Mini-Biography:
William J. Gross was born in 1837 in Germany. He was an American Schauspieler, known for The Blue Bird (1918), The Little Dutch Girl (1915), To Hell with the Kaiser (1918), William J. Gross's first movie on record is from 1915. He was married to Julia Parker. William J. Gross died on April 12, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 1922.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1922: Hope (Darsteller: The Lighthouse Keeper (as W.J. Gross)), Directed by Legaren à Hiller, with Mary Astor, Ralph Faulkner,
1921: Ashamed of Parents (Darsteller: Peter Trotwood), Directed by Horace G. Plympton, with Charles Eldridge, , Edith Stockton,
1919: The Stream of Life (Darsteller: Hiram, the Hired Man), Directed by Horace G. Plympton, with , , ,
1919: Out of the Shadow (Darsteller: Rev. Woodgate), Directed by Émile Chautard, with Pauline Frederick, Wyndham Standing, Ronald Byram,
1918: To Hell with the Kaiser (Darsteller: Councillor), Directed by George Irving, with Lawrence Grant, Olive Tell, Betty Howe,
1918: Prunella (Darsteller: The Gardener), Directed by Maurice Tourneur, with Isabel Berwin, Nora Cecil, Marguerite Clark,
1918: The Blue Bird (Der Blaue Vogel) (Darsteller: Grandpa Gaffer Tyl), Directed by Maurice Tourneur, with Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed,
1917: Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp (Darsteller: Anthony Desmond), Directed by Tod Browning, with Mabel Taliaferro, Thomas J. Carrigan,
1917: The Bar Sinister (Darsteller), Directed by Edgar Lewis, with Preston Rollow, Mary Doyle, William Anderson,
1917: The Barrier (Darsteller: 'No Creek' Lee (AKA W.J. Gross)), Directed by Edgar Lewis, with Mabel Julienne Scott, Russell Simpson, Howard Hall,
1915: The Little Dutch Girl (Darsteller: The Old Gardener (AKA W.J. Gross)), Directed by Émile Chautard, with Vivian Martin, Chester Barnett,
1915: The Plunderer (Darsteller: Old Bells Park), Directed by Edgar Lewis, with William Farnum, Claire Whitney, ,