William Burress
Acting
Biography
No biography available for William Burress.
Born: August 19, 1867
Place of Birth: Newcomerstown, Ohio, USA
Known For
Shall We Dance
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Blonde Crazy
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Pilgrimage
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Never Say Die
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
The Little Colonel
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
Grand Old Girl
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Fashions of 1934
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Dr. Socrates
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Filmography
as Man with Dog
as Clerk (uncredited)
as Spreckett (as William Burress)
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
as Thornton
as Charlie Gaunt (uncredited)
as George S. Harris - Grocery Proprietor
as Abercrombie's Friend
as Dr. Scott
as Butts
as Haley's Editor (uncredited)
as Minister
as Mr. Barrett - Mary's Father
as Feldman
as Oscar Bernstein - Music Critic
as Customer (as William Burress)
as Mr. Krauss, a Banker
as Thomas Barnum
as Roger Colby (uncredited)
as Dad Sipes
as Colonel Small
as Colonel Bellock
as Father
as Johnny Cake
as Dr. Hugo Schmidt
as Regan (as William Burress)
as Brabazon Tudway
as Lawyer
as Waggoner
as The Kaiser
as Hale Faxon
as Chauvelin
as Alden Lee
as Freiheer Von Wittzchaeft
as Randolf Sneed
as Captain Sprague
as Rowley