William Dyer

Born: 1881-03-09

William Dyer was an American film actor in the silent era.


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Frankenstein

as Gravedigger (uncredited)
Released: 1931-11-21

Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a...

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Sagebrush Trail

as Blind Pete
Released: 1933-12-15

Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after...

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The Pony Express

as Bartender
Released: 1925-09-03

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed...

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Wild Bill Hickok

as Col. Horatio Higginbotham
Released: 1923-12-18

The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.

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The Four-Bit Man

as uncredited
Released: 1919-08-21

The Four-Bit Man is a silent Western short.

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The Red Glove

as uncredited
Released: 1919-03-17

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who...

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Honor of the Mounted

as U.S. Marshal Hatton
Released: 1932-06-20

Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge....

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The Courage of Marge O'Doone

as Hauck
Released: 1920-05-30

Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One...

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The Silent Call

as Ash Brent
Released: 1921-11-07

A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.

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The Fighting Three

as Timothy
Released: 1927-07-03

The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of...

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Spurs and Saddles

as Bud Bailey (as Bill Dyer)
Released: 1927-07-17

Mildred is traveling West in search of her long-lost father when she catches the roving eye of...

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The Cowboy King

as Hadley
Released: 1922-05-01

"Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus...

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All Night

as Bradford
Released: 1918-11-29

A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to...

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Gun Justice

as Red Hogan
Released: 1933-12-11

Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken...

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Perils of the Wild

as Black John
Released: 1925-08-27

Movie serial Perils of the Wild

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Code of Honor

as Sheriff Asa Smyth (as Wm. Dyer)
Released: 1930-10-16

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to...

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Singer Jim Mckee

as Hamlin Glass
Released: 1924-03-03

Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is...

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The Trail of the Octopus

as Sandy MacNab
Released: 1919-10-19

Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9...

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Overland Bound

as Boss Wheeler
Released: 1929-11-23

Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch,...

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The Screaming Shadow

as Jake Williams
Released: 1920-01-02

Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.

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Don't Shoot

as Boss McGinnis
Released: 1922-08-21

Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her...

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Man's Desire

as Slim Dorgan
Released: 1919-07-20

Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber...

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Fightin' Mad

as Obadiah Brennan (as William J. Dyer)
Released: 1921-11-20

Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud...

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Crushed

as uncredited
Released: 1924-11-23

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his...

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Who Will Marry Me?

as Karl Kremer
Released: 1919-01-27

Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony...

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Triumph

as David Montieth (as William J. Dyer)
Released: 1917-09-02

This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her...

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Gun Gospel

as Sheriff
Released: 1927-11-06

From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on...

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'49–'17

as J. Gordon Castle
Released: 1917-10-15

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the...

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Black Orchids

as Proprietor of L'Hibour Blanc
Released: 1917-01-01

Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her...

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Cyclone Bliss

as uncredited
Released: 1921-01-20

Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen...

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The Reward of the Faithless

as Peter Vlasoff
Released: 1917-02-12

A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.

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Broken Fetters

as uncredited
Released: 1916-07-03

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The Little White Savage

as Larkey
Released: 1919-02-24

A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English...

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Come Through

as McGinnis (as Bill Dyer)
Released: 1917-06-01

From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making...

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Anything Once

as Jethro Quall
Released: 1917-10-08

A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months....

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The Man in the Saddle

as Sheriff
Released: 1926-07-11

A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by...

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Gun-Shy

as uncredited
Released: 1922-09-01

A milquetoast Easterner who on a trip to the Wild West is mistaken for a U.S. marshall.

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The Desert of the Lost

as Steve Wolfe
Released: 1927-12-17

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into...

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Texas Buddies

as Sheriff
Released: 1932-10-18

Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert....

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The Great Problem

as uncredited
Released: 1916-04-17

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.

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Looking for Trouble

as Sheriff Tom Plump
Released: 1926-05-30

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement...

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