William Bailey
William Bailey was born on September 26, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA as Gordon Reineck. He was an actor and director, known for On Dangerous Ground (1917), The Penitent (1912) and Hilda Wakes (1913). He was married to Alethia Hamilton Fadden, Mary Florence Cannon and Polly Vann. He died on November 8, 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA.
It Happened One Night
as Clark (uncredited)A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end...
Movie pageThe Three Musketeers
as uncreditedAthletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their...
Movie pageFather of the Bride
as Man in Dream Sequence (uncredited)Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she...
Movie pageAnother Thin Man
as Freight Elevator Operator (uncredited)Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from...
Movie pageRio Rita
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican...
Movie pageThe Egg and I
as Doctor at Country Dance (Uncredited)World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and...
Movie pageClash by Night
as Waiter (uncredited)An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Movie pageWoman of the Year
as Baseball Fan (uncredited)Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their...
Movie pageFlamingo Road
as uncreditedA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town...
Movie pageManhattan Melodrama
as Al Barnes (uncredited)The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law...
Movie pagePublic Hero Number 1
as Federal Agent (uncredited)G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums...
Movie pageA Double Life
as Detective (uncredited)A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage...
Movie pageWhere Danger Lives
as Man (uncredited)A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the...
Movie pageThe Legend Of The Lone Ranger
as Jim (uncredited)A group of Texas Rangers chasing the Butch Cavendish gang is massacred in an ambush. One of the...
Movie pageCampus Sleuth
as CoronerA photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body...
Movie pageUndercurrent
as Party Guest (uncredited)After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...
Movie pageA Hatful of Rain
as Man in Elevator (uncredited)A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Movie pageBud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Nightclub Patron at Ciro's (uncredited)When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony...
Movie pageThe Duel at Silver Creek
as Townsman (uncredited)When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the...
Movie pageComrade X
as Press CorrespondentAn American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful...
Movie pageThe Great Sinner
as Gambling Casino Accountant (uncredited)A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Movie pageAct of Violence
as Convention Party Drunk (uncredited)A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank...
Movie pagePenthouse
as Maitre D' at Pinnacle Club (uncredited)Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long...
Movie pageDesperate
as Traveling Salesman (uncredited)An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Movie pageHollywood Boulevard
as Trocadero Patron (uncredited)With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...
Movie pageTwo-Faced Woman
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Movie pageThe Lady Gambles
as Croupier (uncredited)When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass...
Movie pageCode of the Saddle
as Sheriff WallaceSmokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western.
Movie pageTrails End
as SheriffCowhand Drake discovers gold on the ranch of his boss, Joe Stuart and makes a deal with crooked...
Movie pageCharlie Chan at the Opera
as Detective (uncredited)A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of...
Movie pageThe Texas Rangers
as uncreditedIt's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of...
Movie pageMrs. Parkington
as Ball Musician (uncredited)In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid...
Movie pageKlondike Annie
as uncreditedA San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Movie pageMake Haste to Live
as Ed JenkinsA single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Movie pageAn American Tragedy
as uncreditedA social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Movie pageMiracles for Sale
as Spectator in Theatre BoxA maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Movie pageNazi Agent
as uncreditedHumble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he...
Movie pageWest of El Dorado
as Sheriff JackJohnny and Alibi try to straighten out a hostile young boy whose older brother was a notorious...
Movie pageThird Finger, Left Hand
as Ship's Officer / Man Leaving DrugstoreMagazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...
Movie pageThunder Mountain
as Cliff BordenGold mining cowboy western romantic melodrama (based on the story by Zane Grey) about a pair of...
Movie pageThe Witness Chair
as Court BailiffLate one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley...
Movie pageSilver Trails
as John ChambersJimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen...
Movie pageIn the Good Old Summertime
as Supper Club Patron (uncredited)Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry...
Movie pageI Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
as Audience Member (uncredited)A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the...
Movie pageMurder with Pictures
as Party Guest (uncredited)Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the...
Movie pageWe Who Are About to Die
as Policeman Passenger (uncredited)John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and...
