Will Wright

Will Wright

Birthday: 1894-03-25

Deathday: 1962-06-19

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Also known as: William Henry Wright, William H. Wright

imdb_id: nm0942926

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Henry "Will" Wright (March 26, 1894, San Francisco, California - June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American character actor. He was frequently cast in westerns and in curmudgeonly roles. Over the course of his career, Wright appeared in more than 200 film and television roles. He started his acting career in vaudeville and later moved to the stage, then on to movies, radio, and television. Among the films in which Wright appeared are Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Major and the Minor (1943), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), Road to Utopia (1946), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Little Women (1949), Walk Softly, Stranger (1950), Sunset in the West (1950), People Will Talk (1951), The Happy Time (1952), River of No Return (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Jeanne Eagels (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958). One of his most famous and memorable film roles was corrupt city official Dolph Pillsbury in the Academy Award-winning All the King's Men (1949). Wright provided the voice of Friend Owl in Walt Disney's animated film Bambi (1942). He guest starred on several television series. Will Wright died of cancer in 1962.

Played in movies:

Shut My Big Mouth

Score: 8.5

Fall Guy

Score: 8.0

Fail Safe

Score: 7.8

Inherit the Wind

Score: 7.7

Scarlet Street

Score: 7.6

Sunset in the West

Score: 7.5

Johnny Guitar

Score: 7.4

Little Women

Score: 7.4

Cape Fear

Score: 7.4

Fair Weather Fiends

Score: 7.3

The Reckless Driver

Score: 7.3

Who's Cookin Who?

