William Henry

William Henry

Birthday: 1914-11-10

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Albert Henry (November 10, 1914 – August 10, 1982) was an American actor working in Hollywood movies. Born in Los Angeles in 1914, Henry started as a child actor, then was a hero in B-movies (mainly westerns), and ended his career as a character actor. He also appeared in various roles on episodes of many TV series. He was a member of the John Ford Stock Company and appeared 12 times for Ford. Henry was active with the Pasadena Community Playhouse. His brother was the character actor Thomas Browne Henry. Henry was married and divorced twice. His first marriage was to Grace Durkin, with whom he had son Michael and daughter Michele. His and his second wife, Barbara Knudson, were the parents of William "Bill" Henry, Jr. (b. 1958).

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The Thin Man
The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed f...

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Women in the Night
Women in the Night

During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of ki...

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Secret of the Incas
Secret of the Incas

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunb...

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Madame X
Madame X

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she i...

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Hollywood Thrill-Makers
Hollywood Thrill-Makers

Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen....

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Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....

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New Orleans Uncensored
New Orleans Uncensored

Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unawa...

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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuo...

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Tarzan Escapes
Tarzan Escapes

White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arr...

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How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en...

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A Life at Stake
A Life at Stake

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect...

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Gunpoint
Gunpoint

A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped w...

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Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing

A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that t...

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Taggart
Taggart

Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills h...

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Blossoms in the Dust
Blossoms in the Dust

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very y...

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Mama Runs Wild
Mama Runs Wild

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she...

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The Navy Way
The Navy Way

The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp....

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A Gentleman After Dark
A Gentleman After Dark

A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, ...

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Three Bad Sisters
Three Bad Sisters

Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal...

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The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Adventures of Mark Twain

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain....

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Federal Man
Federal Man

A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers....

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Motor Patrol
Motor Patrol

A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fi...

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Fury of the Congo
Fury of the Congo

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way,...

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The Perfect Set-Up
The Perfect Set-Up

In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of ...

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Queen of the Mob
Queen of the Mob

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns...

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Stardust on the Sage
Stardust on the Sage

A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine....

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The Lady and the Monster
The Lady and the Monster

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to cr...

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Exclusive Story
Exclusive Story

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...

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Silent Partner
Silent Partner

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's a...

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Seven Ways from Sundown
Seven Ways from Sundown

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy...

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Women in Bondage
Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The p...

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A Wicked Woman
A Wicked Woman

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's cond...

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A Man to Remember
A Man to Remember

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients....

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Tornado
Tornado

The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unawar...

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Uranium Boom
Uranium Boom

Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins and mining engineer Grady Mathews find uranium in the Colorado badlands. ...

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Man Afraid
Man Afraid

A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage ...

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Sweater Girl
Sweater Girl

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together th...

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Klondike Fury
Klondike Fury

In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately,...

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Sarong Girl
Sarong Girl

A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed....

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Dance Hall
Dance Hall

Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the ...

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Gunsmoke in Tucson
Gunsmoke in Tucson

As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilant...

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Television Spy
Television Spy

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try ...

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Four Men and a Prayer
Four Men and a Prayer

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name....

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Society Doctor
Society Doctor

Two surgeons in love with a nurse end their rivalry in the operating room....

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What Do You Think?
What Do You Think?

The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go t...

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The Alamo
The Alamo

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...

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Geronimo
Geronimo

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage o...

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Sergeant Rutledge
Sergeant Rutledge

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white w...

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Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway

Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway...

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China Seas
China Seas

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: ...

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A Bullet for Joey
A Bullet for Joey

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic sc...

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Jungle Moon Men
Jungle Moon Men

Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "...

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Parole Fixer
Parole Fixer

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, tak...

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The Walls Have Eyes
The Walls Have Eyes

The True Vue Motel is a rendezvous for couples looking for a few hours of "playtime." Unbeknownst to...

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Cherokee Strip
Cherokee Strip

Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, M...

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Going My Way
Going My Way

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the R...

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The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...

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G.I. War Brides
G.I. War Brides

Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join th...

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Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders

A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missil...

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Calaboose
Calaboose

A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede....

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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold

Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medall...

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Emergency Squad
Emergency Squad

Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emer...

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Johnny Come Lately
Johnny Come Lately

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. ...

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The Arizona Wildcat
The Arizona Wildcat

In 1870 Arizona Jane helps her foster-father ex-bandit (Carrillo) who has been accused of gold robbe...

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Ambush
Ambush

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue...

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Persons in Hiding
Persons in Hiding

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree....

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Campus Confessions
Campus Confessions

This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luis...

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...

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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Scattergood Meets Broadway

Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son Dav...

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I Escaped from the Gestapo
I Escaped from the Gestapo

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and h...

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Rubber Racketeers
Rubber Racketeers

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck ...

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Nearly Eighteen
Nearly Eighteen

A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school....

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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life ...

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I'm from Missouri
I'm from Missouri

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the Br...

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Torpedo Alley
Torpedo Alley

After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm...

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Death Valley Gunfighter
Death Valley Gunfighter

Rocky Lane hits the trail when he gets word that one of two brothers in a partner-ship mining projec...

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The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of f...

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Two Rode Together
Two Rode Together

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages....

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The Invisible Informer
The Invisible Informer

An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the...

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Call of the South Seas
Call of the South Seas

FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded an...

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Spook Chasers
Spook Chasers

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted....

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The Old Frontier
The Old Frontier

Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang o...

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Trail to San Antone
Trail to San Antone

Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the j...

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Thundering Caravans
Thundering Caravans

Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wa...

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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Marshal of Cedar Rock

Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the...

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The Denver Kid
The Denver Kid

When Border Patrol Lieutenant Roberts is killed, it appears that his brother Tim was the killer. To ...

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Savage Frontier
Savage Frontier

Sam is a parolee who has paid for his dirty deeds. Now determined to go straight and help take care ...

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The Great Glover
The Great Glover

Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive....

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Socks Appeal
Socks Appeal

Terry (Henry) is the proprietor of the college service shop; his rival tries to ruin his business an...

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His Girl's Worst Friend
His Girl's Worst Friend

On the last day of the semester, Terry (Henry) and his pals enroll for a summer aviation course....

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The Fabulous Suzanne
The Fabulous Suzanne

Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when ...

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False Faces
False Faces

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer...

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Paris Follies of 1956
Paris Follies of 1956

Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyle...

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Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack

A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed's search for the cause of "Yellow Jack" or Yello...

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The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his curre...

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Pardon My Stripes
Pardon My Stripes

Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a ...

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The Perfect Tribute
The Perfect Tribute

The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier ...

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Mister Roberts
Mister Roberts

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War ...

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El Dorado
El Dorado

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together...

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The Female Animal
The Female Animal

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursu...

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The Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....

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Flashing Spikes
Flashing Spikes

An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phe...

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The Sunrise Gun
The Sunrise Gun

Johnny Sunrise is training his son to avenge the injury to his hand which was caused by Sam Duskin. ...

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