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William Desmond

William Desmond

Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles.

Born

Jan 23, 1878

Horseheads, New York, USA

Died

Nov 03, 1949

Known For

Acting

Movies

153 acting

1 crew

Popularity

0.2

movie

Known For

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera

1943

as Stagehand (uncredited)
Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

1944

as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera
1943 • as Stagehand (uncredited)
★ 6.2
No Children
No Children
1929 • as Self
No Defense
No Defense
1929 • as John Harper
★ 10.0
Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle
1944 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.6
Naughty Marietta
Naughty Marietta
1935 • as Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
★ 5.5
movie
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 • as William Desmond
★ 7.5
The Climax
The Climax
1944 • as Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
★ 5.5
movie
Crack-Up
1934 • as Police Chief
★ 8.0
Duped
Duped
1925 • as John Morgan
★ 8.0
The Egg and I
The Egg and I
1947 • as Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
★ 7.0
The Criminal
The Criminal
1916 • as Donald White
movie
First Aid
1931 • as Chief of Police
★ 8.0
Married in Name Only
Married in Name Only
1917
The Naughty Nineties
The Naughty Nineties
1945 • as Showboat Customer (uncredited)
★ 6.7
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
1936 • as Hawkman Lookout Captain
★ 6.4
Laughing at Life
Laughing at Life
1933 • as Military Cabinet Officer
★ 7.3
Her Code of Honor
Her Code of Honor
1919 • as Eugene La Salle
★ 8.0
I Can't Escape
I Can't Escape
1934 • as Parole Officer Donovan
★ 6.7
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 • as Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
★ 6.2
Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady
1944 • as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
★ 6.9
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 • as Captain of the 'Viking'
★ 5.7
Treachery Rides the Range
Treachery Rides the Range
1936 • as Bill
★ 4.0
The Mummy's Ghost
The Mummy's Ghost
1944 • as Museum Tourist (uncredited)
★ 5.6
Frontier Days
Frontier Days
1934 • as Sheriff Barnes
★ 4.3
Song of the Gringo
Song of the Gringo
1936 • as Bailiff
★ 6.0
Custer's Last Stand
Custer's Last Stand
1936 • as Wagon Master
★ 5.3
Night Life in Hollywood
Night Life in Hollywood
1922 • as Self
★ 7.0
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt
1915 • as The Parson
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse
1940 • as Citizen
★ 6.4
movie
The Last of the Ingrams
1917 • as Jules Ingram
★ 8.0
Trail Street
Trail Street
1947 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.5
The Devil's Trademark
The Devil's Trademark
1928 • as Morgan Gray
★ 9.0
Code of the West
Code of the West
1947 • as Settler (uncredited)
★ 7.7
Song of the Saddle
Song of the Saddle
1936 • as Tim
★ 7.3
Beasts of Paradise
Beasts of Paradise
1923 • as Phil Grant
★ 8.0
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
1933 • as Capt. Boncour
★ 5.7
Frisco Kid
Frisco Kid
1935 • as Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
★ 7.0
Captain of His Soul
Captain of His Soul
1918 • as Horace
★ 10.0
movie
Time Locks and Diamonds
1917 • as Silver Jim Farrel
Outwitted
Outwitted
1925 • as Jack Blaisdel
★ 8.0
The Vigilantes Are Coming
The Vigilantes Are Coming
1936 • as Anderson, Vigilante Member
★ 7.8
The Return of the Durango Kid
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945 • as Street Ambusher (uncredited)
★ 8.7
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 • as Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
★ 4.5
The Last Frontier
The Last Frontier