Score: 7.3

Excuse My Dust

Score: 7.2

People Will Talk

Score: 7.1

The Man with the Golden Arm

Score: 7.1

Nothing But the Truth

Score: 7.1

Adam's Rib

Score: 7.1

The Major and the Minor

Score: 7.1

Bambi

Score: 7.0

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Score: 7.0

You Came Along

Score: 7.0

Shadow of the Thin Man

Score: 7.0

All the King's Men

Score: 7.0

No Way Out

Score: 6.9

They Live by Night

Score: 6.9

Act of Violence

Score: 6.9

Saboteur

Score: 6.9

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Score: 6.8

The Tall Target

Score: 6.8

Maisie Was a Lady

Score: 6.8

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Score: 6.8

Niagara

Score: 6.8

Green Grass of Wyoming

Score: 6.8

O. Henry's Full House

Score: 6.7

O. Henry's Full House

Score: 6.7

Road to Utopia

Score: 6.7

River of No Return

Score: 6.7

The Blue Dahlia

Score: 6.7

California

Score: 6.7

House by the River

Score: 6.7

Blondie Plays Cupid

Score: 6.7

An Act of Murder

Score: 6.7

Blossoms in the Dust

Score: 6.6

Gunman's Walk

Score: 6.6

The Jolson Story

Score: 6.6

State Fair

Score: 6.6

The Wild One

Score: 6.6

The Raid

Score: 6.5

Whispering Smith

Score: 6.5

Paula

Score: 6.5

The Inside Story

Score: 6.5

The Tell-Tale Heart

Score: 6.5

The Loose Nut

Score: 6.5

Dallas

Score: 6.5

The Tall Men

Score: 6.4

Rhapsody in Blue

Score: 6.4

The Meanest Man in the World

Score: 6.4

The Missouri Traveler

Score: 6.4

Honky Tonk

Score: 6.4

The Happy Time

Score: 6.3

Brimstone

Score: 6.3

Quantrill's Raiders

Score: 6.3

These Wilder Years

Score: 6.3

Tales of Manhattan

Score: 6.2

Apple Andy

Score: 6.2

In Old Oklahoma

Score: 6.2

Relentless

Score: 6.2

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Score: 6.2

Twenty Plus Two

Score: 6.2

Without Reservations

Score: 6.2

Not as a Stranger

Score: 6.2

Blue Skies

Score: 6.1

The Last Posse

Score: 6.1

Lydia Bailey

Score: 6.1

Tennessee Johnson

Score: 6.1

Black Eagle

Score: 6.0

Grissly's Millions

Score: 6.0

Rendezvous with Annie

Score: 6.0

One Exciting Week

Score: 6.0

The Green Promise

Score: 6.0

The Iron Sheriff

Score: 6.0

Big Jack

Score: 6.0

Johnny Tremain

Score: 6.0

So This Is New York

Score: 6.0

Lure of the Wilderness

Score: 6.0

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

Score: 5.9

Cynthia

Score: 5.9

The Madonna's Secret

Score: 5.9

Lust for Gold

Score: 5.9

Jeanne Eagels

Score: 5.9

The Las Vegas Story

Score: 5.9

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Score: 5.8

You, the People

Score: 5.8

Alias Jesse James

Score: 5.8

The Savage Horde

Score: 5.8

The Kentuckian

Score: 5.7

The Navy Way

Score: 5.7

The Deadly Companions

Score: 5.6

Holiday for Sinners

Score: 5.6

The Long Night

Score: 5.6

The Wayward Bus

Score: 5.5

So Proudly We Hail

Score: 5.5

Wilson

Score: 5.5

My Forbidden Past

Score: 5.5

Uncle Tom's Cabana

Score: 5.4

They Made Me a Killer

Score: 5.4

Mother Wore Tights

Score: 5.3

Bewitched

Score: 5.3

The Hoodlum Saint

Score: 5.2

The Inner Circle

Score: 5.2

Vengeance Valley

Score: 5.2

Walk Softly, Stranger

Score: 5.0

High Powered

Score: 5.0

Disaster

Score: 5.0

Never Trust a Gambler

Score: 5.0

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

Score: 5.0

The Town Went Wild

Score: 5.0

The Walls of Jericho

Score: 4.9

Big Town

Score: 4.8

Young Man with Ideas

Score: 4.7

A Letter From Bataan

Score: 4.5

It's A Small World

Score: 4.5

Dangerous Passage

Score: 4.4

USS VD: Ship of Shame

Score: 4.2

Sleepy Lagoon

Score: 4.0

Blaze of Noon

Score: 4.0

Danger Street

Score: 4.0

Salome, Where She Danced

Score: 3.7

Wildcat

Score: 3.5

Mrs. Mike

Score: 2.0

Down Missouri Way

Score: 0.0

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

Score: 0.0

Pure Feud

Score: 0.0

California's Golden Beginning

Score: 0.0

Along the Oregon Trail

Score: 0.0

Wild Harvest

Score: 0.0

The Richest Man in Town

Score: 0.0

Take It Big

Score: 0.0

Practically Yours

Score: 0.0

Cracked Nuts

Score: 0.0

Keeper of the Bees

Score: 0.0

Cowboy in Manhattan

Score: 0.0

The Price of Freedom

Score: 0.0

Grape Nutty

Score: 0.0

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home

Score: 0.0

The Good Fellows

Score: 0.0

Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

Score: 0.0

The Trouble with Women

Score: 0.0

Prospecting for Petroleum

Score: 0.0

Hot Cargo

Score: 0.0

Johnny Comes Flying Home

Score: 0.0

You Can't Ration Love

Score: 0.0

The Postman Didn't Ring

Score: 0.0

Here Comes Elmer

Score: 0.0

Mob Town

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

I Love Lucy

Score: 7.9

I Love Lucy

Score: 7.9

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Score: 7.5

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.2

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Score: 7.1

Official Detective

Score: 7.0

Leave It to Beaver

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

The Lone Ranger

Score: 6.8

Mister Ed

Score: 6.8

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.7

Thriller

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Dennis the Menace

Score: 6.5

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

Mr. Lucky

Score: 6.4

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.4

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.4

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.4

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.4

Dragnet

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Tall Man

Score: 6.3

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

Riverboat

Score: 6.2

Outlaws

Score: 6.2

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Bat Masterson

Score: 6.1

Hey, Jeannie!

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Pete and Gladys

Score: 6.0

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Score: 5.9

Bronco

Score: 5.9

You Are There

Score: 5.7

Lawman

Score: 5.6

The Real McCoys

Score: 5.6

December Bride

Score: 5.5

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Score: 5.4

The Living Christ

Score: 5.0

The Living Christ

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Score: 4.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5