William Irving
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1893-05-17
Locus Natus: Hamburg, Germany
Et ut: Bill Irving, W.J. Irving, William J. Irving
The Cameraman
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
release : 1928.09.10popularis : 11.49
Convicted
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
release : 1938.08.18popularis : 2.656
Chicken Feathers
Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies
release : 1927.02.27popularis : 2.416
Hooks and Jabs
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich....
release : 1933.08.24popularis : 2.416
Honeymoon Bridge
His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
release : 1935.10.02popularis : 2.363
The Super Snooper
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
release : 1937.02.25popularis : 1.967
The Heart of a Child
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
release : 1920.04.11popularis : 1.317
Pop Goes the Easel
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to...
release : 1935.03.29popularis : 4.311
Punch Drunks
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe...
release : 1934.07.13popularis : 6.397
Whose Baby?
Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
release : 1917.07.08popularis : 0.774
Back to the Woods
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that...
release : 1937.05.14popularis : 3.85
Dizzy Doctors
The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is...
release : 1937.03.19popularis : 4.498
Wee Wee Monsieur
The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign...
release : 1938.02.18popularis : 4.445
Am I Having Fun!
Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then...
release : 1936.09.17popularis : 1.721
Nothing to Wear
Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Jacqueline Logan, Theodore von Eltz, Bryant Washburn, Jane Winton.
release : 1928.11.05popularis : 1.429
Slippery Silks
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During...
release : 1936.12.27popularis : 7.251
The Shadow
Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim,...
release : 1937.12.22popularis : 2.181
Foolish Hearts
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience,...
release : 1935.12.27popularis : 4.95
The Best Man Wins
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to...
release : 1935.01.14popularis : 2
Radio Dough
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
release : 1934.02.05popularis : 1.568
New News
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and...
release : 1937.04.01popularis : 3.101
The Hitchhiker
Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do,...
release : 1933.02.11popularis : 3.314
Song of the Caballero
After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the...
release : 1930.06.29popularis : 0.811
Paris in Spring
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to...
release : 1935.05.27popularis : 1.726
One More Spring
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
release : 1935.02.15popularis : 2.81
The Personality Kid
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
release : 1934.06.06popularis : 2.54
Manhattan Parade
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
release : 1931.12.24popularis : 3.472
Maybe It's Love
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
release : 1935.01.12popularis : 1.845
Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
release : 1939.01.27popularis : 2.713
Good Girls Go to Paris
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...
release : 1939.06.20popularis : 8.904
News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...
release : 1939.07.20popularis : 1.279
Tired Feet
Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
release : 1933.01.02popularis : 0.582
Chase Yourself
Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man,...
release : 1926.06.26popularis : 0.589
Fast and Furious
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...
release : 1939.10.06popularis : 6.604
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
release : 1939.11.23popularis : 18.762
It Happened One Night
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...
release : 1934.02.22popularis : 16.692
The Life of the Party
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
release : 1930.10.25popularis : 2.506
Navy Blues
The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with...
release : 1923.09.16popularis : 0.525
Winter Has Came
A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time...
release : 1923.04.06popularis : 0.444
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
release : 1940.10.15popularis : 24.774
Woman Against Woman
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
release : 1938.06.24popularis : 1.816
Special Inspector
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot...
release : 1938.02.14popularis : 0.972
Counsel on De Fence
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
release : 1934.10.24popularis : 1.012
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...
release : 1936.04.09popularis : 13.825
Three Little Beers
The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice....
release : 1935.11.28popularis : 3.454
The Florentine Dagger
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
release : 1935.03.30popularis : 2.164
The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...
release : 1940.06.20popularis : 8.346
Little Men
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...
release : 1940.11.29popularis : 2.496
Terry and the Pirates
Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie...
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 1.586
Topper
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...
release : 1937.07.16popularis : 7.214
Rough Waters
A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
release : 1930.06.06popularis : 0.566
On the Border
A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
release : 1930.03.14popularis : 0.452
Red Hair
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also...
release : 1928.03.10popularis : 0.889
The Truth About Youth
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
release : 1930.11.03popularis : 5.163
Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee,...
release : 1923.12.24popularis : 1.201
Surprise
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
release : 1930.03.15popularis : 0.544
She Who Gets Slapped
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
release : 1930.05.15popularis : 2.388
What a Life
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
release : 1930.03.15popularis : 0.846
Carnival
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...
release : 1935.02.15popularis : 2.322
Playing the Ponies
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos,...
release : 1937.10.15popularis : 2.387
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 3.651
A Farewell to Arms
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley....
release : 1932.12.08popularis : 24.245
Melody in Spring
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour,"...
release : 1934.04.07popularis : 1.339
Murder in Greenwich Village
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...
release : 1937.11.03popularis : 3.835
Hearts in Exile
In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each...
release : 1929.09.14popularis : 0.993
Bitter Sweet
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
release : 1940.11.08popularis : 3.461
From Headquarters
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists...
release : 1929.04.27popularis : 1.764
Whispers
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
release : 1941.02.08popularis : 2.745
Coney Island
Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by...
release : 1928.01.13popularis : 0.858
Sid's Long Count
Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any matches, turns to selling reducing machines for a...
release : 1930.03.24popularis : 0.827
The Girl in the Pullman
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations...
release : 1927.10.31popularis : 1.754
Fair But Foolish
The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off...
release : 1925.11.29popularis : 2.597
A Wireless Lizzie
Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car...
release : 1929.03.07popularis : 1.175
Duck Out
At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans,...
release : 1927.02.13popularis : 0.948
Easy Curves
Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.
release : 1927.11.12popularis : 1.432
Sailor Beware
Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads,...
release : 1927.02.20popularis : 0.845
Down on the Farm
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
release : 1938.10.11popularis : 1.687
Billions
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses...
release : 1920.12.06popularis : 0.932
The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...
release : 1938.07.29popularis : 2.359
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
release : 1927.11.29popularis : 2.105
Public Hero Number 1
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...
release : 1935.05.31popularis : 3.921
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...
release : 1930.04.29popularis : 15.721
Manhattan Melodrama
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
release : 1934.05.04popularis : 6.318
The Noodle Nut
Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the...
release : 1921.01.01popularis : 2.552
Till I Come Back to You
Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse...
release : 1918.08.25popularis : 4.871
Circus Clowns
Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.
release : 1922.01.25popularis : 1.452
Swiss Movements
To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.
release : 1927.12.31popularis : 1.501
The Wrong Miss Wright
Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
release : 1937.06.18popularis : 0.622
Orient Express
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day...
release : 1934.02.28popularis : 2.197
One Too Many
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
release : 1934.12.28popularis : 3.319
Mike Fright
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
release : 1934.08.25popularis : 2.572