Acting

William N. Chapman

Acting credits

Torture Ship poster
3.8

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

Torture Ship

1939

Elmo the Fearless poster
8.0

Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick of time!

Elmo the Fearless

1920

A Lass of the Lumberlands poster
NR

15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.

A Lass of the Lumberlands

1916

No artwork available
9.0

A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.

Winter Has Came

1923

The Lost Express poster
NR

A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators and the authorities try to determine where it is and who took it.

The Lost Express

1917

The Railroad Raiders poster
NR

A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Woman's Wit; 6. The Overland Disaster; 7. Mistaken Identity; 8. A Knotted Cord; 9. A Leap for Life; 10. A Watery Grave; 11. A Desperate Deed; 12. A Fight for a Franchise; 13. The Road Wrecker; 14. The Trap; 15. The Mystery of the Counterfeit Tickets.

The Railroad Raiders

1917

The Manager of the B & A poster
NR

Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of Griffith Ryder, labor leader and newspaper editor, they call a strike. The water main which supplies the railroad yards is cut, and a hot engine starts a fire. With water unavailable, the fire spreads to town, but through his superhuman efforts, Oakley gets it under control. His heroic moves win favor with the workers, and the strike is history.

The Manager of the B & A

1916