William Norwood Wadsworth (7 June 1874–6 June 1950) was an American actor of the silent era best known for his roles in early Westerns, playing the villain in What Happened to Mary? (1912), the first Western film serial and for playing Samuel Pickwick in Mr Pickwick's Predicament (1912), an early screen adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. In his later years Wadsworth was a stage actor in New York where his wife Mabel (born 1883) worked as a Fitter in a dress shop. William Wadsworth died aged 77 in June 1950 in Brooklyn in New York.