William Desmond
Birthday: 1878-01-23
Deathday: 1949-11-03
Birthplace: Horseheads, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles.
Credits
| Year | Title | Character | |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
1947-06-01 | Thunder Mountain | Townsman (uncredited) |
 |
1947-05-01 | The Egg and I | Spectator at Country Dance (Uncredited) |
 |
1947-02-20 | Code of the West | Settler (uncredited) |
 |
1946-05-31 | Desert Command | Capt. Boncour |
 |
1945-10-05 | Strange Confession | Peanut Vendor (uncredited) |
 |
1945-06-20 | The Naughty Nineties | Showboat Customer (uncredited) |
 |
1945-04-19 | The Return of the Durango Kid | Street Ambusher (uncredited) |
 |
1944-10-20 | The Climax | Backstage Technician (Uncredited) |
 |
1944-07-07 | The Mummy's Ghost | Museum Tourist (uncredited) |
 |
1944-01-28 | Phantom Lady | Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) |
 |
1943-09-25 | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited) |
 |
1943-08-12 | Phantom of the Opera | Stagehand (uncredited) |
 |
1943-08-06 | The Lone Star Trail | Bartender Mike |
 |
1943-04-12 | Cheyenne Roundup | Pete |
 |
1942-09-22 | Overland Mail | Williams - Banker |
 |
1942-08-05 | The Silver Bullet | Townsman |
 |
1942-04-23 | Down Rio Grande Way | Townsman |
 |
1941-03-21 | Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie | Bartender |
 |
1941-01-03 | Where Did You Get That Girl? | Tourist |
 |
1940-11-01 | Junior G-Men | Irish Cop (uncredited) |
 |
1940-07-30 | The Boys from Syracuse | Citizen |
 |
1940-07-02 | Winners of the West | Bill Brine |
 |
1937-12-27 | Tim Tyler's Luck | Dock Official |
 |
1936-11-22 | Song of the Gringo | Bailiff |
 |
1936-08-21 | The Vigilantes Are Coming | Anderson, Vigilante Member |
 |
1936-08-20 | Hollywood Boulevard | Pago Pago Patron (uncredited) |
 |
1936-05-02 | Treachery Rides the Range | Bill |
 |
1936-02-28 | Song of the Saddle | Tim |
 |
1936-01-13 | The Adventures of Frank Merriwell | Captain of the 'Viking' |
 |
1936-01-10 | The Broken Coin | |
 |
1936-01-02 | Custer's Last Stand | Wagon Master |
 |
1936-01-01 | Headin' for the Rio Grande | Mr. Mack (cattle buyer) |
 |
1935-11-30 | Frisco Kid | Vigilante Hangman (uncredited) |
 |
1935-10-20 | Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery | Foreman Burke |
 |
1935-09-27 | Powdersmoke Range | Happy - Bartender |
 |
1935-09-01 | Courage of the North | Gene Travis |
 |
1935-07-08 | The Roaring West | Jim Parker |
 |
1935-04-30 | Social Error | Policeman |
 |
1935-04-14 | The Call of the Savage | Allen |
 |
1935-04-07 | The Ghost Rider | Guard |
 |
1935-04-03 | Cyclone of the Saddle | Wagon Master |
 |
1935-04-02 | The Cowboy and the Bandit | Sheriff Pete |
 |
1935-04-01 | Born to Battle | John Brownell |
 |
1935-03-29 | Naughty Marietta | Gendarme Chief (uncredited) |
|
1935-03-03 | Wild Waters | Sheriff Manning |
|
1935-01-01 | Timber Terrors | Royce Horter |
 |
1935-01-01 | Rustlers of Red Dog | Ira Dale [Chs. 1-4, 6, 10-12] |
 |
1934-12-18 | When Lightning Strikes | Marshal Jack Stevens |
 |
1934-11-14 | Frontier Days | Sheriff Barnes |
 |
1934-10-14 | The Way of the West | 'Cash' Horton (as Wm. Desmond) |
 |
1934-07-16 | The Red Rider | Sheriff Campbell |
 |
1934-07-04 | I Can't Escape | Parole Officer Donovan |
|
