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Battle for Haditha (2007)

Cape Fear (1962)

The Deadly Companions (1961)

Twenty Plus Two (1961)

Morgue attendant

Inherit the Wind (1960)

The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)

Pentagon general

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They Live By Night (1949) -- (Movie Clip) They're Thieves, Just Like Us

Act Of Violence (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Remembered Something

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Battle for Haditha (2007)

Cape Fear (1962)

The Deadly Companions (1961)

Twenty Plus Two (1961)

Morgue attendant

Inherit the Wind (1960)

The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)

Pentagon general

Alias Jesse James (1959)

Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Gunman's Walk (1958)

Quantrill's Raiders (1958)

The Missouri Traveler (1958)

The Wayward Bus (1957)

Jeanne Eagels (1957)

The Iron Sheriff (1957)

Johnny Tremain (1957)

These Wilder Years (1956)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)

Not As a Stranger (1955)

The Kentuckian (1955)

The Tall Men (1955)

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Admiral William S. Sims

The Wild One (1954)

River of No Return (1954)

The Raid (1954)

Josiah Anderson

Johnny Guitar (1954)

The Last Posse (1953)

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Lure of the Wilderness (1952)

Sheriff Clem Brink

The Las Vegas Story (1952)

Lydia Bailey (1952)

Holiday for Sinners (1952)

The man with the cigar

Excuse My Dust (1951)

Vengeance Valley (1951)

My Forbidden Past (1951)

People Will Talk (1951)

The Tall Target (1951)

Thomas I. Ogden

Never Trust a Gambler (1951)

House by the River (1950)

Inspector Sarten

All the King's Men (1950)

Dolph Pillsbury

The Savage Horde (1950)

Judge Thomas H. Cole

A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Marshal Kit Dodge

Sunset in the West (1950)

Sheriff Tad Osborne

No Way Out (1950)

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

Whispering Smith (1949)

Sheriff McSwiggin

Adam's Rib (1949)

Judge Marcasson

Lust for Gold (1949)

Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)

Brimstone (1949)

Martin Treadwell

Big Jack (1949)

Will Farnsworth

Act of Violence (1949)

They Live by Night (1949)

Mrs. Mike (1949)

Little Women (1949)

Relentless (1948)

The Inside Story (1948)

Jay Jay Johnson

An Act of Murder (1948)

Judge Jim Wilder

Black Eagle: The Story of a Horse (1948)

Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)

Disaster (1948)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

The Walls of Jericho (1948)

Black Eagle (1948)

The Jolson Story (1947)

Blaze of Noon (1947)

Along the Oregon Trail (1947)

Wild Harvest (1947)

Keeper of the Bees (1947)

The Trouble with Women (1947)

Mother Wore Tights (1947)

California (1947)

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

The Madonna's Secret (1946)

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

Rendezvous with Annie (1946)

Elmer Snodgrass

Road to Utopia (1946)

Down Missouri Way (1946)

Professor Morris

One Exciting Week (1946)

The Inner Circle (1946)

Hot Cargo (1946)

Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

Without Reservations (1946)

Pullman conductor

Blue Skies (1946)

Dan, stage manager

Scarlet Street (1945)

Loan office manager

High Powered (1945)

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Bewitched (1945)

Salome, Where She Danced (1945)

Grissly's Millions (1945)

You Came Along (1945)

Colonel Armstrong

State Fair (1945)

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Practically Yours (1944)

Senator Cowling

You Can't Ration Love (1944)

Judge Cary, justice of peace

The Town Went Wild (1944)

The Meanest Man in the World (1943)

Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)

Sleepy Lagoon (1943)

Here Comes Elmer (1943)

Minesweeper (1943)

The Good Fellows (1943)

Brother from Danville

In Old Oklahoma (1943)

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

Shut My Big Mouth (1942)

Voice of Friend Owl

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Honky Tonk (1941)

Man in meeting house

Cracked Nuts (1941)

Mr. [Sylvanus] Boogle

Richest Man in Town (1941)

Frederick Johnson

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

Mob Town (1941)

Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

Misc. Crew (Special)

Local News (2001)

Cast (Short)

You, the People (1940)

Pure Feud (1934)

Life Events

Videos

They Live By Night (1949) -- (Movie Clip) They're Thieves, Just Like Us Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell) fetches Bowie (Farley Granger), injured and left behind after the jailbreak, to his fellow thieves, her uncle Chickamaw (Howard da Silva) and T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen), and her own crook father (Will Wright), the first meeting of the principals, in Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night, 1949.

Act Of Violence (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Remembered Something The viewer doesn't yet know why Parkson (Robert Ryan) is stalking fellow WWII vet Enley (Van Heflin), fishing on a California lake with pal Fred (Harry Antrim), in Fred Zinnemann's Act Of Violence, 1949.

Major And The Minor, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Why I Hate Women Susan (Ginger Rogers), fed up and leaving New York, finds out her saved-up train fare home isn't enough, improvising her part of the premise, in Billy Wilder's first directing effort, The Major And The Minor, 1942.

Hoodlum Saint, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Baltimore, 1919 Opening in Baltimore, 1919, MGM offers William Powell as reporter-turned-doughboy come home, visiting his old newspaper where there’s no job on offer, meeting his pals and Will Wright as his old editor, in The Hoodlum Saint, 1946, original screenplay by Frank Wead and James Hill.

Little Women (1949) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Storm The Citadel! March sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth (Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien) spending Christmas dollars with Grace (Will Wright), then returning to mother (Mary Astor), in MGM's Little Women, 1949.

Alias Jesse James (1959) -- (Movie Clip) These Gigantic Companies Seems like major insurance firms had input for the opening narration, all of which sets up star Bob Hope as a bumbling 1880’s insurance salesman, whose boss (Will Wright) decides his time is up, in the comic Western Alias Jesse James, 1959, with Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey.

Alias Jesse James (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Bret Maverick, Etc. Irritating citizen Queasley (Will Wright), Bob Hope and bride Rhonda Fleming, in a shootout cameo sequence, first James Garner in Maverick mode, then Ward Bond, James Arness, Roy Rogers, Fess Parker, Gary Cooper, Jay Silverheels and Bing Crosby, near the end of Alias Jesse James, 1959.

Johnny Tremain (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Boston, 1774 Opening the Walt Disney Studios adaptation of the 1948 Newberry Award-winning novel, Hal Stalmaster (younger brother of the casting agent Lynn) the title character, Sebastian Cabot his client, Will Wright, Virginia Christine and Luana Patten his sponsoring family, in Johnny Tremain, 1957.

Green Promise, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Karakul Lambs Fortunately the for banker (Will Wright) and the 4-H man (Robert Paige), they have no reason to resist young Susan (Natalie Wood) as she applies for her loan to buy lambs, in The Green Promise, 1949.

Adam's Rib (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Equal Rights For Women Dueling spouse attorneys Adam (Spencer Tracy) prosecuting and Amanda (Katharine Hepburn), tangling in court over a prospective juror (Roger Davis), Will Wright the judge, explicit feminism from writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, in Adam's Rib, 1949.

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