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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

1 crew

Popularity

0.9

movie

Known For

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera

1943

as Stagehand (uncredited)
Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

1944

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