William Pawley
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1905-07-21
Place of Birth:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Also Known As:Wm. Pawley

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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...

Rough Riders' Round-up (1939)
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,...

Decision at Midnight (1963)
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.

Red-Headed Woman (1932)
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...

Trapped by G-Men (1937)
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
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...

International Crime (1938)
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...

Flirtation (1934)
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.

Prairie Moon (1938)
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...

Born Reckless (1937)
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...

White Banners (1938)
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...

Over the Hill (1931)
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....

After Tomorrow (1932)
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...

Letty Lynton (1932)
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance...

Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

The Affair of Susan (1935)
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Careless Lady (1932)
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.

Bad Girl (1931)
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...

They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Fatal Lady (1936)
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

Stolen Harmony (1935)
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...

The Big Noise (1936)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half...

Kentucky Kernels (1934)
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...

Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

Women Are Trouble (1936)
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Boulder Dam (1936)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Union Pacific (1939)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Frontier Marshal (1939)
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
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...

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
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...

Surrender (1931)
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.

West of Abilene (1940)
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...

Yukon Flight (1940)
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien)...

Sky Bandits (1940)
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...

The Yellow Ticket (1931)
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...

The Daring Young Man (1935)
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...

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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...

Mercy Plane (1939)
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane service that flies patients to other cities for...

Amateur Daddy (1932)
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on...

The Return of Frank James (1940)
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

San Quentin (1937)
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...

East of the River (1940)
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.

Johnny Apollo (1940)
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...

The Great Profile (1940)
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Cafe Hostess (1940)
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.

Disputed Passage (1939)
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...

Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Double Alibi (1940)
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Robbers' Roost (1932)
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...

Time to Kill (1942)
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

Panama Lady (1939)
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...

The Public Pays (1936)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement...

Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
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...

Bullets or Ballots (1936)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger...

Central Park (1932)
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...

You Only Live Once (1937)
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...

Speak Easily (1932)
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Wicked (1931)
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.

Young America (1932)
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...