Walter HiersFilmography

Dancers in the Dark

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Jack Oakie, William Collier, Jr., Eugene Pallette, Lyda Roberti

Synopsis: In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer. To protect the tender youth, the conductor sends him out of town.The bandleader soon finds himself wooing the lovely dancer. Unfortunately, a jealous gangster is also in love Read More

A Private Scandal

Actors: Lucille Powers, Theodore Von Eltz, Fletcher Norton

Synopsis: In this drama, an orphan girl marries a kindly crook to stay out of reform school. The crook is the head thief in a robber ring that preys on homes of the wealthy, but his new wife doesn't know this. She innocently gets a job with the district attorney, and there learns the truth. Still she is Read More

The Wide Open Spaces

Speedy

Actors: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict

Synopsis: This was comedian Harold Lloyd's last silent film, and one of his most charming. Lloyd's character here is called Harold "Speedy" Swift, an upbeat young man whose fatal attraction for baseball always causes him to lose his jobs. After his latest firing, he impulsively spends a day at Coney Island Read More

Woman Against the World

Actors: Harrison Ford, Georgia Hale, Lee Moran, Gertrude Olmstead, William H. Tooker

Synopsis: The "original" Harrison Ford and former Chaplin leading lady Georgia Hale are co-starred in Tiffany-Stahl's Woman Against the World. When a chorus girl is found murdered, girl reporter Carol Hill (Hale) takes it upon herself to solve the case. The police have arrested wealthy Schuyler Van Loan Read More

Wrong Mr. Wright

Actors: Jean Hersholt, Enid Bennett, Dorothy Devore, Walter Hiers, Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis: The Wrong Mr. Wright was based on a stage comedy by George Broadhurst. Jean Hersholt stars as the bumbling son of a wealthy teddy-bear manufacturer. While staying at a fancy hotel, Hersholt is wrongly suspected of stealing $10,000 by an overzealous house detective. Sexy Enid Bennett is dispatched Read More

Racing Romeo

Actors: Red Grange, Walter Hiers, Trixie Friganza, Jobyna Ralston, Ben Hendricks, Jr.

Girl From Gay Peree

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Barbara Bedford, Malcolm McGregor, Margaret Livingston, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: Although the plot to this comedy seems forced and unnatural (even for a farce), it does have a stellar cast. Even the smaller roles feature excellent performers -- the cabaret owners, for example, are played by Margaret Livingston and Walter Hiers. Mary Davis (Barbara Bedford) is just one of a Read More

Naughty

Actors: Pauline Garon, John Harron, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: Paying a visit to a fortune-teller, impressionable heroine Pauline Garon is told that she will go on a vacation, fall in love with a doctor, and get married after a whirlwind courtship. Hoping to make this prophecy come true, Garon heads to a resort community, where everything that the Read More

Night Life

Actors: Alice Day, John Harron, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Hiers, Lionel Braham

Synopsis: While merely a program picture, this drama features an excellent cast and an entertaining story. Before the Great War, Max (John Harron) and his partner, Nick (Eddie Gribbon), had a sleight-of-hand act on vaudeville. After the war's end, the pair find themselves out of work and starving in Vienna. Read More

Beware of Widows

Actors: Laura La Plante, Paulette Duval, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: Handsome doctor Bryant Washburn specializes in the ailments of women -- more specifically, wealthy widows. Washburn's girlfriend Laura LaPlante is jealous of the doctor's good-looking patients, and not without reason. Heading to the mountains to get married, LaPlante and Washburn are intercepted Read More

Blondes by Choice

Actors: Claire Windsor, Allan Simpson, Walter Hiers, Bess Flowers, Louise Carver

Synopsis: Small time mores were satirized in this low-budget comedy-drama from poverty row company Gotham Productions. Claire Windsor played Bonnie Clinton, an enterprising girl who opens a beauty parlor in the village of Clinton Harbor. In an effort to drum up business, the girl bleaches her hair, much to Read More

First Night

Actors: Bert Lytell, Dorothy Devore, Harry Myers, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: Bert Lytell stars as Richard Band, a handsome doctor specializing in women's ailments. One of Band's more impressionable patients, Doris Frazer (Dorothy Devore), falls in love with the doc and gives her boyfriend Jack (Frederick Kovert) the air. In retaliation, Jack spreads rumors that Band has an Read More

