William Russell Movies

Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa

Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up...

Lieut. Ralph Harrison is in love with Major Marston's wife, who pretends to love him. Harrison's mother implores Capt. Jim Craig to intervene to save...

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his...

Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.

This elaborate and well-staged silent version of Hertz' play is exceedingly well produced for 1913: it starts off by introducing the actors by name...

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood,...

An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard,...

An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening...

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen...

In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, enchanted forests grew and mythical creatures lived among us.

Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out....

Lucile is a 1912 drama film short.

Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on...

A young clerk, employed by a wealthy broker, weakly yields to the temptations of city life, and embezzles some of the money entrusted to his care.

Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets his double, a young traveling salesman named...

The girl gives herself to one of the men to escape a worse fate, though she separates from another lover to do it. Later she discovers in a dramatic...

A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working...

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.