William H. Turner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: County Cork, Ireland
Birthday: October 21, 1861
Deathday: September 27, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Texas Streak
Overview: Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Driftin' Sands
Overview: A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Love Me Tonight
Overview: A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-18
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Red Hot Leather
Overview: Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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Blow Your Own Horn
Overview: World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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The Garden of Weeds
Overview: The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Other Men's Daughters
Overview: Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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The Phantom Bullet
Overview: When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-09
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The Nation's Peril
Overview: A naive young woman's strong anti-war sentiments get her into trouble in this silent cautionary tale. She is such a devout pacifist that she spurns her lover when she learns that he has invented an aerial torpedo. Instead, she gets involved with a foreigner who swears that he totally shares her beliefs. Unfortunately, he is a foreign spy in disguise. At his urging, the innocent girl steals her ex-beau's plans and delivers them to the spy. When she learns that he is the enemy, she fights him and with a sword kills him. It is still not enough to stop the enemy from attacking an American port city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-22
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Three Pals
Overview: The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-05
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White Thunder
Overview: The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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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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The Darling of New York
Overview: Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-03
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The Enemy Sex
Overview: A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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The Last Performance
Overview: A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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Traffic in Souls
Overview: A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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Laughter in Hell
Overview: In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-12
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The Power God
Overview: In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-01
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Her Big Adventure
Overview: Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He finds work as a bellhop in a fancy Los Angeles hotel. Meanwhile, Silas' secretary, Betty Burton (Grace Darmond), wins a thousand dollars in a contest and uses the money to vacation in the very same hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-05
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Fast and Fearless
Overview: Lightning Bill Lewis sets out to capture Gómez, the leader of a ruthless gang that has been tormenting a border town. He prevents Gómez from kidnapping his girl, Mary, but Gómez escapes. With the aid of Captain Duerta, Lightning Bill pursues the gang, and when it is captured by Mexican soldiers he is free to marry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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Where Was I?
Overview: A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-24
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The Monster
Overview: A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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Jimmie Dale, Alias the Grey Seal
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-23
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The Meeting
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-08
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The Perils of Our Girl Reporters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-28
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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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Some Boxer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-11
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The Evangelist
Overview: Christabel Nuneham (Gladys Hanson) feels neglected by her husband, Phil (Ferdinand Tidmarsh), so she has an affair with Rex Allen (Jack Standing). When Allen has to go to India, Christabel follows him to Southampton to see him off. She is injured in a car accident and is rescued by an evangelist (George Soule Spencer) whose specialty is saving sinners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-17
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The Great Ruby
Overview: The world's finest ruby was stolen from the bride of Prince Kassim's great-grandfather several generations ago in India by a marauding rajah. It's now several decades later and the British have conquered India, and one day the ruby shows up for sale by a wealthy London jeweler, Sir John Garnett. Garnett has his own problems--there have been a rash of thefts of his wife's jewels, and he hires a private detective named James Brett to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-10
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The Climbers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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The Road o' Strife
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-05
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