Cast
Will Wright
Acting
Cast
Will Wright
Known for
Acting
Born
1894-03-25
From
San Francisco, California, USA
Died
1962-06-19
Also known as William Henry Wright, William H. Wright
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Bambi
as Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)
★7.4
MOVIE1949
Little Women
as Mr. Grace (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Uncle Tom's Cabaña
as Uncle Tom (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1962
Cape Fear
as Dr. Pearsall
★6.8
MOVIE1953
Niagara
as Boatman
★6.2
MOVIE1946
Blue Skies
as Dan - Stage Manager (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Dallas
as Judge Harper
★7.6
MOVIE1960
Inherit the Wind
as Bible Salesman (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1954
River of No Return
as Trader (uncredited)
★7.8
MOVIE1964
Fail Safe
as Bit Part (uncredited)
★7.6
MOVIE1945
Scarlet Street
as Globe Loan Office Manager (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1953
The Wild One
as Art Kleiner
★7.4
MOVIE1954
Johnny Guitar
as Ned - Bank Teller (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1945
The Loose Nut
as Construction Worker (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE1942
Saboteur
as J.C. Lormans - Company Official (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Fall Guy
as Mr. Nedsen, Parkson's Attorney (uncredited)
★8.2
MOVIE1952
Paula
as Raymond Bascom
★6.8
MOVIE1949
They Live by Night
as Mobley
★7.0
MOVIE1949
All the King's Men
as Dolph Pillsbury
★7.1
MOVIE1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
★6.2
MOVIE1943
In Old Oklahoma
as Doctor
★6.9
MOVIE1952
O. Henry's Full House
as Manager (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1952
O. Henry's Full House
as Hotel Desk Clerk (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1943
So Proudly We Hail
as Colonel Clark (Uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1946
The Blue Dahlia
as "Dad" Newell
★6.0
MOVIE1959
Alias Jesse James
as Titus Queasley
★6.5
MOVIE1955
The Tall Men
as Gus - Bartender (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1951
Vengeance Valley
as Mr. Willoughby
★7.1
MOVIE1949
Adam's Rib
as Judge Marcasson
★5.8
MOVIE1955
The Kentuckian
as John Decker (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1948
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
as Pop Williams
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Shadow of the Thin Man
as Maguire (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Admiral William S. Sims
★5.5
MOVIE1951
My Forbidden Past
as Luther Toplady
★6.0
MOVIE1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
as Marshal Kit Dodge
★5.6
MOVIE1961
The Deadly Companions
as Doctor Acton
★6.2
MOVIE1955
Not as a Stranger
as Mr. Roberts (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1941
Honky Tonk
as Townsman at Meeting House (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1950
No Way Out
as Dr. Cheney (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1948
California's Golden Beginning
★6.8
MOVIE1950
House by the River
as Inspector Sarten
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Nothing but the Truth
as Mr. Bart Prichard (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1958
Rock-a-Bye Baby
as Fire Chief (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Here Comes Elmer
as Horace Parrot
★8.3
MOVIE1942
Shut My Big Mouth
as Jim Long
★7.3
MOVIE1949
Big Jack
as Will Farnsworth
★5.7
MOVIE1946
The Inner Circle
as Henry Boggs
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Act of Violence
as Pop
★7.1
MOVIE1942
The Major and the Minor
as Ticket Agent #1 (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Eph Hackett (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1954
The Raid
as Josiah Anderson
★6.6
MOVIE1941
The Tell-Tale Heart
as Second Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1953
The Last Posse
as Todd Mitchell
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tales of Manhattan
as Old Concertgoer (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1951
People Will Talk
as John Higgins (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1947
The Long Night
as Mr. Tully - the Janitor (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1948
The Walls of Jericho
as Dr. Patterson (uncredited)
★4.1
MOVIE1945
Salome, Where She Danced
as Sheriff
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Whispering Smith
as Sheriff McSwiggin
★6.9
MOVIE1951
The Tall Target
as Thomas Ogden (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Grissly's Millions
as John Frey
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Blossoms in the Dust
as Senator
★5.5
MOVIE1946
The Hoodlum Saint
as Allan 'Knucklehead' Smith - Times Editor (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1946
Without Reservations
as Pullman Conductor (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1950
The Savage Horde
as Judge Thomas Cole
★7.8
MOVIE1951
Excuse My Dust
as Race judge
★5.2
MOVIE1952
Young Man with Ideas
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1961
Twenty Plus Two
as Newspaper morgue attendant
★6.6
MOVIE1945
State Fair
as Hog Judge (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1949
Lust for Gold
as Parsons (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1957
Johnny Tremain
as Ephraim Lapham
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Tennessee Johnson
as Alderman (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1948
So This Is New York
as Uncle Fergus (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1945
Rhapsody in Blue
as Rachmaninoff
★5.2
MOVIE1949
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
as Roscoe Johnson (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1947
California
as Chairman (uncredited)
★5.1
MOVIE1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Jake - Poker Player (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1952
The Las Vegas Story
as Mike Fogarty
★6.2
MOVIE1957
Jeanne Eagels
as Marshal (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1959
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
as Pentagon General
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Mob Town
as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1946
Road to Utopia
as Mr. Latimer (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1940
You, the People
as Mr. Roberts
★6.2
MOVIE1945
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
as Mr. Nelson
★6.7
MOVIE1958
The Missouri Traveler
as Sheriff Marvin Peavy
★6.4
MOVIE1948
Relentless
as Sam - the Horse Dealer
★6.8
MOVIE1958
Quantrill's Raiders
as Judge Wood
★6.5
MOVIE1956
These Wilder Years
as Old Cab Driver
★6.9
MOVIE1948
An Act of Murder
as Judge Jim Wilder
★6.3
MOVIE1952
Holiday for Sinners
as The Man with a Cigar
★5.7
MOVIE1947
Mother Wore Tights
as Withers (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1957
The Wayward Bus
as Van Brunt
★5.4
MOVIE1945
Bewitched
as Mr. Herkheimer
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Rendezvous with Annie
as Elmer Snodgrass
★6.8
MOVIE1946
The Jolson Story
as Sourpuss Movie Patron (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Jake Willis
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Take It Big
as Rodeo Judge (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1947
Along the Oregon Trail
as Jim Bridger
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Wilson
as Hughes Campaign Orator in Maine (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1946
Who's Cookin Who?