1932 • as General Custer
★ 7.0
Winners of the West
Winners of the West
1940 • as Bill Brine
★ 7.0
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941 • as Tourist
★ 6.0
The Strings of Steel
The Strings of Steel
1926 • as Ned Brown
★ 8.0
The Rawhide Terror
The Rawhide Terror
1934 • as Tom Blake
★ 4.9
The Cowboy and the Bandit
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935 • as Sheriff Pete
★ 7.0
Down Rio Grande Way
Down Rio Grande Way
1942 • as Townsman
★ 10.0
The Pretender
The Pretender
1918 • as Bob Baldwin
Hell-Bent for Frisco
Hell-Bent for Frisco
1931 • as The Editor
★ 9.0
The Mints of Hell
The Mints of Hell
1919 • as Dan Burke
★ 8.0
Battling with Buffalo Bill
Battling with Buffalo Bill
1931 • as John Mills
★ 5.8
Junior G-Men
Junior G-Men
1940 • as Irish Cop (uncredited)
★ 6.5
The Rustler's Roundup
The Rustler's Roundup
1933 • as San Dimas Sheriff Holden
★ 9.0
Gordon of Ghost City
Gordon of Ghost City
1933 • as John Mulford
★ 6.5
movie
The Riddle Rider
1924 • as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★ 7.0
The Phantom of the Air
The Phantom of the Air
1933 • as Thomas Edmonds
★ 7.0
The Phantom of the West
The Phantom of the West
1930 • as Martin Blair
★ 9.0
The Call of the Savage
The Call of the Savage
1935 • as Allen
★ 6.0
Tim Tyler's Luck
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 • as Dock Official
★ 7.0
A Broadway Cowboy
A Broadway Cowboy
1920 • as Burke Randolph
Jungle Mystery
Jungle Mystery
1932 • as John Morgan
★ 7.0
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
1935 • as Foreman Burke
★ 8.0
Heroes of the West
Heroes of the West
1932 • as John Blaine
★ 6.3
Powdersmoke Range
Powdersmoke Range
1935 • as Happy - Bartender
★ 10.0
The Lone Star Trail
The Lone Star Trail
1943 • as Bartender Mike
★ 6.0
Rustlers of Red Dog
Rustlers of Red Dog
1935 • as Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
★ 8.5
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936 • as Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
★ 8.0
movie
The Parish Priest
1921 • as Reverend John Whalen
The Vanishing Rider
The Vanishing Rider
1928 • as Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
★ 7.0
Shadows of the North
Shadows of the North
1923 • as Ben 'Wolf' Darby
★ 10.0
The Red Rider
The Red Rider
1934 • as Sheriff Campbell
★ 7.0
Perils of the Yukon
Perils of the Yukon
1922 • as Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
★ 8.0
movie
The Return of the Riddle Rider
1927 • as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★ 8.0
The Extra Girl
The Extra Girl
1923 • as Himself
★ 6.4
The Extra Girl
The Extra Girl
1923 • as Himself - Actor
★ 6.4
Barriers of the Law
Barriers of the Law
1925 • as Rex Brandon
★ 9.0
Clancy of the Mounted
Clancy of the Mounted
1933 • as Dave Moran
★ 8.0
Society for Sale
Society for Sale
1918 • as Honorable Billy
Twin Beds
Twin Beds
1920 • as Harry Hawkins
★ 7.0
The Majesty of the Law
The Majesty of the Law
1915 • as Jackson Morgan Kent
Straight Through
Straight Through
1925 • as Good Deed O'Day
★ 9.0
Overland Mail
Overland Mail
1942 • as Williams - Banker
★ 10.0
movie
Bullets and Brown Eyes
1916 • as Prince Carl
A Scarlet Week-End
A Scarlet Week-End
1932
★ 3.7
The Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades
1925 • as Dan Harvey
★ 9.0
The Measure of a Man
The Measure of a Man
1924 • as John Fairmeadow
★ 7.0
The Lightning Warrior
The Lightning Warrior
1931 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.3
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941 • as Bartender
★ 6.5
The Vanishing Shadow
The Vanishing Shadow
1934 • as MacDonald
★ 7.1
Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain
1947 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.0
The Sunset Trail
The Sunset Trail
1924 • as Happy Hobo
