William Elmer

AKA:

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1869-04-25

Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {58}

'Spider' Doyle

1918-03-31 0

The Family Skeleton

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Murphy

1916-08-27 0

The Honorable Friend

Makino works for Kayosho, a Japanese curio dealer in America. To reward Makino's dedication, Kayosho sends for Toki-ye, a picture bride. Upon arrival, she is married to Makino in a civil ceremony. How ...

Genre :Drama

Jim Dolan

1914-11-05 0

Ready Money

Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

(as Billy Elmer)

1918-06-16 0

The Bravest Way

Tamura, a Japanese man working as a gardener in America, saves his money to marry his girlfriend, Japanese-American Nume Rogers. His friend Watana works for a Japanese businessman named Motoyoshi so t ...

Genre :Drama

1921-02-01 0

The Road Demon

Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufacturer. O'Malley is hoping to land a contract with a Japanese firm, if only his car wins the Los Angeles ...

Genre :Action

Hodges (as Billy Elmer)

1918-04-22 0

Playing the Game

Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue. ...

Genre :Comedy, Western

Detective Hagen

1917-04-26 0

The Girl at Home

Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying dividends. Jean Hilton, who has always loved Jimmie, offers to secretly stake him using her own inh ...

Genre :Drama

Props

1918-07-07 0

We Can't Have Everything

A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more co ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Percy (the valet)

1923-11-20 0

In Search of a Thrill

After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with an old friend, writer Adrian Torrens, who disparages her lifestyle. Ann sees him befriend ...

Genre :Drama

The Doorman

1913-06-21 5.8

The Mothering Heart

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a be ...

Genre :Drama

Burglar Bill

1919-01-19 0

The Dub

John Craig is a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he wi ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Kenwood's Agent

1918-02-11 0

The Thing We Love

Just prior to America's declaration of war, Margaret Kenwood of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company determines that the plant should produce munitions to support the Allies. Rodney Sheridan, her sweethe ...

Genre :Drama

Detective Boyle

1917-09-16 0

The Countess Charming

Stanley Jordan, a wealthy young bachelor, attends a Red Cross Benefit at the country club where he meets and falls in love with Betty Lovering and unwittingly offends Mrs. Vandergraft, the social lead ...

Genre :Comedy

Jim

1916-07-09 0

The Selfish Woman

A young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also wants the job, and tries to persuade his son to give up the work, but Tom refuses. Tom falls for a socie ...

Genre :Drama

Horse Gilligan

1917-03-15 0

The Prison Without Walls

Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth millions and the undiscovered "man higher up," graft ...

Genre :Drama

Aide to Von Blenheim

1918-06-23 0

The Firefly of France

The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Tick Flynn

1919-03-02 0

Alias Mike Moran

Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder. However, when war breaks out Larry is d ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Pierre

1929-11-03 6.467

Condemned!

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges. ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Hays

1914-04-27 0

Shotgun Jones

Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to depo ...

Genre :Western

Policeman

1913-04-21 0

The Left-Handed Man

The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was great and in unraveling the mystery the detective sh ...

Genre :Drama

Spike Mullins

1915-03-01 0

A Gentleman of Leisure

A young New York society man makes a bet that he can rob a house and get away without being caught by the police. Things turn out to be not as easy as they seem. ...

Genre :Comedy, Action, Crime

1918-09-09 5.5

He Comes Up Smiling

Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after ...

Genre :Comedy

Detective Williams

1915-07-08 0

The Clue

Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, Alexis schemes to marry wealthy Eve Bertram, who l ...

Genre :Drama

Kelly

1916-01-23 0

The Ragamuffin

In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly ...

Genre :Drama

Jack McCarty

1915-04-01 0

The Unafraid

In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Lousy

1920-01-10 0

Pinto

When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, f ...

Genre :Comedy, Western

Rod Blake

1920-12-25 0

Prairie Trails

Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father (Charles K. French) will give his blessings only if Tex works on his sheep ranch. Tex, a cattleman t ...

