William Desmond

William Desmond () adalah aktor kelahiran Irlandia berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia tampil dalam 205 film antara tahun 1915 sampai dengan tahun 1948. Nama panggilannya adalah "The King of the Silent Serials."

Lahir dengan nama William Mannion di Dublin, Ireland, dia tumbuh besar di New York City. Kemudian dia mengganti nama aslinya menjadi nama panggung. Dia mengawali kiprahnya di vaudeville dan mantap di dunia teater sebelum mengawali debutnya di kancan perfilman. Tahun 1919 dia menikah dengan bintang Mary McIvor.

Desmond meninggal pada usia 71 karena serangan jantung di Los Angeles, California. Abunya tersimpan di Kapel Kreamtorium Pines, Los Angeles.

Filmografi 

 Peggy (1916)
 The Dawn Maker (1916)
 Society for Sale (1918)
 Her Code of Honor (1919)
 The Prince and Betty (1919)
 A Broadway Cowboy (1920)
 Perils of the Yukon (1922)
 Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923)
 The Phantom Fortune (1923)
 The Eagle's Talons (1923)
 Beasts of Paradise (1923)
 The Extra Girl (1923)
 Hello, 'Frisco (1924)
 The Riddle Rider (1924)
 Ace of Spades (1925)
 The Winking Idol (1926)
 Strings of Steel (1926)
 The Return of the Riddle Rider (1927)
 The Vanishing Rider (1928)
 No Defense (1929)
 The Phantom of the West (1931)
 The Vanishing Legion (1931)
 Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
 Heroes of the West (1932)
 The Last Frontier (1932)
 The Jungle Mystery (1932)
 Clancy of the Mounted (1933)
 The Phantom of the Air (1933)
 Laughing at Life (1933)
 Gordon of Ghost City (1933)
 The Perils of Pauline (1933)
 Pirate Treasure (1934)
 The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
 I Can't Escape (1934)
 The Red Rider (1934)
 The Way of the West (1934)
 Tailspin Tommy (1934)
 The Rawhide Terror (1934)
 Rough Riding Ranger (1935)
 Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
 Born to Battle (1935)
 The Roaring West (1935)
 Hollywood Boulevard (1936) (uncredited)
 The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936)
 Song of the Gringo (1936)
 Winners of the West (1940)
 Song of the Sarong (1945) (uncredited)
 The Egg and I (1947) (uncredited)

Referensi

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 William Desmond at Virtual History

1878 births
1949 deaths
American male stage actors
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
Male actors from Dublin (city)
Male actors from New York City
Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
20th-century American male actors
Pemeran film laki-laki Amerika Serikat
Pemeran film bisu laki-laki Amerika Serikat
Pemeran laki-laki dari Kota New York
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