William Desmond
Born: 1878-01-23 in Horseheads, New York, USA
Died: 1949-11-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles.
Filmography
1956
- Savage Fury as Allen
1947
- Trail Street as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Egg and I as Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
- Thunder Mountain as Townsman (uncredited)
- Code of the West as Settler (uncredited)
1946
- Desert Command as Capt. Boncour
1945
- Strange Confession as Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
- The Return of the Durango Kid as Street Ambusher (uncredited)
- The Naughty Nineties as Showboat Customer (uncredited)
1944
- Tall in the Saddle as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Climax as Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
- The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Tourist (uncredited)
- Phantom Lady as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Hi, Beautiful as Passenger (uncredited)
1943
- Cheyenne Roundup as Pete
- Phantom of the Opera as Stagehand (uncredited)
- The Lone Star Trail as Bartender Mike
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
1942
- Down Rio Grande Way as Townsman
- Overland Mail as Williams - Banker
- The Silver Bullet as Townsman
1941
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie as Bartender
- Where Did You Get That Girl? as Tourist
1940
- The Boys from Syracuse as Citizen
- Winners of the West as Bill Brine
- Junior G-Men as Irish Cop (uncredited)
1937
- Tim Tyler's Luck as Dock Official
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
- Flash Gordon as Hawkman Lookout Captain
- Custer's Last Stand as Wagon Master
- Song of the Saddle as Tim
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Anderson, Vigilante Member
- The Broken Coin
- Treachery Rides the Range as Bill
- Headin' for the Rio Grande as Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
- Song of the Gringo as Bailiff
- The Adventures of Frank Merriwell as Captain of the 'Viking'
1935
- Wild Waters as Sheriff Manning
- Frisco Kid as Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
- Powdersmoke Range as Happy - Bartender
- Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery as Foreman Burke
- The Roaring West as Jim Parker
- Cyclone of the Saddle as Wagon Master
- The Cowboy and the Bandit as Sheriff Pete
- The Ghost Rider as Guard
- The Call of the Savage as Allen
- Born to Battle as John Brownell
- Naughty Marietta as Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
- Social Error as Policeman
- Courage of the North as Gene Travis
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
- Timber Terrors as Royce Horter
1934
- Border Guns as Dr. Jim Wilson
- Pirate Treasure as Capt. Jim Carson
- Crack-Up as Police Chief
- The Red Rider as Sheriff Campbell
- Frontier Days as Sheriff Barnes
- The Rawhide Terror as Tom Blake
- The Way of the West as 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
- I Can't Escape as Parole Officer Donovan
- The Vanishing Shadow as MacDonald
- When Lightning Strikes as Marshal Jack Stevens
1933
- Strawberry Roan as Colonel Brownlee
- Mr. Broadway as 1st Suitor (archive footage)
- Fargo Express as Sheriff Joe Thompson
- The Three Musketeers as Capt. Boncour
- The Rustler's Roundup as San Dimas Sheriff Holden
- Clancy of the Mounted as Dave Moran
- Perils of Pauline as Prof. Thompson
- Laughing at Life as Military Cabinet Officer
- Gordon of Ghost City as John Mulford
- The Phantom of the Air as Thomas Edmonds
1932
- A Scarlet Week-End
- Heroes of the West as John Blaine
- The Last Frontier as General Custer
- Jungle Mystery as John Morgan
1931
- Battling with Buffalo Bill as John Mills
- Oklahoma Jim as Lacy
- The Lightning Warrior as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Vanishing Legion as Milesburg Sheriff
1930
- The Phantom of the West as Martin Blair
1929
- No Children as Self
- No Defense as John Harper
1928
- The Vanishing Rider as Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
- The Mystery Rider as Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
1926
- The Strings of Steel as Ned Brown
1925
- Ridin' Pretty as Sky Parker
- Outwitted as Jack Blaisdel
- The Ace of Spades as Dan Harvey
- Straight Through as Good Deed O'Day
- Barriers of the Law as Rex Brandon
- The Meddler as Richard Gilmore
- The Burning Trail as Smiling Bill Flannigan
- Red Clay as Chief John Nisheto
1924
- Hello, 'Frisco as William Desmond
- The Breathless Moment as Billy Carson
- The Sunset Trail as Happy Hobo
- The Measure of a Man as John Fairmeadow
- Big Timber as Walter Sandry
1923
- Around the World in 18 Days as Phineas Fogg III
- McGuire of the Mounted as Bob McGuire
- The Phantom Fortune as Larry Barclay
- Shadows of the North as Ben 'Wolf' Darby
- The Extra Girl as Himself
- Beasts of Paradise as Phil Grant
1922
- Perils of the Yukon as Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
- Night Life in Hollywood as Self
1921
- The Child Thou Gavest Me as Tom Marshall
- Women Men Love as David Hunter
- Fightin' Mad as Bud McGraw
- The Policeman and the Baby as The Policeman
1920
- Twin Beds as Harry Hawkins
1919
- Bare-Fisted Gallagher as 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
- A Sage Brush Hamlet as Larry Lang
- The Mints of Hell as Dan Burke
- Her Code of Honor as Eugene La Salle
- The Prince and Betty as John Maude
- The Blue Bandanna as Jerry Jerome
- Life's a Funny Proposition as Jimmie Pendleton
1918
- Society for Sale as Honorable Billy
- The Marriage Bubble as The Actor
- Captain of His Soul as Horace
1917
- The Iced Bullet as The Author / Horace Lee
- Paws of the Bear as Ray Bourke
- Married in Name Only
- Paddy O'Hara as Paddy O'Hara
- The Last of the Ingrams as Jules Ingram
- Master of His Home as Carson Stewart
- The Sudden Gentleman as Garry Garrity
- Flying Colors as Brent Brewster
1916
- Peggy as Rev. Donald Bruce
- Bullets and Brown Eyes as Prince Carl
- The Dawn Maker as Bruce Smithson
- A Gamble in Souls
1915
- The Majesty of the Law as Jackson Morgan Kent
- Peer Gynt as The Parson
- Kilmeny as Bob Meredith