Will Wright

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Henry "Will" Wright (March 26, 1894, San Francisco, California - June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California) was an American character actor. He was frequently cast in westerns and in curmudgeonly roles. Over the course of his career, Wright appeared in more than 200 film and television roles. He started his acting career in vaudeville and later moved to the stage, then on to movies, radio, and television. Among the films in which Wright appeared are Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Major and the Minor (1943), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), Road to Utopia (1946), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Little Women (1949), Walk Softly, Stranger (1950), Sunset in the West (1950), People Will Talk (1951), The Happy Time (1952), River of No Return (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Jeanne Eagels (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958). One of his most famous and memorable film roles was corrupt city official Dolph Pillsbury in the Academy Award-winning All the King's Men (1949). Wright provided the voice of Friend Owl in Walt Disney's animated film Bambi (1942). He guest starred on several television series. Will Wright died of cancer in 1962.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1894-03-25
  • event Death Date 1962-06-19
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 4.6
  • info Birth Place San Francisco, California, USA
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6.7

Blondie Plays Cupid

1940-10-31

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Here Comes Elmer

1943-11-15

4.5

It's A Small World

1935-04-12

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Mob Town

1941-10-03

6.7

House by the River

1950-03-25

6.9

Saboteur

1942-04-24

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The Postman Didn't Ring

1942-07-03

6.2

Tales of Manhattan

1942-08-05

6.1

Tennessee Johnson

1942-12-01

7.5

Cape Fear

1962-04-12

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You Can't Ration Love

1944-02-28

5.7

The Navy Way

1944-02-26

5.5

Wilson

1944-08-01

5

The Town Went Wild

1944-12-15

4.9

Dangerous Passage

1944-12-18

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Fall Guy

1945-04-14

3.7

Salome, Where She Danced

1945-04-17

7

You Came Along

1945-07-04

6.6

State Fair

1945-08-29

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Johnny Comes Flying Home

1946-04-05

7.8

Who's Cookin Who?

1946-06-23

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Hot Cargo

1946-06-28

4.8

Big Town

1946-08-23

6.7

The Jolson Story

1946-10-10

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Prospecting for Petroleum

1946-01-01

6.5

California

1947-02-21

5.8

The Long Night

1947-05-28

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The Trouble with Women

1947-06-25

5.3

Uncle Tom's Cabana

1947-07-19

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Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

1948-01-02

6.6

Green Grass of Wyoming

1948-06-03

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The Good Fellows

1943-08-11

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So This Is New York

1948-06-01

5.7

The Walls of Jericho

1948-11-22

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Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home

