William Duncan

Acting

William Duncan

Born 1879-12-16 · Dundee, Scotland, UK

William Duncan (16 December 1879 – 7 February 1961), born in Dundee, Scotland, was known as a major actor, producer, writer, and director of film serials and features in Hollywood. After immigrating to the United States as a child with his family, he became a leading star in the new film industry. Promoted as a Scottish star, he became one of the highest paid actors when under contract to Vitagraph.

Acting credits

No artwork available
7.5

A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

Hello, 'Frisco

1924

Thunder Trail poster
8.0

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Thunder Trail

1937

Western Hearts poster
NR

Sam Long leaves his invalid wife to seek work in a neighboring town. He is unsuccessful in his quest and being penniless, and his wife in need of food and medicine, he steals a wallet of money from Dr. Lane. While returning home he loses the wallet on the road. It is found by some of the boys, who return it to the doctor.

Western Hearts

1911

A Romance of the Rio Grande poster
NR

The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and supplying it to the Indians.

A Romance of the Rio Grande

1911

A Fight for Millions poster
NR

A film serial with 15 episodes.

A Fight for Millions

1918

Three on the Trail poster
6.0

An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.

Three on the Trail

1936

No artwork available
8.0

1919 film serial.

Man of Might

1919

The Scapegoat poster
10.0

Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it is after banking hours, Mr. Mason puts the money in his house safe. He is overseen by Harry, who breaks into the safe and steals the money.

The Scapegoat

1912

The Silent Vow poster
8.0

Jim Gorson, a handsome woodcutter, persuades the wife of Richard Stratton to elope with him. Twenty years later, Dick Stratton, Richard's son, a Northwest Mounted Policeman, is ordered to capture Bill and Doug Gorson. Circumstantial evidence points to the Gorsons as murderers of Dick's father, but the Gorsons escape, leaving behind their father wounded by the Mounties.

The Silent Vow

1922

Aladdin from Broadway poster
NR

Aladdin from Broadway is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by William Wolbert.

Aladdin from Broadway

1917

Stuck with Each Other poster
9.0

When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the criminal owners of the money.

Stuck with Each Other

1989

The Farmer's Daughter poster
5.3

Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham.

The Farmer's Daughter

1940

The Texas Rangers Ride Again poster
5.6

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940

The Frontiersmen poster
5.8

The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.

The Frontiersmen

1938

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

He's a Bear

1915

Hopalong Rides Again poster
6.3

On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link, but in reality he is a cattle rustler who uses his dynamite to scatter the cattle in order capture some of them. Hoppy and Bar 20 guys ultimately capture the professor.

Hopalong Rides Again

1937

Told in Colorado poster
8.0

Told in Colorado is a short, silent thriller

Told in Colorado

1911

A Cowboy's Best Girl poster
7.0

Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, and tells of the engagement. Lucy, who also had designs on Glen, congratulates Alice, but determines to break up the match.

A Cowboy's Best Girl

1912

The Taming of Texas Pete poster
NR

Texas Pete, a gun-man, is "extra" bad when in liquor. This, however, does not terrify the ranch foreman, who discharges him for drunkenness. Pete laces on his hardware and lurches off, with the intention of shooting up the town where he pumped in his original trouble.

The Taming of Texas Pete

1913

Through the Wall poster
NR

Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film

Through the Wall

1916

A War Time Romance poster
10.0

Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, was that of Arthur Deming, the young Confederate officer, and his Southern sweetheart, Alice Munroe.

A War Time Romance

1912

Bar 20 Justice poster
5.4

Hoppy's friend Dennis owns a rich gold mine. Frazier who owns the adjoining mine and wants the Dennis mine, has Dennis killed. Hoppy steps in to take over running the Dennis mine and learns Frazier's men sneak into and work the Dennis mine at night. Hoppy captures one of Frazier's men only to be captured in return by Frazier and left to die in a burning building.

