Date of birth: 1856-04-28
Place of birth: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Herbert "Bert" Woodruff, William Herbert Woodruff


1928-04-07
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then beco
1922-12-17
Jack Holt, as Horace Winsby, the lead character. Winsby is a millionaire beet sugar king who owns ne
1921-11-13
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her d

1917-09-24
Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south

1921-09-01
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- he

1931-05-10
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men

1920-06-27
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fort

1924-03-01
Calvin Gray, a former soldier, is hired to manage the wealth of the Briskow family in a Texas oil to

1926-02-21
A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner

1918-09-15
A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock,

1926-03-21
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-capt

1927-10-22
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at a

1926-12-20
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,

1922-12-04
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to

1931-05-30
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to c

1922-02-16
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters

1924-06-14
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Mo

1927-06-05
Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger

1919-05-12
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she

1929-10-06
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.

1926-11-06
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st
1928-11-11
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left i

1925-06-28
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown

1925-10-18
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully

1917-04-28
Railroad president, John Houston, along with his daughter Marjorie and his fiancee, Elinor Craig, ar

1917-03-11
A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sin

1923-03-17
A likely lost film. The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. H

1927-05-15
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with

1924-08-17
Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscil

1923-03-25
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm a

1919-08-17
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, i

1924-10-02
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospector

1919-04-27
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his

1920-06-01
A young man who falls for a Parisian dancer, but his wealthy family disapproves leading to societal

1922-01-16
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with on

1920-10-10
Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Bur
1916-01-06
Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Ren

1918-02-24
Susan Allenby's father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff, Tom Slade, an

1923-09-16
Wall Street clerk George Coburn leaves the employ of broker Ralph Coombes to become an independent s

1923-06-04
Young Terwilliger, an orphan boy in New York City, "adopts" Old Archer, the caretaker of Gramercy Pa

1928-11-17
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Tur

1921-10-17
A star of the college football team is forced to work as a milkman when his father's business begins

1925-09-29
In the rural village of Mosville, inventor and fire chief Lem Blossom, the son of a pumpkin farmer,

1924-11-24
A pretty young woman marries a slick-talking car salesman instead of the wealthy playboy who propose

1921-03-13
Robert Gardner and Billy Noble become interested in a machine capable--according to the inventor, Tr

1923-09-12
After 2 years of marriage, farmer's wife Hester Taylor tires of her life of hardship and accepts an

1920-05-10
Bubbles is a tomboy who resists her Aunt Amelia's attempts to transform her into a lady. One day, wh