William Shea
Acting
Biography
No biography available for William Shea.
Born: October 6, 1856
Place of Birth: Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
Known For
Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Ito, the Beggar Boy
A Tale of Two Cities
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
The Classmate's Frolic
A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.
Tangled Tangoists
John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets involved in a nice bit of physical comedy when her gawkiness makes the dance lesson less than successful.
Hearts and Diamonds
Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
The Man from Egypt
Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
A Tin-Type Romance
Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops.
Aunty's Romance
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
Filmography
as Slim Jackson
as Whiskers O'Brien
as George
as Denny McGuire
as Mr. Mazuma
as McMahon
as Bucknail (per Variety)
as Whiggins
as Farmer Jones
as Clancy
as Uncle William
as Uncle Jerry
as The Organ Player
as Unknown role
as Pierre le Noir, Vian's Neighbor
as The Attorney
as Mr. McSorley - the Climax
as Jarvis Lorry
as Sir Pitt Crawley
as Old Man (uncredited)
as Laughing man
as Auld Robin Gray
as Mechanical