Dooley Wilson

Born: 1894-04-03

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, Casablanca; in the film, he also performed its theme song, "As Time Goes By". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films.


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Casablanca

as Sam
Released: 1943-01-15

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...

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Knock on Any Door

as Piano Player (uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-22

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the...

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Stormy Weather

as Gabe Tucker
Released: 1943-07-21

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of...

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Come to the Stable

as Anthony James
Released: 1949-07-27

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit...

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Cairo

as Hector
Released: 1942-08-17

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing...

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No Man of Her Own

as Waiter on Train (uncredited)
Released: 1950-02-21

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

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Take a Letter, Darling

as Moses
Released: 1942-05-06

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working...

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Seven Days Ashore

as Jason
Released: 1944-04-25

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates...

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Two Tickets to London

as Accordionist
Released: 1943-06-14

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to...

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Father Is a Bachelor

as Blue (uncredited)
Released: 1950-02-22

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids:...

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Higher and Higher

as Oscar
Released: 1943-12-31

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid...

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Bogart: The Untold Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-01-05

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of...

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Passage West

as Rainbow
Released: 1951-10-01

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted...

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Tell It to the Judge

as Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Released: 1949-11-18

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is...

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My Favorite Blonde

as Porter
Released: 1942-04-02

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he...

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Night in New Orleans

as Shadrach Jones
Released: 1942-07-01

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...

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Free For All

as Aristotle
Released: 1949-11-01

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young...

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Keep Punching

as Baron Skinner (as Arthur 'Dooley' Wilson)
Released: 1939-01-02

Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn...

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Racing Luck

as Abe
Released: 1948-11-18

Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses...

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