William Burgess
출생 : 1867-08-19, Newcomerstown, Ohio, USA
사망 : 1948-10-30
Man with Dog
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?
Clerk (uncredited)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
Spreckett (as William Burress)
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
발레 스타 페트로프는 아틀란트를 건너는 배 위에서 우연히 톱 댄서 린다를 만난다. 하지만 페트로프는 그녀가 유명 스타인지 모르는 상황에서 감정이 통해 사랑에 빠진다. 린다에 대해 아는 사람들은 페트로프와 함께 있는 모습을 보고 그들을 부부로 오해, 이 소문이 기정사실화되면서 두 사람은 갈등을 겪기에 이른다. 1930년대, 프레드 아스테어와 진저 로저스가 제작사 RKO에 막대한 경제적 이득을 가져다주던 시기, 두 배우가 콤비로 호흡을 맞춘 영화들 중 일곱 번째 영화인 . 발레단의 스타인 페트로프, 재즈 댄스계의 스타인 린다를 연기한 프레드와 진저는 이 작품에서도 롤러스케이트 댄스를 비롯한 아름다운 댄스의 하모니를 보여주는데, 영화의 타이틀인 Shall We Dance는 동명의 음악이 라스트에 울려 퍼지며 우여곡절을 겪은 두 사람의 사랑이 이루어지는 상징성을 나타내는 것이기도 하다. 프레드 아스테어는 이 영화에서 우아한 발레와 스피디한 탭댄스까지 완벽하게 선사하는데, 미남형의 배우라고 하기엔 어려운 그가 춤을 추면 완벽하고도 매력적인 남성으로 보이는 것은 그가 가진 타고난 재능과 매력 덕분일 것이다.
Thornton
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.
Charlie Gaunt (uncredited)
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.
George S. Harris - Grocery Proprietor
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.
Abercrombie's Friend
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Dr. Scott
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.
Butts
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Banker, Patsy's Boss
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Minister
부모를 잃은 제인 에어(Jane Eyre: 버지니아 브루스 분)는 숙모인 리드(Mrs. Reed: 클레리사 셀위네 분)에게 맡겨지나, 제대로 키우지 않고 골칫거리로 여겨 로우드 자선 학교로 보내진다. 교장 브로클허스트(Brocklehurst: 데이비드 토렌스 분)의 엄하고 혹독한 교육과 매질에 시달리면서, 어느덧 시간은 흘러 제인은 로우드의 선생님이 된다. 성인이 된 제인은 쏜필드 저택의 가정교사로 추천되고, 그곳 저택을 관리하는 페어팩스 부인(Mrs. Fairfax: 버릴 메어서 분)의 따스한 보살핌 속에, 자신이 가리키는 아델(Adele Rochester: 에디스 펠로우스 분)도 잘 따라, 난생 처음 삶의 평온함을 맛보게 된다. 그리고 말로만 듣던 로체스터 경(Edward Rochester: 콜린 클리브 분)과 만나게 되고, 그에게 끌리는 감정도 느끼나, 저택에서 밤이면 나도는 음산한 웃음 소리와 하녀 그레이스 풀(Grace Poole: 에델 그리피스 분)이라는 불길한 존재가 그녀를 어둡게 한다. 임종을 앞둔 숙모를 찾은 제인은 존 리브스 목사(Dr. Rivers: 데스몬드 로버츠 분)를 만나게 되고, 마침내 쏜필드로 돌아와 성스러운 결혼식을 올리게 되나, 로체스터에게 미쳐버린 아내 버사(Bertha Rochester: 클레어 두 브레이 분)가 있음이 밝혀져, 그곳을 떠나 버린다. 숙모댁에 도착한 제인은 정신적 상처로 쓰러지고 존 리브스와 그의 누이 메리(Mary Lane: 게일 케이 분)의 극진한 간호로 건강을 되찾고 여기에 숙부가 엄청난 재산을 남긴 것도 알게 된다. 그러나 그녀는 전재산을 로우드 학교에 기부하고, 존 리브스 목사의 청혼도 거절한 채, 쏜필드로 돌아온 제인은, 미친 아내 버사를 구하려다 불구덩이 속에서 두 눈을 잃어버린 로체스터를 발견하고, 둘만의 진정한 사랑을 되찾는다.
Mr. Barrett - Mary's Father
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Oscar Bernstein - Music Critic
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Customer (as William Burress)
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
Thomas Barnum
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Hop Tup
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Roger Colby (uncredited)
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
Dad Sipes
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 "burglers", 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.
Colonel Small
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
Colonel Bellock
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Father
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
Johnny Cake
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her father's murderer. She shows no interest in anything until the new schoolmaster persuades her to tidy herself and get some education. Believing the schoolmaster to be in love with some other girl, M'liss decides to run off with another man.
Dr. Hugo Schmidt
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
Regan (as William Burress)
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
Brabazon Tudway
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
Waggoner
Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so doing, he rescues his foster sister Fay Larkin, who is coveted by lecherous Mormon elder Wagoner. As was the case in Riders of the Purple Sage, the Mormons are villains simply because they are Mormons.
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
The Kaiser
Just prior to World War I, the Kaiser sends Baron von Zeller to inform Emperor Franz Josef of Austria that he is ready to declare war on France. Sensing the impending crisis, the French War Office dispatches secret agent René de Bornay to investigate the situation, and upon his arrival, he cultivates the friendship of Franz Josef's mistress, the Countess Griselda von Arenburg.
Hale Faxon (as William Burress)
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest bidder. At the cost of her daughter's reputation, Mrs. Pendleton accepts money from elderly broker Wilbur Simons, and later tries to force Neila into a marriage with a dissolute old millionaire named Hale Faxon.
Freiheer Von Wittzchaeft
An American is sent to Germany to unearth the identities of German agents operating in the U. S. He infiltrates the German secret service in an attempt to abscond with a list of undercover German operatives.
Randolf Sneed
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
Rowley
The School for Scandal is a 1914 silent comedy.