William V. Ranous — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

W. V. Ranous [William V. Ranous] is a new support to the Warners’ Features artillery and comes to his new affiliation with a well-known record of world-successes.

It was he who headed the Vitagraph globe-trotters’ tour and brought back much of interest in the way of films which he had directed and in which he had also played.

His first picture for Warners’ Features program is “Treasure Island.” This is completed and ready for release and, in the character of “Peg-leg Silver,” you’ll recognize Mr. Ranous and you’ll wonder what he has done with his perfectly good left leg, so successfully does he act the role of old Silver, demanding and receiving the obedience of his fierce pirate crew.

There are a number of other world-known stories to be put into picture form by Mr. Ranous and it is certain that Warners’ Features Inc. could have chosen no better nor more energetic producer.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, November 1913