William Pawley
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 21, 1905
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Known For
Over the Hill
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
You Only Live Once
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
The Public Pays
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
Letty Lynton
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Filmography
as Hensch
as Dave Carter (uncredited)
as Chris Matson
as Legionnaire
as Electrician
as Actor
as Morgan
as Frank
as Paul
as Bill
as Dan Kraley
as Red Connolly
as Yuke Gradeau
as Cabdriver (uncredited)
as Mr. Merkle
as Ensor
as Buck Newton
as Bartender
as Dinty (uncredited)
as Arizona Jack Moray
as Jim Legs Barton
as Spike
as Joe Ellis
as Honest John
as Harry Grady
as Mac
as Convict
as Gangster in Court (uncredited)
as Mr. Williams (uncredited)
as Kelly (uncredited)
as Mechanic
as Correlli
as Dutch Schmidt (uncredited)
as Crail - Ex Con (uncredited)
as Detective (uncredited)
as Wilson - Garage Boss
as Mike
as Policeman
as Muggs
as Turk Connors (uncredited)
as Gangster
as John Wakefield
as Man Benny Fights in Beer Garden
as Borell
as Hank Hays
as Gangster Hymie (uncredited)
as Doggy (uncredited)
as Griffo
as Al (uncredited)
as Joseph Gilk
as Hennessey
as Bandit (Uncredited)
as 2nd Fred Smith
as Police Captain
as Malcolm Jarvis
as Gourrut
as Ben Adams, Susan's Husband
as Train Porter
as Cop
as Jim Haley