Actor, Film Director. A star of the silent film era, he was best known for playing the character roles of artists, confederate soldiers, lovers, husbands, millionaires, sons, wireless operators, smugglers, naval officers, grooms, ministers, lawyers, bank tellers, wall street brokers, mail clerks, society leaders, fathers, sweethearts, boyfriends, inventors, policemen, firemen, icemen, bachelors, suitors, sheriffs, princes, real estate agents, rivals, shoemakers, reporters, detectives, prospectors, reverends, sculptors, trappers, cowpunchers, Secret Service men, woodcutters, ranchmen, attorneys, young art students, bank cashier, nephews, gamblers, criminals, and men of distinction with titles such as lord and sir, usually in dramatic films, western films, crime films, and comedy films. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Lord John Haselmore' in a series of films including, "Lord John In New York" (1915), "Lord John's Journal" (1915), "The Grey Sisterhood" (1916), "Three Fingered Jenny" (1916), "The Eye Of Horus" (1916), and "The League Of The Future" (1916). He will also be best remembered for playing the role of 'Claude Lescuyer' in the short film drama, "The Guilty Man" (1918). The film which was directed by Irvin Willat, which was presented by A.H. Woods, which was based on the play by Charles Klein, and which also starred Vivian Reed, Gloria Hope, J.P. Lockney, Charles K. French, Hallam Cooley, John Stepping, and Hayward Mack, tells the story of Marie Dubois, who is deeply in love with young lawyer Claude Lescuyer, who entrusts her honor to him, but shortly before the birth of their child, he abandons her. In order to legitimize her daughter Claudine, Marie weds Flambon, the brutal owner of a Paris, France, café. Eighteen years later, Flambon orders Claudine to work in the café, where she falls in love with Gaston, a waiter. Because Flambon owes a large sum of money to Jean, the café's former proprietor, he promises him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Claudine refuses to part with Gaston, which so enrages Flambon that he beats the girl and nearly kills Marie. To save her mother's life, Claudine shoots her stepfather and is subsequently tried for murder. The prosecutor, Claude Lescuyer, learns to his shame that the defendant is his own child, and in the courtroom, he names himself as the guilty man. The jury exonerates Claudine, and she is united with Gaston. He was born as William Davis Garwood Jr. in Springfield, Missouri, to William Davis Garwood Sr. (1858-1915), and his wife Elizabeth Stone Garwood (1862-1950), on April 28, 1884. He was educated locally and attended Central High School in Springfield, Missouri, before moving to New Mexico, at the age of fifteen. He also later attended Drury University in his native Springfield, Missouri, and was drafted during World War I, but he never served. He began his acting career on the stage when he was in his late teens most notably at the Lakeside Theater in Denver, Colorado, both behind and in front of the curtains working with the likes of Douglas Fairbanks, Maude Fealy, and Olive Wyndham. He also worked for Charles Frohman in New York City, New York, appearing in several stage productions of their plays and in stock work in San Francisco, California, and Los Angeles, California. He also appeared on Broadway in New York City, New York, in several stage productions of such plays as, "Raffles," "Brigadier Girard," "Just Out Of College," and "Mizpah," alongside the likes of H. Kyrle Bellew and Seth Miller Kent. He lastly appeared in a touring company of the stage production of the play, "Cameo Kirby," with Dustin Farnum. During this time, he also made the transition to appearing in films with the Thanhouser Film Company in New Rochelle, New York. He also worked with the American, Majestic, Universal Pictures, Ince's Kay-Bee Film, and many other film companies and studios, usually working with the likes of actor, film producer, film director, and film editor, Thomas H. Ince (1880-1924), and actor and film director Lucius Henderson (1861-1947). He made his actual film debut playing a role in the short western film, "The Cowboy Millionaire" (1909). The film which was directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner, which was produced by William Nicholas Selig, and which also starred Carl Winterhoff, William Stowell, Adrienne Kroell, and Mac Barnes, tells the story of Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, who is the foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud Noble as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud Noble bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud Noble receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are the sole heir to his estate valued at several million dollars. Come to Chicago, Illinois, at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud Noble buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar. "One year later" Bud Noble tires of society. We see Bud Noble and his new wife entertaining and our cowboy shows plainly that he is desperately weary of the effete East, then Bud Noble goes to the club and the men he meets there and their conversation is getting on his nerves. "After the theater," a return home, and Bud Noble longs for the fresh air of the vast West. As he sinks wearily into a chair a Remington painting catches his eye. It is one he had recently purchased, a broncho buster and his locoed horse. The artist had caught the wild spirit of his subject, and as Bud Noble's mind returns to scenes of a similar nature, a happy inspiration comes. "By Jove, I'll do it." He seizes a telegraph blank, rings for his butler, and sends the following message: "Col. Dalton, Foreman Circle 'D' Ranch, "This high-brow life is killing me. Am sending you a special train. Bring the whole outfit, band, horses, and all. This town needs excitement. Come and help wake it up. BUD." A few days later we see the boys at a swell suburban depot: Bud Noble and his wife in their auto, and the punchers in chaps and sombreros soon create a world of excitement on the city streets. Then Bud Noble takes the boys yachting; next to see a melodrama, where the Colonel takes exceptions to the villain's heartless treatment of "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl." "Bud, either send those horrid creatures back where they came from or I get a divorce," declares Mrs. Bud. So, the boys are next seen in a palatial café car homeward bound. The Colonel gets into an argument with the colored cook and that worthy dives through an open car window to escape the cowboy's wrath. Our closing scene is in the cozy home of the millionaire. He and his wife are enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete when the butler bands in a telegram. It reads; "On root. Everybody enjoyin' theirselves. The Colonel sure some happy, he just shot a coon. Will send the bill to you. THE BOYS." Bud Noble laughs heartily. The wife joins and as she nestles up to her big manly husband, says: "You won't ever want to be a cowboy again, will you, Bud?" Bud Noble turns slowly; looks at the Remington painting which has been the innocent cause of their recent quarrel, and walking over, he turns the picture to the wall, holds out his arms to his wife, and as her head nestles against his shoulder, we plainly catch his words, "Never Again." Besides, playing a role in the short western film, "The Cowboy Millionaire" (1909), and playing the role of 'Lord John Haselmore' in a series of films including, "Lord John In New York" (1915), "Lord John's Journal" (1915), "The Grey Sisterhood" (1916), "Three Fingered Jenny" (1916), "The Eye Of Horus" (1916), and "The League Of The Future" (1916), and playing the role of 'Claude Lescuyer' in the short film drama, "The Guilty Man" (1918), his many other film credits include, "Jane Eyre" (1910), "The Vicar Of Wakefield" (1910), "The Pasha's Daughter" (1911), "Baseball And Bloomers" (1911), "Adrift" (1911), "For Her Sake" (1911), "Checkmate" (1911), "The Mummy" (1911), "Cally's Comet" (1911), "An Elevator Romance" (1911), "The Railroad Builder" (1911), "The Colonel And The King" (1911), "Get Rich Quick" (1911), "A Circus Stowaway" (1911), "Motoring" (1911), "Flames And Fortune" (1911), "The Coffin Ship" (1911), "Courting Across The Court" (1911), "Lorna Doone" (1911), "Won By Wireless" (1911), "That's Happiness" (1911), "The Smuggler" (1911), "The Pied Piper Of Hamelin" (1911), "Romeo And Juliet" (1911), "The Buddhist Priestess" (1911), "The Honeymooners" (1911), "The Higher Law" (1911), "David Copperfield" (1911), "The Lady From The Sea" (1911), "Jess" (1912), "Under Two Flags" (1912), "Vengeance Is Mine" (1912), "The Merchant Of Venice" (1912), "Love's Diary" (1912), "Treasure Trove" (1912), "A New Cure For Divorce" (1912), "Conductor 786" (1912), "Lucile" (1912), "The Mail Clerk's Temptation" (1912), "At The Foot Of The Ladder" (1912), "Please Help The Pore" (1912), "A Six Cylinder Elopement" (1912), "The Woman In White" (1912), "Put Yourself In His Place" (1912), "The Little Girl Next Door" (1912), "Petticoat Camp" (1912), "Frankfurters And Quail" (1912), "The Thunderbolt" (1912), "Standing Room Only" (1912), "Aurora Floyd" (1912), "The Race" (1912), "With The Mounted Police" (1912), "The Evidence Of The Film" (1913), "The Commuter's