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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

151 acting

0 crew

Popularity

0.7

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
Whitewashed Walls
Whitewashed Walls
1919 • as Larry Donovan
★ 9.0
The Naughty Nineties
The Naughty Nineties
1945 • as Showboat Customer (uncredited)
★ 6.7
No Children
No Children
1929 • as Self
Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle
1944 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.6
The Criminal
The Criminal
1916 • as Donald White
No Defense
No Defense
1929 • as John Harper
★ 10.0
The Egg and I
The Egg and I
1947 • as Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
★ 7.1
Duped
Duped
1925 • as John Morgan
★ 8.0
movie
Hello, 'Frisco
1924 • as William Desmond
★ 7.5
Frontier Days
Frontier Days
1934 • as Sheriff Barnes
★ 4.3
Naughty Marietta
Naughty Marietta
1935 • as Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
★ 5.5
The Pretender
The Pretender
1918 • as Bob Baldwin
The Climax
The Climax
1944 • as Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
★ 5.5
Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady
1944 • as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
★ 7.0
movie
Timber Terrors
1935 • as Royce Horter
★ 6.5
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
1936 • as Hawkman Lookout Captain
★ 6.4
Twin Beds
Twin Beds
1920 • as Harry Hawkins
★ 7.0
movie
First Aid
1931 • as Chief of Police
★ 8.0
The Mummy's Ghost
The Mummy's Ghost
1944 • as Museum Tourist (uncredited)
★ 5.6
Trail Street
Trail Street
1947 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.5
movie
Crack-Up
1934 • as Police Chief
★ 8.0
Straight Through
Straight Through
1925 • as Good Deed O'Day
★ 9.0
Outwitted
Outwitted
1925 • as Jack Blaisdel
★ 8.0
Winners of the West
Winners of the West
1940 • as Bill Brine
★ 7.0
movie
The Riddle Rider
1924 • as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★ 7.0
Treachery Rides the Range
Treachery Rides the Range
1936 • as Bill
★ 4.0
The Vanishing Shadow
The Vanishing Shadow
1934 • as MacDonald
★ 7.1
Beasts of Paradise
Beasts of Paradise
1923 • as Phil Grant
★ 8.0
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt
1915 • as The Parson
Code of the West
Code of the West
1947 • as Settler (uncredited)
★ 7.7
Frisco Kid
Frisco Kid
1935 • as Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
★ 7.0
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard
1936 • as Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
★ 4.5
Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain
1947 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.0
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
I Can't Escape
I Can't Escape
1934 • as Parole Officer Donovan
★ 6.7
The Phantom of the West
The Phantom of the West
1930 • as Martin Blair
★ 9.0
Her Code of Honor
Her Code of Honor
1919 • as Eugene La Salle
★ 8.0
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941 • as Tourist
★ 6.0
The Meddler
The Meddler
1925 • as Richard Gilmore
★ 5.0
Women Men Love
Women Men Love
1921 • as David Hunter
Mr. Broadway
Mr. Broadway
1933 • as 1st Suitor (archive footage)
★ 9.0
movie
The Return of the Riddle Rider
1927 • as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★ 8.0
The Red Rider
The Red Rider
1934 • as Sheriff Campbell
★ 7.0
Married in Name Only
Married in Name Only
1917
Custer's Last Stand
Custer's Last Stand
1936 • as Wagon Master
★ 5.3
Song of the Gringo
Song of the Gringo
1936 • as Bailiff
★ 6.0
Savage Fury
Savage Fury
1956 • as Allen
★ 7.0
The Devil's Trademark
