by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
A leading personality of early San Francisco filmmaking, Utah-born William Pike co-starred in ten films opposite opera diva turned movie heroine Beatriz Michelena, including an early version of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914) and such Western melodramas as the still extant Salomy Jane (1915). Pike left screen work with the collapse of independent filmmaking in Northern California in the early '20s and later appeared on Broadway in The Strawberry Blonde (1927), with Julie Ring, and the 1933 revival of Another Language, with Margaret Wycherly.
