Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With William West
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. The Rivals (1907)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Comedy
Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Jinnie Frazer, Mrs. George Gebhardt, Mr. Shelley, Richard Thompson
Votes: 161
2. Children Who Labor (1912)
Not Rated | 13 min | Drama, Short
A factory hires only children, forcing an immigrant family to put their daughter to work. When the girl brings home a foundling, the family gets sends her to work. Little do they know that the girl's father bought the factory.
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Robert Conness, Miriam Nesbitt, Shirley Mason, John Sturgeon
Votes: 156
3. At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy, Western
The mining community of Bear Track Gulch must adapt its ways when it receives its first female visitor.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William West, Herbert Prior, George Lessey, Bigelow Cooper
Votes: 100
4. The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies (1914)
170 min | Drama
Episode 1: "The Perfect Truth" The day after Dolly Desmond had startled the community with the excellence of her graduation oration, Bobby North, a reporter on the local paper, suggested ... See full synopsis »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Mary Fuller, Yale Boss, Charles Ogle, Gladys Hulette
Votes: 70
5. Hope, a Red Cross Seal Story (1912)
14 min | Drama, Short
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: George Lessey, Gertrude McCoy, William West, Robert Brower
Votes: 69
6. Revenge Is Sweet (1912)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Jimmie has a good job in an office where there is a bevy of pretty girls, but being at that age where his appreciation of the fair sex has not developed, he considers them inferior to him. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Yale Boss, Richard Ridgely, William West, Bessie Learn
Votes: 22
7. The Magic Skin (1915)
60 min | Drama, History
Ralph Valentine and his father are musicians of proud and aristocratic ways and are so wrapped up in their art as to be oblivious of their poverty. Their faithful servant, Joseph, has been ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Everett Butterfield, Mabel Trunnelle, Bigelow Cooper, Frank A. Lyons
Votes: 19
8. The Red Old Hills of Georgia (1913)
28 min | Short, Drama
Fred Bonsell, a young mining engineer, is sent to Georgia to investigate some mineral property. In a little backwoods settlement he meets Pinkie Floyd and her brother, Bub, who have had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Arthur Housman, Mabel Trunnelle, Herbert Prior, William West
9. To Abbeville Court House (1913)
Short, Drama
Just before Mrs. Higginbotham dies she writes a letter to Colonel Grandson, her only relative, begging him to take care of her little son Albert. She entrusts the letter to the care of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Bliss Milford, Jimmie Jones, William West, Herbert Prior
10. The Master Mummer (1915)
Short, Drama
At the court of Waldenburg appears Feurgeres, an actor in "The Master Mummer," who gives a performance of Hamlet. He meets the Princess Isobel, a young widow with a small daughter, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Mary Fuller, Barry O'Moore, Charles Ogle, Mrs. William Bechtel
11. Scenes of Other Days (1913)
Short, Drama
At the battle of Piedmont Heights, one of the culminating episodes of Sherman's march to the sea, a wounded Confederate sharpshooter is saved from death and carried into the Northern lines ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Herbert Prior, Bliss Milford, Harry Beaumont, Arthur Housman
12. Hearts and Flags (1911)
Drama, Short
At the outbreak of the Civil War Colonel Dabney is given command of a regiment of Georgia Infantry. He leaves his home and his two daughters. Virginia and Georgiana, in charge of his old ... See full summary »
Stars: Charles M. Seay, Miriam Nesbitt, Trixie Dinsmore, Guy Coombs
13. The Destroying Angel (1915)
50 min | Drama
Mary Ladislas elopes with the chauffeur because of his sympathy for her ideals, and they stop at a hotel. The scornful attitude of all who meet them causes Mary to desire immediate marriage... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Mabel Trunnelle, Marc McDermott, Walter Craven, George A. Wright
14. On Christmas Eve (1914)
Short, Drama
Morris the elder, trained in the old school of thrift and simple living, abominates the extravagance and pretensions of his daughter-in-law. While she is entertaining friends at an ... See full summary »
Stars: William West, Bliss Milford, Bigelow Cooper
15. Freezing Auntie (1912)
6 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short
An injection that can freeze cattle solid for later thawing is prepared by a woman's husband and nephew to be used on her. At her son-in-law's warning, she replaces the fluid with tap water... See full summary »
Stars: William West, Alice Washburn, Marion Brooks, Harold M. Shaw
16. The Corporal's Daughter (1915)
Western, Short, Drama
Kate, the corporal's daughter, has been snubbed and humiliated by her sweetheart, Lieutenant Garrison. On the day in question, on the parade ground near Fort Millerton during the period ... See full summary »
Director: Will Louis | Stars: Arthur Housman, Gladys Hulette, Yale Benner, Ben Turbett
17. Frederick the Great (1914)
20 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The story opens in Frederick's youth. His father, Frederick William, was a rough, burly man, fond of outdoor sport, a hearty eater and a heavy drinker. Because his son was frail and ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Barry O'Moore, Mary Fuller, Charles Sutton, Richard Neill
