Date of birth: 1863-01-02
Place of birth: Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Jonathan Humphrey, Wm. Humphrys


1910-07-23
Poor Hako, a Japanese boy, is sold into bondage to a cruel fisherman who makes his life a burden and

1925-07-26
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, ave

1925-07-20
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, a

1931-05-01
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a

1910-02-04
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brothe

1933-10-01
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? Hi

1934-06-05
1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin C

1928-04-27
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a

1913-09-01
A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discove
1911-08-05
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Wind
1911-11-11
Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to

1924-03-30
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley

1932-10-14
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he ha

1935-10-21
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They

1909-12-25
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a
1912-07-15
Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suf

1929-12-27
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

1911-02-20
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent

1935-07-10
Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the mur

1926-06-19
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks dow
1911-11-04
Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a
1912-03-23
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the rec

1935-02-12
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the invent
1913-06-06
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in ange

1926-05-23
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the
1909-11-16
Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray

1909-06-01
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
1910-01-02
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.

1909-05-22
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a

1909-01-02
Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, mar

1909-12-04
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in t

1909-04-10
Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are

1923-09-15
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of

1922-12-31
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and

1931-12-24
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o

1933-05-01
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

1931-09-01
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun w

1934-04-20
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspec

1933-10-19
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to anothe

1912-01-03
A short drama directed by William Humphrey.

1909-08-21
A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recen

1913-04-20
Edna and Alice, the twins, get positions as stenographers in the offices of Mr. Redman and Mr. Carte

1925-04-12
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Li

1932-10-17
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a

1932-07-23
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in

1919-07-27
A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

1914-08-14
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing arou

1923-12-24
Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his

1924-03-23
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and

1923-10-01
Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sis

1926-11-21
The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds w

1925-06-18
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone le

1925-06-29
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make
1914-07-13
On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oil
1911-04-29
Comte de Charney is sentenced to life imprisonment for political conspiracy. In the same prison, Gir

1924-02-02
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America
1911-01-31
Alice is in an unhappy relationship with her fiance. She falls for a new man, but he goes swimming a

1919-04-27
Orphan Mary Lord, the ward of Sir Arthur Stanhope of Parliament, is attracted to Philip Carmichael,
1913-12-25
The day before Christmas in a squalid tenement room shared by young sisters Nell and Bess, their bro

1926-02-01

1917-12-24
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns tha