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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

0.5

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