William Ruhl

Born: 1901-10-25


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You Only Live Once

as Guard (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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Mildred Pierce

as Personnel Man (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-20

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a...

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The Killers

as Fran (uncredited)
Released: 1946-08-30

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...

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Black Friday

as G-Man
Released: 1940-02-29

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving...

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Impact

as Fingerprint Expert
Released: 1949-03-20

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the...

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Hold That Ghost

as Night Club Patron Who Falls (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-08

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will....

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Invisible Agent

as Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
Released: 1942-08-07

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

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Who Killed Doc Robbin?

as Homicide Squad Inspector (uncredited)
Released: 1948-04-09

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways,...

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The Mummy's Tomb

as Nick (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-23

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill...

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Mister Big

as Producer
Released: 1943-05-28

Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but...

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Mr. Dynamite

as Detective
Released: 1941-03-01

A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.

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All My Sons

as uncredited
Released: 1948-05-01

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert...

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Badlands Of Dakota

as Ship's Officer
Released: 1941-09-15

Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of...

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Sutter's Gold

as Aide
Released: 1936-03-01

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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The Great Alaskan Mystery

as Agent Grey
Released: 1944-04-25

The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the...

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Red Barry

as C.E. Mannix
Released: 1938-10-18

A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.

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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

as Police Lieutenant
Released: 1948-05-23

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his...

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Rocky

as Drew
Released: 1948-01-17

Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the...

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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

as Talbot's Manager
Released: 1948-09-19

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

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Sabotage

as (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-13

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...

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My Favorite Spy

as Major Allen's Friend
Released: 1942-06-12

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy...

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California Passage

as Townsman (uncredited)
Released: 1950-12-15

A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his...

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Hit the Ice

as Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: 1943-06-02

Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured...

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Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as Doctor
Released: 1939-12-22

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter...

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The Mad Ghoul

as Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: 1943-11-12

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student,...

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Star Reporter

as Lane
Released: 1939-02-22

An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.

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Always Together

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-10

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a...

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Crash Donovan

as Driver (uncredited)
Released: 1936-08-01

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

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3 Kids and a Queen

as Reporter
Released: 1935-10-21

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She...

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Code of the Streets

as Police Lieutenant Welles
Released: 1939-04-13

Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and...

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Bowery Bombshell

as Henchman Spike
Released: 1946-07-20

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck...

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I Stole a Million

as Detective (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-01

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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It's a Date

as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-22

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a...

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Tough Kid

as Monk -Club Owner
Released: 1938-12-28

Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a...

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South of St. Louis

as uncredited
Released: 1949-03-06

With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed....

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Spendthrift

as Radio Operator
Released: 1936-07-22

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial...

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Smuggler's Cove

as Ryan, Building Manager
Released: 1948-10-10

Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it...

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Jinx Money

as Police Detective Sgt. Ryan
Released: 1948-06-27

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing....

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Scouts to the Rescue

as G- Man Hal Marvin
Released: 1939-01-17

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is...

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Texas Terrors

as Henchman Ashley
Released: 1940-11-22

A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to...

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Appointment for Love

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

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

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The Mystery of Marie Roget

as Detective
Released: 1942-04-23

A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

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Unseen Enemy

as Detective Callahan
Released: 1942-03-10

The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager...

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The Brute Man

as Policeman at Helen's Apartment (uncredited)
Released: 1946-10-01

A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his...

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Gaucho Serenade

as Henchman Carter
Released: 1940-05-09

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for...

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Unexpected Guest

as Sheriff
Released: 1947-03-28

At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among...

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Diamond Frontier

as Kendis
Released: 1940-09-30

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

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Oklahoma Renegades

as Mace Liscomb
Released: 1940-08-29

Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the...

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The Devil with Hitler

as Gestapo Guard (uncredited)
Released: 1942-10-18

Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the...

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Frontier Agent

as Marshal
Released: 1948-05-16

Johnny Mack Brown is sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang.

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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

as J.E. Lynch - Gang Attorney
Released: 1940-12-24

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

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The Daring Young Man

as Coroner
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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Haunted Trails

as Gorman
Released: 1949-08-21

Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank...

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Western Renegades

as Bartender Curly
Released: 1949-10-08

Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the...

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Cowboy Cavalier

as Mason
Released: 1948-07-11

Jimmy Wakely and "Cannonball" Taylor protect shipments along a stage and freight line from...

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Criminals Within

as Capt. Gray
Released: 1941-06-27

A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

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Let Them Live

as Matthew
Released: 1937-04-25

A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.

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The Great Jewel Robber

as Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1950-07-15

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the...

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Circus Shadows

as Dave Zirillo
Released: 1935-05-03

A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.

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Pirates of the Skies

as uncredited
Released: 1939-01-01

Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon...

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Hard Boiled Mahoney

as McGregor - Apartment Manager
Released: 1947-05-10

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes...

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Song of My Heart

as Cesar Cui
Released: 1948-01-31

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

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Code of the Silver Sage

as Major Duncan
Released: 1950-03-25

Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by...

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Song of the Drifter

as Philip Judson
Released: 1948-01-17

Jimmy joins Cannonball on a visit to the widow Fennamore, Cannonball's old girlfriend, at...

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So's Your Uncle

as Crell
Released: 1943-09-01

Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds...

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Prairie Express

as Gordon Gregg
Released: 1947-10-24

Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this...

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Days of Old Cheyenne

as Steve Brackett
Released: 1943-03-15

Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the...

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Below the Deadline

as Welsh
Released: 1946-08-03

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster,...

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Pals of the Golden West

as Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: 1951-11-15

US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing...

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The Hat Box Mystery

as Blackmailer (uncredited)
Released: 1947-06-12

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box...

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Adventures of Kitty O'Day

as Michael Tracey
Released: 1945-01-19

A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.

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Gauchos of El Dorado

as Sam Tyndal
Released: 1941-10-24

It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them....

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A Gentleman After Dark

as Detective
Released: 1942-04-16

A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's...

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Rendezvous at Midnight

as Schultz
Released: 1935-02-11

There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead,...

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The Law Comes to Gunsight

as Brad Foster
Released: 1947-05-24

Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Like a...

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