William E. Shay

Born: None


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Sin

as Luigi
Released: 1915-10-03

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

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Kreutzer Sonata

as Gregor Randor
Released: 1915-03-01

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is...

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Sweet Memories

as Second Duelist
Released: 1911-03-27

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her...

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A Daughter of the Gods

as Prince Omar
Released: 1916-10-16

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his...

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A Daughter of the Gods

as The Sultan
Released: 1916-10-16

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his...

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The Telephone Girl

as Detective (as W.E. Shay)
Released: 1927-03-26

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers....

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Neptune's Daughter

as King William
Released: 1914-04-25

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who...

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The Fall of the Romanoffs

as Theofan
Released: 1918-01-01

The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of...

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Up Against It

as Frank Crampton - Louise & Howard's Father
Released: 1912-05-31

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had...

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A Timely Repentance

as Wilbur Robinson - the Wife's New Lover
Released: 1912-03-11

A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure,...

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A Cave Man Wooing

as Sam
Released: 1912-05-19

George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined...

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The Clemenceau Case

as Pierre Clemenceau
Released: 1915-04-12

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with...

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The Lone Wolf

as Wertheimer
Released: 1917-06-30

Based on a character created by Louis Joseph Vance

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His Hour of Triumph

as Derwent Hall - the Reporter / Playwright
Released: 1913-10-30

Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of...

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The Two Orphans

as Chevalier de Vaudrey
Released: 1915-09-05

This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in...

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The Boy, the Bust and the Bath

as uncredited
Released: 1907-08-03

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.

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The Soul of Broadway

as William Craig
Released: 1915-10-18

Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William...

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'Tween Two Loves

as George
Released: 1911-09-28

A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation....

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