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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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.
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.
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.
19 July 1930
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters.
09 April 1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
17 October 1946
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen.
23 March 1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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.
29 January 1932
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
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.
07 December 1945
After a demonstration of new PT boats, Navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt.
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.
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.
06 October 1933
Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
16 September 1932
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff.
10 June 1944
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney.
15 November 1930
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany.
25 April 1945
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
16 July 1937
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith.
21 October 1939
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
27 September 1944
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
21 January 1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
11 August 1934
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own advertising agency and helps him land his first client.
17 October 1941
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast.
13 July 1940
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city.
