William R. Dunn
Also Known As: William Robert Dunn, William Dunne, William Dunn, W. Dunn, W.R. Dunn
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astoria, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 23, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 24, 1946
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Devil's Island
Overview: A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-20
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The Seventh Son
Overview: At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-03
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Making Good
Overview: Young Billy Burns is in love with Irene Brander, to whose father he is private secretary. Irene returns his affection, but is very much afraid that her father will force her to marry Bert Austin, a young society and club man of his choice. Billy, seeing that this is imminent, goes boldly to Irene's house and asks her father for her hand.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-26
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The Redeeming Sin
Overview: Lupin is the lover of Joan of the Apaches. She is attracted by Paul de Gafilet, nobleman and sculptor. She visits him in his studio and resolves to abandon her underworld career for his sake. Lupin vows revenge but is frustrated by Joan. The latter's affection for Paul turns to rage when she sees him embracing another woman. Joan joins with her confederates to steal some jewels from a statue of the Madonna in a church. She learns that the woman she is jealous of is Paul's sister, attempts to halt the robbery but fails. Paul is injured by the thieves and Joan held captive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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Painted Ponies
Overview: A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Overview: This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-31
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Beyond the Law
Overview: When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-26
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The Caballero's Way
Overview: A Cisco Kid story.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The Secret Kingdom
Overview: The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial comprised of 15 chapters: 1. Land of the Intrigue 2. Royalty at Red Wing 3. Sealed Packet 4. Honorable Mr. Oxenham 5. Carriage Call #101 6. Human Flotsam 7. Ghost Ship 8. Rum Cay 9. Swamp Adder 10. A Goat Without Horns 11. The White Witch 12. The Shark's Nest 13. The Tragic Masque 14. The Portrait of a King 15. The Tocsin.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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For the Honor of the Family
Overview: On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to redeem himself, joins an Indian regiment as a private, and leaves England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-27
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The Mate of the 'John M'
Overview: Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Mandy, the daughter of Captain Dale. Before she leaves for boarding school, she hurries to the ship to say good-bye to it, her father and Jim. Six years have now passed, and Mandy has grown to a big and handsome girl. As Captain Dale is going to make another trip, Mandy asks him if she cannot go along. Mandy's school chum's brother wishes to go also, and the Captain gives his consent. Jim grows a little jealous at the young man's presence on board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-04
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The Princess of Park Row
Overview: After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought the land in good faith, sends Prince Niclos to America to negotiate a loan on the king's collateral so that the land can be bought and given back to the people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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I Want to Forget
Overview: Prior to the declaration of World War I, dancer Varda Deering was a member of the Austrian secret service, but later became a loyal citizen of the United States. In America, she captivates many men but cares for none of them until she meets Lieutenant John Long. At first, he regards Varda as little more than a social butterfly, but gradually comes to recognize her goodness and falls in love with her. While John is away on a war-related diplomatic mission, Varda agrees to aid the U.S. Secret Service in procuring classified documents from August Von Grossman, an agent whom she had known in Austria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Undercurrent
Overview: Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Saved from the Titanic
Overview: A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard because her fiance is a sailor and her parents have just been reminded of the dangers of the sea. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-13
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King of the Jungle
Overview: A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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Stanley and Livingstone
Overview: When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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A Modern Jekyll and Hyde
Overview: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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Love Finds the Way
Overview: Romantic comedy about an overprotective father who locks up his daughters in order to 'protect' them from their two cowboy friends. The friends call in the help from a widow who knows Johan, in the hope she can mollify him. She can, and additionally steals his heart, so in the end there are three happy couples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-26
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Alma's Champion
Overview: Henry Talbot, the son of the president of the V.C.A.R.R., desiring to get a more comprehensive knowledge of the railroad, accepts a position as engineer on his father's road. Alma Randall, the niece of Stephen Bradish, general manager of the railroad, is reluctant in recognizing him in his position and he in turn makes it very unpleasant for her, so much so that she leaves his home. Going to the railroad station, she enters the cab of the engine driven by her sweetheart and there tells him her story. In the meantime Bradish, missing the girl and learning that she is on the express, orders a special, which overtakes the train driven by Talbot. Bradish is informed by the conductor that Alma is not aboard. At a reception given by her friends in honor of Alma's birthday, Henry is invited. As a surprise Henry's father and Bradish are also present. Bradish assumes the authoritative with Alma.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-10
