William Shea Movies

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Cast: Adele de Garde

An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leo Delaney

Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bunny

Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean the Dog

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: May Robson

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mae Marsh

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maurice Costello

Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tefft Johnson

Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maude is simply crazy about him. She will not...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hughie Mack

Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Shea

The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lillian Walker

A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself...

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Cast: Earle Williams

Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Morrison

While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by telegram, Lila Lane gets herself shut in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Shea

A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Kelly

A comedy short produced by Vitagraph and released in 1916. This is entitled Walls and Wallops, and features Hughey (also spelt Hughie) Mack with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hughie Mack

Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Walker

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry...

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Cast: Florence Turner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Talmadge

The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hughie Mack

A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hughie Mack

Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware that promoters Harris, Brennen, and Lester are...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Maurice Costello

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Costello

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Costello

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Kent

A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Costello

Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Kent

A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Flora Finch

Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa. The men buy horse hair...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bunny

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bunny

Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This...

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Cast: Jimmy Aubrey

Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bunny

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hughie Mack

A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Gardner

John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Van Dyke Brooke

Comedian John Bunny on a train all confused.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bunny

A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bareback rider from traveling circus. Bringing her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Talmadge

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kate Price

A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Earle Williams

The new stenographer is right there when it comes to class which does not escape the notice of her boss. He showers attentions upon her and asks her...

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Cast: Constance Talmadge

On discovering that their beau, Timothy, the village schoolmaster, is quite unable to choose between them for a life partner, Ivy and Lily Skinner...

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Cast: Flora Finch

In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and...

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Cast: Billy Quirk

Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into...

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Cast: William Parsons

Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Billy Quirk

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

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Cast: Florence Lawrence

Solomon keeps a clothing store, he has in stock two overcoats of exactly the same make and pattern. Michael Gallagher, who is passing by and in need...

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Cast: John Bunny

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wally Van