The Devil's Trademark
1928 • as Morgan Gray
★ 9.0
Paddy O'Hara
Paddy O'Hara
1917 • as Paddy O'Hara
The Strings of Steel
The Strings of Steel
1926 • as Ned Brown
★ 8.0
Laughing at Life
Laughing at Life
1933 • as Military Cabinet Officer
★ 7.3
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
1933 • as Capt. Boncour
★ 5.7
Cyclone of the Saddle
Cyclone of the Saddle
1935 • as Wagon Master
★ 5.8
The Extra Girl
The Extra Girl
1923 • as Himself
★ 6.4
The Extra Girl
The Extra Girl
1923 • as Himself - Actor
★ 6.4
Jungle Mystery
Jungle Mystery
1932 • as John Morgan
★ 7.0
The Vigilantes Are Coming
The Vigilantes Are Coming
1936 • as Anderson, Vigilante Member
★ 7.8
Overland Mail
Overland Mail
1942 • as Williams - Banker
★ 10.0
Powdersmoke Range
Powdersmoke Range
1935 • as Happy - Bartender
★ 10.0
Ridin' Pretty
Ridin' Pretty
1925 • as Sky Parker
★ 7.0
The Silver Bullet
The Silver Bullet
1942 • as Townsman
★ 6.0
movie
The Parish Priest
1921 • as Reverend John Whalen
When Lightning Strikes
When Lightning Strikes
1934 • as Marshal Jack Stevens
★ 7.5
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936 • as Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
★ 8.0
Night Life in Hollywood
Night Life in Hollywood
1922 • as Self
★ 7.0
Shadows of the North
Shadows of the North
1923 • as Ben 'Wolf' Darby
★ 10.0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 • as Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
★ 6.2
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 • as Captain of the 'Viking'
★ 5.7
The Policeman and the Baby
The Policeman and the Baby
1921 • as The Policeman
★ 10.0
Song of the Saddle
Song of the Saddle
1936 • as Tim
★ 7.3
Down Rio Grande Way
Down Rio Grande Way
1942 • as Townsman
★ 10.0
Desert Command
Desert Command
1946 • as Capt. Boncour
★ 4.2
Strange Confession
Strange Confession
1945 • as Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
★ 6.8
The Burning Trail
The Burning Trail
1925 • as Smiling Bill Flannigan
★ 8.0
Junior G-Men
Junior G-Men
1940 • as Irish Cop (uncredited)
★ 6.5
Rustlers of Red Dog
Rustlers of Red Dog
1935 • as Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
★ 8.5
Perils of the Yukon
Perils of the Yukon
1922 • as Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
★ 8.0
Strawberry Roan
Strawberry Roan
1933 • as Colonel Brownlee
★ 6.0
Captain of His Soul
Captain of His Soul
1918 • as Horace
★ 10.0
The Rawhide Terror
The Rawhide Terror
1934 • as Tom Blake
★ 4.9
Border Guns
Border Guns
1934 • as Dr. Jim Wilson
★ 9.0
Pirate Treasure
Pirate Treasure
1934 • as Capt. Jim Carson
★ 5.5
The Vanishing Rider
The Vanishing Rider
1928 • as Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
★ 7.0
The Roaring West
The Roaring West
1935 • as Jim Parker
★ 10.0
movie
Time Locks and Diamonds
1917 • as Silver Jim Farrel
movie
An Honest Man
1918 • as Benny Boggs
movie
The Last of the Ingrams
1917 • as Jules Ingram
★ 8.0
The Phantom of the Air
The Phantom of the Air
1933 • as Thomas Edmonds
★ 7.0
Society for Sale
Society for Sale
1918 • as Honorable Billy
Clancy of the Mounted
Clancy of the Mounted
1933 • as Dave Moran
★ 8.0
movie
The Sign of the Cross
1904
Battling with Buffalo Bill
Battling with Buffalo Bill
1931 • as John Mills
★ 5.8
The Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades
1925 • as Dan Harvey
★ 9.0
A Sage Brush Hamlet
A Sage Brush Hamlet
1919 • as Larry Lang
★ 10.0
The Call of the Savage
The Call of the Savage
1935 • as Allen
★ 6.0
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941 • as Bartender
★ 6.5
Perils of Pauline
Perils of Pauline
1933 • as Prof. Thompson