Hold That Lion

Actors: Douglas MacLean, Walter Hiers, Constance Howard, Cyril Chadwick, Wade Boteler

Synopsis: Falling for pretty Marjorie Brand (Constance Howard), young man-about-town Daniel Hastings (Douglas MacLean) follows her home, only to discover that Marjorie is about to embark with her professor father (George C. Pearce) on a hunting expedition to Africa. Undaunted, Daniel pursues the girl Read More

Excuse Me

Actors: Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, John Boles, Bert Roach

Synopsis: Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel star in this farce based on the successful stage play by Rupert Hughes. Lieutenant Harry Mallory (Nagel) wins a promotion for his valor and is ordered to go to the Philippines. His fiancée, Marjorie Newton (Shearer), wants to go with him so they decide to get Read More

Virgin

Actors: Kenneth Harlan, Dorothy Revier, Sam de Grasse, Frank Lackteen, Rosa Rosanova

Synopsis: This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan) travels to San Blas to investigate the circumstances behind his father's murder. He falls in love with Maria Valdez (Dorothy Reiver), who is unaware her father was killed by Read More

Fair Week

Actors: Walter Hiers, J. Farrell McDonald, Mary Jane Irving

Synopsis: A scheme to rob the bank of Rome, MO, is foiled by the not so dumb "Village Idiot" in this rural comedy-drama starring the rotund Walter Hiers. Arriving in Rome with larceny on their minds, "Sure Thing" Sherman (Earl Metcalfe) and Isadore Kelly (Knute Erickson) find themselves outwitted by Read More

Along Came Ruth

Actors: Viola Dana, Tully Marshall, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite know what to make of the sophisticated Ruth, but she soon wins them over. After renovating a general store, Ruth finds true love in the form of farm boy Raymond McKee. Read More

Christine of the Hungry Heart

Actors: Florence Vidor, Warner Baxter, Clive Brook, Ian Keith, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously died while on a cruise on William Randolph Hearst's yacht, the Oneida. The drama was a tour de force for Florence Vidor, who played the title character, Christine Read More

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime

Actors: Walter Hiers, George Fawcett, Robert McKim, Patricia Palmer, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a supporting role. In this light comedy feature, however, he gets top billing. John Percival Billings (Hiers) is a haberdashery clerk who falls in love with Suzanna, a Read More

Sixty Cents an Hour

Actors: Walter Hiers, Jacqueline Logan, Ricardo Cortez, Charles Ogle, Lucille Ward

Synopsis: Hefty comedian Walter Hiers stars in this tepid comedy. Jimmy Kirk (Hiers) is a soda jerk in love with Mamie Smith (Jacqueline Logan), the daughter of a banker (Charles Ogle). In spite of his lowly position, Jimmy has aspirations and leases a four-foot plot in hopes of building a store. Although Read More

Bought and Paid for

Synopsis: The second time George Broadhurst's play was filmed, William C. deMille was the director, and his intimate approach suited it well. When telephone operator Virginia Blaine (Agnes Ayers) is wooed by the wealthy Robert Stafford (Jack Holt), his suit is encouraged by her sister Fanny (Leah Wyant) and Read More

The Ghost Breaker

Actors: Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Walter Hiers, Arthur Edmund Carewe

Synopsis: This jumbled light comedy was one of the last pictures featuring silent matinee idol Wallace Reid -- after being given morphine for an injury in 1919, Reid became a drug addict and he died a few months after this film's release. When the penniless Maria Theresa (Lila Lee) hears of a treasure Read More

Her Gilded Cage

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Dave Powell, Harrison Ford, Anne Cornwall, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: This picture was one of several that Sam Wood directed for Gloria Swanson, and its lavishness shows the influence of Cecil B. DeMille -- not long before, Wood had been DeMille's assistant (and Swanson, for that matter, had been his star). Unfortunately, fancy sets and gowns was just about all it Read More

A Kiss in Time

Actors: Wanda Hawley, T. Roy Barnes, Bertram Johns, Walter Hiers, Margaret Loomis

