William Pawley
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-07-21
Locus Natus: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Et ut: Wm. Pawley
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
Rough Riders' Round-up
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost,...
release : 1939.03.13popularis : 2.313
Decision at Midnight
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
release : 1963.12.12popularis : 0.497
Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...
release : 1932.06.25popularis : 9.199
Trapped by G-Men
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
release : 1937.09.09popularis : 1.402
Public Enemy's Wife
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She...
release : 1936.07.24popularis : 1.544
International Crime
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an...
release : 1938.04.23popularis : 3.77
Flirtation
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
release : 1934.11.09popularis : 1.274
Prairie Moon
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of...
release : 1938.10.07popularis : 3.339
Born Reckless
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion...
release : 1937.06.25popularis : 4.748
White Banners
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook...
release : 1938.06.23popularis : 4.395
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....
release : 1931.11.29popularis : 1.592
After Tomorrow
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get...
release : 1932.03.06popularis : 0.703
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...
release : 1932.04.30popularis : 3.961
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...
release : 1933.03.31popularis : 4.561
The Affair of Susan
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
release : 1935.09.01popularis : 3.511
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
release : 1932.05.01popularis : 1.083
Careless Lady
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
release : 1932.04.02popularis : 3.221
Bad Girl
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their...
release : 1931.08.13popularis : 4.265
They Gave Him a Gun
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
release : 1937.05.07popularis : 2.724
Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...
release : 1936.05.15popularis : 1.246
Stolen Harmony
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...
release : 1935.04.20popularis : 2.545
The Big Noise
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half...
release : 1936.06.22popularis : 4.011
Kentucky Kernels
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and...
release : 1934.11.02popularis : 0.96
Keep 'Em Rolling
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
release : 1934.03.02popularis : 0.983
Women Are Trouble
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
release : 1936.07.31popularis : 1.325
Boulder Dam
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
release : 1936.03.07popularis : 1.712
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 5.176
Frontier Marshal
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
release : 1939.07.28popularis : 4.869
Chicken Wagon Family
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading...
release : 1939.08.10popularis : 2.683
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
Surrender
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
release : 1931.12.06popularis : 2.453
West of Abilene
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local...
release : 1940.10.20popularis : 1.171
Sky Bandits
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has...
release : 1940.07.06popularis : 2.363
Yukon Flight
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien)...
release : 1940.01.02popularis : 1.596
The Yellow Ticket
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...
release : 1931.10.30popularis : 2.161
The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...
release : 1935.07.17popularis : 2.171
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...
release : 1932.11.09popularis : 12.336
Mercy Plane
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for...
release : 1939.12.04popularis : 2.013
Amateur Daddy
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...
release : 1932.04.10popularis : 2.354
The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth...
release : 1940.08.10popularis : 6.423
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
San Quentin
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for...
release : 1937.05.24popularis : 3.124
East of the River
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
release : 1940.11.09popularis : 3.126
The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 4.126
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
Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
release : 1940.01.11popularis : 1.694
Disputed Passage
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs...
release : 1939.10.25popularis : 5.726
Gambling on the High Seas
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
release : 1940.06.22popularis : 0.77
Double Alibi
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
release : 1940.03.01popularis : 4.484
Robbers' Roost
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to...
release : 1932.12.30popularis : 1.362
Time to Kill
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
release : 1942.12.24popularis : 1.235
Panama Lady
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...
release : 1939.05.12popularis : 2.818
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...
release : 1936.10.10popularis : 5.504
Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 1.57
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
Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again...
release : 1932.12.10popularis : 1.483
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...
release : 1937.01.23popularis : 4.982
Speak Easily
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
release : 1932.08.13popularis : 3.714
Wicked
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
release : 1931.10.04popularis : 2.925
Crime Takes a Holiday
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
release : 1938.10.05popularis : 0.326
Young America
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...
release : 1932.04.17popularis : 3.43