William Russell Movies

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...

A nervous, fault-finding invalid decides that his health requires that he shall live in the South, and manages to exchange his place "Up North," for...

Mark O'Rell is sent to New York by his wife's Aunt Cordelia to recover a valuable quilt. In the city he finds the quilt, discovers that it conceals...

Langdon, a revenue officer in search of smugglers operating along the coast of Santa Cruz Island, Cal., meets Verna. the daughter of the lighthouse...

Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is...

An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all...

John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi...

War hero Captain November Jones tries to sneak into his hometown of Gold City, Nevada undetected but when he rescues a child from being run over by a...

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

William Russell plays Cliff Redfern, a hard-ridin' Westerner who takes a liking to Easterner Ned Caldwell (Cullen Landis), the dissolute son of a...

A royal love triangle leads to heartbreak for all until 25 years hence all is made right for their descendants.

The redemption journey of Moll O'Hara, a woman struggling with alcoholism and a challenging past. Moll, rescued from a life of drinking and fighting...

The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a...

Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

In the course of a fashionable reception at her home, a young girl quarrels with her suitor. Piqued by a fancied wrong, the girl with complaisance...

Lowell Sherman's seemingly perfect marriage to Alice, which is shattered when she has an affair with his best friend, Cyril Carr; Lowell's revenge...

When the two little daughters of a young widower are told that he is preparing to bring up to the house to see them, a young lady who is to be their...

A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...