William Pawley

Born: 1905-07-21


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The Grapes of Wrath

as Bill
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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The Return of Frank James

as Actor
Released: 1940-08-10

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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The Roaring Twenties

as Cabdriver (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-28

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...

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Red-Headed Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1932-06-25

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an...

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

as Doggy (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-09

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...

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Speak Easily

as Griffo
Released: 1932-08-13

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

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You Only Live Once

as Mr. Williams (uncredited)
Released: 1937-01-23

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a...

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Union Pacific

as Dinty (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-05

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...

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Kentucky Kernels

as John Wakefield
Released: 1934-11-02

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky...

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International Crime

as Honest John
Released: 1938-04-23

The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La...

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Bullets or Ballots

as Crail - Ex Con (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-06

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake...

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Wicked

as Cop
Released: 1931-10-04

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber...

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Frontier Marshal

as Buck Newton
Released: 1939-07-28

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized...

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Johnny Apollo

as Paul
Released: 1940-04-19

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then...

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The Big Noise

as Dutch Schmidt (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-22

The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet...

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Time to Kill

as Hensch
Released: 1942-12-24

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

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San Quentin

as Convict
Released: 1937-05-24

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new...

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The Affair of Susan

as Policeman
Released: 1935-09-01

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

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The Great Profile

as Electrician
Released: 1940-08-30

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John...

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Young America

as Bandit (Uncredited)
Released: 1932-04-17

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do...

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Bad Girl

as Jim Haley
Released: 1931-08-13

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack...

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Yukon Flight

as Yuke Gradeau
Released: 1940-01-02

When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew...

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Over the Hill

as Ben Adams, Susan's Husband
Released: 1931-11-29

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children,...

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Boulder Dam

as Wilson - Garage Boss
Released: 1936-03-07

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man...

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Letty Lynton

as Hennessey
Released: 1932-04-30

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South...

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Gabriel Over the White House

as Borell
Released: 1933-03-31

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a...

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Surrender

as Gourrut
Released: 1931-12-06

Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the...

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Fatal Lady

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1936-05-15

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the...

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Amateur Daddy

as 2nd Fred Smith
Released: 1932-04-10

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of...

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Flirtation

as Gangster
Released: 1934-11-09

A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to...

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They Gave Him a Gun

as Gangster in Court (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-07

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

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White Banners

as Joe Ellis
Released: 1938-06-23

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small...

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Sky Bandits

as Morgan
Released: 1940-07-06

Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold...

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Prairie Moon

as Jim Legs Barton
Released: 1938-10-07

Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them...

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Careless Lady

as Police Captain
Released: 1932-04-02

Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the...

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The Yellow Ticket

as Train Porter
Released: 1931-10-30

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a...

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Public Deb No. 1

as Legionnaire
Released: 1940-09-13

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her...

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Born Reckless

as Mac
Released: 1937-06-25

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection...

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The Public Pays

as Kelly (uncredited)
Released: 1936-10-10

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Joseph Gilk
Released: 1932-05-01

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

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Rough Riders' Round-up

as Arizona Jack Moray
Released: 1939-03-13

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a...

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Crime Takes a Holiday

as Spike
Released: 1938-10-05

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of...

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Panama Lady

as Bartender
Released: 1939-05-12

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a...

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Public Enemy's Wife

as Correlli
Released: 1936-07-24

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene,...

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Trapped by G-Men

as Harry Grady
Released: 1937-09-09

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

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Central Park

as Gangster Hymie (uncredited)
Released: 1932-12-10

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...

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Disputed Passage

as Mr. Merkle
Released: 1939-10-25

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl...

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Women Are Trouble

as Mechanic
Released: 1936-07-31

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

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West of Abilene

as Chris Matson
Released: 1940-10-20

Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy...

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Cafe Hostess

as Red Connolly
Released: 1940-01-11

A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the...

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Double Alibi

as Dan Kraley
Released: 1940-03-01

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

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Stolen Harmony

as Turk Connors (uncredited)
Released: 1935-04-20

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray...

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Robbers' Roost

as Hank Hays
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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The Daring Young Man

as Muggs
Released: 1935-07-17

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...

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East of the River

as Dave Carter (uncredited)
Released: 1940-11-09

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other...

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Gambling on the High Seas

as Frank
Released: 1940-06-22

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to...

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Chicken Wagon Family

as Ensor
Released: 1939-08-10

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile...

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After Tomorrow

as Malcolm Jarvis
Released: 1932-03-06

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents,...

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Keep 'Em Rolling

as Man Benny Fights in Beer Garden
Released: 1934-03-02

World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

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Mary Burns, Fugitive

as Mike
Released: 1935-11-15

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a...

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