1948-01-01

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Grape Nutty

1949-04-13

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The Price of Freedom

1949-04-29

5.4

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949-10-20

6.4

Dallas

1950-12-30

5.4

Never Trust a Gambler

1951-07-13

6.1

Lydia Bailey

1952-05-30

6.2

Not as a Stranger

1955-07-01

7.9

Fail Safe

1964-10-07

5.9

Lust for Gold

1949-06-10

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All the King's Men

1949-11-16

7.2

Adam's Rib

1949-11-18

5.8

The Las Vegas Story

1952-01-30

6.9

Act of Violence

1949-01-22

5.5

Holiday for Sinners

1952-07-25

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The Loose Nut

1945-12-17

7.3

The Reckless Driver

1946-08-26

7.3

Fair Weather Fiends

1946-11-18

5.3

Bewitched

1945-07-04

5.8

The Savage Horde

1950-05-22

5.9

The Madonna's Secret

1946-02-16

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Cowboy in Manhattan

1943-05-21

6.7

Gunman's Walk

1958-07-01

5.3

Vengeance Valley

1951-02-14

7.4

Little Women

1949-03-10

5.8

Johnny Tremain

1957-06-19

6.3

Without Reservations

1946-05-13

6.6

The Blue Dahlia

1946-04-16

6.8

They Live by Night

1949-11-01

6.3

These Wilder Years

1956-08-17

7

The Major and the Minor

1942-09-16

5.9

Alias Jesse James

1959-03-20

5.7

The Deadly Companions

1961-06-06

5

Disaster

1948-12-03

6.8

Niagara

1953-01-26

5.2

The Inner Circle

1946-08-07

6

Blue Skies

1946-10-15

7

Shadow of the Thin Man

1941-11-21

7.1

Nothing But the Truth

1941-10-10

6

Twenty Plus Two

1961-08-13

5.3

Mother Wore Tights

1947-08-20

6.5

The Tell-Tale Heart

1941-10-25

5.5

So Proudly We Hail

1943-09-09

6

The Last Posse

1953-07-04

5.8

The Wayward Bus

1957-05-27

4.5

Quantrill's Raiders

1958-04-27

4

Danger Street

1947-06-20

6.5

The Inside Story

1948-03-14

6.7

River of No Return

1954-04-30

6

Big Jack

1949-04-12

6.5

O. Henry's Full House

1952-08-07

7.2

The Man with the Golden Arm

1955-12-26

7.8

Sunset in the West

1950-09-25

6.5

Paula

1952-05-15

4

Blaze of Noon

1947-05-02

6.2

The Iron Sheriff

1957-04-01

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Keeper of the Bees

1947-07-10

6

Lure of the Wilderness

1952-07-16

6.4

The Missouri Traveler

1958-01-21

6.8

Rock-a-Bye Baby

1958-07-23

5.9

Cynthia

1947-08-29

6.5

Brimstone

1949-08-15

6

Wildcat

1942-09-03

6.6

The Green Promise

1949-03-22

6.5

Whispering Smith

1948-12-09

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Cracked Nuts

1941-07-02

7

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948-03-25

6.6

The Wild One

1953-12-30

6.5

The Raid

1954-08-04

4.5

A Letter From Bataan

1942-09-15

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Practically Yours

1944-12-20

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High Powered

1945-02-27

7.1

Bambi

1942-02-11

6.3

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945-08-17

6.4

The Meanest Man in the World

1943-02-12

6.5

O. Henry's Full House

1952-08-07

5.7

You, the People

1940-11-30

6

One Exciting Week

1946-06-08

6

Rendezvous with Annie

1946-07-22

7.6

Scarlet Street

1945-12-25

7.7

Inherit the Wind

1960-07-07

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Take It Big

1944-06-09

6.9

No Way Out

1950-08-16

10

Shut My Big Mouth

1942-02-19

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The Richest Man in Town

1941-08-02

2

Mrs. Mike

1949-12-23

5.2

The Hoodlum Saint

1946-04-04

6.3

Jeanne Eagels

1957-08-02

6.8

An Act of Murder

1948-12-05

6.4

Rhapsody in Blue

1945-06-27

6.8

Maisie Was a Lady

1941-01-10

7.4

Johnny Guitar

1954-05-26

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Wild Harvest

1947-09-26

6

Grissly's Millions

1945-01-16

5.8

A Ticket to Tomahawk

1950-05-19

4.4

USS VD: Ship of Shame

1942-01-02

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Along the Oregon Trail

1947-08-30

6

Black Eagle

1948-09-16

6.2

Relentless

1948-06-15

6.4

Honky Tonk

1941-10-01

6.5

Blossoms in the Dust

1941-08-15

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California's Golden Beginning

1948-01-01

0

Pure Feud

1934-04-20

6.3

The Happy Time

1952-10-30

6.3

In Old Oklahoma

1943-12-06

0

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

1955-01-01

5

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950-10-14

5.7

My Forbidden Past

1951-04-25

6.6

Road to Utopia

1946-02-27

4.7

Young Man with Ideas

1952-05-02

6.8

The Tall Target

1951-08-17

5.6

They Made Me a Killer

1946-05-03

6.8

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955-12-31

5.7

The Kentuckian

1955-07-22

7.2

Excuse My Dust

1951-06-27

6.3

The Tall Men

1955-09-22

5.9

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

1959-08-06

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Down Missouri Way

1946-08-15

4.5

Sleepy Lagoon

1943-09-05

7.1

People Will Talk

1951-08-29

6.2

Apple Andy

1946-04-09

7.6

The Andy Griffith Show

1960-10-03

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.4

Trackdown

1957-10-04

5.5

December Bride

1954-10-04

7.4

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961-10-03

8

I Love Lucy

1951-10-15

6.5

Dragnet

1951-12-16

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

8

I Love Lucy

1951-10-15

6.3

The Tall Man

1960-09-10

7

Leave It to Beaver

1957-10-04

6.2

Outlaws

1960-09-26

7.2

Rawhide

1959-01-09

6.7

Dennis the Menace

1959-10-04

5

The Millionaire

1955-01-19

6.4

Thriller

1960-09-13

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

5.7

The Real McCoys

1957-10-03

6.5

Pete and Gladys

1960-09-19

4.8

Bronco

1958-09-23

5.7

You Are There

1953-02-01

4.5

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951-04-15

5.4

Lawman

1958-10-05

4.8

Sugarfoot

1957-09-17

6.3

Bat Masterson

1958-10-08

6.2

Riverboat

1959-09-13

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

3.5

Cavalcade of America

1952-10-01

6.8

The Lone Ranger

1949-09-15

0

Official Detective

1957-01-01

6.2

Letter to Loretta

1953-09-20

5.5

Hey, Jeannie!

1956-09-08

6.9

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

1950-10-12

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

5.2

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955-10-05

6.2

Lassie

1954-09-12

4.8

Sugarfoot

1957-09-17

4.8

Sugarfoot

1957-09-17

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

6.1

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

1952-10-03

6.2

Four Star Playhouse

1952-09-25

6.2

Four Star Playhouse

1952-09-25

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21

6.7

77 Sunset Strip

1958-10-10

6.8

Maverick

1957-09-22

6.3

The Donna Reed Show

1958-09-24

6.7

Mister Ed

1961-01-05

5

The Living Christ

1951-01-07

5

The Living Christ

1951-01-07

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

7

Mr. Lucky

1959-10-24