Date of birth: 1873-06-12
Place of birth: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Asa Lee Willard


1916-11-09
Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immedi

1914-10-09
Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots r

1915-01-09
Broncho Billy, a prospector, makes a rich strike, but while he is examining the rock he is being wat

1914-12-19
It is Christmas Eve, and a humble prospector has spent his last cent for food. He is heartbroken to

1915-02-06
Broncho Billy, the sheriff, is in love with a girl, but another man wins her affections and marries

1914-12-26
Broncho Billy is requested to resign his office as sheriff. John Jenkin's son is appointed his succe

1915-01-02
A desperate bandit has escaped and finding no one about Broncho's cabin, takes refuge in the attic.

1915-01-30
While on the round-up, Broncho's rival one night steals his sweetheart's picture from his watch. He

1913-10-30
Greed for gold, this is what has dragged many a man downward. Skinflint, a miser, not satisfied with

1913-10-25
Robert Johnson tries to influence his daughter, Mary, to marry Dave Morgan, much against her wishes.

1915-04-03
The bandit leader is lying wounded in his cabin on the mountain when his confederates bring in a gir

1925-01-04
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Vio
1915-10-29
Broncho Billy and his brother are both in love with the same girl, but she decides to marry Broncho'

1914-04-11
Broncho Billy and his pal, Carl Stockdale, are in love with Peggy Adams. The two men receive a lette

1915-07-09
Broncho Billy wins out over his rival for the hand of a sweet country girl. Later he meets a girl fr

1914-01-31
Broncho Billy saves an Indian from starvation. The Indian's intelligence is soon discovered by Bronc

1914-01-24
To err is human, but in the end, goodness of heart will prevail and the one who has committed an off

1914-01-17
Broncho Billy hears a child scream and rushes on the scene in time to prevent Jim Haley, a big brute

1913-09-13
Broncho Billy and his pals plot to rob the general store. Broncho Billy is elected to go into the st
1915-06-04
Broncho Billy and his pals hold up a stagecoach. In rifling the mail bag, Broncho discovers a letter

1915-03-06
Broncho's former wife writes a note to him shortly before her death, asking him to forgive her, also

1915-02-27
Broncho's brother has a quarrel with a greaser. In the fight that follows the greaser is bested, but

1915-02-20
The cattle owners have formed a lynching party and are in pursuit of a rustler who has been ravaging

1914-01-10
In these days of women's equal rights, it is not strange to find the fair sex taking the places of m

1915-05-07
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. B

1913-12-04
Caleb Breen and Lucy Oliver are sweethearts and intend to marry just as soon as Breen strikes gold.

1913-12-18
"Chuck" Peters, a gambler, is in love with Nell Braley, the daughter of the town saloon keeper. Nell

1914-01-08
Being in ill health, Fred Church goes west. Arriving there, he goes into partnership with Carl Stock

1914-01-22
A knight of the grip has many inconveniences to contend with, and not only that, but often his very

1914-09-26
Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the sho

1914-10-03
Broncho and his wife arrive in a new country and settle. They are treated with all kindness by a man

1914-10-08
Slim is elected to try to last three rounds against the world's champion boxer in order to win $100.
1914-02-14
A mother's heart always goes out to her wayward son. Jim Barton caused his mother constant worry, an

1914-10-24
Having refused to accompany either Broncho Billy or the mail carrier to a dance at the town hall, Br

1914-11-07
The city girl decides to turn over a new leaf and go west where she can start life anew. Several yea

1914-04-25
Jack Holmes, a squatter, and his daughter, Margaret, settle on land owned by Harry Rawlins. Broncho

1914-05-23
Marguerite becomes weary as the hours and the Overland Limited roll on. Her trip from New York to th
1915-05-14
The artist sits in his studio painting a picture. The girl comes in and greets him affectionately. T
1915-05-21
The girl, on guard at the mountain defile, sees a strange man with all the accouterments of a painte
1915-06-18
Broncho works for a despicable land grabber who treats his help like a brute. The men finally plot t

1914-07-11
Broncho Billy, a cowpuncher, is elected to the office of deputy. The sheriff is in love with Gertrud
1914-07-25
Broncho Billy, an express rider, is married to Stasia Wynn, daughter of Grant Wynn. John Mackey, a g

