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
- The Egg and I as Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
- Trail Street as Townsman (uncredited)
- Code of the West as Settler (uncredited)
- Thunder Mountain as Townsman (uncredited)
1946
- Desert Command as Capt. Boncour
1945
- The Naughty Nineties as Showboat Customer (uncredited)
- Strange Confession as Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
- The Return of the Durango Kid as Street Ambusher (uncredited)
1944
- Tall in the Saddle as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Climax as Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
- Phantom Lady as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- The Mummy's Ghost as Museum Tourist (uncredited)
- Hi, Beautiful as Passenger (uncredited)
1943
- Phantom of the Opera as Stagehand (uncredited)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
- The Lone Star Trail as Bartender Mike
- Cheyenne Roundup as Pete
1942
- The Silver Bullet as Townsman
- Overland Mail as Williams - Banker
- Down Rio Grande Way as Townsman
1941
- Where Did You Get That Girl? as Tourist
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie as Bartender
1940
- The Boys from Syracuse as Citizen
- Junior G-Men as Irish Cop (uncredited)
- Winners of the West as Bill Brine
1937
- Tim Tyler's Luck as Dock Official
1936
- Flash Gordon as Hawkman Lookout Captain
- Hollywood Boulevard as Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
- Song of the Gringo as Bailiff
- The Vigilantes Are Coming as Anderson, Vigilante Member
- Headin' for the Rio Grande as Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
- Custer's Last Stand as Wagon Master
- Treachery Rides the Range as Bill
- Song of the Saddle as Tim
- The Adventures of Frank Merriwell as Captain of the 'Viking'
- The Broken Coin
1935
- Frisco Kid as Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
- Naughty Marietta as Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
- Rustlers of Red Dog as Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
- Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery as Foreman Burke
- Social Error as Policeman
- 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
- Powdersmoke Range as Happy - Bartender
- Courage of the North as Gene Travis
- Born to Battle as John Brownell
- Wild Waters as Sheriff Manning
- Timber Terrors as Royce Horter
- The Roaring West as Jim Parker
1934
- The Vanishing Shadow as MacDonald
- I Can't Escape as Parole Officer Donovan
- The Red Rider as Sheriff Campbell
- Border Guns as Dr. Jim Wilson
- Crack-Up as Police Chief
- Pirate Treasure as Capt. Jim Carson
- Frontier Days as Sheriff Barnes
- The Way of the West as 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
- The Rawhide Terror as Tom Blake
- When Lightning Strikes as Marshal Jack Stevens
1933
- Laughing at Life as Military Cabinet Officer
- Mr. Broadway as 1st Suitor (archive footage)
- The Three Musketeers as Capt. Boncour
- Gordon of Ghost City as John Mulford
- Strawberry Roan as Colonel Brownlee
- The Rustler's Roundup as San Dimas Sheriff Holden
- Fargo Express as Sheriff Joe Thompson
- Clancy of the Mounted as Dave Moran
- The Phantom of the Air as Thomas Edmonds
- Perils of Pauline as Prof. Thompson
1932
- Jungle Mystery as John Morgan
- The Last Frontier as General Custer
- Heroes of the West as John Blaine
- A Scarlet Week-End
1931
- The Vanishing Legion as Milesburg Sheriff
- The Lightning Warrior as Townsman (uncredited)
- Oklahoma Jim as Lacy
- Hell-Bent for Frisco as The Editor
- First Aid as Chief of Police
- Battling with Buffalo Bill as John Mills
1930
- The Phantom of the West as Martin Blair
1929
- No Defense as John Harper
- No Children as Self
1928
- The Devil's Trademark as Morgan Gray
- The Vanishing Rider as Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
- The Mystery Rider as Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
1927
- The Return of the Riddle Rider as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
1926
- The Strings of Steel as Ned Brown
1925
- The Burning Trail as Smiling Bill Flannigan
- Duped as John Morgan
- Red Clay as Chief John Nisheto
- Outwitted as Jack Blaisdel
- Straight Through as Good Deed O'Day
- The Meddler as Richard Gilmore
- Barriers of the Law as Rex Brandon
- Ridin' Pretty as Sky Parker
- The Ace of Spades as Dan Harvey
1924
- Hello, 'Frisco as William Desmond
- The Sunset Trail as Happy Hobo
- The Measure of a Man as John Fairmeadow
- The Breathless Moment as Billy Carson
- Big Timber as Walter Sandry
- The Riddle Rider as Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
1923
- The Extra Girl as Himself
- McGuire of the Mounted as Bob McGuire
- The Phantom Fortune as Larry Barclay
- Shadows of the North as Ben 'Wolf' Darby
- Beasts of Paradise as Phil Grant
- Around the World in 18 Days as Phineas Fogg III
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
- Fightin' Mad as Bud McGraw
- The Policeman and the Baby as The Policeman
- Women Men Love as David Hunter
1920
- Twin Beds as Harry Hawkins
1919
- Her Code of Honor as Eugene La Salle
- The Prince and Betty as John Maude
- Whitewashed Walls as Larry Donovan
- Life's a Funny Proposition as Jimmie Pendleton
- A Sage Brush Hamlet as Larry Lang
- The Mints of Hell as Dan Burke
- Bare-Fisted Gallagher as 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
- The Blue Bandanna as Jerry Jerome
1918
- The Marriage Bubble as The Actor
- Captain of His Soul as Horace
- Society for Sale as Honorable Billy
- The Pretender as Bob Baldwin
- An Honest Man as Benny Boggs
1917
- Master of His Home as Carson Stewart
- Flying Colors as Brent Brewster
- Married in Name Only
- The Iced Bullet as The Author / Horace Lee
- Paws of the Bear as Ray Bourke
- The Last of the Ingrams as Jules Ingram
- The Sudden Gentleman as Garry Garrity
- Paddy O'Hara as Paddy O'Hara
1916
- Peggy as Rev. Donald Bruce
- The Criminal as Donald White
- The Dawn Maker as Bruce Smithson
- Bullets and Brown Eyes as Prince Carl
- A Gamble in Souls
1915
- Kilmeny as Bob Meredith
- Peer Gynt as The Parson
- The Majesty of the Law as Jackson Morgan Kent