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William Janney is a Actor American born on 15 february 1908
William Janney (15 February 1908, New York City—22 December 1992, Idaho), born Russell Dixon Janney, was an American film actor who appeared in 39 films between 1929 and 1937. He was the son of author and theatrical producer Russell Janney.
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Clipped Wings (1937)
, 1h3Directed by Stuart Paton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lloyd Hughes, Rosalind Keith, William Janney, George Regas, Richard Cramer, Jason Robards Sr.
Roles Mickey Lofton
Rating41%
In World War I, Captain Jerry Broun (Lloyd Hughes) feels he has to fight even though the United States has not yet entered the conflict. He enrols in Canada to fly as a pilot, with his adoring young half-brother Mickey (Delmar Watson) wanting to follow in his footsteps by becoming a pilot.
Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1936)
, 1h14Directed by Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Evelyn Brent, Morris Ankrum, William Janney, Irving Bacon
Roles Buddy Cassidy
Rating70%
Town marshal Hopalong Cassidy investigates the murder of a gold miner who was killed before he could file his claim.
Sitting on the Moon (1936)
, 53minutesDirected by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Roger Pryor, Grace Bradley, Pert Kelton, Henry Kolker, Joyce Compton, Pierre Watkin
Roles Young Husband
Rating59%
Sutter's Gold (1936)
, 1h34Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander, Montagu Love, Addison Richards
Roles John Sutter Jr.
Rating59%
Pendant la ruée vers l'or en Californie en 1849, on découvre de l'or dans la propriété de John Sutter, un immigrant d'origine Suisse.
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
, 1h20Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, June Lang, Anne Grey, Lionel Belmore, Vernon Steele
Roles Allan Douglas
Rating66%
After escaping from jail where they had "one more week to serve," Laurel and Hardy travel to Scotland as stowaways on a cattle boat, where Laurel (as "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to his grandfather's fortune. As it turns out, Laurel has only been bequeathed a set of bagpipes and a snuff container).Use of the latter causes Hardy, trying to demonstrate to Laurel the proper way to use snuff, to fly off an old bridge. His clothes are soaked.
Born to Gamble (1935)
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Onslow Stevens, H. B. Warner, Maxine Doyle, Eric Linden, Lois Wilson, William Janney
Roles Fred Mathews
Rating51%
Four brothers feel cursed by their family's gambling bug. All four try to overcome the addiction: only one, the youngest, is successful.
The Great Hotel Murder (1935)
, 1h10Directed by Eugene Forde
Genres Crime
Actors Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle, Henry O'Neill, C. Henry Gordon
Roles Harry Prentice
Rating58%
A Modern Hero (1934)
, 1h11Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Verree Teasdale, Florence Eldridge, Dorothy Burgess
Roles Young Pierre Croy
Rating62%
When the circus comes to a small town, resident Joanna Ryan (Jean Muir) becomes pregnant by horse trick rider Pierre Radier (Richard Barthelmess). He offers to marry her, but she decides they are not suited for each other. Instead, she marries steady local Elmer Croy. Pierre gives her all his money for their child.
A Successful Failure (1934)
, 1h2Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Collier Sr, William Collier Sr., Lucile Gleason, Russell Hopton, George Breakston, William Janney
Roles Robert Cushing
Rating55%
Ellery Cushing (William Collier, Sr.) has trouble at home, and at work. When he's fired from the newspaper where he’s worked for fifteen years, his friend Phil (Russell Hopton) quits too, outraged.
The Crime of the Century (1933)
, 1h13Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Jean Hersholt, Wynne Gibson, Stuart Erwin, Frances Dee, Gordon Westcott, Robert Elliott
Roles James Brandt
Rating65%
A bank official, whom a doctor had earlier hypnotized to obtain money from the bank's vault, is found murdered.
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lionel Atwill, Edward Arnold, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Onslow Stevens, William Janney
Roles Thomas Brandt
Rating63%
A woman's suitor challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a room in which several murders occurred years before at 1 a.m. The suitor, Tommy, sleeps there on the first night but disappears at 1 a.m. Then the second man sleeps there on the second night, at 12:30 a.m, he starts playing the piano, however, he is shot half an hour later.
The World Changes (1933)
, 1h31Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Muni, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Jean Muir, Guy Kibbee
Roles Orin Nordholm III
Rating66%
Terror Aboard (1933)
, 1h9Directed by Paul Sloane
Origin USA
Actors John Halliday, Charles Ruggles, Shirley Grey, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue, Verree Teasdale
Roles Edward Wilson
Rating65%
Should Ladies Behave (1933)
, 1h27Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle, Katharine Alexander, Mary Carlisle, William Janney
Roles Geoffrey Cole
Rating58%
The Mouthpiece (1932)
, 1h26Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, John Wray, Mae Madison, Ralph Ince
Roles John 'Johnny' Morris
Rating71%
Vincent Day (Warren William) is a prosecutor who is on the fast track to success. When a man he zealously prosecuted all the way to the electric chair is found to have been innocent, he becomes distressed and quits his job. At the suggestion of a friendly bartender, he decides to switch teams and become a defense attorney specializing in the representation of gangsters and other unsavory people. He will use any tactic to get his clients acquitted, up to and including drinking a slow-acting poison from a bottle of evidence to prove that the substance isn't lethal. The jury acquits the man not knowing that immediately after, Day rushes into a Mob doctor's office for a pre-arranged stomach pump.