William Elmer
Acting
Biography
No biography available for William Elmer.
Born: April 25, 1869
Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Known For
The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Kitty Foyle
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Condemned!
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
Carmen
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.
The Captive
During the Balkan Wars, Sonia is a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm while elder brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the daily tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into romance. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
Castles for Two
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.
Wolves of the Rail
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.
Brewster's Millions
The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered to be a lost film.
The Squaw Man
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
Filmography
as Servant (uncredited)
as Neway (uncredited)
as Lawyer
as Pierre
as Percy (the valet)
as Bat Piper
as Cauliflower Jim (as Billy Elmer)
as 'Spike' McGafney
as Jerry Casey
as Rod Blake
as Davis
as Red Kelly
as Lousy
as Bob Quentin
as Tick Flynn
as Dud Corey
as Burglar Bill
as Bill
as Props
as Aide to Von Blenheim
as (as Billy Elmer)
as Hodges (as Billy Elmer)
as 'Spider' Doyle
as Kenwood's Agent
as Undetermined Role
as Pablo Trilles (as Billy Elmer)
as Banty Jones
as Price Lovel
as Detective Boyle
as Peters
as Black Jack
as Detective Hagen
as Horse Gilligan
as Callahan
as Tom Jellitt
as Kregler
as Murphy
as Jim
as Halpin
as Kelly
as Morales
as Detective Williams
as Turkish Officer
as Jack McCarty
as Spike Mullins
as Ashby
as Robledo
as Isaac Perry
as Half Breed
as Jim Dolan
as Trampas
as Creegan
as Hays
as First Prizefighter
as Cash Hawkins
as The Doorman
as Asylum Guard