Norman Willis
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1903-05-27
Locus Natus: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Et ut: Willis Ira Norman, Willis Norman, Jack Norman, Norman Willes
Apology for Murder
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit...
release : 1945.09.27popularis : 3.156
Bullets or Ballots
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...
release : 1936.06.06popularis : 4.853
The Living Ghost
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
release : 1942.08.11popularis : 1.421
San Antonio
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is...
release : 1945.12.29popularis : 5.965
Voodoo Woman
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a...
release : 1957.04.11popularis : 4.936
Phantom Lady
A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.
release : 1944.01.28popularis : 10.619
Blackwell's Island
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
release : 1939.01.24popularis : 3.384
Thunder Over Arizona
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in...
release : 1956.08.04popularis : 2.073
Pals and Gals
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has...
release : 1954.06.03popularis : 1.563
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
release : 1938.07.16popularis : 2.499
Convict's Code
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
release : 1939.01.18popularis : 3.562
Out West
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to...
release : 1947.04.24popularis : 2.923
Men in Exile
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
release : 1937.04.04popularis : 2.701
Here Comes Carter
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
release : 1936.10.24popularis : 2.418
Black Gold
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
release : 1947.09.16popularis : 1.358
Atlantic Adventure
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....
release : 1935.08.25popularis : 1.312
Secret Valley
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
release : 1937.01.15popularis : 2.656
Gauchos of El Dorado
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his...
release : 1941.10.24popularis : 2.29
The Dawn Patrol
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty...
release : 1938.12.24popularis : 5.173
Prison Nurse
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...
release : 1938.03.02popularis : 3.08
That Certain Woman
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
release : 1937.08.30popularis : 3.725
F-Man
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes...
release : 1936.05.02popularis : 1.166
The Forgotten Woman
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
release : 1939.07.07popularis : 2.264
The Iron Claw
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron...
release : 1941.08.15popularis : 1.548
Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
release : 1937.04.04popularis : 1.047
Tell No Tales
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
release : 1939.06.12popularis : 3.766
Homicide Bureau
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide...
release : 1939.01.05popularis : 3.976
Tim Tyler's Luck
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb...
release : 1937.12.27popularis : 0.515
Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
release : 1954.11.10popularis : 7.869
Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
release : 1939.04.07popularis : 5.841
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...
release : 1939.10.28popularis : 15.172
Overland to Deadwood
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood....
release : 1942.09.25popularis : 1.264
Outlaws of the Prairie
Charles Starrett plays two-fisted frontiersman Dart Collins in this slick Columbia "B" western. Collins wants to find out who's behind a series of...
release : 1937.12.01popularis : 1.233
You, the People
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...
release : 1940.11.30popularis : 3.387
King of the Royal Mounted
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns...
release : 1940.09.19popularis : 2.975
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...
release : 1940.03.15popularis : 11.062
International Settlement
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
release : 1938.02.04popularis : 2.667
Legion of the Lawless
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
release : 1940.01.05popularis : 2.415
Johnny Come Lately
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will...
release : 1943.09.03popularis : 7.024
I Escaped from the Gestapo
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over...
release : 1943.05.14popularis : 1.618
Bad Man from Red Butte
A cowboy arrives in a town, and is immediately mistaken for his twin brother who is wanted for murder.
release : 1940.06.01popularis : 1.901
Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 5.476
I Was Framed
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
release : 1942.04.04popularis : 1.449
A Girl with Ideas
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
release : 1937.11.01popularis : 0.823
Twilight on the Trail
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the...
release : 1941.09.29popularis : 1.544
Mary Burns, Fugitive
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
release : 1935.11.15popularis : 4.084
The House Across the Bay
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...
release : 1940.03.01popularis : 4.176
They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...
release : 1940.07.26popularis : 9.725
Beyond the Sacramento
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly...
release : 1940.11.11popularis : 1.288
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 : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.633
Bowery Buckaroos
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted...
release : 1947.11.22popularis : 3.881
The Avenging Rider
Wrongfully arrested, Tim must escape and find the men who murdered his partner and stole the gold.
release : 1943.05.20popularis : 1.857
Down Rio Grande Way
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was...
release : 1942.04.23popularis : 1.436
Outlaws of the Panhandle
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of...
release : 1941.02.27popularis : 0.85
Hail to the Rangers
In this western, fake settlers make themselves at home on an ex-ranger's ranch and drive him away. A shady newspaper publisher and a gambler then...
release : 1943.09.15popularis : 0.633
Bandits of Dark Canyon
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the attackers but Ranger Rocky Lane catches up with...
release : 1947.12.15popularis : 1.514
In Old New Mexico
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic...
release : 1945.05.15popularis : 0.756
King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from...
release : 1943.04.09popularis : 4.453
Belle Starr
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....
release : 1941.09.12popularis : 4.276
The Bounty Killer
Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty...
release : 1965.07.30popularis : 3.287
Law of the Badlands
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the...
release : 1945.04.14popularis : 3.771
Torture Money
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
release : 1937.01.02popularis : 2.538
Roaring Guns
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
release : 1944.02.19popularis : 1.217
A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...
release : 1942.12.10popularis : 3.963
Little Miss Broadway
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway...
release : 1947.06.19popularis : 2.847
Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
release : 1937.04.10popularis : 10.72
Alibi for Murder
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...
release : 1936.09.23popularis : 2.254
A Hatful of Rain
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
release : 1957.07.17popularis : 4.297
Boy Slaves
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
release : 1939.02.02popularis : 1.857