★ 10.0
The Child Thou Gavest Me
The Child Thou Gavest Me
1921 • as Tom Marshall
★ 10.0
Around the World in 18 Days
Around the World in 18 Days
1923 • as Phineas Fogg III
★ 8.0
Courage of the North
Courage of the North
1935 • as Gene Travis
★ 5.5
Desert Command
Desert Command
1946 • as Capt. Boncour
★ 4.2
McGuire of the Mounted
McGuire of the Mounted
1923 • as Bob McGuire
★ 7.0
Whitewashed Walls
Whitewashed Walls
1919 • as Larry Donovan
★ 9.0
Life's a Funny Proposition
Life's a Funny Proposition
1919 • as Jimmie Pendleton
★ 8.0
Hi, Beautiful
Hi, Beautiful
1944 • as Passenger (uncredited)
★ 9.8
A Sage Brush Hamlet
A Sage Brush Hamlet
1919 • as Larry Lang
★ 10.0
Mr. Broadway
Mr. Broadway
1933 • as 1st Suitor (archive footage)
★ 9.0
Strange Confession
Strange Confession
1945 • as Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
★ 6.7
The Blue Bandanna
The Blue Bandanna
1919 • as Jerry Jerome
Cyclone of the Saddle
Cyclone of the Saddle
1935 • as Wagon Master
★ 5.8
Cheyenne Roundup
Cheyenne Roundup
1943 • as Pete
★ 7.0
Oklahoma Jim
Oklahoma Jim
1931 • as Lacy
★ 9.0
Master of His Home
Master of His Home
1917 • as Carson Stewart
★ 10.0
Perils of Pauline
Perils of Pauline
1933 • as Prof. Thompson
★ 6.5
The Phantom Fortune
The Phantom Fortune
1923 • as Larry Barclay
★ 9.0
The Mystery Rider
The Mystery Rider
1928 • as Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
★ 9.0
When Lightning Strikes
When Lightning Strikes
1934 • as Marshal Jack Stevens
★ 7.5
The Policeman and the Baby
The Policeman and the Baby
1921 • as The Policeman
★ 10.0
The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion
1931 • as Milesburg Sheriff
★ 8.5
Peggy
Peggy
1916 • as Rev. Donald Bruce
Pirate Treasure
Pirate Treasure
1934 • as Capt. Jim Carson
★ 5.5
Kilmeny
Kilmeny
1915 • as Bob Meredith
The Prince and Betty
The Prince and Betty
1919 • as John Maude
★ 8.3
The Ghost Rider
The Ghost Rider
1935 • as Guard
★ 6.3
The Dawn Maker
The Dawn Maker
1916 • as Bruce Smithson
Paddy O'Hara
Paddy O'Hara
1917 • as Paddy O'Hara
movie
Paws of the Bear
1917 • as Ray Bourke
movie
Red Clay
1925 • as Chief John Nisheto
★ 7.0
The Way of the West
The Way of the West
1934 • as 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
★ 7.0
Social Error
Social Error
1935 • as Policeman
★ 7.5
The Meddler
The Meddler
1925 • as Richard Gilmore
★ 5.0
Fargo Express
Fargo Express
1933 • as Sheriff Joe Thompson
★ 9.0
Women Men Love
Women Men Love
1921 • as David Hunter
The Breathless Moment
The Breathless Moment
1924 • as Billy Carson
★ 9.0
movie
An Honest Man
1918 • as Benny Boggs
movie
The Broken Coin
1936
★ 9.0
The Roaring West
The Roaring West
1935 • as Jim Parker
★ 10.0
A Gamble in Souls
A Gamble in Souls
1916
★ 10.0
Born to Battle
Born to Battle
1935 • as John Brownell
★ 5.8
Border Guns
Border Guns
1934 • as Dr. Jim Wilson
★ 9.0
Flying Colors
Flying Colors
1917 • as Brent Brewster
Savage Fury
Savage Fury
1956 • as Allen
★ 7.0
The Iced Bullet
The Iced Bullet
1917 • as The Author / Horace Lee
The Silver Bullet
The Silver Bullet
1942 • as Townsman
★ 6.0
Strawberry Roan
Strawberry Roan
1933 • as Colonel Brownlee
★ 6.0
The Marriage Bubble
The Marriage Bubble
1918 • as The Actor
★ 10.0
movie
Timber Terrors
1935 • as Royce Horter
★ 6.5
The Burning Trail
The Burning Trail
1925 • as Smiling Bill Flannigan
★ 8.0
Ridin' Pretty
Ridin' Pretty
1925 • as Sky Parker
★ 7.0
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
1919 • as 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
The Sudden Gentleman
The Sudden Gentleman
1917 • as Garry Garrity
movie
The Sign of the Cross
1904
movie
Wild Waters
1935 • as Sheriff Manning
★ 10.0
Fightin' Mad
Fightin' Mad
1921 • as Bud McGraw
★ 10.0
Big Timber
Big Timber
1924 • as Walter Sandry
★ 7.0
Fighting Back
Fighting Back
1917 • as The Weakling