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Black Moon
Overview: A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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Vanity Fair
Overview: A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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Sundown
Overview: Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Juggernaut
Overview: Back in college, John Ballard saved Philip Hardin's life. Twenty years later, John is the district attorney and Philip is president of a railroad notorious for its accident record. When John brings a suit against the railroad, Philip threatens to reveal a ruinous secret about John unless he drops the case. Meanwhile, a railroad inspector discovers that the trestle over which an express train carrying Philip's daughter is about to pass is in eminent danger of collapse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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Chamber of Forgetfulness
Overview: A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends his son away until, after a dozen years, he discovers she was true; whereupon he summons his son and, after a bit, they reconcile at her grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-20
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For a Woman’s Fair Name
Overview: Right after a husband and wife (Robert Edeson and Eulalie Jensen) arrive home from their honeymoon, the husband goes to fetch his sister from boarding school. While he is away, the wife's friend and neighbor, McGregor (Harry Morey), invites her to a party, and she accepts. On the way back home, they're involved in an accident, and McGregor takes the wife, who's unconscious, to recover at a nearby roadhouse. Unfortunately, McGregor's coke fiend brother (William R. Dunn) is there partying, and he threatens to put a seamy spin on the innocent situation and tell all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-28
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The Spirit of the Poppy
Overview: A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity. Helene Ford has been injected with heroin by an unscrupulous physician, causing her to act irrationally. Her husband Stephen, a noted artist, hires a model whom Helene, inflamed by their friend Jack Murray, suspects of having an affair with Stephen. The model is also addicted to drugs and convinces Stephen to try heroin to forget his troubles. Both Stephen and Helene then become addicted to drugs. They abandon their home and then separate, after which Stephen resorts to crime to support his heroin addiction. During an escape from the police after a robbery, Stephen encounters Helene again, this time near death. She sacrifices her own life to shield her husband, but Stephen and his former model plunge to their deaths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-23
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The Wooing of Princess Pat
Overview: To stave off war with a neighboring kingdom, Princess Pat of Paxitania agrees to marry Warburg's King Eric. Still very young and rebellious, the new queen finds it difficult to adjust to court life, and when she accepts an invitation to take a ride with the villainous Count Ladislaus, King Eric's patience gives out and he rebukes her severely. The banished count informs Pat's father, the Grand Duke of Paxitania, that she is cruelly abused, whereupon Pat's three brothers set out to bring her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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Clover's Rebellion
Overview: Wealthy heiress Clover Dean has three suitors: Duke Boris, promoted by her aunt, Bucky Raine, a wealthy idler sponsored by her uncle, and struggling young doctor William Dunn, who is her own choice. Clover's engagement to the duke is to be announced at a dance, but she rebels before the gathering and refuses to go on with the marriage. Clover leaves hurriedly, a shot is heard and the duke found dead. Bucky Raine, discovered wandering about the garden with a revolver in his hand, is arrested for the crime, but his testimony convicts the doctor as the person who had possession of the gun during the shooting. The doctor and Clover are both arrested for suspicion, but a guilty conscience forces Rita, a former sweetheart of the duke to confess to the crime. Clover then has her own way and marries the doctor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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Beaned by a Beanshooter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-10
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In Arcadia
Overview: The Youngloves have a cozy little apartment and a jewel of a cook, Bridget, and are happy until the landlord raises the rent. A slick agent convinces them to take a lease on "the modern Paradise” in Arcadia. A long, frightful journey takes them to "Eros Villa” a tumbledown old shack with a scrubby hedge running around it. After a veritable nightmare of a night trying to sleep on hastily-made-up hard beds and being scared nearly to death by huge rats scampering through the rooms the Youngloves rush to the agent's office, where he agrees to tear up the lease for two months' rent! The Youngloves, return to their old flat, sadder and wiser, but happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-18
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The Surprises of an Empty Hotel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-07
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C.O.D.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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Woman, Woman!
Overview: Alice Lindsay arrives in New York from a small town and becomes part of Greenwich Village Bohemian life. Alice resists the advances of Gwenne Stevens, an advocate of free love, and marries civil engineer Samson Rathbone
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-21
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