William Bakewell
William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993), also known as Billy Bakewell, was an American actor, who achieved his greatest fame as one of the premiere juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Bakewell, educated at Los Angeles Harvard Military School, began his film career as an extra in the silent movie Fighting Blood (1924), and went on to appear in some 170 films and television shows. He had supporting roles at the end of the silent era and reached the peak of his career around 1930. He is perhaps best remembered for playing German soldier Albert Kropp in the film classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and Rodney Jordan, Joan Crawford's brother, in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He also co-starred in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) with Winnie Lightner and Lilyan Tashman. In 1933, he contributed to the founding of the Screen Actors Guild, and was member 44 of the original 50. He never achieved stardom after the Depression years, although he became familiar in dozens of films, including his short appearance as a mounted soldier in Gone with the Wind (1939) whom Scarlett O'Hara asks when the Yankee soldiers are coming to Atlanta.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the rank of second lieutenant. He was stationed at the 73rd Evacuation Hospital and at the Radio Section of the Special Service Division as the Post Intelligence Officer. He also worked under the department that handled distribution of recorded programs to overseas station circuits.
He starred in the Columbia Pictures serial Hop Harrigan (1946), where he played a top Air Corps pilot. He also portrayed Major Tobias Norton and a Keelboat Race Master of Ceremonies in the phenomenally popular Disney series Davy Crockett (1954-1955).
In the 1960s, he guest starred in numerous situation comedy television series, including Guestward, Ho!, Pete and Gladys, Bringing Up Buddy, The Tab Hunter Show, Mister Ed, Leave It to Beaver, The Jack Benny Program, Petticoat Junction , and Hazel. He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage. He made his last film in 1975.
For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. He died on April 15, 1993 of leukemia at the age of 84.
Fotos
Películas (105)
Bruised Celluloid
1984 · Himself
The Strongest Man in the World
1975 · Professor
Set This Town on Fire
1973 · Desk Clerk
Call Her Mom
1972 · Jeremy's Father
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966 · Brig. Gen. Swift (uncredited)
Down Liberty Road
1957 · Waldo (Uncredited)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956 · Official at Keel Boat Race (uncredited)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
1955 · Maj. Tobias Norton
Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
1955 · Norton
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
1954 · Major Norton
Lucky Me
1954 · Motorist (uncredited)
So This Is Love
1953 · Charles, Waiter (uncredited)
Radar Men from the Moon
1952 · Ted Richards
Come Fill the Cup
1951 · Hal Ortman
When the Redskins Rode
1951 · Appleby
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
1951 · Charlie Lannon
The Capture
1950 · Herb Tolin, Bolsa Grande Oil
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948 · Dick Hebert
Night Wind
1948 · Capt. Kingston
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · Dudley (Travel Agent)
So This Is New York
1948 · Hotel Clerk
Arthur Takes Over
1948 · Lawrence White
King of the Bandits
1947 · Captain Frank Mason
Messenger of Peace
1947 · Pastor Willie von Adel
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · Winters
The Trespasser
1947 · Bruce Coleman
The Farmer's Daughter
1947 · Windor
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947 · Eddie
Jungle Terror
1946 · Tom Branning
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
1946 · Hop Harrigan
Yanks Ahoy
1943 · Ens. Crosby (uncredited)
King of the Mounties
1942 · Cpl. Hall Ross
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942 · Hugh Pleasant
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942 · Robert Harwood Jr.
