Billy Engle
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 27, 1889
Place of Birth: Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria
Known For
It Happened One Night
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Pop Goes the Easel
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
The Cruise of the Jasper B
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday-- otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
The Cat and the Canary
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
The Outriders
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Filmography
as Man at Party (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Funeral Guest (uncredited)
as Small Role (uncredited)
as Vendor (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Fisherman (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Man
as Prisoner (uncredited)
as Piano Tuner (uncredited)
as Northerner (uncredited)
as Customer (uncredited)
as Amateur Contest Contestant (uncredited)
as Deputy (uncredited)
as Shorty
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Barfly
as Newspaper Owner
as Sound Man in Courtroom (uncredited)
as Legionnaire
as Taxicab Driver
as Bookkeeper (uncredited)
as Tramp Comic (uncredited)
as Peewee
as Circus Attendant
as Waiter
as Man with Goblet (uncredited)
as Minor Role
as Racetrack Tout (uncredited)
as Waiter
as Mr. Dittenfuss - Alfredo's Assistant (uncredited)
as Townsman
as Golf Player
as Townsman
as Captain (uncredited)
as Shop Keeper (uncredited)
as Well-Wisher
as Undetermined Role
as Abie Cohen (uncredited)
as Breezy's Assistant
as Short Miner (uncredited)
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
as Museum Director
as Beer Drinker (uncredited)
as Third Bank Teller (Uncredited)
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
as Sam - the Stutterer
as The Stuttering Deputy
as Revolutionary (uncredited)
as Assistant
as Mr. Bloomer
as Freddie’s friend
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
as 'Beans' Baker
as Man from Audience assisting Blondini
as Little Mover
as 'Dinkey' Hook
as 'Madame Louise'
as Prince Henry Ferdinany
as Drunken club patron
as Phil Sheridan
as Floorwalker
as Short Officer
as The Thief
as Man in Employment Line
as The Mayor
as Prospector
as Immigrant Convict
as The Girl's Father