Will E. Sheerer — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸
William E. Sheerer has spent most of 23 years working and studying up to his present position.
He “went on” before reaching the dignity of long pants, because the experiment offered an agreeable change from the occupation of coaxing anthracite out of the Pennsylvania coal mines.
Bill has had but two lapses from his theatrical career in twenty-three years — he was a volunteer in the Seventy-first New York, and the other lapse was when he had an opportunity to sell stocks and bonds. Bill was successful but the call of the calcium was too strong for him and he came back into the fold.
He is an excellent singer, knows characters thoroughly, and has run the gamut from minstrel shows through farce comedies, comic operas and vaudeville, to drama.
In his three years in front of the camera, Bill appeared for Edison, Vitagraph, Bison, Nestor, Reliance, Thanhouser and Crystal before Eclair branded him.
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Collection: Motography Magazine, May 1914