Charles Williams
Charles Williams was born on September 27, 1898 in Albany, New York. He was an actor and writer, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Hollywood and Vine (1945) and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938). He was married to Isabel and Virginia Josephine Evans. He died on January 3, 1958 in Hollywood, California.
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the...
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The Thin Man
as Fighter Manager (uncredited)A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
as Doctor (uncredited)A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Pride of the Yankees
as Little Strength Machine Contestant (uncredited)The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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History Is Made at Night
as uncreditedAn American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from...
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Night and Day
as Music Store Customer (uncredited)When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured,...
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Espionage
as Simmons (uncredited)Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the...
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A Lawless Street
as Mr. Willis (uncredited)A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out...
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
as AgentClassical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz...
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
as Gabby MardenCelebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into...
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Scared Stiff
as Reporter (Uncredited)A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
as Meeker, Burke's LawyerReturning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a...
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Parole, Inc.
as Titus JonesA federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
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Days of Jesse James
as Northern Hotel Clerk (uncredited)Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers....
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Whispering Footsteps
as Second Bank TellerAn Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
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Identity Unknown
as AuctioneerA soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he...
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Greenwich Village
as AuthorIn 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Wedding Present
as uncreditedCharlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically...
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Marked Men
as Charlie SloaneA man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group...
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Blondie of the Follies
as Lottie's Friend Mr. Kinskey (uncredited)New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When...
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Johnny Apollo
as Photographer (uncredited)Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then...
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Sadie McKee
as Pest in Café (uncredited)A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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The Accused
as Dorgan's Assistant (uncredited)A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
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Men with Wings
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...
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The Magnetic Monster
as CabbieThe Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and...
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Task Force
as Luggage Salesman (uncredited)After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott...
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Primrose Path
as (uncredited)Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actor in 'The Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
as Max MortonMary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary...
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Woman in the Dark
as Hotel Desk ClerkA recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back...
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Atlantic City
as ChalmersIn 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as The PitchmanA New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...
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The Nuisance
as Skating Rink Official (uncredited)Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a...
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Central Airport
as Hotel Desk ClerkAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for...
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The Great Man's Lady
as AssayerIn Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt...
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Flying Fists
as Meggs, the ReporterA lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he...
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Love Is News
as Joe BradyWhen a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...
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Sky Racket
as Nightclub EntertainerA government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow...
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Big Business
as Florist Shop CustomerA small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an...
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My Favorite Spy
as 3rd Speaker in ParkThe Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy...
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Grand Ole Opry
as Politician (uncredited)Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of...
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Trade Winds
as Reporter Jones (Uncredited)After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware...
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Sabotage
as (uncredited)The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...
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Without Reservations
as Louis Burt (uncredited)Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the...
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Queen of Burlesque
as Carr, manager of Regent HotelVarious performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a...
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
as SecretaryA forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though,...
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The Girl from Monterrey
as Harry HollisMexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented...
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Gateway
as ReporterIrish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...
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Little Miss Broadway
as Mike BrodyAn orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people....
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Call of the Rockies
as Burton WitherspoonCowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City....
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The Flying Irishman
as Car Repo ManThis is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan...
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Amateur Crook
as Drunk WitnessJerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of...
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Night in New Orleans
as Citizen (Uncredited)A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...
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Wife, Husband and Friend
as JaffeeWoman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her...
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It Happened in Hollywood
as Hymie - PhotographerA silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Lullaby of Broadway
as Reporter (uncredited)Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home...
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End of the Road
as JordanA crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder"...
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Stand-In
as Mr. MackAn east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a...
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Women Without Names
as Hugh GilmanJoyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused...
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Main Street to Broadway
as Bartender (uncredited)In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying...
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Vogues of 1938
as Customs Man in Fall ShowAn early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was...
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The Judge
as ReporterA study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds...
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Wake Up and Live
as Charlie Alberts, AgentSatire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist...
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The Mad Genius
as Stagehand (uncredited)A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer....
