Writing

William Parker

Known for

Writing

Credits

18 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Reunion poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Reunion

1916

The Nut poster
6.2

Eccentric, accident-prone inventor Charlie Jackson is deeply in love with Estrell Wynn, a progressive philanthropist who believes that if the wealthy host poor children in their homes for an hour each day, it will reform the children into good citizens.

The Nut

1921

The Jack-Knife Man poster
6.5

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.

The Jack-Knife Man

1920

A Weaver of Dreams poster
NR

Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who got away, but happiness lays ahead for one while hopeful dreams sustain the other.

A Weaver of Dreams

1918

The Mainspring poster
NR

Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.

The Mainspring

1916

No artwork available
10.0

Author Ramon Valentine lives in the slums looking for inspiration for his novel, but finds life threatening danger instead.

Guilty

1916

The Scarlet Car poster
4.6

Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.

The Scarlet Car

1917

Bare-Fisted Gallagher poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bare-Fisted Gallagher

1919

No artwork available
NR

Captain Frank Marvin and Lieut. Bob Chase are army draftsmen in the Ordnance Department. Marvin is working on plans for a submarine that is expected to revolutionize warfare. One of the foreign governments is anxious to obtain the plans.

The Code of Honor

1916

The White Lie poster
9.0

Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, he is shocked to discover a portrait of his own wife and daughter. Suspecting the worst of Dorothy, he hires a private detective....

The White Lie

1918

The Cave Girl poster
9.0

Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes of living, finds it difficult to find food in the winter wilderness and resorts to pilfering from the Bates's winter camp. Divvy, engaged to a girl he does not love, meets Margot on one of her raids and falls in love with her. Baptiste, a half-breed employed by the Bates family, is discharged for stealing and burns the camp, driving the family to refuge with Margot. Elsie, hoping to regain Divvy's affections, dresses in boyish clothes similar to Margot's. Joining forces with Baptiste, they capture Margot, and Baptiste takes her in a canoe downstream. Realizing her mistake, Elsie warns Divvy, who bests the half-breed and then rescues Margot from the falls. A lost film.

The Cave Girl

1921

What Every Woman Wants poster
4.0

Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.

What Every Woman Wants

1919

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Whispered Word

1916

The Silken Spider poster
NR

Brian Leonard is a millionaire whose sole occupation is the amassing of wealth. He is cold, hard, and the element of love has been almost extinguished. In this environment, his motherless, loveless daughter, Bona, grew up to womanhood.

The Silken Spider

1916

The Winged Mystery poster
NR

Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in Europe when war breaks out. August joins the Kaiser's army, but Louis, a supporter of the United States, is practically made a prisoner in Berlin for a year while he tries to prove his American citizenship. After a violent confrontation with Louis, August steals his brother's passport and leaves for New York with Gerda Anderson, a German spy.

The Winged Mystery

1917

No artwork available
10.0

Reporter Muriel Manning succeeds in rounding up Mrs. Madison who murdered gambler Howard Trimble. But after listening to her story of Trimble’s degradation and threatened blackmail of her which drove her to an attempt at suicide during which she shoots him in error Muriel decides never to reveal her identity in print.

Her Buried Past

1915

Who Was the Other Man? poster
NR

While waiting in a hotel lobby for instructions from his government, Ludwig Schumann, an agent of the Black Legion, is enchanted by Marion Washburn, the daughter of a Texas senator. As he is about to speak to the girl, Schumann is stunned to see a young American enter who could be his double. The American is James Walbert, whom Schumann's contact mistakes for the agent. The contact passes to Walbert a photograph of a woman spy, Wanda Bartell, whom the agent is to meet aboard a steamer. Walbert realizes the mistake and determines to protect his country.

Who Was the Other Man?

1917

Money Madness poster
NR

When a bank is on the verge of collapse, its president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to cover its losses. Unknown to Fuller, however, Monroe Simmons, his vice-president, is undermining the bank for his own purposes. Then Tom Williams, who is in love with Fuller's daughter Ethel, asks his uncle, famous detective "Whispering Smith," to investigate the case.

Money Madness

1917