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Will Stanton is a Actor and Novel born on 16 september 1885

Will Stanton

Will Stanton
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Birth name William Sidney Stanton
Birth 16 september 1885
Death 18 december 1969 (at 84 years)

William Sidney "Will" Stanton (September 18, 1885 – December 18, 1969) was an American character actor, whose career spanned the first twenty-five years of the sound film era. Born in London, England, Stanton broke into the film industry at the very tail end of the silent film era in 1927, appearing in several film shorts for Hal Roach Studios. He would debut in a feature film with a small role in Raoul Walsh's 1928 silent film, Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, and Walsh. During the following 20 years he would appear in another 70 films, mostly in small and supporting roles.

Notable films in which he appeared include: the 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland, whose ensemble cast included Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton; the classic Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; the 1936 film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's classic, Last of the Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, and starring Randolph Scott; The Prince and the Pauper (1937), starring Errol Flynn and Claude Rains; Howard Hawks' 1941 classic, Sergeant York, with Gary Cooper; and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, and George Sanders. His final big screen appearance would be as a cab driver in the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy, Adam's Rib, directed by George Cukor. Stanton would make one last acting performance, appearing on an episode of television's Schlitz Playhouse in 1954. Stanton died on December 18, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

Best films

Sadie Thompson (1928)
(Actor)

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Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(6 films)
Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh
(7 films)
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Will Stanton (53 films)