Movie pageThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Ship Passenger (uncredited)A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
Movie pageThe Suburban
as Jack Brambough, Donald's PalRobert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice,...
Movie pageLazybones
as Elmer BallisterSteve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl,...
Movie pageLightning Guns
as Luke AtkinsThe Durango Kid rides again in Lightning Guns. As ever, the masked Durango (alias Steve Brandon)...
Movie pageBad Girl
as Expectant Father of Twins (uncredited)A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack...
Movie pageCharlie Chan's Secret
as Det. HarrisAllen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the...
Movie pageThe Eagle's Eye
as Heinrich von LertzA criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
Movie pageDr. Kildare's Strange Case
as Spectator in Operating Theatre (uncredited)Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.
Movie pageBack Pay
as EdBored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress...
Movie pageMaisie Goes to Reno
as Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Movie pageBack Trail
as Sheriff (uncredited)Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown...
Movie pageRobin Hood Of Texas
as Chase Car OwnerWhen the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang...
Movie pageThe Midnight Patrol
as PowersA cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make...
Movie pageThe Gallant Legion
as BarflyWhen power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of...
Movie pageBritish Intelligence
as British Intelligence AgentDuring WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with...
Movie pageA Yank at Oxford
as Racetrack Timekeeper (uncredited)A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and...
Movie pageWinner Take All
as Jim DevereauxPerry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down,...
Movie pageAndy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Bank Employee (uncredited)Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual...
Movie pageThe Way of the Strong
as Tiger LouieA gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
Movie pageThe Accusing Finger
as Reporter in Senate ChamberA proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...
Movie pageThree O'Clock in the Morning
as Hugo von StrohmImpulsive flapper Elizabeth Winthrop, rebels against her parents and moves to New York after...
Movie pageChange of Heart
as Man in StreetCatherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college...
Movie pageThe House Without a Key
as Harry JennisonA Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has...
Movie pageHere Come the Marines
as Brogan the PostmanAfter Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him....
Movie pageVictory
as Undetermined RoleAdaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Movie pageThe Stolen Ranch
as Sam HardyReturning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank...
Movie pageDavid Harum
as Townsman (uncredited)Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with...
Movie pageThat Mothers Might Live
as Passerby (uncredited)That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The...
Movie pageThe Unknown Man
as uncreditedA scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Movie pageArsène Lupin Returns
as Detective (uncredited)A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the...
Movie pageWild Beauty
as Jim KennedyA soldier returns home from World War I with a beautiful black horse that he saved on the...
Movie pageThe Desert Flower
as Jack RoyalA mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke...
Movie pageThe House on 56th Street
as Gambler (uncredited)A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits...
Movie pageI'll Take Romance
as Client in Kane's Waiting RoomTheater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry...
Movie pageCattle Queen
as WardenAfter conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be...
Movie pageThe Masked Menace
as uncreditedThe mill of an old woman and her ward, Faith Newton, is being terrorized by the masked menace of...
Movie pageHow to Hold Your Husband - BACK
as Boo Boo's Co-Worker (uncredited)In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold...
Movie pageAngel of Mercy
as Recruiting Sergeant (uncredited)This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
Movie pageMovie Pests
as Man Whose Foot Gets Stepped On (uncredited)This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying...
Movie pageA Man of Sentiment
as DoctorA man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them...
Movie pageSpring Madness
as Train Conductor Announcing "Board"Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to...
Movie pageBurning Bridges
as Jim BlackBob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war,...
Movie pageMan in the Rough
as Jim Kane (as William Norton Bailey)Attempting to warn an old prospector and his daughter of impending danger from a notorious...
Movie pageGeorge White's Scandals
as Harold BestryReporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the...
Movie pageFargo Express
as Goss Partner #2When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured,...
Movie pageThat Inferior Feeling
as Bank Guard (uncredited)Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of...
Movie pageI'll Name the Murderer
as Hugo Van OstrumGossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer...
Movie pageThe Truth About Youth
as Jim - Kara's Boyfriend (uncredited)A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Movie pageAl Jennings of Oklahoma
as Robert KyleBank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
Movie pageAgainst All Odds
as Tom Curtis (as William N. Baily)Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been...
