William Dyer

AKA: Bill Dyer, Wm. Dyer, Wm. J. Dyer
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1881-03-09

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Biography

William Dyer was an American film actor in the silent era.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {53}

Black John

1925-08-27 0

Perils of the Wild

Movie serial Perils of the Wild ...
Genre :Adventure

Hauck

1920-05-30 0

The Courage of Marge O'Doone

Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that ...
Genre :Drama

Obadiah Brennan (as William J. Dyer)

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

McGinnis (as Bill Dyer)

1917-06-01 0

Come Through

From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Slim

1921-01-20 0

Cyclone Bliss

Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's fathe ...
Genre :Western

Jake Williams

1920-01-02 0

The Screaming Shadow

Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Sheriff Asa Smyth (as Wm. Dyer)

1930-10-16 0

Code of Honor

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden thro ...
Genre :Western

1919-03-17 0

The Red Glove

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Western

Hamlin Glass

1924-03-03 0

Singer Jim Mckee

Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again t ...
Genre :Western

Col. Horatio Higginbotham

1923-12-18 0

Wild Bill Hickok

The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers. ...
Genre :History, Western

Bud Bailey (as Bill Dyer)

1927-07-17 0

Spurs and Saddles

Mildred is traveling West in search of her long-lost father when she catches the roving eye of wicked dance-hall proprietor "Hawk" Kent. She turns him down flat and Kent has his henchman Blaze frame h ...
Genre :Western

Timothy

1927-07-03 0

The Fighting Three

The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy. While she is performing at the town opera house, D'Arcy is found murdered and young Ja ...
Genre :Western

Ash Brent

1921-11-07 0

The Silent Call

A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

1922-09-01 0

Gun-Shy

A milquetoast Easterner who on a trip to the Wild West is mistaken for a U.S. marshall. ...
Genre :Western

1919-08-21 0

The Four-Bit Man

The Four-Bit Man is a silent Western short. ...
Genre :Western

Boss McGinnis

1922-08-21 0

Don't Shoot

Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Red Hogan

1933-12-11 0

Gun Justice

Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfig ...
Genre :Western

Sheriff

1927-11-06 0

Gun Gospel

From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that ...
Genre :Western

Bradford

1918-11-29 5.1

All Night

A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Proprietor of L'Hibour Blanc

1917-01-01 1

Black Orchids

Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s di ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

1924-11-23 0

Crushed

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dave

1926-03-07 8

Hard Boiled Yeggs

A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the money and the ...
Genre :Comedy

J. Gordon Castle

1917-10-15 5.75

'49–'17

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is di ...
Genre :Western

Gravedigger (uncredited)

1931-11-21 7.47

Frankenstein

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world t ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Hadley

1922-05-01 0

The Cowboy King

"Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman fought ...
Genre :Western

Bartender

1925-09-03 5.9

The Pony Express

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along wit ...
Genre :Western

Boss Wheeler

1929-11-23 0

Overland Bound

Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert ...
Genre :Western

David Montieth (as William J. Dyer)

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

Sheriff

1932-10-18 6

Texas Buddies

Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes o ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance, War, Western

Sandy MacNab

1919-10-19 5

The Trail of the Octopus

Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark! ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Action

Jethro Quall

1917-10-08 0

Anything Once

A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

1916-07-03 0

Broken Fetters

Genre :Drama

1916-04-17 0

The Great Problem

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her. ...
Genre :Drama

Peter Vlasoff

1917-02-12 0

The Reward of the Faithless

A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband. ...
Genre :Drama

Larkey

1919-02-24 0

The Little White Savage

A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English survivors of a shipwreck. ...
Genre :Drama

Karl Kremer

1919-01-27 0

Who Will Marry Me?

Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settle ...
Genre :

Sheriff Tom Plump

1926-05-30 0

Looking for Trouble

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor ca ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance, Western

Slim Dorgan

1919-07-20 0

Man's Desire

Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement. ...
Genre :Drama

Sheriff

1926-07-11 0

The Man in the Saddle

A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart confirms this ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Western

Steve Wolfe

1927-12-17 6

The Desert of the Lost

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the ...
Genre :Western

U.S. Marshal Hatton

1932-06-20 0

Honor of the Mounted

Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the ...
Genre :Western

Blind Pete

1933-12-15 5.2

Sagebrush Trail

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of ...
Genre :Western

1919-04-15 0

Whom the Gods Would Destroy

After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, ...
Genre :Drama

Billy the Beast

1924-10-14 0

The Measure of a Man

Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his gentle manner reform the town drinkers and put the salo ...
Genre :Drama

Mike McCarthy

1919-05-25 0

The Mayor of Filbert

Genre :Drama

1926-12-16 0

The Trouble Chaser

Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter. At the newspaper where he has works, Hector becomes friendly with a young female reporter, who uses ...
Genre :Comedy

Lawyer

1920-08-01 0

The Branded Four

Genre :Action, Drama

Timberline

1922-09-15 0

The Crow's Nest

Genre :Western, Drama

Champion

1924-02-01 0

Marry in Haste

A wealthy Wyoming man disowns his son, Wayne Sturgis (William Fairbanks), for marrying art student Joan Prescott (Dorothy Revier). After several years on a small farm, Joan begins to suffer from disil ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff Mackhart

1924-11-01 0

Trigger Fingers

Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness of a gang of outlaws led by a mysterious man known as 'The Black Hawk.' Hoping to infiltrate the ga ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Blind Pete

1933-12-15 0

Fugitive

Edited down version of Sagebrush Trail. Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw ga ...
Genre :Western

Guissert

1918-06-09 0

Madame Sphinx

Disgusted when the police department fails to apprehend the murderer of her guardian, Henri Du Bois, Celeste decides to track down the criminal herself. Her only clue is a cuff link dropped near the s ...
Genre :Mystery

Hogan

1918-03-03 0

The Shoes That Danced

Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmo ...
Genre :Drama