William Shea

AKA: William James O' Shea, William James O'Shea, William James Shea
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1856-10-06

Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

1910-06-18 5

Ito, the Beggar Boy

Genre :

Laughing man

1910-10-29 0

The Telephone

An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mr. McSorley - the Climax

1912-01-16 0

Chumps

Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse. ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Man (uncredited)

1910-12-06 4

A Tin-Type Romance

Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

McMahon

1916-01-31 0

A Night Out

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out. ...
Genre :Comedy

Denny McGuire

1916-08-06 0

The Marriage of Molly-O

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O prefers the company of carriage driver Larry O'Dea, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mechanical

1909-12-25 4.794

A Midsummer Night's Dream

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

1911-09-13 0

The Child Crusoes

Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a stowaway. When out to sea a few days, he is discovered, ...
Genre :Adventure

1914-02-25 0

The Hero

Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maude is simply crazy about him. She will not consider the attentions of Syd, her brother Bert's pal. On ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Capt. Bill - the Father

1911-11-25 0

The Life Boat

Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people ...
Genre :Drama

1912-03-23 0

Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes

The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announ ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Butler

1911-09-04 0

A Friendly Marriage

A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage. ...
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Joe's Uncle Jabez - an Old Farmer

1914-07-02 0

Two Stepchildren

Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-f ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Wearyfoot - the Tramp

1913-05-24 0

Cupid Through a Keyhole

While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by telegram, Lila Lane gets herself shut in the storeroom. Here she is found later by her sweetheart, Harry ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Welch - Polly's Father

1915-03-23 0

A Wireless Rescue

A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Chief

1916-11-13 5

Walls and Wallops

A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with Lawrence (also Larry) Semon directing this. It is about ...
Genre :Comedy

George

1916-10-23 0

The Blue Envelope Mystery

Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living. ...
Genre :Drama

Auld Robin Gray

1910-10-18 0

Auld Robin Gray

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray. ...
Genre :

Slim Jackson

1920-01-05 0

A Daughter of Two Worlds

Genre :Drama

Old Man Dukkets

1916-09-08 0

A Villainous Villain

The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her. ...
Genre :Comedy

Clancy

1914-12-25 0

Sweeney's Christmas Bird

A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey. ...
Genre :Comedy

1912-05-14 0

The Spider's Web

Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware that promoters Harris, Brennen, and Lester are frauds. He asks his son, Trevor, a small-town lawyer, t ...
Genre :Horror, Crime

The Attorney

1912-05-12 4

Aunty's Romance

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he lea ...
Genre :Drama

Unknown role

1912-10-06 1

As You Like It

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor ...
Genre :Comedy

First Citizen

1908-12-01 4.7

Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Jarvis Lorry

1911-02-20 5

A Tale of Two Cities

An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Pierre le Noir, Vian's Neighbor

1912-08-30 4

The Bond of Music

Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy. ...
Genre :Drama

The Organ Player

1913-02-04 5

The Classmate's Frolic

A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them. ...
Genre :Comedy

1913-08-18 5

Those Troublesome Tresses

Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa. The men buy horse hair to make the women believe it is hair of another woma ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-04-23 5

Tangled Tangoists

John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets invol ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-02-20 4.5

The Meeting

Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This seems to be the first film in a short-lived Captain ...
Genre :

Uncle William

1914-09-25 5

Hearts and Diamonds

Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Mazuma

1916-07-14 5

The Man from Egypt

Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir Pitt Crawley

1911-01-02 9

Vanity Fair

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. ...
Genre :Drama

A Gangster

1913-03-17 5

The Mouse and the Lion

John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulti ...
Genre :Drama

1914-07-03 0

A Train of Incidents

Comedian John Bunny on a train all confused. ...
Genre :Comedy

Uncle Jerry

1914-02-16 2.3

Sawdust and Salome

A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bareback rider from traveling circus. Bringing her home, his family's pernicious double-standards are r ...
Genre :Drama

1912-10-07 0

Nothing to Wear

Genre :Comedy

1912-01-15 5

Father and Son

A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry. ...
Genre :Drama

1915-10-21 0

Beached and Bleached

The new stenographer is right there when it comes to class which does not escape the notice of her boss. He showers attentions upon her and asks her out to the beach with him the following Sunday. She ...
Genre :

Captain Starboard

1915-03-26 0

The Lady of Shalott

On discovering that their beau, Timothy, the village schoolmaster, is quite unable to choose between them for a life partner, Ivy and Lily Skinner agree to draw lots. Ivy, who is of a romantic, novel- ...
Genre :Comedy

John Haines - the Plasterer

1914-06-05 0

The Maid from Sweden

In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden. The new maid creates quite a stir ...
Genre :

Brother Steve

1915-10-20 0

You Can't Beat It

Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into a hotel to have a game of poker. He protests wildl ...
Genre :

Billy's Uncle

1915-04-29 0

The Boarding House Feud

Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees his opportunity when his uncle Battledore is suddenl ...
Genre :Comedy

1907-12-01 0

The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence. ...
Genre :Romance

Peter Dempsey

1911-06-24 0

Two Overcoats

Solomon keeps a clothing store, he has in stock two overcoats of exactly the same make and pattern. Michael Gallagher, who is passing by and in need of an outer garment, notices Solomon's display and ...
Genre :Comedy

Mayor Van Poke

1916-03-13 0

Putting Pep in Slowtown

In the aptly named Slowtown the townspeople don’t even have sufficient energy to "up and die." Mayor Van Poke, in office for the last 15 years, is so slow he can't get out of his own way. His daughter ...
Genre :Comedy

Bucknail (per Variety)

1916-01-10 0

My Lady's Slipper

In France during the reign of Louis XVI American naval officer Francis Burnham escapes from a British convict ship. He flees to Paris to see Benjamin Franklin only to find him away. At loose ends he b ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jonah Grundell

1915-12-13 0

Benjamin Bunter: Book Agent

Retired sea captain Jonah Grundell is in charge of his niece Polly's fortune until she comes of age, or marries with his consent; if she marries without his consent before she is 21, the fortune goes ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Whiggins

1915-10-04 0

The Dust of Egypt

Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years. Originally a six reel feature, only short fragments of The Dust of Egypt surv ...
Genre :Comedy, History

F.G. Lawrence

1915-08-14 0

Heavy Villains

Retired businessman F.G. Lawrence favors Philip Preston for a son-in-law; Mrs. Lawrence prefers Reggie, the Dainty Dude. There's trouble, right there. Mrs. L. becomes suspicious of a stout stranger pr ...
Genre :Drama

Jake Punchim

1914-12-09 0

The Athletic Family

Retired heavyweight champion Jake Punchim is a fitness nut, keeping himself, his wife, and their twin daughters Helen and Dot in constant training much to Dot’s chagrin. While out walking separately o ...
Genre :Comedy

Farmer Jones

1915-02-01 0

C.O.D.

Genre :Comedy

Roberts - The Antique Dealer

1914-07-10 0

The Vases of Hymen

Annette and Bunny each purchase one of a pair of antique vases, then meet and argue over who should own the matching set. After exchanging the vases in a gesture of goodwill, they end up with the same ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1914-06-26 0

The Old Maid's Baby

Bunny is rejected by Flora when her dog destroys his hat and gloves and she goes on a trip. She secretly takes the dog, dressed as a baby, on a train. An altercation occurs when another passenger, Joh ...
Genre :Comedy