William Burress
Popularity:0.05
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1867-08-19
Place of Birth:Newcomerstown, Ohio, USA
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Also Known As:William Rosenberry Burris, Bill Burress, William Burgess

One Night of Love (1934)
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless...

The Talk of the Town (1918)
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...

Paid in Advance (1919)
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

Wild Money (1937)
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

Convention City (1933)
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company...

Fashions of 1934 (1934)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

Fluttering Hearts (1927)
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...

The Rainbow Trail (1918)
Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so...

Fires of Conscience (1916)
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly...

The School for Scandal (1914)
The School for Scandal is a 1914 silent comedy.

Bedside (1934)
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

Racketeers in Exile (1937)
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...

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament (1933)
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling...

Jane Eyre (1934)
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she...

Dr. Socrates (1935)
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...

Kultur (1918)
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....

The Great Impersonation (1921)
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing...

The Spy (1917)
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...

Lord and Lady Algy (1919)
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...

Opened by Mistake (1934)
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

Local Boy Makes Good (1931)
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,...

We Who Are About to Die (1937)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Grand Old Girl (1935)
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
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...

You Said a Mouthful (1932)
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...

Never Say Die (1939)
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...

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
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...

The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922)
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...

Blonde Crazy (1931)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Life Begins at Forty (1935)
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...

Pilgrimage (1933)
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Shall We Dance (1937)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time...

The Little Colonel (1935)
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to...

Hot Water (1937)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

A Soul for Sale (1917)
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest...