Billy Moran had a bit part in a film produced by Thanhouser in Jacksonville in 1916. He was an extra who worked for various local companies.
Billy Moran
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
This has no online copy. Its page says what is known about where a print might be.
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 154 words.
Tracey Hollingworth’s “Flivers [sic] From Film Folks” column in The Florida Metropolis, May 3, 1916, carried the following: “’Things are not always what they seem,’ said Billy Moran, of the Florida Movie Bureau, yesterday. ‘For instance, the other day in that restaurant scene of Cooper and McNish’s of the Thanhouser Company, I was supposed to throw a handful of soft dough into Cooper’s face, but on account of my perspective being wrong, and the smoke from a smoke pot getting into my eyes, I missed my mark and hit a beautiful young lady who was not in the picture at all square in the face. Of course, she was mad. It took her two hours to pick the dough off.” The film referred to was released as Advertisementers.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “MORAN, Billy.” thanhouser.org/research/people/billy-moran/