as Wolfie Wolf (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1947
Blaze of Noon
as Mr. Thomas
★6.0
MOVIE1952
Lure of the Wilderness
as Sheriff Brink
★6.5
MOVIE1946
One Exciting Week
as Otis Piper
★5.6
MOVIE1951
Never Trust a Gambler
as Cap Douglas (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1946
They Made Me a Killer
as Henry, the Blacksmith
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Navy Way
as Baldy - Triangle A Ranch Hand (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Danger Street
as Police Chief Bullward
★6.7
MOVIE1958
Gunman's Walk
as Judge
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Wild Harvest
as Mike Alperson
★9.5
MOVIE1947
The Trouble with Women
as Commissioner (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1957
The Iron Sheriff
as Judge
★7.0
MOVIE1942
The Postman Didn't Ring
as Mr. Slade
★6.5
MOVIE1948
Black Eagle
as Sheriff Clancy
★7.3
MOVIE1945
You Came Along
as Col. Dale V. Armstrong (uncredited)
★7.6
MOVIE1946
The Reckless Driver
as Wally Walrus (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Blondie Plays Cupid
as Mr. Tucker
★6.9
MOVIE1943
The Meanest Man in the World
as Pawn Shop Owner (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1944
Dangerous Passage
as Postal Clerk (uncredited)
★7.4
MOVIE1950
Sunset in the West
as Sheriff Tad Osborne
★6.4
MOVIE1949
The Green Promise
as Mr. Grenstedt
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Maisie Was a Lady
as Judge Thatcher (Uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Practically Yours
as Sen. Cowling (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1952
Lydia Bailey
as Consul (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1952
The Happy Time
as Family Doctor
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Madonna's Secret
as The Riverman
★10.0
MOVIE1941
The Richest Man in Town
as Frederick Johnson
★5.2
MOVIE1942
A Letter From Bataan
as Mr. Limpert
★10.0
MOVIE1947
Keeper of the Bees
as Dr. Grayson
★6.6
MOVIE1948
The Inside Story
as J. J. Johnson
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Down Missouri Way
as Prof. Morris
★5.5
MOVIE1946
Big Town
as Station Agent (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1949
Mrs. Mike
as Dr. McIntosh
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Johnny Comes Flying Home
as Foreman (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1943
The Good Fellows
as Brother from Danville (uncredited)
★4.5
MOVIE1942
USS VD: Ship of Shame
as Commandant (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Cracked Nuts
as Sylvanus Boogle
★6.0
MOVIE1935
It's A Small World
as Courtroom spectator (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Sleepy Lagoon
as Cyrus Coates
★7.3
MOVIE1949
Brimstone
as Martin Tredwell
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Cynthia
as Gus Wood, Thatcher's Real Estate Rep
★7.0
MOVIE1944
The Town Went Wild
as Judge Harry Schrank (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1945
High Powered
as Jeff Hines
MOVIE1955
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
as Tim Summers
★6.8
MOVIE1946
Apple Andy
as Devil
★5.7
MOVIE1942
Wildcat
as John 'Paw' Smithers
MOVIE1948
Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home
as Babirusa / Pig (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1934
Pure Feud
as Lem (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Cowboy in Manhattan
as Higgins
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Fair Weather Fiends
as Wolfie Wolf (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1949
The Price of Freedom
as McTrees
★6.0
MOVIE1948
Disaster
as Pop Hansford
MOVIE1946
Prospecting for Petroleum
as The Professor (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1949
Grape Nutty
as Crow (Voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1944
You Can't Ration Love
as Judge Cary - Justice of the Peace
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Hot Cargo
as Tim Chapman