Synopsis: This frothy comedy was a lightweight vehicle for minor silent star Wanda Hawley. She is Sheila Athlone, an artist. When author Brian Moore (T. Roy Barnes) asks her to illustrate his book, she refuses because she thinks the plot is ridiculous -- no self-respecting girl would ever deign to kiss a Read More

Snob

Actors: Wanda Hawley, Edwin Stevens, Walter Hiers, Sylvia Ashton, W.E. Lawrence

Synopsis: Kathryn Haynes (Wanda Hawley) has been raised to look down on everyone whose ancestry doesn't go back to the American Revolution, or who doesn't at least have the cash to make up for it. So she gets her comeuppance when she goes away to college and falls for star quarterback Bill Putnam (William Read More

Sham

Actors: Ethel Clayton, Clyde Fillmore, Walter Hiers, Theodore Roberts, Sylvia Ashton

Synopsis: Katherine Van Riper (Ethel Clayton) is a society girl with expensive taste, which she inherited from her father. Unfortunately, when he dies, he leaves her with expensive bills and no means with which to pay them. Nobody will give her credit and her rich aunts (Sylvia Ashton and Helen Dunbar) Read More

Her Sturdy Oak

Actors: Wanda Hawley, Walter Hiers, Sylvia Ashton

Synopsis: Rotund leading man Walter Hiers supplies the comedy, while star Wanda Hawley comes up with the drama in this comedy-drama. Sammy Butters (Hiers) is part owner in a ranch, but his main occupation is writing verse. He's engaged to the aggressive, mannish ranch manager Belle Bright (Sylvia Ashton) Read More

The Speed Girl

Synopsis: When Bebe Daniels spent a publicity-filled ten days in jail for speeding, her studio saw an even bigger way to cash in and produced this light comedy. Actress Betty Lee (Daniels) is fast in every way but in love. Tom Manley, a young naval officer (Theodore Von Eltz), is her sweetheart, but then a Read More

Two Weeks with Pay

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Jack Mulhall, James Mason, George Periolat, Frances Raymond

Synopsis: Pansy O'Donnel (Bebe Daniels), a salesgirl at a modiste's shop, has earned -- as the film's title says -- two weeks' vacation with pay. But her boss, Ginsberg (George Periolat) has given her something of a working vacation -- she's to go to a fashionable resort with a load of his clothes and Read More

Oh, Lady, Lady

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels stars in this picture, based on the musical comedy by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Although May Barber (Daniels) has made the transformation from innocent country girl to successful stage actress, she's still fond of her former sweetheart, Willoughby Finch (big man Walter Hiers). So Read More

City Sparrow

Synopsis: Milly West (a miscast Ethel Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her Read More

Miss Hobbs

Synopsis: Miss Hobbs (Wanda Hawley, in her first leading role) is a wealthy young lady with advanced ideas. In 1920, that meant that she liked barefoot dancing, modern art, and that she hated men. She is so persuasive that she inspires one friend to leave her husband and the other to break her engagement. Read More

Experimental Marriage

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This film, based on the stage play Saturday to Monday by William J. Hurlburt, made a nice vehicle for the charms of Constance Talmadge. Constance plays Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage (the feminist cause of the day). When the handsome Foxcroft Grey (Connie's frequent Read More

The Lesson

Synopsis: When her contract with Triangle ended, silent comedienne Constance Talmadge signed up to make films with her brother-in-law, producer Joseph Schenck (he was married to her sister, dramatic star Norma Talmadge). This picture was the first film Talmadge starred in for him, but it was so poor that Read More

Our Little Wife

Synopsis: In one of her first starring vehicles for Goldwyn, Madge Kennedy plays Dodo, who embarks upon her European honeymoon in the company of her new husband. But when she returns, she is being escorted by three of her ex-boyfriends. Her husband tries to be understanding, especially when Dodo explains Read More

Life's Whirlpool

Synopsis: One would liked to have been a fly on the wall of the set of Life's Whirlpool. Its leading lady was the imperious Ethel Barrymore, while the director was her brother Lionel Barrymore -- and, though sister and brother were devoted to each other, they were unsparing in their mutual criticism Read More