Warren William
Birthday: 1894-12-02
Place of Birth: Aitkin, Minnesota, USA
Biography: Warren William (born Warren William Krech; 2 December 1894 - 24 September 1948) was an American stage, screen, and radio actor, popular as a film leading man during the early 1930s, and later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code". He is best remembered for portraying amoral businessmen, lawyers, and other heartless types.
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Fear
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble ...
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Gold Diggers of 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to...
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Satan Met a Lady
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...
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The Wolf Man
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soo...
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Arizona
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when ...
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Strange Illusion
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father....
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Three on a Match
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throw...
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Lady for a Day
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanis...
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Employees' Entrance
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thin...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
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Madame X
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she i...
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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Cleopatra
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar....
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Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The t...
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The Dragon Murder Case
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides t...
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to s...
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Go West Young Man
Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance t...
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Day-time Wife
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she a...
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Skyscraper Souls
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his...
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Expensive Women
A wealthy young woman struggles to find love while surrounded by possible suitors....
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Times Square Playboy
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he...
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His fir...
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The Case of the Curious Bride
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China....
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder....
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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...
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf....
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The Dark Horse
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Z...
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Counter-Espionage
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing....
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Under Eighteen
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....
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The Mind Reader
Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia,...
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Passport to Suez
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which...
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Dr. Monica
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregna...
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The Mouthpiece
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convic...
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Arsène Lupin Returns
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle i...
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The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden....
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Bedside
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses...
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf ke...
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The Case of the Howling Dog
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his ...
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Wives Under Suspicion
A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life....
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The Case of the Lucky Legs
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with...
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Beauty and the Boss
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to...
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly lo...
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One Dangerous Night
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three s...
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The Secret Bride
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann...
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington....
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, b...
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Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers....
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Lillian Russell
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Upperworld
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un...
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Stage Struck
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress wi...
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Just Around the Corner
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's ho...
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Living on Velvet
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege t...
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Smarty
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being...
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Goodbye Again
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious h...
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The First Hundred Years
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a...
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befrien...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is...
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Wild Geese Calling
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall ...
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Midnight Madonna
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and i...
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, se...
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Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....
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Plunder
Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is ...
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A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon'
Bobby Jones instructs a husband and the judge in his divorce proceedings on proper use of the Spoon....
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Outcast
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when o...
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to m...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...
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Honor of the Family
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lo...
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A Dream Comes True
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....
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The Town That Forgot God
A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a su...
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