Cast
William Desmond
Acting
Cast
William Desmond
Known for
Acting
Born
1878-01-23
From
Horseheads, New York, USA
Died
1949-11-03
Also known as William Mannion, The King of the Silent Serials, Bill Desmond
Biography
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.
★10.0
MOVIE1929
No Defense
as John Harper
★8.0
MOVIE1931
First Aid
as Chief of Police
★7.5
MOVIE1924
Hello, 'Frisco
as William Desmond
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Mystery Rider
as Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Naughty Marietta
as Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Song of the Gringo
as Bailiff
MOVIE1915
Peer Gynt
as The Parson
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Straight Through
as Good Deed O'Day
★4.0
MOVIE1936
Treachery Rides the Range
as Bill
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Timber Terrors
as Royce Horter
★8.0
MOVIE1925
Duped
as John Morgan
★4.9
MOVIE1934
The Rawhide Terror
as Tom Blake
★9.0
MOVIE1919
Whitewashed Walls
as Larry Donovan
★7.0
MOVIE1928
The Vanishing Rider
as Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
MOVIE1929
No Children
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1919
Her Code of Honor
as Eugene La Salle
MOVIE1916
The Criminal
as Donald White
★6.4
MOVIE1936
Flash Gordon
as Hawkman Lookout Captain
★10.0
MOVIE1924
The Sunset Trail
as Happy Hobo
★4.3
MOVIE1934
Frontier Days
as Sheriff Barnes
★7.0
MOVIE1920
Twin Beds
as Harry Hawkins
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Phantom of the Opera
as Stagehand (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1944
The Mummy's Ghost
as Museum Tourist (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1943
The Lone Star Trail
as Bartender Mike
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Phantom Lady
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Tall in the Saddle
as Townsman (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1945
The Naughty Nineties
as Showboat Customer (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1917
The Last of the Ingrams
as Jules Ingram
★7.3
MOVIE1933
Laughing at Life
as Military Cabinet Officer
★8.0
MOVIE1919
The Mints of Hell
as Dan Burke
★6.0
MOVIE1947
Thunder Mountain
as Townsman (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Trail Street
as Townsman (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Hell-Bent for Frisco
as The Editor
★5.5
MOVIE1944
The Climax
as Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
MOVIE1904
The Sign of the Cross
MOVIE1921
Women Men Love
as David Hunter
★5.0
MOVIE1925
The Meddler
as Richard Gilmore
★7.1
MOVIE1947
The Egg and I
as Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Crack-Up
as Police Chief
★4.2
MOVIE1946
Desert Command
as Capt. Boncour
MOVIE1921
The Parish Priest
as Reverend John Whalen
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Frisco Kid
as Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1933
The Three Musketeers
as Capt. Boncour
MOVIE1918
The Pretender
as Bob Baldwin
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Red Clay
as Chief John Nisheto
★7.7
MOVIE1947
Code of the West
as Settler (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1923
The Extra Girl
as Himself
★6.4
MOVIE1923
The Extra Girl
as Himself - Actor
★7.5
MOVIE1934
I Can't Escape
as Parole Officer Donovan
★7.0
MOVIE1922
Night Life in Hollywood
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Devil's Trademark
as Morgan Gray
★7.1
MOVIE1934
The Vanishing Shadow
as MacDonald
★10.0
MOVIE1921
The Policeman and the Baby
as The Policeman
★10.0
MOVIE1942
Overland Mail
as Williams - Banker
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Powdersmoke Range
as Happy - Bartender
MOVIE1918
Society for Sale
as Honorable Billy
★8.3
MOVIE1919
The Prince and Betty
as John Maude
★8.5
MOVIE1931
The Vanishing Legion
as Milesburg Sheriff
★9.0
MOVIE1934
Border Guns
as Dr. Jim Wilson
★6.0
MOVIE1933
Strawberry Roan
as Colonel Brownlee
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Perils of Pauline
as Prof. Thompson
★7.0
MOVIE1923
McGuire of the Mounted
as Bob McGuire
★8.5
MOVIE1935
Rustlers of Red Dog
as Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Cheyenne Roundup
as Pete
MOVIE1917
Married in Name Only
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Junior G-Men
as Irish Cop (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1925
Outwitted
as Jack Blaisdel
★6.9
MOVIE1945
Strange Confession
as Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1936
Song of the Saddle
as Tim
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Call of the Savage
as Allen
★5.7
MOVIE1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Captain of the 'Viking'
