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William Desmond Acting Filmography (148)

Savage Fury
1956·Allen
Code of the West
1947·Settler (uncredited)
The Egg and I
1947·Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited)
Thunder Mountain
1947·Townsman (uncredited)
Trail Street
1947·Townsman (uncredited)
Desert Command
1946·Capt. Boncour
The Return of the Durango Kid
1945·Street Ambusher (uncredited)
The Naughty Nineties
1945·Showboat Customer (uncredited)
Strange Confession
1945·Peanut Vendor (uncredited)
The Mummy's Ghost
1944·Museum Tourist (uncredited)
Phantom Lady
1944·Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
The Climax
1944·Backstage Technician (Uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
1944·Passenger (uncredited)
Tall in the Saddle
1944·Townsman (uncredited)
Phantom of the Opera
1943·Stagehand (uncredited)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943·Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
The Lone Star Trail
1943·Bartender Mike
Cheyenne Roundup
1943·Pete
Down Rio Grande Way
1942·Townsman
The Silver Bullet
1942·Townsman
Overland Mail
1942·Williams - Banker
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
1941·Bartender
Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941·Tourist
Winners of the West
1940·Bill Brine
The Boys from Syracuse
1940·Citizen
Junior G-Men
1940·Irish Cop (uncredited)
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937·Dock Official
Song of the Gringo
1936·Bailiff
The Broken Coin
1936
The Vigilantes Are Coming
1936·Anderson, Vigilante Member
Custer's Last Stand
1936·Wagon Master
Treachery Rides the Range
1936·Bill
Headin' for the Rio Grande
1936·Mr. Mack (cattle buyer)
Hollywood Boulevard
1936·Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936·Captain of the 'Viking'
Song of the Saddle
1936·Tim
Flash Gordon
1936·Hawkman Lookout Captain
Wild Waters
1935·Sheriff Manning
Frisco Kid
1935·Vigilante Hangman (uncredited)
Born to Battle
1935·John Brownell
Courage of the North
1935·Gene Travis
The Cowboy and the Bandit
1935·Sheriff Pete
Cyclone of the Saddle
1935·Wagon Master
The Call of the Savage
1935·Allen
The Ghost Rider
1935·Guard
Social Error
1935·Policeman
Timber Terrors
1935·Royce Horter
Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
1935·Foreman Burke
Rustlers of Red Dog
1935·Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12]
Powdersmoke Range
1935·Happy - Bartender
Naughty Marietta
1935·Gendarme Chief (uncredited)
The Roaring West
1935·Jim Parker
When Lightning Strikes
1934·Marshal Jack Stevens
Crack-Up
1934·Police Chief
The Vanishing Shadow
1934·MacDonald
I Can't Escape
1934·Parole Officer Donovan
Pirate Treasure
1934·Capt. Jim Carson
Frontier Days
1934·Sheriff Barnes
The Rawhide Terror
1934·Tom Blake
Border Guns
1934·Dr. Jim Wilson
The Red Rider
1934·Sheriff Campbell
The Way of the West
1934·'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond)
The Rustler's Roundup
1933·San Dimas Sheriff Holden
Mr. Broadway
1933·1st Suitor (archive footage)
The Three Musketeers
1933·Capt. Boncour
Laughing at Life
1933·Military Cabinet Officer
Strawberry Roan
1933·Colonel Brownlee
Fargo Express
1933·Sheriff Joe Thompson
Gordon of Ghost City
1933·John Mulford
The Phantom of the Air
1933·Thomas Edmonds
Perils of Pauline
1933·Prof. Thompson
Clancy of the Mounted
1933·Dave Moran
The Last Frontier
1932·General Custer
Heroes of the West
1932·John Blaine
A Scarlet Week-End
1932
Jungle Mystery
1932·John Morgan
The Lightning Warrior
1931·Townsman (uncredited)
The Vanishing Legion
1931·Milesburg Sheriff
Battling with Buffalo Bill
1931·John Mills
Oklahoma Jim
1931·Lacy
Hell-Bent for Frisco
1931·The Editor
First Aid
1931·Chief of Police
The Phantom of the West
1930·Martin Blair
No Children
1929·Self
No Defense
1929·John Harper
The Vanishing Rider
1928·Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider
The Mystery Rider
1928·Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider
The Devil's Trademark
1928·Morgan Gray
The Return of the Riddle Rider
1927·Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
The Strings of Steel
1926·Ned Brown
Straight Through
1925·Good Deed O'Day
The Burning Trail
1925·Smiling Bill Flannigan
The Meddler
1925·Richard Gilmore
Outwitted
1925·Jack Blaisdel
Ridin' Pretty
1925·Sky Parker
Barriers of the Law
1925·Rex Brandon
The Ace of Spades
1925·Dan Harvey
Red Clay
1925·Chief John Nisheto
Duped
1925·John Morgan
Hello, 'Frisco
1924·William Desmond
The Sunset Trail
1924·Happy Hobo
The Breathless Moment
1924·Billy Carson
The Measure of a Man
1924·John Fairmeadow
Big Timber
1924·Walter Sandry
The Riddle Rider
1924·Randolph Parker / The Riddle Rider
The Extra Girl
1923·Himself
Shadows of the North
1923·Ben 'Wolf' Darby
McGuire of the Mounted
1923·Bob McGuire
The Phantom Fortune
1923·Larry Barclay
Around the World in 18 Days
1923·Phineas Fogg III
Beasts of Paradise
1923·Phil Grant
Perils of the Yukon
1922·Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr.
Night Life in Hollywood
1922·Self
The Policeman and the Baby
1921·The Policeman
Fightin' Mad
1921·Bud McGraw
The Child Thou Gavest Me
1921·Tom Marshall
Women Men Love
1921·David Hunter
Twin Beds
1920·Harry Hawkins
The Prince and Betty
1919·John Maude
Her Code of Honor
1919·Eugene La Salle
A Sage Brush Hamlet
1919·Larry Lang
Bare-Fisted Gallagher
1919·'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher
The Mints of Hell
1919·Dan Burke
Life's a Funny Proposition
1919·Jimmie Pendleton
The Blue Bandanna
1919·Jerry Jerome
Whitewashed Walls
1919·Larry Donovan
Captain of His Soul
1918·Horace
Society for Sale
1918·Honorable Billy
The Marriage Bubble
1918·The Actor
An Honest Man
1918·Benny Boggs
The Pretender
1918·Bob Baldwin
Master of His Home
1917·Carson Stewart
Paws of the Bear
1917·Ray Bourke
The Last of the Ingrams
1917·Jules Ingram
The Iced Bullet
1917·The Author / Horace Lee
Flying Colors
1917·Brent Brewster
Married in Name Only
1917
The Sudden Gentleman
1917·Garry Garrity
Paddy O'Hara
1917·Paddy O'Hara
A Gamble in Souls
1916
Peggy
1916·Rev. Donald Bruce
The Dawn Maker
1916·Bruce Smithson
Bullets and Brown Eyes
1916·Prince Carl
The Criminal
1916·Donald White
Peer Gynt
1915·The Parson
Kilmeny
1915·Bob Meredith
The Majesty of the Law
1915·Jackson Morgan Kent
The Sign of the Cross
1904