William Garwood
Also Known As: Billy Garwood
Biography: Wiki - William Davis Garwood, Jr. was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent film era in the 1910s. Between 1911 and 1913, Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popular films, including Jane Eyre and The Vicar of Wakefield (1910), Lorna Doone (1911), The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1911), David Copperfield (1911), The Merchant of Venice (1912), and Little Dorrit (1913), and Robin Hood (1913). In total, he starred in more than 150 short and feature films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Missouri. USA
Birthday: April 27, 1884
Deathday: December 28, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Green-Eyed Devil
Overview: Jim Miller lives in a cheap tenement with his wife and his sister. They had been in a better position in other days, but Jim has developed into a morose half-drunken character, suspicious and high-tempered. The sister leaves her own husband and comes to live with Jim. However, she is jealous of her sister-in-law and goes out of her way to be mean to her, and to poison Jim's mind against the weak, pretty thing who is his wife. One day Jim gets out of a job and while he is out looking for work and the sister is away at her work in the factory, Mary, the wife, steals out determined to add to the common share, while her husband is in hard luck. She finds work painting clay figures, an art for which she shows some talent. But she is afraid of Jim's wildness and as soon as she collects money she secrets it for a rainy day. One day after she has worked hard and hoarded some money, the sister comes in unexpectedly upon her, and when Mary goes out of the room finds the money in an old vase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-28
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The Hunchback
Overview: "The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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Baseball and Bloomers
Overview: Miss Street's Seminary for young girls has a very ambitious class of pupils. The young athletes, not content with basketball and tennis, aspire to shine in the great American game, and organize a baseball club. They are so satisfied with themselves that they finally send a challenge to Adair College, which has a crowd of husky young athletes and a club that thinks it amounts to something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-06
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The Railroad Builder
Overview: The construction of a new railroad, designed to bring prosperity to a section of the country, brings sorrow to one home. An aged invalid finds that his home must give way to progress, as the line is designed to cut through his homestead, which has been in his family for generations. He fights, of course, but the property is condemned and a legal battle ends in defeat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-09
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Motoring
Overview: A young millionaire, whose hobby is mechanics, takes his newly overhauled car out for a trial spin, and he would have laughed had anybody told him that it was to be the most eventful trip of his life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-09
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Overview: According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats. The citizens tried every way to abate the plague, but without result. Finally a mysterious stranger appeared in the town and offered for the sum of 1000 guilders to clear the place of vermin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-31
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The Buddhist Priestess
Overview: A young missionary, filled with religious fervor, joyfully accepts the post to carry the gospel to a section of Japan, where white men are not known. His wife and little daughter go with him, and he starts for his station with native guides and bearers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-12
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The Honeymooners
Overview: A celebrated man who was married five times said on one occasion, "The most trying thing about getting married is the fool tricks one's fool friends play." And he knew what he was talking about.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-22
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Jess
Overview: Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age. Jess, the elder, was brilliant and educated; Bess, the younger was beautiful, but frankly admitted that she did not possess the mental attainments of Jess. The two were great friends, and Jess, although the senior by only three years, had almost a motherly affection for her pretty little sister. Croft, finding old age stealing upon him, advertised for a partner, stipulating that he must be a gentleman. Probably it was his secret idea that the right man might come along, and fall in love with his favorite, beautiful Bessie.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-21
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Lucile
Overview: Lucile is a 1912 drama film short.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-27
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A Six Cylinder Elopement
Overview: The old man had political ambitions and a beautiful daughter. He uttered no protest when a bright young lawyer captured the latter, but when the same individual landed the congressional nomination upon which the elder had confidently counted, there was trouble. Enraged at his defeat, the old man summarily broke the engagement and sent his daughter back to a boarding school.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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The Woman in White
Overview: A truncated version of Wilkie Collins' popular mystery story.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-20
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Put Yourself in His Place
Overview: The story concerns the love of Henry Little for Grace Carden and its reciprocal sentiment, with the time-honored interference of those who attempt to arrange the affairs of Cupid to suit social exigencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-29
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Her Fireman
Overview: A kind hearted actress who befriended a poor little waif of the street, soon grew to love the child. When she went on the road she found him a home with her old nurse. She realized how much the child meant to her when he was crippled in an accident, for as soon as she heard the news she gave up her position and hurried to his side.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-21
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For Her Boy's Sake
Overview: The son of a poor widow fell in love with a heartless showgirl who spurned the simple gifts he gave her. In a moment of desperation he tried to rob the box office of the theater in which he was employed as a stage hand, but was detected by the night watchman who shot and wounded him mortally. Before he expired he wrote a letter to his mother saying, "Many a man is tempted to sin for the woman he loves." The widow in order to maintain herself, obtained work as a scrub woman in an office building where she became acquainted with a prepossessing young clerk who wife she learned was dangerously ill and was told by the physician to go to Arizona.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-25
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The Woman Who Did Not Care
Overview: A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life. She accepted his attentions willingly until a young engineer came along and paid court to her. She then dismissed her first suitor. Her father made a lucky strike, and they moved to the city to enjoy their wealth. This sealed the fate of the second suitor for a rich man became smitten with the girl and she accepted his advances. Perhaps she would have married him in time had it not been that she aroused the enmity of an old witch, deeply skilled in magic.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-01
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The Caged Bird
Overview: The beautiful young princess was weary of the formality and ceremony that encompassed her. She had read many books and from them had gained the idea that she would be far happier as a simple peasant than as the daughter of a king. Even when it came to her marriage, she sadly reflected, there was no romance, for her father had arbitrarily contracted an alliance for her with a neighboring prince. The princess was taking her drive one day and was sadder than ever. She saw a wedding procession issue from a neighboring cottage, and pityingly watched the mother of the bride, as she turned into her lonely house. In a field the princess noticed a young farmer, and she thought that the romance which had been denied her might come into her life. By the time she had returned to the castle she was pitying herself exceedingly, and had decided to be a caged bird no longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-06
