William Irving

William Irving

Birthday: 1893-05-17

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Biography: William Irving was born on May 17, 1893 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Pampered Youth (1925), Someone in the House (1920) and Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927). He was previously married to Ida I. Germann. He died on December 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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The Cameraman
The Cameraman

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary....

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Convicted
Convicted

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother....

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Chicken Feathers
Chicken Feathers

Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies...

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Hooks and Jabs
Hooks and Jabs

Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and...

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Honeymoon Bridge
Honeymoon Bridge

His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy....

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The Super Snooper
The Super Snooper

Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company....

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The Heart of a Child
The Heart of a Child

A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman...

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Pop Goes the Easel
Pop Goes the Easel

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they a...

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Punch Drunks
Punch Drunks

Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry...

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Whose Baby?
Whose Baby?

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures....

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Dizzy Doctors
Dizzy Doctors

The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uni...

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Back to the Woods
Back to the Woods

Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the Amer...

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Wee Wee Monsieur
Wee Wee Monsieur

The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys sk...

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Am I Having Fun!
Am I Having Fun!

Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress u...

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Nothing to Wear
Nothing to Wear

Peeved that her husband will not buy her a fur coat, Jackie Standish visits her former sweetheart, T...

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Slippery Silks
Slippery Silks

The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dress...

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The Shadow
The Shadow

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's deat...

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Foolish Hearts
Foolish Hearts

A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of ...

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The Best Man Wins
The Best Man Wins

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work b...

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Radio Dough
Radio Dough

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers....

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New News
New News

Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 S...

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She's My Baby
She's My Baby

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Love Letters
Love Letters

Two sisters, Julia Crossland and Evelyn Jefferson, happy lives are thrown into turmoil when a man fr...

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The Hitchhiker
The Hitchhiker

Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. Wha...

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Song of the Caballero
Song of the Caballero

After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita ...

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Page Me
Page Me

Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complic...

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Paris in Spring
Paris in Spring

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de ...

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One More Spring
One More Spring

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on th...

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The Personality Kid
The Personality Kid

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success....

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Manhattan Parade
Manhattan Parade

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the o...

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Maybe It's Love
Maybe It's Love

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l...

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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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Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...

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News Is Made at Night
News Is Made at Night

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co...

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Tired Feet
Tired Feet

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films....

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Chase Yourself
Chase Yourself

Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the We...

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Ninotchka
Ninotchka

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...

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It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...

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The Life of the Party
The Life of the Party

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results....

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Navy Blues
Navy Blues

The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disgui...

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Winter Has Came
Winter Has Came

A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with un...

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The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

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Woman Against Woman
Woman Against Woman

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence...

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Special Inspector
Special Inspector

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks...

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Counsel on De Fence
Counsel on De Fence

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband....

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...

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Three Little Beers
Three Little Beers

The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, the...

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The Florentine Dagger
The Florentine Dagger

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect....

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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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Little Men
Little Men

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou...

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Terry and the Pirates
Terry and the Pirates

Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son...

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Topper
Topper

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to...

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Rough Waters
Rough Waters

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers....

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On the Border
On the Border

A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty....

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Red Hair
Red Hair

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely d...

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The Truth About Youth
The Truth About Youth

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him....

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Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia

Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia b...

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Surprise
Surprise

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise....

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What a Life
What a Life

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer...

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She Who Gets Slapped
She Who Gets Slapped

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife....

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Carnival
Carnival

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves...

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Playing the Ponies
Playing the Ponies

The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When...

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Early to Bed
Early to Bed

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before...

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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...

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Melody in Spring
Melody in Spring

It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a...

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Murder in Greenwich Village
Murder in Greenwich Village

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu...

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Hearts in Exile
Hearts in Exile

In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries...

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Bitter Sweet
Bitter Sweet

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle ...

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From Headquarters
From Headquarters

United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Mari...

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Whispers
Whispers

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to...

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Coney Island
Coney Island

Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led...

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Sid's Long Count
Sid's Long Count

Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any m...

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The Girl in the Pullman
The Girl in the Pullman

Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turni...

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Fair But Foolish
Fair But Foolish

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who...

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A Wireless Lizzie
A Wireless Lizzie

Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look...

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Weak, But Willing
Weak, But Willing

A devilish courtship....

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Duck Out
Duck Out

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participa...

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Easy Curves
Easy Curves

Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model....

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Sailor Beware
Sailor Beware

Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his swe...

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Down on the Farm
Down on the Farm

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest....

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Billions
Billions

Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of t...

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The Chaser
The Chaser

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...

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Ham and Eggs at the Front
Ham and Eggs at the Front

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army sol...

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Public Hero Number 1
Public Hero Number 1

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

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Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and...

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The Noodle Nut
The Noodle Nut

Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the blac...

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Till I Come Back to You
Till I Come Back to You

Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and h...

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Circus Clowns
Circus Clowns

Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a juni...

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Swiss Movements
Swiss Movements

To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion...

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The Wrong Miss Wright
The Wrong Miss Wright

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't reali...

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Orient Express
Orient Express

Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard ...

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One Too Many
One Too Many

Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle....

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Mike Fright
Mike Fright

The gang attends a radio station amateur show....

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A Feller Who Plays in a Band
A Feller Who Plays in a Band

Susan Miller sings "A Feller Who Plays in a Band."...

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Someone in the House
Someone in the House

Alias "the Dancer," fashionable society crook Jimmy Burke is hot on the trail of the Brent diamonds....

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Wives Never Know
Wives Never Know

The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. ...

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Beauty à la Mud
Beauty à la Mud

When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and ...

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Yes, Yes, Babette
Yes, Yes, Babette

Bobby, the doughboy, has left his sweetheart behind in Paris. He returns for her and has the greates...

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Starving Beauties
Starving Beauties

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Here Comes Cookie
Here Comes Cookie

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performe...

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My Swedie
My Swedie

Jack's honeymoon is interrupted by a letter from a former sweetheart threatening the exposure of a n...

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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their...

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Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a ...

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The Bowery
The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...

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Beautiful But Dumb
Beautiful But Dumb

Janet Brady, a stenographer, wants the love of her boss. She learns her personality has no appeal, s...

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Twin Beds
Twin Beds

A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zan...

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The Clean Up
The Clean Up

Monte Bixby's grandfather leaves a will providing each native-born citizen of his small town with $5...

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Private Detective 62
Private Detective 62

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported...

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