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Acting
William P. Burt
Born February 11, 1873 · Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA
Died February 23, 1955 · aged 82
No biography available.
Known For
Midnight Mystery · 1930Midnight Mystery
★ 5.91930
MovieMysteryCrime
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for a weekend party prank gone wrong and the resulting murder being blamed on an innocent man.
Girl of the Port · 1930Girl of the Port
★ 6.61930
MovieRomanceDrama
Josie, a New York showgirl with a mind of her own and a heart of gold, finds herself stranded on the island of Fiji. While seeking a way home she is befriended by a local man who gets her a job working as a barmaid at The Bamboo Bar. There she meets an alcoholic World War I veteran who is haunted by his wartime experiences and has an irrational fear of fire. Under her concerned care, he begins to recover and they fall in love. But then her jealous self-appointed boyfriend forces the veteran to participate in a traditional Fijian fire-walking ritual. To overcome his terror he must walk across 20 feet of burning coals and fight his rival to reach Josie's loving arms.
The Net · 1916The Net
1916
MovieDrama
In the home of the stalwart young son and his mother, the girl rescued from the sea grows strong again after her fearful exposure. Her attractiveness, so different from that of the fisher maidens, has a telling effect on the young man. He asks her, at length, to become his bride, and she accepts. But a few days before the wedding the affianced bride disappears, sailing away with a strange man from the city, who has suddenly appeared. Thinking that his sweetheart had deserted him for another, the fisherman is heartbroken for a time, but gradually the keen edge of his sorrow wears away, and he succumbs to the attractions of another girl, one who had recently come to the village with her father, and who had lived together and alone at the end of the town.
Danger Lights · 1931Danger Lights
★ 6.11931
MovieAdventureDrama
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Pirate Gold · 1920Pirate Gold
★ 7.01920
MovieActionAdventure
The Streets of Illusion · 1917The Streets of Illusion
1917
MovieDrama
Beam opens a boarding house and many interesting characters are introduced. She spreads her optimism to their lives. Also to her blind father by telling him army stories about her brother when in actuality, he's deserted.
The King of the Kongo · 1929The King of the Kongo
★ 8.01929
MovieActionAdventure
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
The Oval Diamond · 1916The Oval Diamond
★ 10.01916
MovieDrama













