William Desmond Movies

The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The First Central 3. Fighting for Love 4. The Power of...

A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the...

A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining...

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.

Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war, leaving Pancake to run the mine. During Ben's...

A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain.

A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.

15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon...

Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his...

A crook returns home to find his mother dead and about to be buried in Potters Field. This prompts him to go out upon a "job" so that he may secure...

A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French...

Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem.

Half-breed Joe Elk wavers between the "civilized" nature of his white father and the passion of his Indian mother. He falls in love with Alice McRae,...

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6....

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real...

A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.

William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud...

A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.