I Live on Danger
1942 · Mac
The Dawn Express
1942 · Tom Fielding
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942 · Mr. Hubbell
Seven Sinners
1940 · Ensign
The Saint Takes Over
1940 · Shipboard Card Player
Beyond Tomorrow
1940 · David Chadwick
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Mounted Officer
Hotel Imperial
1939 · Cadet (uncredited)
Zenobia
1939 · Townsman at Zeke's Recitation
King of the Turf
1939 · Intern
The Duke of West Point
1938 · Honor Committee Spokesman
The Higgins Family
1938 · Eddie Davis
Exiled to Shanghai
1937 · Andrew
Trapped by G-Men
1937 · Dick Withers
Jungle Menace
1937 · Tom Banning
Dangerous Holiday
1937 · Tom Connor
Mile a Minute Love
1937 · Bob
Quality Street
1937 · Lieutenant Spicer
Sea Spoilers
1936 · Lieut. Commander Mays
Lady Luck
1936 · Dave Haines
Happiness C.O.D.
1935 · Ken Sherridan
Together We Live
1935 · Billy
Strangers All
1935 · Dick Carter
On Probation
1935 · Bill Coleman
Laddie
1935 · Robert Pryor
Sons of Steel
1934 · Roland Chadburne
Crimson Romance
1934 · Adolph
The Curtain Falls
1934 · Barry Graham
The Party's Over
1934 · Clay
Straight Is the Way
1934 · Dr. Wilkes
Green Eyes
1934 · Cliff Miller
Speed Wings
1934 · Jerry
The Quitter
1934 · Russell Tilford
You Can't Buy Everything
1934 · Don Bell (adult)
Straightaway
1933 · Billy Dawson
A Man of Sentiment
1933 · John Russell
Three Cornered Moon
1933 · Douglas Rimplegar
Lucky Devils
1933 · Slugger Jones
Back Street
1932 · Richard Saxel
While Paris Sleeps
1932 · Paul Renoir
Cheaters at Play
1932 · Maurice Perry
The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931 · Jim Stewart
Guilty Hands
1931 · Tommy Osgood
A Woman of Experience
1931 · Count Karl Runyi
Daybreak
1931 · Otto
Politics
1931 · Benny Emerson
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931 · Rodney Jordan
Reducing
1931 · Tommy Haverly
Paid
1930 · Carney
The Bat Whispers
1930 · Brook
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Albert Kropp
Playing Around
1930 · Jack
The Show of Shows
1929 · Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929 · Wally Saunders
On With the Show!
1929 · Jimmy
Hot Stuff
1929 · Mack Moran
The Iron Mask
1929 · Louis XIV / Twin Brother
Lady of the Pavements
1929 · A Pianist
Annapolis
1928 · Skippy
The Battle of the Sexes
1928 · The Son
Harold Teen
1928 · Percival
The Devil's Trademark
1928 · Tom Benton
The Latest from Paris
1928 · Bud Dolan
West Point
1928 · 'Tex' McNeil
The Shield of Honor
1927 · Jerry MacDowell
Mother
1927 · Jerry Ellis
The Heart Thief
1927
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
1926 · Salesman
Old Ironsides
1926 · Young Philadelphian (uncredited)
Whispering Wires
1926
The Last Edition
1925 · 'Ink' Donovan
Series (33)
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Nanny and the Professor
1970 · Carnival Host, Norm
Love, American Style
1969 · Elroy
It Takes a Thief
1968 · Hotel Clerk
That Girl
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Colonel Harris
Green Acres
1965
Run for Your Life
1965 · County Attorney Lassiter
Profiles in Courage
1964 · Wythe
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Ralph Craig, Actor, Herbert
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Virginian
1962 · Sam Branch, Nate Eastman
Hazel
1961
87th Precinct
1961
Mister Ed
1961
The Roaring 20's
1960
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
Guestward, Ho!
1960
Pete and Gladys
1960
Peter Gunn
1958
Sea Hunt
1958
Harbor Command
1957 · Officer Maxwell
Casey Jones
1957 · Ben Slater
Leave It to Beaver
1957
Maverick
1957
M Squad
1957 · Detective
Official Detective
1957 · Sam Graves
Highway Patrol
1955
The Great Gildersleeve
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Major Tobias Norton, Norton
I'm the Law
1953
Boston Blackie
1951 · Ron Taylor
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Major Dort, Robert Cooper, Michael Dailey