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Heroes of the West
as John Blaine
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Tim Tyler's Luck
as Dock Official
★9.8
MOVIE1944
Hi, Beautiful
as Passenger (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Jungle Mystery
as John Morgan
★4.5
MOVIE1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1942
The Silver Bullet
as Townsman
★10.0
MOVIE1918
Captain of His Soul
as Horace
★5.8
MOVIE1935
Cyclone of the Saddle
as Wagon Master
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
as Foreman Burke
★9.0
MOVIE1933
Mr. Broadway
as 1st Suitor (archive footage)
★10.0
MOVIE1935
The Roaring West
as Jim Parker
★7.8
MOVIE1936
The Vigilantes Are Coming
as Anderson, Vigilante Member
★8.0
MOVIE1925
The Burning Trail
as Smiling Bill Flannigan
★10.0
MOVIE1942
Down Rio Grande Way
as Townsman
★7.0
MOVIE1934
The Red Rider
as Sheriff Campbell
★9.0
MOVIE1933
The Rustler's Roundup
as San Dimas Sheriff Holden
★5.3
MOVIE1936
Custer's Last Stand
as Wagon Master
★5.8
MOVIE1935
Born to Battle
as John Brownell
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Beasts of Paradise
as Phil Grant
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Gordon of Ghost City
as John Mulford
★6.3
MOVIE1931
The Lightning Warrior
as Townsman (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Winners of the West
as Bill Brine
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Clancy of the Mounted
as Dave Moran
★6.4
MOVIE1940
The Boys from Syracuse
as Citizen
MOVIE1915
The Majesty of the Law
as Jackson Morgan Kent
MOVIE1916
Peggy
as Rev. Donald Bruce
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Perils of the Yukon
as Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
★9.0
MOVIE1931
Oklahoma Jim
as Lacy
★7.0
MOVIE1935
The Cowboy and the Bandit
as Sheriff Pete
★6.3
MOVIE1935
The Ghost Rider
as Guard
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Courage of the North
as Gene Travis
★7.0
MOVIE1933
The Phantom of the Air
as Thomas Edmonds
★8.7
MOVIE1945
The Return of the Durango Kid
as Street Ambusher (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Where Did You Get That Girl?
as Tourist
MOVIE1919
The Blue Bandanna
as Jerry Jerome
★9.0
MOVIE1930
The Phantom of the West
as Martin Blair
★7.0
MOVIE1924
The Riddle Rider
as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
as Bartender
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Headin' for the Rio Grande
as Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Last Frontier
as General Custer
MOVIE1917
The Iced Bullet
as The Author / Horace Lee
★8.0
MOVIE1926
The Strings of Steel
as Ned Brown
★9.0
MOVIE1936
The Broken Coin
MOVIE1917
Paws of the Bear
as Ray Bourke
★5.5
MOVIE1934
Pirate Treasure
as Capt. Jim Carson
★10.0
MOVIE1918
The Marriage Bubble
as The Actor
★9.0
MOVIE1924
The Breathless Moment
as Billy Carson
★9.0
MOVIE1925
The Ace of Spades
as Dan Harvey
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Shadows of the North
as Ben 'Wolf' Darby
MOVIE1917
Flying Colors
as Brent Brewster
★9.0
MOVIE1933
Fargo Express
as Sheriff Joe Thompson
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Return of the Riddle Rider
as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
★7.0
MOVIE1924
Big Timber
as Walter Sandry
MOVIE1918
An Honest Man
as Benny Boggs
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Social Error
as Policeman
★7.0
MOVIE1934
The Way of the West
as 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
★7.5
MOVIE1934
When Lightning Strikes
as Marshal Jack Stevens
★5.8
MOVIE1931
Battling with Buffalo Bill
as John Mills
★9.0
MOVIE1923
The Phantom Fortune
as Larry Barclay
MOVIE1917
The Sudden Gentleman
as Garry Garrity
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Savage Fury
as Allen
MOVIE1915
Kilmeny
as Bob Meredith
★3.7
MOVIE1932
A Scarlet Week-End
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Barriers of the Law
as Rex Brandon
MOVIE1916
Bullets and Brown Eyes
as Prince Carl
★8.0
MOVIE1919
Life's a Funny Proposition
as Jimmie Pendleton
★10.0
MOVIE1916
A Gamble in Souls
★7.0
MOVIE1924
The Measure of a Man
as John Fairmeadow
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Around the World in 18 Days
as Phineas Fogg III
★10.0
MOVIE1917
Master of His Home
as Carson Stewart
MOVIE1916
The Dawn Maker
as Bruce Smithson
MOVIE1917
Paddy O'Hara
as Paddy O'Hara
MOVIE1919
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
as 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Wild Waters
as Sheriff Manning
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Ridin' Pretty
as Sky Parker
★10.0
MOVIE1919
A Sage Brush Hamlet
as Larry Lang
★10.0
MOVIE1921
Fightin' Mad
as Bud McGraw
★10.0
MOVIE1921
The Child Thou Gavest Me
as Tom Marshall