1914-12-05
Broncho Billy and his pal are in love with the same girl. They argue one night as to which one she r

1914-12-03
Slippery Slim receives an invitation to attend the wedding of Sophie and Mustang Pete. He is brokenh

1914-11-19
Tim Cantle, an evil-looking fellow, is drinking at a bar. The saloonkeeper's daughter enters, and Ti

1914-11-28
Broncho Billy, an outlaw, while being pursued by the sheriff of Bear County, crosses the line into G

1915-01-18
Broncho Billy is sent on a secret mission to a small Arizona town. There he meets a beautiful girl,

1915-03-20
The highwayman, watching through the window of the ramshackle express office, sees the messenger pas

1915-04-10
Andy of the Royal Mounted and another trooper are both in love with a little school teacher, who sho

1915-04-16
The Man, down on his luck, breaks into the home of a wealthy clubman to burglarize the place. The su

1915-04-23
A burglar enters a darkened house to rob. A young wife, home alone, phones her husband at the club,
1914-08-15
Broncho Billy and the coward are both in love with the school teacher at Snakeville. Broncho is acce
1914-08-29
Broncho Billy is jilted by the girl he loves and goes up into the mountains with his friend to prosp
1915-06-25
The girl rejects her sweetheart, telling him that she loves him but prefers a career. She takes up n
1915-07-02
Broncho Billy has exhausted every foot of ground which might have held gold for them and he makes re
1915-07-16
A world-weary mother, penniless and widowed, leaves her starving infant in the tonneau of Broncho Bi
1915-08-06
Broncho Billy, engaged to the girl, becomes jealous of a newcomer, and in remorse, gets intoxicated.
1915-08-13
Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a sch
1915-08-20
Broncho Billy, while in a dance hall, goes to the assistance of the girl who is playing the piano, w
1915-08-27
This is a story of a wealthy young man, accustomed to the gaieties of café and club life who falls i
1915-09-03
Broncho Billy, through a notice posted on a tree, learns he can go free if he will give himself up.
1915-09-10
Tired out, a ranger happens upon a cabin in the woods to ask for rest. He is met at the door by a pr
1915-09-17
Broncho Billy, in a quarrel with Faro Dan, a card sharp, shoots him and flees. Pursued, he hides in
1915-09-24
An old settler, with a beautiful daughter, received notice from a real estate agent that the mortgag

1915-09-28
The convict's cellmate, his time up, calls on the former's wife with a letter of introduction from t
1915-10-01
In a fight Marguerite's father kills a man and Broncho Billy, the sheriff, goes in search of the sla
1915-10-08
Broncho Billy, the sheepman, goes to the village store and purchases an engagement ring for his swee
1915-10-09
The wife and mother, in love with her local instructor, places her husband's revolver and a note to
1915-10-22
A 1915 Silent Western
1915-11-09
Jack Dobbs starts to gamble and dissipate when he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle. In a few y
1915-11-15
The Indian's Narrow Escape is a 1915 Western drama
1915-11-26
Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes i
1915-11-10
Broncho Billy is in love with the rancher's daughter. Her father disapproves of their affair and one
1916-01-18
The book agent meets the daughter of a capitalist on a street car when she accidentally ties her sho
1916-02-08
John Stone becomes engaged to Margaret Houston much to the disapproval of Harry Gardner, his rival.

1917-05-19
A cowboy travels East to settle an old score. He finds the man he's been looking for, but his beauti

1924-09-14
Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes fr

1915-02-15
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds him

1914-06-08
The firm of John Sterling and Sons bad been organized by his father, and when son Gilbert was old en

1925-11-08
A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promoti

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1937-10-21
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start underm

1940-04-18
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an e

1915-01-23
Billy rescues a child and returns her to her mother. When the husband returns and discovers that the

1935-12-30
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

1927-10-01
Bonnie and Cliff meet cute when she gives him a lift after his car has broken down. Turns out she’s

1925-09-10
A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters in the Big City.

1922-10-29
Dr. Kramer, secretly married to cabaret dancer Vivian Collins, forces his wife to encourage the atte