William V. Ranous Movies

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van...

Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the...

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by...

A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.

Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving,...

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few weeks before, Eric and Chloe are located in a...

Drama Short

Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis,...

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

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to his little son Tad. Little Tad, playing at the...

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.

Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian...

Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by...