Películas de William E. Shay

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the...

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the...

This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...

Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower...

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.

Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the...

George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a...

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...

Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is...

A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She grows up and falls in love with the young man in...

A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they...

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love...

The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and...

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

Based on a character created by Louis Joseph Vance

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the...

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is...