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Actor

Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib (1949)
, 1h41
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films, Films about marriage
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen
Roles Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.69763.69763.69763.69763.6976
Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) follows her husband (Tom Ewell) with a gun one day after suspecting he is having an affair with another woman (Jean Hagen). In her rage, she fires at the couple multiple times. One of the bullets hits her husband in the shoulder.
Slightly French, 1h20
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche, Janis Carter, Willard Parker, Adele Jergens, Leonard Carey
Roles Cockney Barker (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.148033.148033.148033.148033.14803
Un metteur en scène tyrannique, perfectionniste et égocentrique est renvoyé pour avoir poussé à bout son actrice principale française. Dans une fête foraine, il rencontre une jeune danseuse sachant parler avec l'accent français. Il la convainc de le suivre et la fait répéter pour la faire passer pour française. Elle accepte de jouer le jeu auprès du producteur.
Forever Amber, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Glenn Langan
Roles Deadeye
Rating64% 3.2457753.2457753.2457753.2457753.245775
The film begins in 1644 during the English Civil War, as we see a group of Roundheads pursuing a Cavalier's carriage. The carriage drives into the country where its passengers abandon a baby, named Amber, on the doorstep of a farming cottage. The roundheads soon catch up with the carriage and kill all the passengers while the farmers discover and decide to adopt Amber.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1h44
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom
Roles Porter (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.897193.897193.897193.897193.89719
In the early 1900s, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves to the seaside English village of Whitecliff despite the fierce disapproval of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Despite its reputation of being haunted, she falls in love with and rents Gull Cottage, where she takes up residence with her young daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best). On the first night, she is visited by the ghostly apparition of the former owner, a roguish but harmless sea captain named Daniel Gregg (Rex Harrison), who reluctantly agrees to allow her to live in Gull Cottage and promises to make himself known only to her (Anna is too young for ghosts). Despite a few differences and disagreements with Captain Gregg, Mrs. Muir and her household settle comfortably into Gull Cottage. However, it is not long before Mrs. Muir's in-laws arrive with the news that Lucy's investment income has dried up, and they insist that Lucy move back to London with them. After his ghostly eviction of the in-laws, Captain Gregg comes up with an idea to save the house: he will dictate his memoirs to her and she will have them published, with the royalties going to her. During the course of writing the book, they find themselves falling in love, but as both realize it is a hopeless situation, Daniel tells her she should find a real (live) man.
The Exile
The Exile (1947)
, 1h35
Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure, Romance
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., María Montez, Rita Corday, Henry Daniell, Nigel Bruce, Robert Coote
Roles Tucket
Rating65% 3.2916153.2916153.2916153.2916153.291615
In 1660, Charles Stuart (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), deposed as king of England by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads, is in exile in the Netherlands with a few loyalists, awaiting the right opportunity to return. Whilst bartering in a local marketplace, he meets Katie (Rita Corday), a Dutch farm owner and flower seller.
A Guy, a Gal and a Pal, 1h2
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama
Actors Ross Hunter, Lynn Merrick, Ted Donaldson, George Meeker, Jack Norton, Will Stanton
Roles Barclay
Rating65% 3.253073.253073.253073.253073.25307
Helen hésite entre la sécurité financière que lui offre Granville Breckinridge et l'amour qu'elle ressent pour Jimmy Jones.
Mr. Skeffington, 2h25
Directed by Vincent Sherman, Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, John Alexander
Roles Sid Lapham (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.7946353.7946353.7946353.7946353.794635
In 1914, spoiled Fanny Trellis (Bette Davis) is a renowned beauty, with many suitors. She loves her brother Trippy (Richard Waring) and would do anything to help him. When Fanny learns that Trippy has embezzled money from his stockbroker employer Job Skeffington (Claude Rains), she marries the lovestruck businessman in order to save her brother. Disgusted by the arrangement, in part because of his prejudice against Skeffington being Jewish, Trippy leaves home to fight in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I.
The Lodger
The Lodger (1944)
, 1h24
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood, Aubrey Mather
Rating69% 3.4924453.4924453.4924453.4924453.492445
Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th Century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye.
Lost in a Harem, 1h29
Directed by Charles Reisner
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte, Douglass Dumbrille, Lock Martin
Roles Plain Native in Café (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1463853.1463853.1463853.1463853.146385
When a traveling vaudeville show becomes stranded in the Middle East, their singer, Hazel Moon (Marilyn Maxwell), takes a job at a local cafe. Two of the show's prop men, Peter Johnson (Bud Abbott) and Harvey Garvey (Lou Costello), are hired as comedy relief, but their act unfortunately initiates a brawl. The two men, along with Hazel, wind up in jail (where Abbott and Costello perform the famous "Slowly I Turned" routine with a crazy derelict [Murray Leonard] with Pokomoko as the trigger word). They encounter Prince Ramo (John Conte), a sheik, who offers to help them escape if they agree to help him regain the throne that his Uncle Nimativ (Douglass Dumbrille) had usurped with the aid of two hypnotic rings.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 1h21
Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish, Beulah Bondi, James Brown
Roles Cockney Cabin Steward (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3302753.3302753.3302753.3302753.330275
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 1h46
Directed by Mark Sandrich, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Paulette Goddard, Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Charles Ruggles, Beulah Bondi
Roles Cockney Cabin Steward (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.095923.095923.095923.095923.09592
It Ain't Hay, 1h20
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Shemp Howard, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Drunk (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.246613.246613.246613.246613.24661
Wilbur Hoolihan (Lou Costello) accidentally kills a hack horse owned by King O'Hara (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Princess (Patsy O'Connor) by feeding it candy. In hopes of raising enough money to replace it, he and his friend Grover Mockridge (Bud Abbott) visit a gambling parlor. They are successful in raising the money, but before they can purchase a new horse, a con man swindles Wilbur out of his cash. They are informed by some touts that an old horse is available for nothing at one of the tracks. They visit the track and mistakenly take the wrong horse, a champion by the name of Tea Biscuit. They present the horse to O'Hara as a replacement for his deceased horse.
Thank Your Lucky Stars, 2h4
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Pub Patron in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3931553.3931553.3931553.3931553.393155
Theater producers (Horton and Sakall) staging a wartime charity program, only to have the production taken over by their egotistical star (Eddie Cantor). Meanwhile, an aspiring singer (Dennis Morgan) and his songwriter girlfriend (Joan Leslie) conspire to get into the charity program by replacing Cantor with their look-alike friend, tour bus driver Joe Simpson (Eddie Cantor).
This Above All, 1h58
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Philip Merivale
Roles Bartender
Rating65% 3.2970753.2970753.2970753.2970753.297075
Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave.
Brooklyn Orchid, 50minutes
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Grace Bradley, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Harold Goodwin, Leonid Kinskey
Roles Goodweeks' Valet
Rating60% 3.002393.002393.002393.002393.00239
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