Bar 20 Justice

1938

No artwork available
NR

Far away, in the timberlands of the North, where the purity of woman is placed above all else, lived Josephine Adare, a kind, honest soul, whose face plainly bore an expression of deep sorrow and anxiety. Up to this, God's Own Country, came a man, Philip Weyman, to spend a year in that region. The man meets the woman and falls in love with her. He begs her to confide in him her great sorrow, which he sees she is constantly thinking of, but she tells him that she cannot do so.

God's Country and the Woman

1916

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7.0

Jimmy and the Deacon are rivals for the rich widow's hand, and the Deacon with his little Flivver has so far won out.

Love and Law

1915

Behind the camera

A Fight for Millions poster
NR

A film serial with 15 episodes.

A Fight for Millions

1918

No artwork available
8.0

1919 film serial.

Man of Might

1919

The Silent Vow poster
8.0

Jim Gorson, a handsome woodcutter, persuades the wife of Richard Stratton to elope with him. Twenty years later, Dick Stratton, Richard's son, a Northwest Mounted Policeman, is ordered to capture Bill and Doug Gorson. Circumstantial evidence points to the Gorsons as murderers of Dick's father, but the Gorsons escape, leaving behind their father wounded by the Mounties.

The Silent Vow

1922

The Taming of Texas Pete poster
NR

Texas Pete, a gun-man, is "extra" bad when in liquor. This, however, does not terrify the ranch foreman, who discharges him for drunkenness. Pete laces on his hardware and lurches off, with the intention of shooting up the town where he pumped in his original trouble.

The Taming of Texas Pete

1913

Mother Love vs Gold poster
8.0

A pair of precious loafers in a mining town learn from one of their "kidney" that Dick Mackey's partner, Bill Bryson, has died and that his gold dust is cached in Dick's cabin. They get sober and conclude to rob Mackey, but find that he is too quick on "the draw," and give it up.

Mother Love vs Gold

1913

No artwork available
9.0

Steve, ambitious to outstrip his rivals, Slim and Tex, in a race for Betty's hand, orders a dress-snit by mail. The spike-tail is an awful fit and Steve retires from Betty's inspection anything but pleased. He gives the "fixins" to a Mexican, who in turn suffers from the hands of the populace when he makes his appearance in public, and is finally suspiciously pursued by a posse.

That Mail Order Suit

1913

No artwork available
NR

Steve and Tom are rivals for the hand of Mona.

The Life Timer

1913

No artwork available
NR

Steve and Tom are rivals for the hand of Mona.

The Life Timer

1913

No artwork available
8.0

Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret Warrington. Arthur is in love with Margaret; she repels his advances, but he persists. Her uncle, however, rather favors the match, as he thinks Baxter is wealthy.

By Unseen Hand

1914

Made a Coward poster
NR

Bud Harris, a young miner with a reputation for courage, goes prospecting in the desert with Tom Jones in an attempt to locate a turquoise mine. Their water gives out and their horses die on the way. Bud thinks that Tom has water in his canteen and strikes him down.

Made a Coward

1913

Taming a Tenderfoot poster
7.0

Willie Clever, city born and bred, having been spoiled with plenty of money, thinks he knows it all, or nearly all. His father buys a ranch in Arizona and sends Willie out to run the business. He comes with "all the fixin's," and has not been on the place an hour before he tries to run, or reform the outfit. The cowboys decide he needs some experience.

Taming a Tenderfoot

1913

Sallie's Sure Shot poster
6.0

Rob Ralston is forced to go to "town" for supplies, and "Injun" Jim, a sneaking rascal, announces that he proposes to jump his claim. This arouses the official ire of Fred "the star wearer," and he soundly trounces the half-breed rascal. Now Fred has an intrepid sweetheart. Sally, who is a well-spring of information and is naturally hated by law-breakers. "Injun" Jim gets reinforcements and carries off the girl as a hostage. Fred senses they are making for the mine, so he girds on his guns and goes in the same direction. The desperadoes arrange to "dynamite" Sally, but she cuts the fuse in two by a well aimed shot after they have sought safety at a distance. This saves her sweetheart Fred, who rushes to her rescue, and they both retreat to a cabin. The dynamiters are obstinate and place another cartridge, so that the cabin will be blown to pieces. The daring Fred picks up the keg of powder and rushing out rolls it down on Injun Jim and his fellow mischief-makers. They are so dazed ...

