William Humphrey Movies

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Edna and Alice, the twins, get positions as stenographers in the offices of Mr. Redman and Mr. Carter. Redman is short and fussy, Carter, stout and...

Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.

Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that...

King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was...

"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical...

Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a...

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the...

An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the...

Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with...

Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves...

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with...

The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last...

International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a...

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.