Riley Hatch

{{short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person | name = William Riley Hatch | image = File:Sheltered Daughters (1921) - 7.jpg | alt = | caption = Warner Baxter, Justine Johnstone and Hatch (''right'') in ''Sheltered Daughters'', 1921 | birth_name = | birth_date = September 2, 1862 | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio | death_date = September 6, 1925 (aged 63) | death_place = Bay Shore, New York | other_names = | occupation = Actor<br>Singer | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | parents = | known_for = }} '''William Riley Hatch''' (September 2, 1862 – September 6, 1925) was an American singer and actor on stage and in silent films.<ref name="bd">{{cite book|last1=Katchmer|first1=George A.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476609058|page=156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Riley+Hatch%22&pg=PA156|access-date=24 April 2018|language=en}}</ref>

Hatch's Broadway debut came in ''The Burgomaster'' (1900); his final Broadway appearance was in ''The Nervous Wreck'' (1923).<ref>{{cite web|title=Riley Hatch|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/riley-hatch-44491|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League|access-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424010451/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/riley-hatch-44491|archive-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

He appeared in films such as ''At Shiloh'' (1913), ''The City'' (1916), ''A Case at Law'' (1917),<ref name="Langman1992">{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=A Guide to Silent Westerns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC&pg=PA74|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27858-7|page=74}}</ref> ''The Law of the Land'' (1917), ''Eve's Daughter'' (1918), ''Sheltered Daughters'' (1921), and ''Zaza'' (1923).

On September 6, 1925, Hatch died of heart disease at his home on Long Island.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wm. Riley Hatch dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/07/archives/la-russell-dies-in-doctors-office-orchestral-conductor-and-composer.html |access-date=December 25, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=September 7, 1925 |page=11|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Partial filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *''At Shiloh'' (1913) * ''When Rome Ruled'' (1914) *''Paid in Full'' (1914) *''The Exploits of Elaine'' (1914) * ''Shore Acres'' (1914) *''Wildfire'' (1915) *''The Plunderer'' (1915) *''The Little Gypsy'' (1915) *''The City'' (1916) *''The World's Great Snare'' (1916) *''The Lone Wolf'' (1917) *''The Law of the Land'' (1917) *''Double Crossed'' (1917) *''A Case at Law'' (1917) * ''Blind Man's Luck'' (1917) *''Eve's Daughter'' (1918) * ''From Two to Six'' (1918) * ''Other Men's Daughters'' (1918) *''Peck's Bad Girl'' (1918) *''Something Different'' (1920) *''The Idol of the North'' (1921) *''Sheltered Daughters'' (1921) * ''The Matrimonial Web'' (1921) * ''Nobody'' (1921) * ''You Find It Everywhere'' (1921) * ''What Women Will Do'' (1921) *''The Conquest of Canaan'' (1921) *''Missing Millions'' (1922) *''If Winter Comes'' (1923) *''Little Old New York'' (1923) *''Zaza'' (1923) *''West of the Water Tower'' (1923) * ''You Are Guilty'' (1923) *''Trouping with Ellen'' (1924) *''America'' (1924) *''The Street of Forgotten Men'' (1925) {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|Riley Hatch}} *{{IMDb name|id=0368748|name=Riley Hatch}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatch, Riley}} Category:American male silent film actors Category:1862 births Category:1925 deaths Category:Male actors from Cleveland Category:People from Bay Shore, New York Category:20th-century American male actors