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William Henry "Will" Wright (March 26, 1894, San Francisco, California - June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American character actor. He was frequently cast in westerns and in curmudgeonly roles. Over the course of his career, Wright appeared in more than 200 film and television roles. He started his acting career in vaudeville and later moved to the stage, then on to movies, radio, and television.
Among the films in which Wright appeared are Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Major and the Minor (1943), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), Road to Utopia (1946), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Little Women (1949), Walk Softly, Stranger (1950), Sunset in the West (1950), People Will Talk (1951), The Happy Time (1952), River of No Return (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Jeanne Eagels (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958). One of his most famous and memorable film roles was corrupt city official Dolph Pillsbury in the Academy Award-winning All the King's Men (1949).
Wright provided the voice of Friend Owl in Walt Disney's animated film Bambi (1942). He guest starred on several television series.
Will Wright died of cancer in 1962.
Most Popular Will Wright Trailers
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13 April 1949
The fox and crow are sharing grapes while the crow reads a book about a similar fox and crow sharing grapes who eventually fought it out for the last one.
01 January 1948
Live action animals with animated mouths act the story
31 October 1940
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
05 September 1943
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
09 April 1946
Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples.
10 October 1946
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business.
26 February 1944
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
09 June 1944
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch.
12 April 1949
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
14 August 1942
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
20 April 1934
Edgar Appletree learns the ins and outs of family feuding courtesy of Charlie McCarthy.
26 September 1947
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money.
14 April 1945
Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.
22 November 1948
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
05 December 1948
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
10 January 1941
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid.
22 March 1949
A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in charge of the farm.
02 May 1952
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
04 July 1945
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
27 February 1945
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
01 January 1946
All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.
15 November 1943
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city.
04 April 1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected.
10 March 1949
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
14 October 1950
Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident.
25 June 1947
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating.
12 April 1962
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
15 May 1952
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret.
07 October 1964
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
04 July 1945
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss.
29 August 1945
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest.
17 April 1945
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy.
29 August 1951
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.
03 October 1941
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
22 April 1942
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
30 April 1954
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
20 October 1949
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on.
26 January 1953
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
30 October 1952
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
15 August 1946
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.
25 December 1945
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March.
21 February 1947
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train.
30 December 1953
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell.
16 August 1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
16 April 1946
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
14 March 1948
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping.
12 April 1935
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
16 November 1949
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
09 December 1948
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him.
01 June 1948
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
26 May 1954
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang.
01 April 1957
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie.
07 July 1960
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.
23 December 1949
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan.
22 July 1955
A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
11 August 1943
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
13 May 1946
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes.
29 August 1947
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
23 July 1958
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
25 March 1948
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
