Walter McGrail

Born: 1888-10-18

Walter B. McGrail (October 19, 1888 – March 19, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1916 and 1951. Besides feature films, he appeared in The Scarlet Runner, a 12-chapter serial.


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Stagecoach

as Capt. Sickel (uncredited)
Released: 1939-03-03

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Gang Leader (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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A Double Life

as uncredited
Released: 1947-12-25

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage...

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Tell Your Children

as The Boss (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-15

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can...

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My Little Chickadee

as Townsman (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-09

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a...

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Night Nurse

as The Drunk
Released: 1931-07-16

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her...

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Bowery at Midnight

as Coroner (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-30

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses...

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Marked Men

as Doctor
Released: 1940-09-30

A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group...

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The Green Hornet

as Dean
Released: 1940-01-08

A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious...

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Under Eighteen

as Gregg (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-02

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during...

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Mysterious Doctor Satan

as Stoner
Released: 1940-12-13

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build...

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The World Moves On

as The Duallist (1825)
Released: 1934-06-27

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear...

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Union Depot

as Pickpocket (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-14

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...

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Old San Francisco

as Vasquez's Grandson - in Prologue
Released: 1927-09-04

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property...

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The Accusing Finger

as Guard
Released: 1936-11-17

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...

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Appointment for Love

as Stoddard (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-31

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The...

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Billy the Kid Trapped

as Judge Jack McConnell
Released: 1942-02-27

Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three...

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Robbers' Roost

as Henchman Brad
Released: 1932-12-30

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans...

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When the Door Opened

as Clive Grenfal
Released: 1925-12-06

"When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues...

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Ten Laps to Go

as Drake - DeSylva's Mechanic
Released: 1936-12-05

Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more...

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The Shadow Strikes

as Winstead Comstock
Released: 1937-10-29

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at...

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Held For Ransom

as Donnelly
Released: 1938-06-17

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

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McKenna of the Mounted

as Inspector Oliver P. Logan
Released: 1932-08-26

Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off...

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Marriage License?

as Marcus Heriot
Released: 1926-09-05

When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his...

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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

as Junction Heavy 1 / Marine Captain
Released: 1941-12-27

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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Where the North Begins

as Gabrielle Dupree
Released: 1923-07-01

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and...

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Special Agent K-7

as Vincent 'Lanny' Landers
Released: 1936-05-04

Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show...

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River's End

as Martin
Released: 1930-11-01

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named...

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Adventure

as Tudor
Released: 1925-04-26

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of...

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Men Without Women

as Cobb
Released: 1930-02-08

Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing...

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The Lone Star Ranger

as Phil Lawson
Released: 1930-01-05

After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of...

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The Top of New York

as Emery Gray
Released: 1922-06-18

Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother...

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Seas Beneath

as Chief Joe Cobb
Released: 1931-01-30

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a...

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The Red Shadow

as uncredited
Released: 1932-01-20

A Shadow Detective Story.

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The Dancers

as The Argentine
Released: 1925-01-04

Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in...

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Riders of the West

as Miller, the Banker
Released: 1942-08-21

Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread...

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And Then There Were Four

as Tom McCall
Released: 1950-06-23

Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave...

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Across the Pacific

as Capt. Grover
Released: 1926-10-02

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a...

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Calling All Marines

as Capt. Chester
Released: 1939-09-20

Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they...

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A Son of the Sahara

as Capt. Jean Duval
Released: 1924-04-13

As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined...

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Murder by the Clock

as Herbert Endicott
Released: 1931-07-21

A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside...

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A Demon for Trouble

as Dyer
Released: 1934-08-10

Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob...

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Women Everywhere

as Lieutenant of Legionnaires
Released: 1930-06-01

Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the...

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Billy the Kid Outlawed

as Judge Fitzgerald
Released: 1940-07-20

In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in...

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The Veiled Woman

as Diplomatic Attaché
Released: 1929-04-14

A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her...

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Suzanna

as Ramón
Released: 1923-02-16

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their...

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The Pay-Off

as Emory
Released: 1930-10-14

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of...