★ 6.5
movie
The Broken Coin
1936
★ 9.0
The Cowboy and the Bandit
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935 • as Sheriff Pete
★ 7.0
The Mints of Hell
The Mints of Hell
1919 • as Dan Burke
★ 8.0
The Iced Bullet
The Iced Bullet
1917 • as The Author / Horace Lee
The Blue Bandanna
The Blue Bandanna
1919 • as Jerry Jerome
The Ghost Rider
The Ghost Rider
1935 • as Guard
★ 6.3
Gordon of Ghost City
Gordon of Ghost City
1933 • as John Mulford
★ 6.5
Flying Colors
Flying Colors
1917 • as Brent Brewster
Cheyenne Roundup
Cheyenne Roundup
1943 • as Pete
★ 7.0
The Last Frontier
The Last Frontier
1932 • as General Custer
★ 7.0
Hell-Bent for Frisco
Hell-Bent for Frisco
1931 • as The Editor
★ 9.0
The Dawn Maker
The Dawn Maker
1916 • as Bruce Smithson
The Sunset Trail
The Sunset Trail
1924 • as Happy Hobo
★ 10.0
The Majesty of the Law
The Majesty of the Law
1915 • as Jackson Morgan Kent
Born to Battle
Born to Battle
1935 • as John Brownell
★ 5.8
The Rustler's Roundup
The Rustler's Roundup
1933 • as San Dimas Sheriff Holden
★ 9.0
The Lone Star Trail
The Lone Star Trail
1943 • as Bartender Mike
★ 6.0
The Child Thou Gavest Me
The Child Thou Gavest Me
1921 • as Tom Marshall
★ 10.0
The Phantom Fortune
The Phantom Fortune
1923 • as Larry Barclay
★ 9.0
The Breathless Moment
The Breathless Moment
1924 • as Billy Carson
★ 9.0
movie
Bullets and Brown Eyes
1916 • as Prince Carl
Hi, Beautiful
Hi, Beautiful
1944 • as Passenger (uncredited)
★ 9.8
movie
Red Clay
1925 • as Chief John Nisheto
★ 7.0
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
1919 • as 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
Kilmeny
Kilmeny
1915 • as Bob Meredith
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse
1940 • as Citizen
★ 6.4
The Mystery Rider
The Mystery Rider
1928 • as Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
★ 9.0
The Way of the West
The Way of the West
1934 • as 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
★ 7.0
The Lightning Warrior
The Lightning Warrior
1931 • as Townsman (uncredited)
★ 6.3
McGuire of the Mounted
McGuire of the Mounted
1923 • as Bob McGuire
★ 7.0
Courage of the North
Courage of the North
1935 • as Gene Travis
★ 5.5
Peggy
Peggy
1916 • as Rev. Donald Bruce
The Sudden Gentleman
The Sudden Gentleman
1917 • as Garry Garrity
Barriers of the Law
Barriers of the Law
1925 • as Rex Brandon
★ 9.0
movie
Paws of the Bear
1917 • as Ray Bourke
Social Error
Social Error
1935 • as Policeman
★ 7.5
Fightin' Mad
Fightin' Mad
1921 • as Bud McGraw
★ 10.0
The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion
1931 • as Milesburg Sheriff
★ 8.5
The Prince and Betty
The Prince and Betty
1919 • as John Maude
★ 8.3
Fargo Express
Fargo Express
1933 • as Sheriff Joe Thompson
★ 9.0
Life's a Funny Proposition
Life's a Funny Proposition
1919 • as Jimmie Pendleton
★ 8.0
A Scarlet Week-End
A Scarlet Week-End
1932
★ 3.7
The Measure of a Man
The Measure of a Man
1924 • as John Fairmeadow
★ 7.0
Big Timber
Big Timber
1924 • as Walter Sandry
★ 7.0
Around the World in 18 Days
Around the World in 18 Days
1923 • as Phineas Fogg III
★ 8.0
The Marriage Bubble
The Marriage Bubble
1918 • as The Actor
★ 10.0
Oklahoma Jim
Oklahoma Jim
1931 • as Lacy
★ 9.0
The Return of the Durango Kid
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945 • as Street Ambusher (uncredited)
★ 8.7
movie
Wild Waters
1935 • as Sheriff Manning
★ 10.0
Tim Tyler's Luck
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 • as Dock Official
★ 7.0
A Gamble in Souls
A Gamble in Souls
1916
★ 10.0
Master of His Home
Master of His Home
1917 • as Carson Stewart
★ 10.0