William Russell
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.
Directed (2)
Acting (118)
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