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The Wolf of Debt
Overview: Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes. The ambitious Mrs. Stanhope encourages Anthony Stuart, a rich broker and rejected suitor of her daughter, to win Helen away from Marsden, and Stuart consequently hires Marsden to work in his firm. As Marsden works, Stuart lavishes his attentions on Helen, who sternly rejects all his advances. Undaunted, Stuart sends Marsden away on a business trip and invites Helen to attend an elegant reception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-01
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The Evidence of the Film
Overview: A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-10
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A Bargain with Chance
Overview: First movie in the Lord John's Journal series. Detective novel author and war hero Lord John solves a mystery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-14
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Thanhouser's version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-01
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Cymbeline
Overview: Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first reel, with its intimate cinematography and acting and special lighting effect, and the battle scene of the second reel, considered very effective in its day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-27
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Cymbeline
Overview: Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first reel, with its intimate cinematography and acting and special lighting effect, and the battle scene of the second reel, considered very effective in its day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-27
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Lorna Doone
Overview: Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protected valley, becoming outlaws and highwaymen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-29
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The Mummy
Overview: An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young Egyptologist and his less than understanding fiancée. This film is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-07
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The Little Brother
Overview: Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers to make money on the street corner. As the result of a chance meeting with Frank Girard, who is interested in the "Big Brother Movement," Jerry is invited to Girard's farm in the country. Later she is sent to a coeducational institution where she assumes the dress and manners of a girl once more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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The Cowboy Millionaire
Overview: Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-20
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Carmen
Overview: A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, and greatly in love with his pretty sweetheart, Mercedes. The plans of Jose and Mercedes for an early marriage were rudely dissipated by the news that the young man had been drafted for service in the Spanish army. Jose comforted his mother and Mercedes, telling them that he would soon return and they would never be separated again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-26
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An Elevator Romance
Overview: A wealthy, hustling young westerner comes east, and immediately calls up his boyhood chum, now a staid businessman in a New York skyscraper. The westerner is charmed by the sweet voice of the telephone girl who answers his call from the office switchboard, and determines to make her acquaintance. In fact, one of the first things he does after reaching his friend's office is to make inquiries, and he is made happy by an introduction. He soon finds that while the voice is charming, the girl's appearance and manner are much more so. But the girl, being modest and retiring does not approve of such an informal acquaintance. She practically snubs the westerner, and he sees that he has made little progress in his suit. And time is valuable for he soon must go back to his home, and he has already decided that he will take a bride with him. Love finds a way, as it usually does.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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The Little Girl Next Door
Overview: Helen Randall and Ruth Foster were little tots. The two children lived side by side on one of the fashionable streets in New York City. One day Helen and her parents were starting for the park when the little one suggested that they invite Ruth to go with them. The idea pleased them all, and as to Ruth, she was in an ecstasy of delight. She skipped down the steps into the Randalls' automobile, and her father (a widower), watching her as the machine whizzed off, realized more than ever the little treasure he possessed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Overview: Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of film language and cinematic techniques over the ensuing eight year period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-26
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The Coffin Ship
Overview: A love story filmed in Long Island Sound with a stowaway and a shipwreck.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-19
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Petticoat Camp
Overview: Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-29
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Get Rich Quick
Overview: An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all their money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-25
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The Pasha's Daughter
Overview: An American in Turkey is mistakenly arrested and thrown in jail. He escapes and is helped by the daughter of the local ruler, called the Pasha.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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Broken Fetters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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Lord John in New York
Overview: Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him. After tracking him down, Lord John joins his foe on an ocean steamer along with Grace Callender, an heiress, and Dr. Rameses, a hypnotist and Egyptian cultist. While the evil Dr. Rameses tries to steal a gold-filled mummy from Maida, Odell's adopted sister, Lord John confronts Odell, who reveals that his anger stems from a disservice that the Marquis once committed against Maida.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-14
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Under Two Flags
Overview: Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-02
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Ruy Blas
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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David Copperfield
Overview: Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-17
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Her Moment
Overview: In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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The Lady from the Sea
Overview: Ellida was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, and spent many hours near the water's edge. While she was still scarcely more than a child, one of these ships put in for repairs at a fishing village near the lighthouse, and its second officer, while on a day's outing to kill time, visited the lighthouse. He there met Ellida, whose youth and beauty he admired. While his ship was still undergoing repairs, the second officer quarreled with his captain, and a fight ensued in which the captain was killed. The guilty man escaped from the ship, and making his way to the lighthouse, forced Ellida to assist in his flight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-12
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Driven by Fate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-13
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Copper
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-09
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Sweet and Low
Overview: A lonely, unhappy old man strives to reconnect with his family. Based on the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Original Language: en
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The Lady Killer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-24
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Told in the Future
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-03
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Wives and Other Wives
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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