
Acting
Born April 12, 1884 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia William Russell (April 12, 1884 – February 18, 1929), born William Francis Lerche, was an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He appeared in over two hundred silent era motion pictures between 1910 and 1929, directing five of them in 1916 and producing two through his own production company in 1918 and 1925. Russell began his screen career in New York with the Biograph Company, where he worked for nine months before signing with the Thanhouser Company. He was also part of the company of players for the American Film Manufacturing Company and their Flying "A" Studios in Santa Barbara. In 1917, he and actress Charlotte Burton were married. They divorced in 1921. He and actress Helen Ferguson were married on June 21, 1925, at the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, after a six-year romance. William Russell died at age 44 from pneumonia at Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles.

Girls Gone Wild
1929

The Midnight Taxi
1928

State Street Sadie
1928

The Head of the Family
1928

Woman Wise
1928

Brass Knuckles
1927

The Girl from Chicago
1927

The Desired Woman
1927

Wings of the Storm
1926

The Blue Eagle
1926

The Still Alarm
1926

Big Pal
1925

The Way of a Girl
1925

On Thin Ice
1925

The Beloved Brute
1924

Anna Christie
1923

Times Have Changed
1923

Alias the Night Wind
1923

Boston Blackie
1923

The Great Night
1922

Mixed Faces
1922

The Crusader
1922

A Self-Made Man
1922
The Men of Zanzibar
1922

The Roof Tree
1921

The Lady from Longacre
1921

The Cheater Reformed
1921

The Iron Rider
1920

Singing River
1920

The Challenge of the Law
1920
The Man Who Dared
1920

Twins of Suffering Creek
1920

Leave It to Me
1920
The Valley of Tomorrow
1920

Shod with Fire
1920

The Lincoln Highwayman
1919

Eastward Ho!
1919

Sacred Silence
1919

Six Feet Four
1919

This Hero Stuff
1919

A Sporting Chance
1919

Some Liar
1919

Brass Buttons
1919

Where the West Begins
1919

When a Man Rides Alone
1919

All the World to Nothing
1918

Hobbs in a Hurry
1918

Up Romance Road
1918

Hearts or Diamonds?
1918

Snap Judgment
1917

The Masked Heart
1917

Shackles of Truth
1917

A Rough Shod Fighter
1917
The Man Who Would Not Die
1916

Soul Mates
1916

The Bruiser
1916

The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
1916

Dora Thorne
1915

Garden of Lies
1915

The Diamond from the Sky
1915

The Dancing Girl
1915

Under the Gaslight
1914

The Straight Road
1914

The Power of the Press
1914
His Fireman's Conscience
1914
Peggy's Invitation
1913

Robin Hood
1913

Moths
1913
Little Dorrit
1913

Tannhäuser
1913

King Rene’s Daughter
1913
While Baby Slept
1913
The Caged Bird
1913

Carmen
1913

The Marble Heart
1913
For Her Boy's Sake
1913

Star of Bethlehem
1912
The Repeater
1912

The Forest Rose
1912

Petticoat Camp
1912

Lucile
1912

The Little Girl Next Door
1912

Put Yourself in His Place
1912
For the Mikado
1912

Undine
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
1912

The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912
Pa's Medicine
1912

Under Two Flags
1912

The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912

Jess
1912

The Little Shut-in
1912

Jilted
1912

The Saleslady
1912

The Cry of the Children
1912

Rejuvenation
1912
Into the Desert
1912

The Girl of the Grove
1912
For Sale -- A Life
1912

Flying to Fortune
1912
The Silent Witness
1912
The Trouble Maker
1912

East Lynne
1912
A Niagara Honeymoon
1912

The Lady from the Sea
1911
The Last of the Mohicans
1911
Their Burglar
1911

David Copperfield
1911

Young Lochinvar
1911

A Doll's House
1911
Lorna Doone
1911
The Stepmother
1911

Get Rich Quick
1911

The Colonel and the King
1911
The Railroad Builder
1911
His Younger Brother
1911

The Pasha's Daughter
1911
Under Western Skies
1910