William Collier Jr.
Popularity:1.083
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1902-02-12
Place of Birth:New York City, New York, USA
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Also Known As:Charles F. Gall Jr., Buster Collier, Buster Collier Jr., William 'Buster' Collier Jr., William 'Buster' Collier
Back Stage (1919)
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
Sporting Chance (1931)
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Little Caesar (1931)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...
Free and Easy (1930)
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...
Cimarron (1931)
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...
The Mine with the Iron Door (1924)
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the...
The Big Gamble (1931)
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the...
Playing with Souls (1925)
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents,...
The Sunset Derby (1927)
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his...
The Devil's Cargo (1925)
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the...
God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)
The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring...
A Night of Mystery (1928)
Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who is now married to Rochemore, a French...
The Lady of the Harem (1926)
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan,...
The People's Enemy (1935)
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became...
The Phantom Express (1932)
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
Street Scene (1931)
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....
The Donovan Affair (1929)
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Her Secret (1933)
In "Her Secret" (aka "The Girl from Georgia" in the UK in 1934 when shown there)Johnny, the son of a rich-man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer,...
Broadminded (1931)
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin,...
Public Stenographer (1934)
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
Dancers in the Dark (1932)
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a...
Reducing (1931)
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Stranded (1927)
When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!
Convoy (1927)
A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent
Speed Demon (1932)
A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets...
Show of Shows (1929)
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...
The Reckless Sex (1925)
Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and...
The Sea Hawk (1924)
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming...
The Desired Woman (1927)
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote...
The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of...
Wine of Youth (1924)
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also...
One Stolen Night (1929)
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for...
The Secret Witness (1931)
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor...
Forgotten (1933)
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws'...
Rain or Shine (1930)
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune...
Hardboiled Rose (1929)
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her...
Tide of Empire (1929)
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
The Lucky Lady (1926)
Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical...
The Lion and the Mouse (1928)
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns...
Women They Talk About (1928)
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon...
The Age of Desire (1923)
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son,...
New Orleans (1929)
Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an...
The Wanderer (1925)
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha...
The Bachelor Girl (1929)
Joyce (Jacqueline Logan), a beautiful and efficient secretary, does her best to take in hand and reform shiftless stock clerk Jimmy (William...
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930)
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam...
A Royal Romance (1930)
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be...
The Floating College (1928)
College Life - Love - and the big things of life under the light-heartedness of youth.
The College Widow (1927)
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes...
The Melody Man (1930)
A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young...
The College Coquette (1929)
Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her...
File 113 (1933)
A Parisian cop sets out to solve a sudden series of crimes, including robbery and blackmail. Based on a novel by Émile Gaboriau.
So This Is Love (1928)
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier...
The Tragedy of Youth (1928)
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature...
The Good Provider (1922)
A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves...
Soul of the Slums (1931)
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for...
The Rainmaker (1926)
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he...
Just Another Blonde (1926)
Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split...
Backstage (1927)
Julia, Myrtle, Fanny, and Jane - all chorus girls, after weeks of rehearsing for a show, find themselves stranded when the manager is broke. Evicted...
Eve's Secret (1925)
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion...
Enemies of Women (1923)
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he...
Fools Highway (1924)
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand...
The Broken Gate (1927)
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to...
The County Fair (1932)
A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a...
The Soul of Youth (1920)
Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he...
Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)
When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since...
The Fighting Gentleman (1932)
A young mechanic loses an amateur fight at a carnival, and sets out to train hard to become a professional boxer.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987)
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1970)
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry...