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William Nigh (October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955) was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".
He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin.
His film career began with acting in 17 films in 1913 and 1914; he also directed one of these, Salomy Jane. He acted in 8 more films in the 1910s and two more in the 1920s, but directed a total of 119 films, the last in 1948. His film-writing credits numbered 18, mostly concentrated early in his career.
His films included Mr. Wise Guy, Thunder, Black Dragons, Corregidor, Mr. Wong, Detective, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, Lady from Chungking, The Fatal Hour, The Ape, Doomed to Die, Lord Byron of Broadway, and Casey of the Coast Guard.
He died in Burbank, California at the age of 74.
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03 January 1926
Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufactures washing machines.
01 August 1936
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
15 May 1942
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
05 August 1935
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
02 January 1932
Pete Marlan is a gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Pete plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers.
04 April 1946
Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind.
31 January 1941
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight.
06 March 1942
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis.
27 October 1918
Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect.
18 August 1945
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
04 September 1921
Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model.
07 December 1938
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial.
16 June 1913
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
12 October 1942
The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names.
11 August 1928
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
11 January 1947
Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores.
29 January 1935
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner.
24 October 1939
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
25 December 1921
A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune. Overwhelmed by the city's hustle and bustle, and entranced by the rich and sophisticated high-society types he comes into contact with, he eventually finds himself caught up in the city's seedy underworld.
14 April 1934
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
24 August 1920
A powerful financial magnate is plotted against by his greedy son.
13 June 1948
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
03 June 1917
Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her.
15 March 1934
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
15 June 1946
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Woods) in a small western town.
30 March 1940
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
15 April 1935
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business.
09 March 1929
Jewel thieves pull a heist on a diamond mining operation in Africa and take the foreman hostage before escaping into the Kalahari Desert, but when they get lost, the foreman must take charge and save them.
03 April 1932
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity.
14 May 1935
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her.
08 January 1938
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
29 March 1943
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
08 November 1945
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
03 October 1941
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
29 June 1937
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals.
12 April 1939
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune.
20 February 1942
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death.
15 April 1938
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
25 December 1930
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them.
07 May 1937
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group.
26 November 1943
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training.
05 October 1938
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
22 March 1937
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request.
30 September 1940
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum.
07 December 1941
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
24 April 1944
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast.
12 August 1940
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming.
26 March 1927
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
02 October 1934
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
06 December 1915
Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin .
01 June 1919
The American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards are taken, in this documentary-style propaganda drama.
01 November 1930
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
01 October 1935
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
30 March 1946
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission.
29 May 1935
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
16 August 1915
The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries.
01 August 1939
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper.
28 November 1931
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him.
07 July 1937
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
25 January 1935
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night.