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Blossoms On Broadway
as uncreditedA young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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Hollywood and Vine
as Chick JonesA young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that...
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Mr. District Attorney
as Detective in Café (uncredited)An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
as Theodore H. Sherman Jr.- PrinterIn order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and...
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Strangers of the Evening
as 1st PasserbyBodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine...
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The Man Who Walked Alone
as ReporterA war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman...
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Heading for Heaven
as Eddie WilliamsA fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new...
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The Lady from Cheyenne
as ClerkFictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the...
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Time to Kill
as DentistLloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
as JakeA boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
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Fighting Trouble
as uncreditedAn overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a...
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Sinner Take All
as Minor Role (uncredited)A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York...
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Saddle Pals
as LeslieAutry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement...
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The Fleet's In
as PhotographerShy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a...
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Girl in 313
as Henry, HusbandA priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is...
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Strictly Unreliable
as Billy Freeman - Theatrical Agent (uncredited)Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
as BrackettJim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance...
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A Boy, a Girl and a Dog
as Mr. StoneDuring World War II, a young boy and girl, living with their respective families in an apartment...
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Peters (uncredited)Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter...
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Gasoline Alley
as MortieA young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Undercover Doctor
as Pinky ValkusDr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh,...
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One Thrilling Night
as Theatre Manager (uncredited)A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army,...
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Fair Warning
as Hotel ClerkIn California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a...
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Call of the Canyon
as uncreditedA radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.
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Hollywood Boulevard
as Reporter (uncredited)With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
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Rhythm on the Range
as Gopher MazdaCowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he...
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Hazard
as Little Motorist (uncredited)A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But...
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Gambling Ship
as Baby Face (Charles T. Pearson Jr.)Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels...
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Passkey to Danger
as Mr. WilliamsAn advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious...
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Hitchhike to Happiness
as Park Magician (uncredited)An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes...
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
as Mr. PikeA WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various...
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Merry Go Round of 1938
as Dave ClarkTwo screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
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Flying Cadets
as Mr. Prim / Primmie, BookkeeperStory of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
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The Trespasser
as Joe, the stage managerStevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same...
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Song of the Open Road
as Man Saying 'It's a Trick' (uncredited)A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to...
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The Missourians
as Postmaster WaltIn the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young...
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
as CharlieA retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
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Kentucky Jubilee
as Yes ManA film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film....
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Made on Broadway
as PhotographerA satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway...
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Marshal of Amarillo
as Hiram ShortNugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the...
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Born to Be Wild
as Company SpotterTruck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast...
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Lady Chaser
as Apartment House ManagerA poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger,...
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Love and Hisses
as Irving SkolskyAs part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist...
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Career Girl
as Louis HortonJoan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds...
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
as JurorHoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the...
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A Very Honorable Guy
as DruggistWell respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an...
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The West Side Kid
as ReporterMillionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her...
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Forgotten Women
as StagehandActing on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra,...
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Wedlock Deadlock
as ChesterNewlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house...
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The Gay Nighties
as Timid ManThis short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of...
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Redhead from Manhattan
as Box Office AttendantLupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship,...
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Those High Grey Walls
as Stranger (uncredited)Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for...
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The Old Homestead
as Gabe WatersSilent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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Dance Team
as Benny WeberJimmy Mulligan and Poppy Kirk, both out of work, strike up a conversation outside a radio shop...
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Moon Over Manhattan
as uncreditedA musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model....
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Public Defender
as SamThe Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as...
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The Cisco Kid
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the...
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The Cisco Kid
as Fred ApplebyThe Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the...
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Adventures of Superman
as TimAnnouncer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a...
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Adventures of Superman
as Yo YoAnnouncer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a...
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Annie Oakley
as FredAnnie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous...
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Mr. & Mrs. North
as uncreditedMr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October...
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The Gene Autry Show
as Reporter Lewis (uncredited)The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes...
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Topper
as HarlonTopper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film of the same name. The series was...
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The Abbott and Costello Show
as DuncanBud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary...
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