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William Worthington (April 9, 1872, Troy, New York - April 9, 1941, Beverly Hills, California) was an American silent film actor and director.
Il est resté actif comme acteur jusqu'à sa mort en 1941.
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 april 1872 at Troy (USA)
Death 9 april 1941 (at 69 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Birth 8 april 1872 at Troy (USA)
Death 9 april 1941 (at 69 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
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William Worthington (April 9, 1872, Troy, New York - April 9, 1941, Beverly Hills, California) was an American silent film actor and director.
Biography
Il commence sa carrière comme chanteur d'opéra et acteur de théâtre. Il débute au cinéma comme acteur puis il se concentre sur la réalisation et devient le directeur d'une société de production, Multicolor, qui sera rachetée par Cinecolor en 1932.Il est resté actif comme acteur jusqu'à sa mort en 1941.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
, 1h50Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Minor Watson, Mary Howard, Alan Baxter
Roles Minor Role (uncredited)
Rating72%
Abe Lincoln leaves home for the first time, having been hired along with two of his friends by Denton Offut to take a load of pigs by water to New Orleans. When the boat overturns at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge, the beautiful daughter of the local tavern keeper. Thus, when Denton later offers him a job at the store he has decided to set up in New Salem, Abe readily accepts.
Law and Order (1940)
, 57minutesDirected by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day, James Craig, Harry Cording, Earle Hodgins
Roles Judge Williams
Rating60%
At the beginning of the film, Bill Ralston arrests a bad cowboy named Deadwood and takes him to Judge Williams. Ralston returns to his girl, Sally Dixon, before she is shot in the chest 8 times by Brant, a goon of Deadwood's, and Poe Daggett, an old enemy of Ralston. Ralston shoots Daggett in the knee, and the two run away into the saloon. He sees all of his friends including Sheriff Fin Elder at the Saloon, and they sing him a song. Then Daggett comes behind the Sheriff and tries to kill him, but Poe's brother, Walt, stops him from doing it. Everyone gets into a big fight, and in the end, the only survivors are Bill Ralston and Sheriff Fin Elder.
Zenobia (1939)
, 1h13Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals
Actors Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, Hattie McDaniel, James Ellison
Roles Townsman
Rating59%
Hardy plays Dr. Henry Tibbett, a country doctor who is called on by a travelling circus trainer to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere. This leads to the trainer suing Dr. Tibbett for alienation of affection.
, 1h33Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Victor Varconi
Roles Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Rating68%
The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.
Homicide Bureau (1939)
, 58minutesDirected by Charles C. Coleman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Richard Fiske, Moroni Olsen, Gene Morgan
Roles Citizen League Member
Rating56%
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
, 2h9Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Committeeman (uncredited)
Rating80%
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Union Pacific (1939)
, 2h15Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Roles Oliver Ames (uncredited)
Rating70%
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Dark Victory (1939)
, 1h44Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Henry Travers, Ronald Reagan
Roles Specialist #1 (uncredited)
Rating73%
Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a young, carefree, hedonistic Long Island socialite and heiress with a passion for horses, fast cars, and too much smoking and drinking. She initially ignores severe headaches and brief episodes of dizziness and double vision, but when she uncharacteristically takes a spill while riding, and then tumbles down a flight of stairs, her secretary and best friend Ann King (Geraldine Fitzgerald) insists she see the family doctor, who refers her to a specialist.
6,000 Enemies (1939)
, 1h2Directed by George B. Seitz, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly, Nat Pendleton, Harold Huber, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Frank Jordan
Rating60%
District attorney Steve Donegan (Walter Pidgeon) an all-too-efficient district attorney who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
Espionage Agent (1939)
, 1h23Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft, Stanley Ridges, James Stephenson
Roles Instructor in Montage
Rating59%
The film opens with a description of the Black Tom explosion of a munitions supply located in Jersey City on the Hudson River. The explosion, which occurred during World War I was an act of sabotage by German agents.
The Girl from Mexico (1939)
, 1h11Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Actors Lupe Vélez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon, Ward Bond
Roles Mr. Patton
Rating63%
Rio (1939)
, 1h15Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen, Sigrid Gurie, Robert Cummings, Leo Carrillo, Billy Gilbert
Roles American Banker (uncredited)
Rating60%
French financier Paul Reynard (Rathbone) is sentenced to a ten-year term in a South American penal colony for bank fraud. His wife Irene (Gurie) and Paul's faithful servant Dirk (McLaglen) travel to Rio de Janeiro to arrange for Paul's escape. But once she's landed in the Brazilian capital, Irene falls in love with American engineer Bill Gregory (Cummings). After his escape Paul realizes that he's lost his wife forever to a better man. Seeking revenge, he prepares to shoot Bill in cold blood, but Dirk intervenes and kills Reynard instead.
They Made Her a Spy (1939)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber, Frank M. Thomas, Theodore von Eltz, Addison Richards
Roles Senator in the Dome Cafe
Rating56%
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
, 1h27Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Allen Jenkins, Gale Page
Roles Guest (uncredited)
Rating69%
Dr. Clitterhouse is a wealthy society doctor in New York City who decides to research the medical aspects of the behavior of criminals directly by becoming one. He begins a series of daring jewel robberies, measuring his own blood pressure, temperature and pulse before, during and afterwards, but yearns for a larger sample for his study.
Boys Town (1938)
, 1h36Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Darryl Hickman, Gene Reynolds
Roles Governor (uncredited)
Rating71%
The story opens when a convicted murderer asks to make his confession on the day of his execution. The condemned man is visited by an old friend, Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) who runs a home for indigent men in Omaha, Nebraska. When the prison officials suggest that the condemned man owes the state a debt, Father Flanagan witnesses the condemned man's diatribe to prison officials and a reporter that describes his awful plight as a homeless and friendless boy who was a ward in state institutions. After the convicted man asks the officials to leave, Father Flanagan provides some comfort and wisdom. On the train back to Omaha, Father Flanagan is transformed in his humanitarian mission by revelations (echoed in the words) imparted by the condemned man's litany of hardships experienced as a child without friends or family as a ward of the state.