William Black
Also Known As: Bill Black, William W. Black, William Wallace Black, W. W. Black
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Irvington, New York, USA
Birthday: January 01, 1871
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Greatest Power
Overview: Miriam Monroe and John Conrad are two young scientific workers who, independently of each other, have discovered a chemical called exonite. Miriam discovered it while searching for a cure for cancer, while Conrad used it as a basis for a powerful explosive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-18
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Ambition
Overview: Jude Hunter (Katherine Hughes) is a committed musician who is in the middle of preparing for the biggest and most important performance of her life. When mysterious, unprecedented, and seemingly connected deaths occur as the competition draws near, she begins to feel unsafe, thinking that she might be the next target.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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Fascinating Youth
Overview: Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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The New York Peacock
Overview: Billy Martin is sent to New York to put through a war contract for his father, a new England manufacturer, and takes $100,000 as a security. The munition broker's secretary, a crook, tells Graham, a gambling house keeper, of Billy's coming. Miller is detailed to lure him to the gambling house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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The Sex Lure
Overview: Wealthy capitalist, Clinton Reynolds, and his wife, Laura, have lost their son, Arthur, kidnapped and possibly dead. Attempting to write a wrong in his factory, he adopts the daughter of one of his workers who is killed on site. The girl, Rose, grows up resentful of her adoptive father and as she grows older, seduces him in order to break up his marriage. Long lost Arthur returns and, finding his parents' married life in disarray, becomes romantically involved with Rose in order to end the relationship she has forged with his father. Reynolds comes to his senses and makes amends with Laura, at which point Arthur leaves Rose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-03
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The Hidden Truth
Overview: Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-20
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The Prussian Cur
Overview: A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Hell Cat
Overview: Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dyke, whose attentions she repeatedly rebuffs. Jim and his men attack Pancha's ranch, burning it to the ground and killing her father. The outlaw carries her to his cabin, where Wan-o-mee, his jealous squaw, tries to stab the girl....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-24
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The Floor Below
Overview: Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her assignment is to explain the clue that links the Hope Mission, a derelict home run by millionaire Hunter Mason and his secretary, Monty Latham, with a series of local robberies. When Hunter discovers Patricia in his office, he assumes that she is a crook in need of reforming and takes her into his home to be cared for by his mother.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Follow the Leader
Overview: A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-06
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The Highest Bidder
Overview: Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Ramshackle House
Overview: Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Pen Broome, who lives with her father (Henry James) on their rundown estate, tries to help Counsel out. Riever's men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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The Golf Specialist
Overview: At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-22
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Flying Pat
Overview: Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a friend of Robert's, offers to teach her how to fly. One day while aloft in the plane, the craft takes a sudden nosedive and crashes. The pair walk away uninjured and find shelter in a roadhouse. Robert, upon hearing of this, becomes jealous of Pat's spending so much time with Endicott, which angers Pat. She decides to leave Robert and slips out of the house to catch an evening train, but unfortunately, Endicott is also aboard the train. Robert finds out about that, too. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-11
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The Line-Up
Overview: The Line-Up (1929)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-18
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Great Expectations
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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That Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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Trooper 44
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-01
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Broadway Bill
Overview: Bill Clayton is known as Broadway Bill because he is the most prominent Bill in the night life of the white way. Muriel loves Bill, but loathes his mode of life, and for her sake he goes to Underwood's lumber camp to work the alcohol out of his system. Hardigan. the foreman, thinks he is sent to spy upon his actions and makes several efforts to get rid of him, but in the end Bill thrashes the foreman, takes his place and wins the girl, though not before a curious chain of cross, purposes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-11
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Three Green Eyes
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-28
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The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
Overview: During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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An Amateur Widow
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-26
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