Sallie's Sure Shot

1913

The Range Law poster
NR

Ted, the foreman of "The Diamond S. Ranch" is in love with Dora, Dad's daughter. Tafe is the leader of a band of desperate characters that have been terrifying the neighborhood for some time. He sees Dora and immediately decides to try and make an impression upon her.

The Range Law

1913

The Marshal's Capture poster
NR

The marshal is compelled to arrest his brother-in-law for accidentally shooting a Mexican. His wife pleads for his release, but it is ineffectual. When he is asleep, she takes the calaboose keys from his pocket, but finds that the prisoner has been helped out by a "half-breed.". The marshal is awakened by her return and discovers that his keys are gone.

The Marshal's Capture

1913

Juggling with Fate poster
NR

Dare Devil Tom Wallace, so called because of his seeming lack of fear, is held up while riding in the stage and robbed by a masked desperado named Morgan. Wallace finds the trail of the robber and follows it to the face of a cliff.

Juggling with Fate

1913

The Law and the Outlaw poster
5.0

Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch owner, one day sees Dakota's display of horsemanship, and the admiration thus aroused soon ripens into love, much against the protest of the family. Ruth's love for Dakota is increased by his heroic deed when he rescues her from the malignant attentions of a rushing steer whose anger is aroused by the flowing red handkerchief about her neck. Dakota, who is riding ahead of the cowboys on a round-up expedition, catches sight of the steer heading for Ruth, and, spurring his broncho into a break-neck speed, reaches the side of the steer, leaps upon its hack, and, fastening his muscular arms on the frenzied beast's horns, brings him to the ground. In the midst of the ovation given him by the cowboys, Dakota is nabbed by Sheriff Mathers, who begins to march him back to the Deer Lodge Penitentiary.

The Law and the Outlaw

1913

Wolves of the North poster
10.0

Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.

Wolves of the North

1924

The Rustler's Reformation poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Rustler's Reformation

1913

The Rustler's Reformation poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Rustler's Reformation

1913

Jim's Vindication poster
8.0

An express rider is wrongly suspected of theft. When he is sentenced to imprisonment, friends help him to escape. In the pursuit that emerges, he manages to unmask the real thief.

Jim's Vindication

1912

Religion and Gun Practice poster
NR

Wesley Judell, as a missionary, finds a futile but puzzling field for work in the far, wild west.

Religion and Gun Practice

1913

The Fighting Trail poster
NR

15 chapter adventure tale starring forgotten serial queen Carol Holloway. The chapter titles were: (1) The Priceless Ingredient; (2) The Story of Ybarra; (3) Will Yaqui Joe Tell?; (4) The Other Half; (5) Torrent Rush; (6) The Ledge of Despair; (7) The Lion's Prey; (8) The Strands of Doom; (9) The Bridge of Death; (10) The Sheriff; (11) Parched Trails; (12) The Desert of Torture; (13) The Water Trap; (14) The Trestle of Horrors; and (15) Out of the Flame.

The Fighting Trail

1917

His Father's Deputy poster
NR

John Wilson goes to the mountain-town bank to draw out the pay-roll. Sam Marvin and Ed Hanley "pike" this proceeding and ride on ahead, up the road, to await the coming of the superintendent in his auto. Jim Carter, the son of Sheriff Carter, also his deputy, observes their actions, and finds their pictures in prison records.

His Father's Deputy

1913

His Father's Deputy poster
NR

John Wilson goes to the mountain-town bank to draw out the pay-roll. Sam Marvin and Ed Hanley "pike" this proceeding and ride on ahead, up the road, to await the coming of the superintendent in his auto. Jim Carter, the son of Sheriff Carter, also his deputy, observes their actions, and finds their pictures in prison records.

His Father's Deputy

1913