William Edmunds

William Edmunds

Birthday: 1885-01-01

Place of Birth: San Fele, Basilicata, Italy

Biography: Italian born William Edmunds (born Michele F. Pellegrino) was a stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1934 to 1953, his television career continuing to 1959. Edmunds is best remembered for his portrayal of bar owner Giuseppe Martini in the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life.

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The Mortal Storm
The Mortal Storm

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...

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It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if...

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Berlin Correspondent
Berlin Correspondent

Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. ...

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The Man I Love
The Man I Love

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, ...

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The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist w...

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The Caddy
The Caddy

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is to...

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Where There's Life
Where There's Life

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only h...

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Mr. Soft Touch
Mr. Soft Touch

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII...

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Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure....

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The Lost Moment
The Lost Moment

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19...

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Girls Under 21
Girls Under 21

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some ...

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Any Number Can Play
Any Number Can Play

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend mo...

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The Big Sombrero
The Big Sombrero

Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the busine...

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Knockout
Knockout

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to ...

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He Married His Wife
He Married His Wife

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony ...

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Shadow of Doubt
Shadow of Doubt

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the vict...

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Assignment in Brittany
Assignment in Brittany

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official....

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That Hagen Girl
That Hagen Girl

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has bee...

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The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven...

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Casablanca
Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

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The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper

Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Set...

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Idiot's Delight
Idiot's Delight

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...

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Everything Happens at Night
Everything Happens at Night

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter....

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Nurse Edith Cavell
Nurse Edith Cavell

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o...

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The Rains Came
The Rains Came

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor ...

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The Lawless
The Lawless

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers....

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House of Frankenstein
House of Frankenstein

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling ch...

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Forbidden Passage
Forbidden Passage

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to ha...

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You, the People
You, the People

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "...

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Fixer Dugan
Fixer Dugan

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan...

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The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling i...

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The Pirate
The Pirate

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Maco...

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The Mark of Zorro
The Mark of Zorro

In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou...

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...

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The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...

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Escape
Escape

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. Wi...

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Stranger on the Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s...

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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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Swamp Fire
Swamp Fire

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on th...

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Know Your Money
Know Your Money

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring an...

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Earthbound
Earthbound

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice....

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The Wife Takes a Flyer
The Wife Takes a Flyer

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a...

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Going Spanish
Going Spanish

A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope....

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Ringside
Ringside

Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He need...

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Paris Calling
Paris Calling

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government offici...

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The Well Groomed Bride
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 ...

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They Met in Bombay
They Met in Bombay

A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bom...

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Background to Danger
Background to Danger

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey....

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Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wa...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

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Madame Curie
Madame Curie

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...

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A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...

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A Very Young Lady
A Very Young Lady

A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the ...

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Dangerous Passage
Dangerous Passage

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but ...

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Reunion in France
Reunion in France

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...

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The Climax
The Climax

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

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Girl from Havana
Girl from Havana

Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America......

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Till We Meet Again
Till We Meet Again

An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance...

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Double Dynamite
Double Dynamite

An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter....

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The Black Swan
The Black Swan

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f...

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13 Lead Soldiers
13 Lead Soldiers

Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldier...

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Baby Blues
Baby Blues

Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born ...

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