Walter Hiers

Walter Hiers
Walter Hiers, 1924
Born	(1893-07-18)July 18, 1893 Cordele, Georgia, US
Died	February 27, 1933(1933-02-27) (aged 39) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	Film actor

Walter Hiers (July 18, 1893 Cordele, Georgia – February 27, 1933 Los Angeles, California) was an American silent film actor.

Biography

Born in 1893, during his two decade-long acting career spanning from 1912 to 1932, Hiers starred in 101 films. He was a particularly prolific actor who could star in over 10 films a year. He died from pneumonia in 1933, aged 39. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Ethel Clayton and Hiers in A City Sparrow (1920)

Filmography

• No Place for a Minister's Son (1912)
• A Queen for a Day (1912)
• The Labyrinth (1915) .... Waiter
• Just Out of College (1915)
• Sammy's Semi-Suicide (1915)
• Seventeen (1916) .... George Cooper
• Common Sense Brackett (1916)
• The Conquest of Canaan (1916) .... Norman Flitcroft
• Doughnuts (1916)
• The Kiddies' Kaptain Kid (1916)
• Dad's Darling Daughters (1916)
• The Sailor's Smiling Spirit (1916)
• Ruining Randall's Reputation (1916)
• Theodore's Terrible Thirst (1916)
• Ambitious Awkward Andy (1916)
• Snow Storms and Sunshine (1916)
• Life's Whirlpool (1917) .... Fatty Holmes
• Over There (1917) .... Undetermined Role
• The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917) .... Freddie Bollen
• God's Man (1917) .... Hugo Waldemar
• The End of the Tour (1917) .... 'Skinny' Smith
• Brown of Harvard(1918) .... Tubby
• Marriage (1918) .... Tommy Latimer
• The Daredevil (1918) .... 'Buzz' Clendenning
• A Nymph of the Foothills (1918) .... Tubby
• Waifs (1918) .... Elmer Poindexter
• A Man's World (1918) .... Larry Hanlon
• The Lesson (1918) .... 'Tub' Martin
• The Accidental Honeymoon (1918) .... Jimmy
• Mrs. Slacker (1918) .... Undetermined Role
• Our Little Wife (1918) .... Bobo Brown
• It Pays to Advertise (1919) .... Ambrose Peale
• Why Smith Left Home (1919) .... Bob White
• Bill Henry (1919) .... Salesman
• The Fear Woman (1919) .... Percy Farwell
• Leave It to Susan (1919) .... Horace Peddingham
• When Doctors Disagree (1919) .... John Turner
• Spotlight Sadie (1919) .... Jack Mills
• The Lamb and the Lion (1919) .... Fatty Pringle
• Experimental Marriage (1919) .... Charlie Hamilton
• Hard Boiled (1919) .... Hiram Short
• Oh, Lady, Lady (1920) .... Willoughby Finch
• Held by the Enemy (1920) .... Thomas Beene
• A City Sparrow (1920) .... Tim Ennis
• So Long Letty (1920) .... Tommy Robbins
• The Fourteenth Man (1920) .... Harry Brooks
• Going Some (1920) .... Berkeley Fresno
• Miss Hobbs (1920) .... George Jessup
• Mrs. Temple's Telegram (1920) .... Frank Fuller
• The Turning Point (1920) .... Billy Inwood
• Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920) .... Dick Chetwyn
• What's Your Husband Doing? (1920) .... Charley Pidgeon
• The Speed Girl (1921) .... Soapy Taylor
• Her Sturdy Oak (1921) .... Samuel Butteers
• A Kiss in Time (1921) .... Bertie Ballast
• Two Weeks with Pay (1921) .... Hotel Clerk
• Sham (1921) .... Montee Buck
• The Snob (1921) .... Pud Welland
• The Ghost Breaker (1922) .... Rusty Snow
• Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922) .... Jack Hoyt
• Her Gilded Cage (1922) .... Bud Walton
• Bought and Paid For (1922) .... James Gilley
• Sixty Cents an Hour (1923) .... Jimmy Kirk, a soda-jerker
• Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923) .... John Percival Billings
• The Triflers (1924) .... Chick Warren
• A Fat Chance (1924)
• Along Came Ruth (1924) .... Plinty Bangs
• Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924) .... Dan Madison
• Short Change (1924)
• The Virgin (1924) .... Sam Hawkins
• Hold Your Breath (1924) .... Her Fiancé
• Fair Week (1924) .... Slim Swasey
• Flaming Barriers (1924) .... Henry Van Sickle
• Hot Doggie (1925)
• Tender Feet (1925)
• A Rarin' Romeo (1925)
• Good Spirits (1925)
• Excuse Me (1925) .... Porter
• Hold That Lion (1926) .... Dick Warren
• Hitchin' Up (1926)
• Fresh Faces (1926)
• A Wireless Lizzie (1926)
• Weak, But Willing (1926)
• Night Life (1927) .... Manager
• Blondes by Choice (1927) .... Horace Rush
• The Girl from Gay Paree (1927) .... Sam
• A Racing Romeo (1927) .... Sparks
• Naughty (1927)
• Beware of Widows (1927) .... William Bradford
• The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927) .... Bond
• Husband Hunters (1927) .... Sylvester Jones
• The First Night (1927) .... Mr. Cleveland
• Speedy (1928) (uncredited) .... The Cook
• A Simple Sap (1928) .... He
• A Woman Against the World (1928) .... Reporter
• Hot Lemonade (1929)
• The Wide Open Spaces (1931)
• Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931)
• 70,000 Witnesses (1932) (uncredited) .... Old Grad
• Dancers in the Dark (1932) (uncredited) .... Ollie
• A Private Scandal (1932)

External links

• Walter Hiers at IMDb
• Walter Hiers at Virtual History