William E. Shay
Date of birth: 1867-01-01
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: W.E. Shay
Biography
Movie Credits
Shamus O'Brien
1912-03-14
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library o
The Telephone Girl
1927-03-26
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right
The Two Orphans
1915-09-05
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. Th
The Clemenceau Case
1915-04-12
This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no o
The Soul of Broadway
1915-10-18
Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Crai
Sweet Memories
1911-03-27
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-depa
A Daughter of the Gods
1916-10-16
A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
1907-08-03
A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
His Hour of Triumph
1913-10-30
Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip D
A Cave Man Wooing
1912-05-19
George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young
Up Against It
1912-05-31
Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to p
The Lighthouse Keeper
1911-05-18
Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the
'Tween Two Loves
1911-09-28
A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She
A Timely Repentance
1912-03-11
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both lo
Neptune's Daughter
1914-04-25
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was ca
The Fall of the Romanoffs
1918-01-01
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema
Sin
1915-10-03
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
The Lone Wolf
1917-06-30
When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teache
Kreutzer Sonata
1915-03-01
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather be
The Eternal Sin
1917-03-15
Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married th