18. Mary Stuart (1913)
Short, Drama
The beautiful and much loved Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, is one of the most unfortunate and sympathetic characters in history. Born in Scotland, educated at the court of Francis II of ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Mary Fuller, Richard Neill, Elizabeth Miller, Wallace Scott
19. Foul Play (1911)
Drama, Short
Part 1. Arthur Wardlaw, the son of a rich London merchant, graduates from Oxford heavily in debt from gambling. Under a plea of lending his tutor, Robert Penfold, money, he forges his ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Robert Brower, Harold M. Shaw, Marc McDermott, William West
20. Comedy and Tragedy (1914)
Drama, Short
A gentle smile played on the lips of Monseigneur le Prince Gautier de Severac. Inwardly he was debating on the relative merits of poison and the sword as a means of ridding himself of a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Marc McDermott, Mary Fuller, Augustus Phillips, Harry B. Eytinge
21. Grand Opera in Rubeville (1914)
Short, Drama
Affairs are in a terrible state in Rubeville. The ladies of the choir are in a state bordering on violent hysteria on account of Will Green, the choir leader's marked favoritism for Eldora ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Herbert Prior, Richard Tucker, Bliss Milford, Mathilde Baring
22. Within the Enemy's Lines (1913)
Short, Drama, War
When the cheerful season of Christmas dawned on the bloody, hopeless years of the Civil War, Colonel Stafford's home lay in the midst of a great Northern army. Colonel Stafford, C.S.A., was... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Augustus Phillips, May Abbey, Yale Boss, Richard Peer
23. It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1913)
22 min | Drama, Short
The village Squire with designs on a village maiden has her suitor falsely imprisoned. " Charles Reade who wrote this book in 1856 so exposed the prevailing conditions in English prisons ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Walter Edwin, Wyatt Burns, Mary Fuller, John Sturgeon
24. The Poisoned Bit (1914)
Short, Drama
Tom was a great animal lover. This fact stood him in good stead among the gypsies in whose camp he was held. One evening he refused to help them steal chickens, and as the chief was giving ... See full summary »
Director: Preston Kendall | Stars: Edwin Clarke, Robert Harvey, Mrs. William Bechtel, Charles Sutton
25. The Golden Wedding (1913)
11 min | Drama, Short
Their anniversary over, the guests going, two weary old people sit by the fireside to rest. They fall asleep and dream of their past life. Their dreams carry them from boy and girlhood all ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Prior | Stars: Harry Beaumont, Mabel Trunnelle, William West, Adele Clark
26. How Sir Andrew Lost His Vote (1911)
Short, Comedy, Drama
The first scene introduces us into a drawing room in England where amateur theatricals are taking place and we see one of the big financiers, the Hon. Grant Richmond, of the country in the ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, Camille Dalberg, Mabel Trunnelle
27. The New Church Carpet (1911)
Drama, Short
Mrs. Wilson is the treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Readville Methodist Church. The church is sorely in need of a new carpet and the members of the Aid Society are putting forth ... See full summary »
Stars: Robert Brower, Miriam Nesbitt, Edna May Weick, William West
28. Captain Nell (1911)
Drama, Short
Harry, the only son of Howard Randolph, is cursed with too great an allowance. His father calls him to task and he promises to reform. The promise is soon broken, however, and he is ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Miriam Nesbitt, Charles Ogle, William West, Guy Coombs
29. Silas Marner (1913)
Short, Drama
Silas Marner awoke one morning at the age of twenty-five, and discovered that he had nothing left to live for. His good name, his friends and the woman he loved had been removed from his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: William West, Gladys Hulette, C.J. Williams, Yale Benner
30. A Will and a Way (1913)
Short, Drama
Being the eighth story of "What Happened to Mary." In this picture we see Mary as a public stenographer. Mr. Foster, a lawyer, has her write a letter to Abraham Darrow, stating that a new ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mary Fuller, William Wadsworth, Richard Ridgely, Mrs. William Bechtel
31. The Witness to the Will (1914)
Drama, Short
When Major Thorndyke's illness became acute, and he felt that the end was not far off, he acted on a thought he had long held in his mind. Leaving a small income to Belden, the son whose ... See full summary »
Director: George Lessey | Stars: Ben F. Wilson, Gertrude McCoy, William West, Harry Beaumont
32. Caste (1913)
22 min | Short, Drama
Eccles, a profligate old drunkard, is the father of two beautiful girls, Esther and Polly. George D'Alroy, a young officer in the British Army who is infatuated with Esther, brings his ... See full summary »
Director: C.J. Williams | Stars: Richard Tucker, Bigelow Cooper, William West, Barry O'Moore
33. The Child and the Tramp (1911)
Drama, Short
"Reckless" is a tramp through and through. He refuses to become a burglar and leaves his two tramp companions to go their way while he pursues his own. Two years later "Reckless" sees his ... See full summary »
Director: Bannister Merwin | Stars: Charles M. Seay, William West, John R. Cumpson, Harold M. Shaw
34. A Lonely Road (1914)
Short, Drama
