William Dyer
Also Known As: Bill Dyer, Wm. Dyer, Wm. J. Dyer, William J. Dyer, Billy Dyer, William Dwire
Biography: William Dyer was an American film actor in the silent era.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birthday: March 09, 1881
Deathday: December 22, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Perils of the Wild
Overview: Movie serial Perils of the Wild
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-27
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Overview: Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-30
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Fightin' Mad
Overview: Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Police in Texas. On the way he meets Peggy Hughes, accompanying her Uncle Graham, a customs inspector, and he retrieves her hat from the rails of a train. At the headquarters, numerous scrapes and fights win him the admiration of, and friendship with, the men. Lazaro, a Secret Service agent, invites Mrs. Graham and Peggy, who are staying at the border station, for an automobile ride, and they are captured by bandits and held for ransom. Bud and his pals deliver the ransom and discover that Lazaro is the bandit chief. Lazaro refuses to release Peggy, but a jealous rival, Nita de Garma, causes his downfall and shoots him as the Border Police arrive to rescue the party.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-20
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Come Through
Overview: From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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Cyclone Bliss
Overview: Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-20
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The Screaming Shadow
Overview: Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Code of Honor
Overview: Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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The Red Glove
Overview: On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-17
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Singer Jim Mckee
Overview: Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-18
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Spurs and Saddles
Overview: Mildred is traveling West in search of her long-lost father when she catches the roving eye of wicked dance-hall proprietor "Hawk" Kent. She turns him down flat and Kent has his henchman Blaze frame her in a crime. To keep herself out of jail, Mildred is compelled to work in Kent's dive, until the gallant Jack comes to her rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-17
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The Fighting Three
Overview: The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy. While she is performing at the town opera house, D'Arcy is found murdered and young Jack is accused of the heinous deed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-03
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The Silent Call
Overview: A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-07
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Gun-Shy
Overview: A milquetoast Easterner who on a trip to the Wild West is mistaken for a U.S. marshall.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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The Four-Bit Man
Overview: The Four-Bit Man is a silent Western short.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-21
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Don't Shoot
Overview: Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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Gun Justice
Overview: Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-11
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Gun Gospel
Overview: From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that will insure the shipments and ensure a guaranteed delivery. Granger Hume is hired to help Wells-Fargo deliver on their promise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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All Night
Overview: A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-29
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Black Orchids
Overview: Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Crushed
Overview: Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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Hard Boiled Yeggs
Overview: A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the money and the 'Cafe', and the thugs try, through various means, to see that Billy meets his demise. But Billy manages to thwart their efforts, with the help of a pretty young girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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'49–'17
Overview: A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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Frankenstein
Overview: Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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The Cowboy King
Overview: "Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman fought back...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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The Pony Express
Overview: The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-03
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Overland Bound
Overview: Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Triumph
Overview: This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-02
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Texas Buddies
Overview: Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, Ted takes over as pilot figuring another attempt will be made and this time the Sheriff will be there.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
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The Trail of the Octopus
Overview: Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
Genres: Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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Anything Once
Overview: A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-08
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Broken Fetters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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The Great Problem
Overview: A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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The Reward of the Faithless
Overview: A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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The Little White Savage
Overview: A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English survivors of a shipwreck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-24
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Who Will Marry Me?
Overview: Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
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Looking for Trouble
Overview: Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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Man's Desire
Overview: Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-20
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The Man in the Saddle
Overview: A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart confirms this and refunds the losses but writes to his old pal Jeff Morgan, a former gunfighter, telling him of his predicament. Morgan sends his son, Jeff, Jr., a superb rider and dead shot but otherwise an awkward lout; at the insistence of Pauline, Stewart places Jeff in charge of a camping party. Laura Mayhew, a city girl in league with Lawrence, sends up a flare signal at night, and while Jeff chases some bears into the woods, Lawrence and his men hold up the camp.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-11
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The Desert of the Lost
Overview: Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-17
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Honor of the Mounted
Overview: Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-20
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Sagebrush Trail
Overview: Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shopgirl Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Overview: After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-15
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The Measure of a Man
Overview: Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his gentle manner reform the town drinkers and put the saloon out of business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-14
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The Mayor of Filbert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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