William Duncan
William Duncan (16 December 1879 – 7 February 1961), born in Dundee, Scotland, was known as a major actor, producer, writer, and director of film serials and features in Hollywood. After immigrating to the United States as a child with his family, he became a leading star in the new film industry. Promoted as a Scottish star, he became one of the highest paid actors when under contract to Vitagraph.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5416 |
| Birthday | 1879-12-16 |
| Place of Birth | Dundee, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1913
The Rustler's Reformation
7/1
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The Rustler's Reformation
1917
The Fighting Trail
0/0
15 chapter adventure tale starring forgotten serial queen Carol Holloway. The chapter titles were: (1) The Priceless Ingredient; (2) The Story of Yba...
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The Fighting Trail
1920
The Silent Avenger
10/1
15 chapter adventure serial: 1. The Escape 2. Fighting Back 3. Within the Noose 4. Tearing Through 5. Blotted Out 6. The Hidden Blow 7. Dynamite Doom...
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The Silent Avenger
1911
Told in Colorado
8/1
Told in Colorado is a short, silent thriller
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Told in Colorado
1913
Made a Coward
0/0
Bud Harris, a young miner with a reputation for courage, goes prospecting in the desert with Tom Jones in an attempt to locate a turquoise mine. Their...
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Made a Coward
1913
Sallie's Sure Shot
6/1
Rob Ralston is forced to go to "town" for supplies, and "Injun" Jim, a sneaking rascal, announces that he proposes to jump his claim. This arouses the...
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Sallie's Sure Shot
1913
The Taming of Texas Pete
0/0
Texas Pete, a gun-man, is "extra" bad when in liquor. This, however, does not terrify the ranch foreman, who discharges him for drunkenness. Pete lace...
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The Taming of Texas Pete
1913
The Marshal's Capture
0/0
The marshal is compelled to arrest his brother-in-law for accidentally shooting a Mexican. His wife pleads for his release, but it is ineffectual. Whe...
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The Marshal's Capture
1913
His Father's Deputy
0/0
John Wilson goes to the mountain-town bank to draw out the pay-roll. Sam Marvin and Ed Hanley "pike" this proceeding and ride on ahead, up the road, t...
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His Father's Deputy
1913
The Only Chance
8/1
Charley West, a lineman, complains about his rickety old hand-car, and is given one that is up-to-date. He tries it out and finds he can send it sixty...
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The Only Chance
1913
The Sheriff of Yavapai County
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Big "Bud" O'Neill, the sheriff of Yavapai County, is in love with Nellie Bowen, daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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The Sheriff of Yavapai County
1913
The Range Law
0/0
Ted, the foreman of "The Diamond S. Ranch" is in love with Dora, Dad's daughter. Tafe is the leader of a band of desperate characters that have been t...
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The Range Law
1913
The Life Timer
0/0
Steve and Tom are rivals for the hand of Mona.
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The Life Timer
1912
A Cowboy's Best Girl
7/1
Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr,...
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A Cowboy's Best Girl
1912
The Scapegoat
10/1
Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it i...
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The Scapegoat
1913
The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver
0/0
It was a time when men thought quick and shot quick, self-preservation being Nature's first law. The stage-coach, having the precious freight of two f...
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The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver
1911
The Bully of Bingo Gulch
10/1
Hiram Hughes, foreman on "Pop" Lynd's ranch in Bingo Gulch, has quit his job. He has had enough of "Wild Jim," who is the pest of the ranch. In despai...
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The Bully of Bingo Gulch
1911
A Romance of the Rio Grande
0/0
The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and sup...
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A Romance of the Rio Grande
1911
Western Hearts
0/0
Sam Long leaves his invalid wife to seek work in a neighboring town. He is unsuccessful in his quest and being penniless, and his wife in need of food...
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Western Hearts
1911
The Wheels of Justice
0/0
James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple t...
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The Wheels of Justice
1914
The Little Sister
0/0
Little Nell keeps house for her two brothers, who have a cabin near a placer claim, where they wash out pay-dust so rapidly that they have accumulated...
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The Little Sister
1914
A Friend in Need
9/1
Jimmy Donovan gets a passenger for his automobile to make an all-day trip to the Stanley Ranch. When they have almost reached their destination, the e...
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A Friend in Need
1912
A War Time Romance
10/1
Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period,...
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A War Time Romance
1914
By Unseen Hand
8/1
Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret W...
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By Unseen Hand
1913
Mother Love vs Gold
8/1
A pair of precious loafers in a mining town learn from one of their "kidney" that Dick Mackey's partner, Bill Bryson, has died and that his gold dust...
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Mother Love vs Gold
1914
Marian, the Holy Terror
8/1
Marian, in truth a quiet and reserved girl from the East, in the new tonic atmosphere of Arizona seems to change her nature and through a series of mi...
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Marian, the Holy Terror
1938
Bar 20 Justice
5.4/5
Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Dennis mine, has Dennis killed. Hoppy steps in to take...
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Bar 20 Justice
1912
So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law
0/0
Red Reagan, and two companions, Brooks and Mathis, lose their way while on a prospecting trip in the mountains. Fortunately they come to an Indian cam...
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So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law
1935
Nevada
4.75/4
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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Nevada
1915
Love and Law
7/1
Jimmy and the Deacon are rivals for the rich widow's hand, and the Deacon with his little Flivver has so far won out.
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Love and Law
1937
Forlorn River
6.333/3
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. gove...
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Forlorn River
1916
Through the Wall
0/0
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
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Through the Wall
1916
God's Country and the Woman
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Far away, in the timberlands of the North, where the purity of woman is placed above all else, lived Josephine Adare, a kind, honest soul, whose face...
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God's Country and the Woman
1917
The Mystery of Lake Lethe
0/0
The Mystery of Lake Lethe was a murky crime short.
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
5.571/7
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1989
Stuck with Each Other
9/1
When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the crim...
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Stuck with Each Other
1937
Hopalong Rides Again
6.333/3
On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be sear...
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Hopalong Rides Again
1936
Three on the Trail
6/3
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be...
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Three on the Trail
1938
The Frontiersmen
5.75/4
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and d...
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The Frontiersmen
1939
Law of the Pampas
5/3
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
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Law of the Pampas
1912
Jim's Vindication
8/1
An express rider is wrongly suspected of theft. When he is sentenced to imprisonment, friends help him to escape. In the pursuit that emerges, he mana...
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Jim's Vindication
1919
Smashing Barriers
6.5/2
When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give...
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Smashing Barriers
1924
Hello, 'Frisco
7.5/2
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Hello, 'Frisco
1916
The Cost of High Living
7.5/2
The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.
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The Cost of High Living
1924
Wolves of the North
10/1
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
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Wolves of the North
1924
The Fast Express
8/1
15 chapter adventure serial: 1. Facing the Crisis 2. Vanishing Diamonds 3. Woman of Mystery 4. Haunted House 5. Perils of the City 6. Cipher Message 7...
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The Fast Express
1915
He's a Bear
9/1
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He's a Bear
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
5.333/6
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clari...
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The Farmer's Daughter
1917
Aladdin from Broadway
0/0
Aladdin from Broadway is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by William Wolbert.
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Aladdin from Broadway
1922
The Silent Vow
8/1
Jim Gorson, a handsome woodcutter, persuades the wife of Richard Stratton to elope with him. Twenty years later, Dick Stratton, Richard's son, a North...
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The Silent Vow
1918
A Fight for Millions
0/0
A film serial with 15 episodes.
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A Fight for Millions
1919
Man of Might
8/1
1919 film serial.
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