The Sheriff

1913-06-05 0

The Suwanee River

The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line. ...
Genre :Drama

Member of the Cabinet

1913-07-16 0

Sweeney's Dream

While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tom Willard - Granny's Grandson

1913-07-18 0

Granny's Old Armchair

Granny Willard, seeing the end of her days approaching, begs to leave her bed and sit in her old armchair, the bumble throne about which three generations have assembled. Her favorite grandson, Tom Wi ...
Genre :Drama

Wallace Elder - Tom's Friend & Rival

1913-08-01 0

Through Another Man's Eyes

A young man addicted to liquor; he becomes a drunkard and later a felon. After serving time he returns to his home and, looking through a window, sees his old-time sweetheart married to the worthy man ...
Genre :Drama

The Devil

1913-08-04 0

The Devil and Tom Walker

Tom Walker, a miserly man, is much beaten and bullied by his Amazonian wife, Dame Walker. The action of the piece takes place in New England, early in the eighteenth century, when the Puritans were st ...
Genre :Drama

Anthony Markham - the Water Rat

1913-08-25 0

The Water Rat

Two young collegians, Anthony Markham, an enigmatic person, and Alan Strange, whose temperament is the direct antithesis of his friend, compete for the honors of swimming. Both men are aspirants for t ...
Genre :Drama

John Stone - Wilbur's Twin Brother

1913-03-20 0

The Ex-Convict

Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank Fink, a hardened degenerate, is sent up at the same ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Elton Gates - the Ex-Convict

1913-05-29 0

The Ex-Convict's Plunge

Elton Gates, having served seven years for submitting to temptation with a bank's funds, is released. His uncle John sends him $500.00, with which to start life anew. He has hardly rested in a cheap l ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Harold Montaine

1914-08-14 0

Meller Drammer

Goldie, the bright young daughter of Farmer Meadows, is engaged to marry Harold Montaine, a romantic young farm hand. Along comes Jim Bludsoe, a regular villain, whose polish and citified manners impr ...
Genre :Comedy

Allan Deane

1915-05-08 0

The Lion's Mate

Hamad, an Arab half-breed, is in command of the ivory traders. Allan Deane is sent to take charge of the ivory traders' camp, and Hamad is told that he can serve as assistant hereafter. Allan Deane an ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Kerrigan / Van Kerr

1916-02-05 0

The White Rosette

In the romantic days of the Eleventh Century the prologue of this picture shows us, Sir Errol, a victorious knight, returns to the castle of his liege lord, the Baron Edward, where he renews his vows ...
Genre :Romance

John Patricia

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

Bart Manning - the Conductor

1912-12-05 3.5

A Freight Train Drama

Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train. ...
Genre :

1909-10-20 5

The Cowboy Millionaire

Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking ...
Genre :Western

Lieutenant Dalroy

1911-05-31 4

The Rose of Old St. Augustine

Captain Lafitte receives word that Alicante, a young Spaniard, is to wed Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine, whom he has not seen since childhood. He objects to the wedding. Lafitte captures Alicante, ...
Genre :Western

Dudley Weyman

1917-09-02 0

Triumph

This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The ...
Genre :Drama

Henry Rockwell

1918-01-21 5

Broadway Love

A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd. ...
Genre :Romance

Roger Curwell

1917-03-05 0

Hell Morgan's Girl

Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a painter, Roger finds himself drunk and on the skids ...
Genre :Drama

Evan Kilvert

1917-10-17 0

Bondage

Dorothy Phillips was starred as Elinor Crawford, a small-town girl who becomes a reporter on a big-city newspaper -- and immediately plunges into the "Bohemian" lifestyle. Assigned to interview a cond ...
Genre :Drama

John Blake

1917-07-02 0

Fires of Rebellion

Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the patt ...
Genre :Drama

Ralph Hadley

1917-01-08 0

The Piper's Price

After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites he ...
Genre :Drama

Torvald Helmer

1917-06-11 0

A Doll's House

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the sha ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Lane

1917-05-21 0

The Flashlight

Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the ...
Genre :Mystery

Kent Wetherall

1917-07-23 0

The Rescue

After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying ...
Genre :Drama

Melville Kingston

1918-04-08 4.2

The Risky Road

Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. P ...
Genre :Drama

Sgt. O'Farrell

1919-07-28 0

The Man in the Moonlight

Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme, the daughter of an innkeeper. After O'Farrell receives a message that Ros ...
Genre :Drama

Dick Evans

1918-01-28 1

The Grand Passion

Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own financial ambiti ...
Genre :Drama

David Norman

1917-04-23 0

The Girl in the Checkered Coat

When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroundings while Fannie, inheriting her father's dispos ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Tom Hardy

1919-08-30 5.5

The Right to Happiness

The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle. ...
Genre :Drama

Jim Blood (the Cur)

1919-09-01 0

Paid in Advance

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields. ...
Genre :Drama

'Eagle' Ryan

1919-02-15 0

When a Girl Loves

A minister and his young daughter Bess, journey west where he hopes to regain his health. They become involved with notorious outlaw 'Eagle' Ryan. The outlaw becomes influenced by the power of religio ...
Genre :Western

Lawrence Tabor

1918-09-28 1

The Talk of the Town

Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newl ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bill The Boss

1917-09-01 0

Pay Me!

During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleein ...
Genre :Western

Doctor Lambert

1917-11-18 1

Fighting Mad

Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Captain of the Guard

1912-12-01 0

Cinderella

According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers". ...
Genre :

King

1916-11-13 0

Immediate Lee

Immediate Lee, employed on the ranch owned by one Masters, is discharged by the manager through the influence of one of his men, who is in the brand blotting game with Masters. Beulah, a dance-hall gi ...
Genre :Western