William Wright
Birthday: 1911-01-06
Place of Birth: Ogden, Utah, USA
Biography: William Wright (January 5, 1911 – January 19, 1949) was an American leading man in films who was most popular in the 1940s when he was typically compared to Clark Gable, whose career was temporarily derailed by World War II. Wright even played Gable's part in a 1945 musical comedy remake of It Happened One Night entitled Eve Knew Her Apples. He also played Philo Vance in Philo Vance Returns (1947) and the title role in King of the Gamblers (1948). Wright's other films include Eadie Was a Lady (1945), Rose of the Yukon (1949), Daughter of the Jungle (1949), and Impact (1949). Wright died from cancer in 1949 at the age of 38.
Movies
Escape in the Fog
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees tw...
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Impact
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime...
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The Mask of Diijon
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt....
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Not a Ladies' Man
A recently divorced district attorney falls for his troubled son's schoolteacher....
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One Mysterious Night
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit...
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A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect ...
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Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ fo...
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Murder in Times Square
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom....
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Philo Vance Returns
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virgini...
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Night in New Orleans
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under int...
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Devil Pays Off
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene...
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager an...
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Rose of the Yukon
Major Geoffrey Barnett, U. S. Army Intelligence Service, is sent to Alaska, to apprehend a deserter,...
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Daughter of the Jungle
An airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the Afri...
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The Daring Young Man
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he se...
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Down Missouri Way
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne...
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Dancing in Manhattan
In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wil...
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Gas House Kids Go West
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporat...
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Lucky Legs
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro...
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Saddles and Sagebrush
Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his hen...
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Eadie Was a Lady
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performin...
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True to the Army
A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base....
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Air Hostess
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a l...
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Doctor Jim
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, i...
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China Clipper
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....
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World Premiere
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity f...
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A Man's World
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, wome...
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Fly By Night
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t...
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Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
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Glamour Boy
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays ...
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Lover Come Back
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful....
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