Genre :Comedy, Western

Davis

1920-05-15 0

Forbidden Trails

"Squint" Taylor owns a ranch and has a much older mining partner. When the partner is fatally wounded, he makes Taylor promise to take care of his daughter Marion. Taylor is more than happy to do his ...

Genre :Western

Bat Piper

1922-03-12 0

Iron to Gold

George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she i ...

Genre :Western

1924-02-17 0

The Night Hawk

Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enough he heads for the more comfortable expanse of the open spaces. ...

Genre :Western

Ben Roach

1918-08-26 0

Coals of Fire

Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon by townspeople, but Rev. Charles Alden, the town minister, finds himself attracted to her. One day ...

Genre :Drama

Servant (uncredited)

1942-07-10 7.312

The Magnificent Ambersons

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Black Jack

1917-05-28 0

Freckles

Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a place as a watchman in the timber camp, The Limberlost. He falls in love with Angel but feeling unworthy ...

Genre :Drama

Morales

1915-10-31 6.1

Carmen

Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a ...

Genre :Drama

Rafferty

1915-07-12 0

Kindling

Pregnant tenement dweller Maggie Schultz is being used by burglars.... ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Biff Bates

1914-09-17 0

The Making of Bobby Burnit

Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must be invested, Agnes Elliston, Bobby's sweetheart, suggest ...

Genre :Drama

Trampas

1914-09-07 5.6

The Virginian

A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice. ...

Genre :Western

Neway (uncredited)

1940-12-27 6.556

Kitty Foyle

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Turkish Officer

1915-04-22 6

The Captive

Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes of ...

Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Half Breed

1914-11-15 4

The Rose of the Rancho

Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his l ...

Genre :Romance, Western, Adventure

Ashby

1915-01-04 5.5

The Girl of the Golden West

A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's l ...

Genre :Western, Romance

Callahan

1917-03-05 5.7

Castles for Two

An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters. ...

Genre :Drama

Pablo Trilles (as Billy Elmer)

1918-01-01 6

Wolves of the Rail

Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track d ...

Genre :Western

Jerry Casey

1921-07-03 0

Big Town Round-Up

Tom Mix played Larry McBride, a cowboy who, "goes to city, dresses up to date and gets into thrilling and humorous adventures." ...

Genre :Drama, Western

Banty Jones

1917-12-24 0

His Mother's Boy

After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough ...

Genre :Drama

Spike (as Billy Elmer)

1924-02-09 0

The Whipping Boss

Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that ...

Genre :

Cauliflower Jim (as Billy Elmer)

1921-10-16 0

The Foolish Age

After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she p ...

Genre :Comedy

Undetermined Role

1918-01-28 0

The Widow's Might

Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Asylum Guard

1913-05-10 5

The House of Darkness

A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a ...

Genre :Drama

Robledo

1914-12-07 0

The Ghost Breaker

Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fort ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Ben Roach

1922-10-22 0

Scandalous Tongues

Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through education by Reverend Charles Alden. ...

Genre :Drama

Lawyer

1935-04-20 7.176

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the m ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Isaac Perry

1914-11-19 0

The Circus Man

David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus. ...

Genre :Drama

Tom Jellitt

1917-02-19 0

The Winning of Sally Temple

Genre :Drama

Peters

1917-06-25 0

Her Strange Wedding

After embezzling a large sum of money from a Chicago firm, Lee Brownell pays an unexpected visit to his brother, Dr. Max Brownell, offering the excuse that he needs a rest. Soon, Lee wins the affectio ...

Genre :Drama

Halpin

1916-06-04 0

A Gutter Magdalene

Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing money from Steve Boyce. Joining the Salvation Army, she meets a now destitute Steve in need of help. ...

Genre :Drama

'Spike' McGafney

1921-08-16 0

Big Game

Larry Winthrop, the pampered son of an aristocratic Boston family, is loved by his wife, Eleanor, but she wants him to prove himself to her as a man. ...