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William Morris is a Actor American born on 1 january 1861 at Boston (USA)

William Morris

William Morris
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Birth name William Morris
Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1861 at Boston (USA)
Death 11 january 1936 (at 75 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

William Morris (January 1, 1861 – January 11, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He began his career as a teenager in the theater, first appearing at the Boston Museum, 1875 and became a star on Broadway. Much theater work where he spent most of his career. He appeared in popular plays such as 1909's Is Matrimony a Failure? He was a character actor in silent films, usually playing gruff fathers or bad guys. He was married to actress Etta Hawkins with whom he had several children, one of whom was the 1930s film star Chester Morris.

His appearance in Alice Guy's 1917 silent film The Ocean Waif, from Kino DVD, is an example of Morris's surviving screen work.

Usually with

J. Roy Hunt
J. Roy Hunt
(3 films)
J. Walter Ruben
J. Walter Ruben
(2 films)
Tom Kennedy
Tom Kennedy
(2 films)
Max Rée
Max Rée
(2 films)
Victor Schertzinger
Victor Schertzinger
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of William Morris (5 films)

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Actor

Skyscraper Souls
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
, 1h39
Directed by Edgar Selwyn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Norman Foster, Verree Teasdale
Roles Hamilton (Uncredited)
Rating71% 3.586043.586043.586043.586043.58604
The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife, Ella, happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.
The Roadhouse Murder
The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
, 1h13
Directed by J. Walter Ruben, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Dorothy Jordan, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt, Roscoe Ates, David Landau, Bruce Cabot
Roles Judge
Rating52% 2.6239552.6239552.6239552.6239552.623955
This script must be run from the command line
Behind Office Doors
Behind Office Doors (1931)
, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mary Astor, Robert Downing Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen, Kitty Kelly, Edna Murphy
Roles Banker Charles H. Robinson
Rating60% 3.0431053.0431053.0431053.0431053.043105
Mary Linden (Mary Astor) is a receptionist at a paper milling company, who is secretly in love with one of the salesmen, James Duneen (Robert Ames). Her extensive knowledge of the paper industry, the mill and its clients allows her to have input in company operations far outweighing her level as a receptionist. As the current president of the company, Ritter (Charles Sellon), approaches retirement, Mary uses her knowledge and skill of company politics to enable James to make some important sales coups, after which she begins a fifth-column attempt to get him named as the next president. James, for his part, is grateful to her for her help, but is completely oblivious to her romantic interest in him, preferring more of the party girl type.
The Woman Between
The Woman Between (1931)
, 1h13
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lili Damita, O. P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise, Lincoln Stedman
Roles Frederick Weston
Rating54% 2.7231352.7231352.7231352.7231352.723135
A young man returns from Europe after several years' estrangement from his family caused by his disapproval of his father's remarrying after his mother's death. At the family reunion he learns that his stepmother is the woman with whom he had a shipboard romance on the voyage home.