When Jane and Margaret's father died, the two sisters found themselves without a cent in the world. Jane, a helplessly inefficient girl, would soon have succumbed to the force of adverse ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Gertrude McCoy, Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Alan Crolius
35. The Magistrate's Story (1915)
Short, Drama
War has been declared. The North and South are going to fight. Tom Weldon joins the army of the North and John Sterrett casts his lot with the Confederacy. Both are suitors for the hand of ... See full summary »
Director: Langdon West | Stars: Richard Tucker, Gertrude McCoy, Pat O'Malley, William West
36. The Unopened Letter (1914)
Short, Drama
When Paul King married Kate Dwyer they were obliged to keep the wedding a secret. Paul was a law student, studying hard for the position awaiting him in his father's office. His father was ... See full summary »
Director: Preston Kendall | Stars: Edward Earle, Bessie Learn, William Bechtel, Margaret McWade
37. The Declaration of Independence (I) (1911)
Drama, Short
We see Jefferson writing the declaration with extracts from the famous document and the next morning the argument and final adoption of it by Congress, while John Adams' son, afterward the ... See full summary »
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Marc McDermott, Robert Brower, Harry Linson, Miriam Nesbitt
38. With the Eyes of the Blind (1913)
Drama, Short
John McLane has, by his operations on Wall Street, almost ruined James Horton. McLane is very hard in business matters. Horton comes to his house to plead with him but he refuses to see him... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller, Robert Brower, William West
39. Who Goes There? (1914)
Short, Drama
When Lieutenant Newman, known as Toppy to all of his friends, brought himself to the point of proposing, and realized that his suit was accepted, he was the most surprised person in the ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Walter Perkins, Viola Dana, Harry B. Eytinge, Augustus Phillips
40. The Rise and Fall of Weary Willie (1911)
Comedy, Short
So many beggars have been visiting Rev. Dr. Helpall, that he decides to be a tramp himself, thereby ascertaining the cause of their idleness. He boards a freight car, where he comes face to... See full summary »
Director: C.J. Williams | Stars: William West, Bigelow Cooper, Yale Benner, Edward O'Connor
41. Martin Chuzzlewit (1912)
Drama, Short
Some very greedy and selfish relatives are all after the failing old Martin Chuzzlewit's money. He is surrounded by all these sycophantic relatives that he truly despises whilst ill, each ... See full summary »
Directors: Oscar Apfel, J. Searle Dawley | Stars: George Lessey, Bessie Learn, Guy Hedlund, Harold M. Shaw
42. Money to Burn (1911)
Comedy, Short
Hungry Bill lies down on a public park bench for a nap, when the noise of an automobile brings him to his feet. Approaching the auto, he tells the occupant, a lady, his sad tale of woe, who... See full summary »
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Star: William West
43. The Yarn of the Nancy Belle (1912)
Comedy, Short
The story begins by the finding of an elderly naval man by a traveler, and the former's recital of the verse, "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a ... See full summary »
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, William Wadsworth, William Bechtel, Charles Ogle
44. The Professor and the New Hat (1911)
Comedy, Short
The little daughter of a professor forgets that she has attained that age when love affairs are the thing and forbids her to associate with the young man she is in love with. He gives her ... See full summary »
Director: Bannister Merwin | Stars: William West, Mary Fuller, Edwin Clarke
45. Romance of the Rails (1912)
13 min | Short, Drama
Old Silas Barton has lived many years in a cottage owned by the Central and Southern Railroad. Having had no use for the property the company has paid no attention to it, but when a new ... See full summary »
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William West, Bessie Learn, George Lessey, Harry B. Eytinge
46. Othello in Jonesville (1913)
Short, Comedy
James Reginald Whitestone, an actor of the barn-storming order, being unable to pay the rent, is thrown out on the street. He goes to a country town and succeeds in getting board with the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Herbert Prior, Maggie Weston, Mabel Trunnelle, William West
47. Eugene Wrayburn (1911)
Drama, Short
We see the meeting of Lizzie, the progress of her love for Wrayburn, the introduction to Bradley Headstone and his growing jealousy, Lizzie's escape from London and attempt to hide herself ... See full summary »
Stars: Darwin Karr, Richard Ridgely, Bliss Milford, Edwin Clarke
48. A Question of Identity (1914)
Short, Drama
At her death, Lady Barrington, whose dissolute habits had caused her to break with her husband, placed Robert, one of her twin sons, in the charge of Father Journet, who apprenticed him to ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Julia Calhoun, Augustus Phillips, Carlton S. King, Warren Cook
49. His Enemy (1913)
11 min | Drama, Short
George Trent is the son of a widowed mother. He is engaged to marry Sylvia Bennett, and is a cock-sure egoist. An old clergyman, his mother's friend, gets him a chance with a prosperous ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Barry O'Moore, Mrs. William Bechtel, Richard Ridgely, Gertrude McCoy
50. The Hand of Horror (1914)
Short, Drama
Old Stephen Clark had two children, John and Margaret. Margaret, like the little princess of a fairy story, was as good as she was pretty. John was different. His over-indulgent father had ... See full summary »
Director: Preston Kendall | Stars: Edward Earle, Bessie Learn, William West, Charles Brownell