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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

as Count Dario
Released: 1917-04-09

When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades...

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Nobody's Money

as Frank Carey
Released: 1923-01-28

Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real...

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Along the Rio Grande

as Cattle Buyer (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-07

A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers'...

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The Adventure Shop

as Josephus Potts, Jr.
Released: 1919-01-06

A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by...

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Code of the Fearless

as Ranger Captain Rawlins
Released: 1939-01-05

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers....

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Men of the Night

as Louie
Released: 1934-11-18

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he...

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The Last of the Duanes

as Bland
Released: 1930-08-31

Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law....

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Her Mad Bargain

as David Leighton
Released: 1921-12-12

After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs....

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The River of Romance

as Major Patterson
Released: 1929-06-28

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having...

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Lights of New York

as Hawk Chovinski
Released: 1916-05-29

Lights of New York is a 1916 drama

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Part Time Wife

as Johnny Spence
Released: 1930-11-30

The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife...

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Vanity Street

as Detective Hanson (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-14

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to...

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Sunset Range

as Grant
Released: 1935-04-02

Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his...

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Havoc

as Roddy Dunton
Released: 1925-09-27

A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry...

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American Beauty

as Claverhouse
Released: 1927-10-09

Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named...

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The Sun Never Sets

as Henchman DaCosta
Released: 1939-05-31

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes...

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The Cradle

as Courtney Webster
Released: 1922-03-04

A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they...

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Brown of Harvard

as Gerald Thorne
Released: 1918-01-10

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew,...

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West of Rainbow's End

as George Reynolds aka Johnson
Released: 1938-01-12

Tim Hart (Tim McCoy), a former Texas Ranger, comes out of retirement to avenge the death of...

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The Scarlet West

as Lt. Harper
Released: 1925-07-26

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his...

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The City

as Jim Hannock
Released: 1926-11-14

The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was...

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Lights Out

as Sea Bass
Released: 1923-11-12

Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it...

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The Country Cousin

as George Tewksbury Reynolds III
Released: 1919-11-02

The Country Cousin

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Midnight Madness

as Childers
Released: 1928-03-25

In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the...

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Night Beat

as Martin Andrews
Released: 1931-12-26

A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.

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The Mad Marriage

as uncredited
Released: 1925-01-30

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her...

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In Old Montana

as Joe Allison
Released: 1939-02-05

The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing...

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The Teaser

as Roderick Caswell
Released: 1925-09-06

Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a...

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State Trooper

as Burman
Released: 1933-02-10

Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police...

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Unguarded Women

as Larry Trent
Released: 1924-06-22

Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas...

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The Kentucky Derby

as Ralph Gordon
Released: 1922-12-04

Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion,...

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Blockade

as Hayden
Released: 1928-12-16

Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a...

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On the Great White Trail

as Garou
Released: 1938-07-22

Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered...

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The Eleventh Hour

as Dick Manley
Released: 1923-07-19

An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.

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The Play Girl

as David Courtney
Released: 1928-04-22

When Madge, a clerk in a flower shop, is sent to a bachelor's apartment to deliver and arrange a...

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Soldiers and Women

as Capt. Arnold
Released: 1930-04-30

Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is...

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Anybody's War

as Captain Davis
Released: 1930-07-09

A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.

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Pilgrims of the Night

as Gilbert Hannaway
Released: 1921-09-26

The son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term...

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The Song of the Soul

as Dr. Evans
Released: 1918-03-04

Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is...

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Life's Twist

as Steven De Koven
Released: 1920-08-11

Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose...

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Is Love Everything?

as Boyd Carter
Released: 1924-11-30

Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a...

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A Son of His Father

as Holdbrook
Released: 1925-09-28

'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the...

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The Black Secret

as Ray McKay
Released: 1919-01-02

Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the...

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Darling Mine

as Roger Davis
Released: 1920-08-16

Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels...

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The Invisible Fear

as Arthur Comstock
Released: 1921-10-10

A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.

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Police Call

as Dr. James A. Gordon
Released: 1933-07-24

A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his...

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Over There

as uncredited
Released: 1917-10-27

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