Cat" (1913), "Her Fireman" (1913), "While Mrs. McFadden Looked Out" (1913), "Some Fools There Were" (1913), "The Pretty Girl In Lower Five" (1913), "The Two Sisters" (1913), "As Honest Young Man" (1913), "Her Gallant Knights" (1913), "For Her Boy's Sake" (1913), "Cymbeline" (1913), "The Woman Who Did Not Care" (1913), "The Other Girl" (1913), "Legally Right" (1913), "Carmen" (1913), "The Caged Bird" (1913), "Beautiful Bismarck" (1913), "Forgive Us Our Trespasses" (1913), "Dora" (1913), "For The Man She Loved" (1913), "The Ingrate" (1913), "The Pajama Parade" (1913), "Little Dorrit" (1913), "The Toy" (1913), "Told In The Future" (1913), "Hearts And Hoofs" (1913), "House Hunting" (1913), "Bashful Bachelor Bill" (1913), "The Lady Killer" (1913), "The Heart Of A Fool" (1913), "The Shoemaker And The Doll" (1913), "Robin Hood" (1913), "A Mix-Up In Pedigrees" (1913), "The Van Warden Rubies" (1913), "Through The Sluice Gates" (1913), "The Oath Of Tsuru San" (1913), "L'article 47" (1913), "The House In The Tree" (1913), "Rick's Redemption" (1913), "The Ten Of Spades" (1914), "A Ticket To Red Horse Gulch" (1914), "Ruy Blas" (1914), "A Turn of The Cards" (1914), "Fate's Decree" (1914), "The Green-Eyed Devil" (1914), "The Woman Without A Soul" (1914), "The Hunchback" (1914), "Imar The Servitor" (1914), "The Body In The Trunk" (1914), "Beyond The City" (1914), "The Lost Sermon" (1914), "A Prince Of Bohemia" (1914), "The Oath Of Pierre" (1914), "The Unmasking" (1914), "The Painted Lady's Child" (1914), "Nature's Touch" (1914), "Cameo Of Yellowstone" (1914), "Feast And Famine" (1914), "A Man's Way" (1914), "Does It End Right?" (1914), "The Trap" (1914), "Their Worldly Goods" (1914), "The Aftermath" (1914), "Break, Break, Break" (1914), "The Cocoon And The Butterfly" (1914), "His Faith In Humanity" (1914), "The Taming Of Sunnybrook Nell" (1914), "Billy's Rival" (1914), "Jail Birds" (1914), "In The Open" (1914), "Sir Galahad Of Twilight" (1914), "Sweet And Low" (1914), "Redbird Wins" (1914), "Old Enough To Be Her Grandpa" (1914), "In The Candlelight" (1914), "The Strength o' Ten" (1914), "Out Of The Darkness" (1914), "The Girl In Question" (1914), "The Sower Reaps" (19140, "The Legend Beautiful" (1915), "On Dangerous Ground" (1915), "The Stake" (1915), "The Destroyer" (1915), "Uncle John" (1915), "The Supreme Impulse" (1915), "Wild Blood" (1915), 'The Adventure Of The Yellow Curl Papers" (1915), "Uncle's New Blazer" (1915), "Destiny's Trump Card" (1915), "You Can't Always Tell" (1915), "The Alibi" (1915), "Larry O'Neill -- Gentleman" (1915), "Copper" (1915), "Thou Shalt Not Lie" (1915), "Driven By Fate" (1915), "Billy's Love Making" (1915), "The Wolf of Debt" (1915), "The Unnecessary Sex" (1915), "Getting His Goat" (1915), "Billy's War Brides" (1916), "The Go-Between' (1916), "His Picture" (1916), "Broken Fetters" (1916), "Two Seats At The Opera" (1916), "The Gentle Art Of Burglary" (1916), "A Society Sherlock" (1916), "He Wrote A Book" (1916), "Arthur's Desperate Resolve" (1916), "A Soul At Stake" (1916), "The Decoy" (1916), "The Little Brother" (1917), "A Magdalene Of The Hills" (1917), "The Guilty Man" (1918), "Her Moment" (1918), and "Wives And Other Wives" (1918). Besides, acting in films he also worked as a film director including on such films as, "Wild Blood" (1915), "Uncle's New Blazer" (1915), "Destiny's Trump Card" (1915), "You Can't Always Tell" (1915), "Billy's Love Making" (1915), "Billy's War Brides" (1916), "The Go-Between" (1916), "His Picture" (1916), "Two Seats At The Opera" (1916), "A Society Sherlock" (1916), "He Wrote A Book" (1916), "Arthur's Desperate Resolve" (1916), "A Soul At Stake" (1916), and "The Decoy" (1916). His last film role as an actor was playing in the short film drama, "A Proxy Husband" (1919). The film which he also directed, and which was written for the screen by J. Grubb Alexander, also starred Violet Mersereau, Joseph Granby, Harry Carter, and Leonora von Ottinger. He had become an alcoholic early in his acting career and because of this, he retired from films shortly thereafter. Besides, acting he was also known for his passion for real estate and he had acquired a large ranch in Whittier, California, as well as owning several oceanfront properties and extensive agricultural holdings near Santa Barbara, California. Following his death, his funeral service was held at the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary in Hollywood, California, and after the funeral service, he was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California. He was a confirmed bachelor and he never married nor had any children although his California death certificate says he was divorced.