William Stowell
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- This article is about the silent film actor. For the congressman, merchant and industrialist, see William H.H. Stowell.
William Stowell (13 March 1885, Boston, Massachusetts – 24 November 1919, Belgian Congo), was a promising American silent film actor whose life was cut short in a railroad accident in the Belgian Congo in 1919.
He was signed into film in 1909 and starred in the popular hit The Cowboy Millionaire also starring Tom Mix.
Between 1909 and his death in 1919 Stowell starred in 119 silent films, often starring in over 10 films a year.
In 1915 he starred in The Great Question alongside actors such as Harold Lockwood with American Studios.
In 1916 he starred in The Love Hermit portraying Jack Hillman alongside Charlotte Burton and Harry von Meter working with director Jack Prescott.
In 1919 his career and life was cut short by a rail accident in Elizabethville, in the Belgian Congo, in Africa.
