William SherwoodFilmography

Occupation:
Actor
  • Alice: The Pharmacist

    Synopsis: Comic actor Bob Dishyappears in this episode as a pharmacist who has made it his mission in life to protest against artificial food additives. The pharmacist takes his crusade to Mel's diner--where he announces his intention to dramatize his stand by committing suicide! The curious changes in the Read More

    1978
  • The Good for Nothing

    Synopsis: Jack Burkshaw (Carlyle Blackwell, who also directed) returns home from the West to discover that his mother (Kate Lester) has married a widower, Eugene Alston (Charles Duncan). Alston has two grown children, pretty Marion (Evelyn Greeley) and roguish Jerry (William Sherwood). While Jack falls in Read More

    1918
  • The Triumph of Venus

    Synopsis: The title of this film is not merely symbolic: The heroine is, indeed, the "real" Venus, and a goodly portion of the story takes place in Ancient Greece. The film begins as Venus (Betty Lee), goddess of love, falls for a "mortal" sculptor (William Sherwood), who pays for his blasphemy when he is Read More

    1918
  • The Beloved Adventuress

    Synopsis: Rejected by her parents, the wayward Juliette La Monde (Kitty Gordon) becomes a musical comedy actress and is courted by Morgan Grant (Frederick Truesdell). Grant is married, but no matter; he leaves his wife (Pinna Nesbit) to be with Juliette. After the death of her parents, Juliette takes care Read More

    1917
  • Who's Your Neighbor?

    Synopsis: When a group of reformers, led by Mrs. Bowers (Gladys Fairbanks), closes down the red light district, district attorney Osborne (Franklin Hanna) believes it bodes ill for the town. Hattie Fenshaw (Christine Mayo), one of the area's former inhabitants, moves in next door to one of the reformers. Read More

    1917
  • Jury of Fate

    Actors: Mabel Taliaferro, William Sherwood, Frank Bennett, Charles A. Fang, Albert Tavernier

    Synopsis: Filmed on location at Saranac Lake and the St. Lawrence River in New York State, The Jury of Fate starred Mabel Taliaferro in the dual role of the Labordie twins, Jeanne (a girl) and Jacques (a boy). Jeanne grows up resigned to the fact that Jacques is her father's favorite child. Thus, when Read More

    1917
  • Corner Grocer

    Synopsis: This film, based on the stage play of the same name by Adolph Philipps, gave comedian Lew Fields a role that had both humor and pathos. Charles Wendel (Fields) is a wealthy grocer who, along with his wife (Justine Cutting), adopts a little orphan, Mary (Madge Evans). He also has a son, Ralph (William Sherwood Read More

    1917
  • Broken Chains

    Synopsis: Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul of nasty political goings-on. Some Negroes have stolen a ballot box, but a white man refuses to be bribed for its return and horsewhips the group's leader. The Negro kills the man, and the crime Read More

    1916
  • The Lost Bridegroom

    Synopsis: Bertie (John Barrymore) is a bashful young man, and his sweetheart is just barely able to squeeze a marriage proposal out of him. His friends give him the usual bachelor bash, and on his way home, he's bashed on the head by some thugs. The result is that he loses his memory and winds up in the Read More

    1916
  • Spell of the Yukon

    Synopsis: Spell of the Yukon was inspired by the Robert W. Service narrative poem of the same name. Edmund Breese plays Jim Carson, a rough-hewn miner who strikes it rich in the Yukon. Before long, Jim has surrounded himself with luxuries and is guzzling champagne by the quart. His eventual downfall is Read More

    1916

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