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William B. Davidson (June 16, 1888 – September 28, 1947) was an American film actor.
Davidson attended Columbia University where he played football. He became a popular football star. This fame eventually led to his foray into motion pictures after he had spent some time as a lawyer. He started in films in 1914 with Vitagraph and supported well known stage and film actresses such as Ethel Barrymore, Mabel Taliaferro, Charlotte Walker, Olga Petrova, Viola Dana, June Caprice, Edna Goodrich, and Mae West. He appeared in 318 films between 1915 and 1949.
He was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and died in Santa Monica, California. His first Hollywood film was For the Honor of the Crew. Afterward, he appeared in many films, his best-known role was perhaps the Ship's captain in The Most Dangerous Game. He remained in show business until his sudden death after surgery in 1947.
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02 June 1944
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
05 October 1919
The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.
20 April 1935
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
21 February 1916
Captain Mills is jealous of Jim Clifford, his fellow officer at the British War Department, so he steals an important document in an attempt to make Clifford look bad.
24 May 1924
Dissipated youth Tommy Hilgrade is sent to the lumber lands in the Northwest by his father who hopes that hard living will reform his son.
15 May 1936
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance.
15 January 1938
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere.
24 November 1918
Adele Moore pressured by her father to choose a husband among four men consults a fortune teller for advice.
28 February 1935
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place.
09 December 1933
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
13 December 1931
Andy Clyde trying to wear the pants in the family.
01 June 1919
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B.
19 August 1918
Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them.
12 March 1932
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
19 February 1939
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it.
01 November 1917
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow.
21 July 1937
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
25 December 1940
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who has been annoying her.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
12 September 1928
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
29 January 1943
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
09 November 1930
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
22 June 1936
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment.
08 March 1939
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr.
04 January 1925
Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
05 August 1938
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up.
01 March 1946
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
15 January 1942
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
14 October 1938
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
16 August 1945
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub.
28 January 1943
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control.
06 January 1933
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
30 September 1927
Le Marquis de Marignan is a French aristocrat and seducer who flirts with every Parisian girl he meets.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
19 July 1930
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
11 August 1934
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client.
21 June 1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
01 December 1919
Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves him, joins the Salvation Army, and places Agnes in a convent.
29 January 1932
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
06 December 1940
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club.
18 September 1943
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
01 April 1939
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
23 January 1935
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
06 March 1937
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
17 February 1944
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
03 December 1917
Virginia Lee, daughter of a United States Senator, meets David Starr, a wounded United States soldier, in a field hospital in which she is serving as a Red Cross nurse.
10 September 1917
Overcome with guilt after having an affair with her best friends husband, Clorinda hopes to escape her past by moving to Europe, where she meets Malcolm, a decent man who falls in love with her.
08 June 1935
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural lands of China.
29 December 1929
The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
17 May 1940
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
11 November 1946
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
10 December 1932
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
17 October 1932
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
