William Forrest
Birthday: 1902-10-10
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Forrest (October 10, 1902 – January 26, 1989) was an American theatre, film, and television actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1939 and 1977. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in Santa Monica, California.
Movies
Good Neighbor Sam
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. Th...
View Movie
The Secret Seven
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a s...
View Movie
Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and...
View Movie
Blondie in the Dough
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so...
View Movie
The Devil's Henchmen
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves,...
View Movie
New York Confidential
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who dec...
View Movie
Doctors Don't Tell
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for night...
View Movie
Band of Angels
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed fa...
View Movie
The Story of Seabiscuit
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of a...
View Movie
Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
View Movie
Three Daring Daughters
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband....
View Movie
Blind Spot
A struggling writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when his publisher is found ...
View Movie
The Spirit of West Point
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Milit...
View Movie
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be...
View Movie
Arson, Inc.
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the ins...
View Movie
Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who ...
View Movie
Wilson
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post ...
View Movie
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her ...
View Movie
Pardon My Stripes
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a ...
View Movie
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder....
View Movie
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his...
View Movie
Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas....
View Movie
Pardners
Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footste...
View Movie
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford Wh...
View Movie
The Doughgirls
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu...
View Movie
Flight for Freedom
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles ...
View Movie
God Is My Co-Pilot
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds him...
View Movie
Belles on Their Toes
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet ...
View Movie
Salty O'Rourke
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse....
View Movie
Road to Alcatraz
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happe...
View Movie
Spy Smasher Returns
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV relea...
View Movie
Spy Smasher
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Naz...
View Movie
Gangs of the Waterfront
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospita...
View Movie
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police....
View Movie
Private Eyes
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the ...
View Movie
Abroad with Two Yanks
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoyin...
View Movie
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the...
View Movie
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartme...
View Movie
The Masked Marvel
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) e...
View Movie
It Happened Tomorrow
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings...
View Movie
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
A lawman goes undercover in order to capture the outlaws who murdered his wife....
View Movie
Smuggler's Gold
A deep-sea diver becomes romantically involved with the daughter of a gold smuggler....
View Movie
Francis in the Navy
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message f...
View Movie
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo...
View Movie
Gangs of Chicago
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along th...
View Movie
The Eddie Cantor Story
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radi...
View Movie
The Man Who Talked Too Much
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a...
View Movie
The Rose Bowl Story
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose...
View Movie
Alias a Gentleman
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters....
View Movie
Meet Me on Broadway
Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh...
View Movie
Gasoline Alley
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip....
View Movie
Sweet Smell of Success
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his B...
View Movie
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a m...
View Movie
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a m...
View Movie
Women in Hiding
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of tell...
View Movie
In the Good Old Summertime
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...
View Movie
Meet the Governor
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up d...
View Movie
Wake Island
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to ke...
View Movie
The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...
View Movie
Purity Squad
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effor...
View Movie
Girls of the Big House
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman fr...
View Movie
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...
View Movie
The Devil On Wheels
A teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case wh...
View Movie
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating....
View Movie
Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...
View Movie
Keep 'Em Flying
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to...
View Movie
Spy Ship
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to br...
View Movie
Dead Reckoning
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for thei...
View Movie
Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
View Movie
The Monster That Challenged the World
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people....
View Movie
Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth...
View Movie
Trail of the Yukon
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. ...
View Movie
The Sea Hornet
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the Califor...
View Movie
The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...
View Movie
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home ...
View Movie
Hello, Annapolis
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a g...
View Movie
Respect the Law
Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals....
View Movie
Mug Town
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and tr...
View Movie
Invaders from Mars
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants....
View Movie
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret...
View Movie
They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
View Movie
Winning of the West
A singing territorial ranger (Gene Autry) spots his younger brother in an outlaw gang....
View Movie
Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
View Movie
Sarge Goes to College
A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recomm...
View Movie
The November Plan
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely b...
View Movie
A Date with the Falcon
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, ...
View Movie
My Favorite Spy
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss...
View Movie
Rage at Dawn
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while...
View Movie
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the b...
View Movie
Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a...
View Movie
The Well Groomed Bride
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a ...
View Movie
Action in the North Atlantic
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...
View Movie
Air Force
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and ...
View Movie
Reconnaissance Pilot
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World...
View Movie
Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
View Movie
Of Pups and Puzzles
This short film shows how the war department utilizes a Ph.D., a chimp, and three dogs to help desig...
View Movie
For God and Country
The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father ...
View Movie
Du Barry Was a Lady
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p...
View Movie
So Proudly We Hail
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a...
View Movie
Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
View Movie
Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts
An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a col...
View Movie
The Case of the Tremendous Trifle
This documentary short film depicts the importance of tiny ball bearings in the ability of a nation ...
View Movie
Priorities on Parade
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to...
View Movie
Mystery in Mexico
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fell...
View Movie
Doctor Jim
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, i...
View Movie
Flight from Destiny
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h...
View Movie
Strange Affair
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h...
View Movie
The Good Humor Man
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar...
View Movie
It Ain't Hay
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feedin...
View Movie
Anchors Aweigh
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai...
View Movie
The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...
View Movie
Loving You
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western music...
View Movie
The Caribbean Mystery
The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of ...
View Movie
Walk the Proud Land
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apache based on respect for autonomy rather than...
View Movie
One-Eyed Jacks
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the ...
View Movie
In This Our Life
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l...
View Movie
Night Without Sleep
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a...
View Movie
The Racket
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanl...
View Movie
The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre...
View Movie
You Can't Run Away from It
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career....
View Movie
I'll See You in My Dreams
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression....
View Movie
Flight to Mars
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly....
View Movie
The Horse Soldiers
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....
View Movie
The Guilt of Janet Ames
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life du...
View Movie
Here Come the Waves
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WA...
View Movie
Meet the Stewarts
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....
View Movie
Ain't Misbehavin'
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her....
View Movie
The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...
View Movie
The Gentleman from Nowhere
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator....
View Movie
Tars and Spars
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to ...
View Movie
Deadline - U.S.A.
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster....
View Movie
The Pittsburgh Kid
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers o...
View Movie
Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
View Movie