Movie pageFederal Man
as Man in Elevator (uncredited)A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
Movie pageCentral Park
as Gangster Eddie (uncredited)Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...
Movie pageCourtin' Trouble
as CurtisJimmy Wakely a lawman goes undrrcover with a singing job at Dawson's saloon....
Movie pageFalse Paradise
as Mine ForemanA banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker...
Movie pageYou, the People
as JimThis MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his...
Movie pageBrand of Fear
as Frank MartinJimmy and Cannonball escort Anne Lamont, the new school teacher, to Oreville, where she is...
Movie pageIt May Happen to You
as Police Detective (uncredited)From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to...
Movie pageFighting Youth
as Harold BrenntyDick Covington is a society athlete who is quick with his fists. His fiancée, Jean Manley, hates...
Movie pageThe Lady or the Tiger?
as Party GuestAuthor Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending...
Movie pageA Coney Island Princess
as uncreditedWhen Pete Milholland (Owen Moore) goes on a drunken spree, his fiancee, Alice Gardner (Eva...
Movie pageThe Flyin' Cowboy
as James BellRodeo king Bill Hammon invites the owner of a Wild West show to give an exhibition at the ranch....
Movie pageWhen It Strikes Home
as Victor HartleyDick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him,...
Movie pageThe Preview Murder Mystery
as Studio Commissary Chief (Uncredited)The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the...
Movie pageThe Lone Avenger
as Henchman LandersA prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
Movie pageWar Brides
as EricJoan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a...
Movie pageThe Fighting Three
as Steve ClaytonThe touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of...
Movie pageShadow of Doubt
as Det. DonWhen a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the...
Movie pageFlag of Mercy
as Recruiting SergeantThe 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to...
Movie pageLife in Sometown, U.S.A.
as Husband in Courtroom (uncredited)A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still...
Movie pageThe Chaser
as HankA sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop...
Movie pageOne Night at Susie's
as John Nedlog (Uncredited)A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he...
Movie pageThunder in the Night
as Party GuestOfficer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet....
Movie pageThe Hour and the Man
as William MaxwellA lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man...
Movie pageSon of a Badman
as Brad BurleyLash and Fuzzy come to town to unmask the mysterious outlaw kingpin, El Sombre.
Movie pageThe Testing Fire
as Her City BeauGladys Norton, a sweet little country girl, receives a letter from her sweetheart, saying that...
Movie pageThe Flaming Forties
as DespardeA young cowhand befriends a disreputable gambler and pulls him out of some trouble. Hoping to...
Movie pageSarge Goes to College
as ProfessorA Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist...
Movie pageStranger in Town
as Harvey Company Wholesale Sales ClerkCrickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic...
Movie pageThe Way Perilous
as Roger CraneA young man leaves his Southern home, his father and his sweetheart, and falls into bad company...
Movie pageRanson's Folly
as Lt. CrosbyU. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and...
Movie pageThe Desert Hawk
as Tex TrappA cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job...
Movie pageOn Dangerous Ground
as Ritter BloemCarlyle Blackwell stars as an American in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. A mysterious...
Movie pageIs Money Everything?
as Roy PelhamA farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a...
Movie pageShadows of Suspicion
as Captain Walter ByfieldWhen the Great War begins, English sportsman Cyril Hammersley is thought to be a slacker because...
Movie pageMusic Man
as uncreditedBickering brothers unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
Movie pageThe Iron Heel
as Wiley's ButlerAn old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.
Movie pageThe Phantom Foe
as Bob RoyalJanet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what...
Movie pageGold Heels
as Kendall Jr.A man tries to woo a woman, rescue an orphanage, and bet on the right horse.
Movie pageI'll Say So
as August MyersHearing that the United States has just declared war on Germany, Bill Durham hurries to a...
Movie pageThe Conqueror
as FrankBess abhors the sinfulness of her brothers, who are crooks of the worst kind, so one day, while...
Movie pageLife's Weaving
as ThorwaldIrene Dupont, the pretty little French girl, in which John Braddon, Sr. had placed his...
Movie pageFrom the Valley of the Missing
as Everett BrinbecombeA baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they...
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