Billy Quirk
Birthday: 1873-03-27
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Biography: William Andrew 'Billy' Quirk (March 27, 1873 – April 20, 1926) was an American stage and silent film actor. He performed in more than 180 films between 1909 and 1924. Gem Motion Picture Company produced a series of "Billy"-titled pictures starring Quirk. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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A Bride for a Knight
While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detectiv...
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My Old Kentucky Home
After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharper...
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To Save Her Soul
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and o...
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Broadway Broke
Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville ...
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Algie, the Miner
When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that ...
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with ...
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The Web of Life
Vincent, the lazy son of a wealthy father, travels to the country in an attempt to clean up his act....
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Billy the Bear Tamer
A young man's girlfriend is forbidden by her father to see him again. When the father takes his fami...
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The Mountaineer's Honor
A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and ki...
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His Day Out
In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hard...
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The Egyptian Mummy
In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for sc...
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Pippa Passes
Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effe...
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Getting Even
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a cha...
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The Son's Return
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parent...
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In the Year 2000
A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be l...
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A Strange Meeting
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helpin...
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The Broken Locket
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one b...
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A Comedy of Errors
A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, s...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown...
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Cherry
A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring...
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Sweet and Twenty
Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets up...
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Canned Harmony
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, c...
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The Woman from Mellon's
Harry Townsend, a young stock broker, is in love with the pretty daughter of James Petersby, a Wall ...
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The Smoker
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man f...
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A Rich Revenge
Two young fellows are rivals for the hand of a pretty girl of the village, and after her marriage wi...
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Never Again
Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but ...
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May and December
The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college...
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Muggsy's First Sweetheart
A scrappy lad from the skids attempts to court a well-to-do maiden. During his visits to her family ...
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called...
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When We Were in Our 'Teens
Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn o...
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His Wife's Visitor
Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence th...
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The Mexican Sweethearts
A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is...
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They Would Elope
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into...
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Oh, Uncle!
Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's ...
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The Test
Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with h...
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A Midnight Adventure
Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, b...
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Success
The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his g...
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Billy's Strategy
Billy and his sweetheart have had a little quarrel, and just to make him jealous, she accepts the at...
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The Little Darling
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple fol...
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Serious Sixteen
When young Tom and Adele learn they must wait four years before they can marry, they agree to kill t...
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Fra Diavolo
Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Di...
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Pranks
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they e...
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A Terrible Lesson
The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He ...
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Parson Sue
A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out ...
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A Man's a Man
A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man ...
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Cousins of Sherlocko
Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken...
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An Affair of Hearts
Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged bot...
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A Simple Mistake
Mr. Hallate is leaving for a trip and his loving wife is helping him to get his belongings out with ...
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The Green Cat
Within twenty-four hours after Bedelia, an old maid, has lost her green cat, she is begging Boggs, o...
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The Evolution of Percival
Because of his effeminacy, Percival and Mildred are humiliated wherever they go. After some very dis...
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Father's Timepiece
Through the carelessness of his office-boy, Stillwell drops his watch and puts a dent in the case. H...
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The Maid from Sweden
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employ...
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In Bridal Attire
A young man finds himself forced to take a trolley car and a motorcycle in order to get to his weddi...
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Forcing Dad's Consent
Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced peo...
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A Study in Tramps
Because of a family feud, Bobby Scrawn's love for Mary Stretch seems hopeless, particularly after th...
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Our Fairy Play
The Payne family of Lonesomeville set up a Fairy Play, founded upon the story of "The Sleeping Beaut...
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Bertie’s Stratagem
Just out of college, in love with Letty Grey, whose father is quick-tempered and opposed to him, als...
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The Young Man Who 'Figgered'
Bobby Tucker, while strolling about a Railroad Station, spies Nan Tubbs, a charming young lady whom ...
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The Vanishing Vault
While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, ov...
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Billy's Wager
The wealthy Mr. Billy gives a party at his palatial residence. He is in love with the handsome widow...
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Burglarius Billy
Finding that his attentions to Nellie are undesirable in the eyes of Jenkins, her father. Billy trie...
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The Boarding House Feud
Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and ...
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Spades are Trumps
At the reading of her uncle's will, Honoria Spavin, a spinster lady, learns that his entire fortune ...
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Uncle Bill
On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oil...
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The Master of His House
Becoming extremely tired of his wife's propensity for indulging in bridge whist parties and other so...
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is ...
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What's Your Hurry?
Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she i...
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The Faded Lilies
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mis...
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A Corner in Wheat
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of br...
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The Necklace
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace i...
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The Renunciation
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the crit...
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The Gibson Goddess
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. S...
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Nursing a Viper
During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a...
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The Oath and the Man
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p...
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The Last Deal
Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwoo...
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The Two Brothers
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born ...
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Faithful
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner wh...
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Wilful Peggy
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lo...
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The Light That Came
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love he...
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The Redman's View
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary jour...
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Through the Breakers
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes ...
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The Hater of Women
Bob Burton is a misogynist who spends time with other men who share his views, but Bob's friends pla...
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Phantom Paradise
The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the w...
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A Solax Celebration
The good people of the Solax community realize that they have cause to make merry before the New Yea...
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Mignon
Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her fath...
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Lend Me Your Wife
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. ...
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Auto Suggestion
Billy takes his friend Tom out for a drive in his new car. Tom asks Billy to wait while he makes a p...
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A Question of Hair
Cobbler’s daughter May has beautiful, long blond hair. Her fiancée Billy, her father's youthful appr...
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Billy, the Detective
Anxious to be a detective Billy buys a “how to” book and thinks he’s stumbled on a case when he find...
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Billy's Troublesome Grip
Billy Quirk starts out in the morning for his office. Billy has important papers in his valise (grip...
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The Boarding House Heiress
Old Betsey Older lives in a boarding house in which money-loving Bud Doolittle and wise Tom Dear are...
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and ...
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The Newlyweds
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...
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A Change of Heart
Howard Norris, a wealthy young man from the city makes the acquaintance of a lovely young daughter o...
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At the Stage Door
As children, sisters Helen Mathews and Mary Mathews couldn't be more dissimilar--Helen is selfish, t...
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