William A. Carroll
Know for: Acting
Born: 1875-01-08
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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A Dream or Two Ago (1916)
During a jewelry-store holdup, 6-year-old Millicent Hawthorne, the neglected daughter of a wealthy socialite, falls on her head and is carried home...
Cheating Cheaters (1919)
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
The Ancient Highway (1925)
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's sabotaging the camp. The miscreant turns out to...
Born to the West (1926)
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt,...
The Screaming Shadow (1920)
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
A Lodging for the Night (1912)
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to...
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another...
A Temporary Truce (1912)
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of...
The Switchtower (1913)
"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the...
Fifty Candles (1921)
Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in...
Yellow Men and Gold (1922)
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map,...
The Girl o' Dreams (1918)
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...
Alimony (1924)
Jimmy Mason lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that he couldn't have done it without the help and support of his...
Josselyn's Wife (1926)
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry...
The Unwritten Law (1925)
The Unwritten Law is an extant 1925 silent film crime melodrama directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Elaine Hammerstein. It was produced and...
I'll Show You the Town (1925)
British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.
The Girls and the Chaperone (1912)
Dick Martin, foreman of the Circle E ranch, tells Colonel Gray that his mother is coming to visit them for a short time. The Colonel thinks it's a...
The Lady Barber of Roaring Gulch (1912)
Violet De Ray opens up a barber shop at Roaring Gulch. Violet not only does a ripping good business, but she unconsciously has a hand in hurrying...
Sharps and Chaps (1912)
Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the...
Hearts and Skirts (1912)
Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that...
K - The Unknown (1924)
Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious...
The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913)
From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter. Still she was obdurate....
An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to...
During the Round-Up (1913)
Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were...
A Frightful Blunder (1913)
An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the...
The Tenderfoot's Money (1913)
The tenderfoot came into camp with his ill-gotten money intending to purchase a claim. The faker salted a claim, hoping thereby to secure the money....
The Stolen Loaf (1913)
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
The Blue Bonnet (1919)
As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a...
When Dreams Come True (1913)
The young owners of a California orange grove loved each other, but they were unhappy because their lives were so narrow and circumscribed. Each...
One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...
The Quest (1915)
John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising...
The Old Actor (1912)
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
The Beauty Shoppers 1927 (1927)
This film was released in 1927
The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but...
The Mender (1915)
Parents are fighting and their little girl runs away. The worrying brings them closer together and when she returns all is well with their...
His Mother's Son (1913)
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked....
Gas, Oil and Water (1922)
George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of...
Remembrance (1922)
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a...
North of 36 (1926)
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State...
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924)
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
The Adopted Brother (1913)
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William...
The Immortal Alamo (1911)
A lost silent film depicting the battle of the Alamo. Filmed in San Antonio.
Bessie's Ride (1911)
John Burton met Bessie Fields on her way home one day, and was for making love to her right then and there, but for the interruption of Crazy Joe, a...
Purity (1916)
Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he...
A Woman's Fool (1918)
Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies...
The Trail of the Octopus (1919)
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed...
Snowbound (1927)
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is...
Danger Within (1918)
A ruthless, miserly millionaire wakes up one day and finds that a quarantine sign reading "Danger Within!" has been tacked onto the front door of his...
Hands Up (1918)
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
The Magic Eye (1918)
During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage...
Bill Henry (1919)
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is...
Lena and the Geese (1912)
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same...
John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1917)
As a baby, John Ermine is stolen from a wagon train by the Crow Indians and is adopted by Chief Fire Bear. John grows to manhood, ignorant that he is...
Sporting Youth (1924)
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty...
A Beast at Bay (1912)
Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her "ideal". But Mr. August's refusal to get mixed up in a...
The Forest Rose (1912)
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out....