1934-06-02 | Crack-Up | Police Chief |
 |
1934-04-22 | The Vanishing Shadow | MacDonald |
 |
1934-03-19 | The Rawhide Terror | Tom Blake |
 |
1934-02-01 | Border Guns | Dr. Jim Wilson |
 |
1934-01-29 | Pirate Treasure | Capt. Jim Carson |
 |
1933-11-20 | Fargo Express | Sheriff Joe Thompson |
 |
1933-11-05 | Perils of Pauline | Prof. Thompson |
 |
1933-10-26 | Strawberry Roan | Colonel Brownlee |
 |
1933-08-13 | Gordon of Ghost City | John Mulford |
 |
1933-07-12 | Laughing at Life | Military Cabinet Officer |
 |
1933-05-21 | The Phantom of the Air | Thomas Edmonds |
 |
1933-04-07 | The Three Musketeers | Capt. Boncour |
 |
1933-03-16 | The Rustler's Roundup | San Dimas Sheriff Holden |
 |
1933-02-27 | Clancy of the Mounted | Dave Moran |
 |
1932-11-30 | A Scarlet Week-End | |
 |
1932-09-04 | The Last Frontier | General Custer |
 |
1932-06-19 | Heroes of the West | John Blaine |
 |
1931-11-22 | Battling with Buffalo Bill | John Mills |
 |
1931-11-01 | The Lightning Warrior | Townsman (uncredited) |
 |
1931-10-10 | Oklahoma Jim | Lacy |
 |
1931-06-01 | The Vanishing Legion | Milesburg Sheriff |
 |
1930-11-10 | The Phantom of the West | Martin Blair |
 |
1929-04-05 | No Defense | John Harper |
 |
1928-11-25 | The Mystery Rider | Winthrop Lane / The Mystery Rider |
 |
1928-01-16 | The Vanishing Rider | Jim Davis / The Vanishing Rider |
 |
1926-06-28 | The Strings of Steel | Ned Brown |
 |
1925-10-19 | The Ace of Spades | Dan Harvey |
 |
1925-06-28 | The Meddler | Richard Gilmore |
 |
1925-05-10 | The Burning Trail | Smiling Bill Flannigan |
 |
1925-04-05 | Straight Through | Good Deed O'Day |
 |
1925-03-26 | Barriers of the Law | Rex Brandon |
 |
1925-02-22 | Ridin' Pretty | Sky Parker |
 |
1925-01-01 | Outwitted | Jack Blaisdel |
 |
1924-11-02 | The Sunset Trail | Happy Hobo |
 |
1924-10-14 | The Measure of a Man | John Fairmeadow |
|
1924-09-28 | Hello, 'Frisco | William Desmond |
 |
1924-02-03 | The Breathless Moment | Billy Carson |
 |
1923-08-27 | Shadows of the North | Ben 'Wolf' Darby |
 |
1923-07-08 | McGuire of the Mounted | Bob McGuire |
 |
1922-07-24 | Perils of the Yukon | Jack Merrill Sr. / Jack Merrill Jr. |
 |
1921-11-20 | Fightin' Mad | Bud McGraw |
 |
1921-09-04 | The Policeman and the Baby | The Policeman |
 |
1921-08-20 | The Child Thou Gavest Me | Tom Marshall |
 |
1921-01-09 | Women Men Love | David Hunter |
 |
1919-12-21 | The Prince and Betty | John Maude |
 |
1919-08-03 | A Sage Brush Hamlet | Larry Lang |
 |
1919-06-22 | Bare-Fisted Gallagher | 'Bare-Fisted' Gallagher |
|
1919-04-06 | Her Code of Honor | Eugene La Salle |
 |
1918-04-21 | Society for Sale | Honorable Billy |
|
1918-03-31 | The Marriage Bubble | The Actor |
|
1918-02-10 | Captain of His Soul | Horace |
 |
1917-10-01 | Married in Name Only | |
 |
1917-09-23 | Flying Colors | Brent Brewster |
 |
1917-08-12 | Master of His Home | Carson Stewart |
|
1917-06-17 | Paws of the Bear | Ray Bourke |
|
1917-02-25 | The Last of the Ingrams | Jules Ingram |
 |
1917-01-21 | The Iced Bullet | The Author / Horace Lee |
 |
1916-12-09 | A Gamble in Souls | |
 |
1916-09-23 | The Dawn Maker | Bruce Smithson |
 |
1916-01-02 | Peggy | Rev. Donald Bruce |
 |
1915-09-15 | Peer Gynt | The Parson |
 |
1915-08-26 | The Majesty of the Law | Jackson Morgan Kent |
 |
1915-07-22 | Kilmeny | Bob Meredith |