Will Wright
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Will Wright

Mar 25, 1894 - San Francisco, California, USA

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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.

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie1940Blondie Plays CupidMr. Tucker
Movie1943Here Comes ElmerHorace Parrot
Movie1935It's A Small WorldCourtroom spectator (uncredited)
Movie1941Mob TownPawnbroker (uncredited)
Movie1942Tales of ManhattanOld Concertgoer (Laughton sequence) (uncredited)
Movie1942SaboteurJ.C. Lormans - Company Official (uncredited)
Movie1950House by the RiverInspector Sarten
Movie1942The Postman Didn't RingMr. Slade
Movie1942Tennessee JohnsonAlderman (uncredited)
Movie1962Cape FearDr. Pearsall
Movie1944You Can't Ration LoveJudge Cary - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Movie1944The Navy WayBaldy - Triangle A Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Movie1944WilsonHughes Campaign Orator in Maine (uncredited)
Movie1945Salome, Where She DancedSheriff
Movie1944The Town Went WildJudge Harry Schrank (uncredited)
Movie1945Fall GuyMr. Nedsen, Parkson's Attorney (uncredited)
Movie1944Dangerous PassagePostal Clerk (uncredited)
Movie1945State FairHog Judge (uncredited)
Movie1946Johnny Comes Flying HomeForeman (uncredited)
Movie1945You Came AlongCol. Dale V. Armstrong (uncredited)
Movie1946Who's Cookin Who?Wolfie Wolf (voice)
Movie1946Hot CargoTim Chapman
Movie1946Prospecting for PetroleumThe Professor (voice)
Movie1946Big TownStation Agent (uncredited)
Movie1946The Jolson StorySourpuss Movie Patron (uncredited)
Movie1947The Long NightMr. Tully - the Janitor (uncredited)
Movie1947CaliforniaChairman (uncredited)
Movie1947The Trouble with WomenCommissioner (uncredited)
Movie1947Uncle Tom's CabanaUncle Tom (uncredited)
Movie1948Jingle, Jangle, JinglePop Williams
Movie1948Green Grass of WyomingJake Willis
Movie1948The Walls of JerichoDr. Patterson (uncredited)
Movie1943The Good FellowsBrother from Danville (uncredited)
Movie1948So This Is New YorkUncle Fergus (uncredited)
Movie1948Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet HomeBabirusa / Pig (voice)
Movie1949Grape NuttyCrow (Voice)
Movie1949The Price of FreedomMcTrees
Movie1964Fail SafeBit Part (uncredited)
Movie1952Lydia BaileyConsul (uncredited)
Movie1955Not as a StrangerMr. Roberts (uncredited)
Movie1949Miss Grant Takes RichmondRoscoe Johnson (uncredited)
Movie1950DallasJudge Harper
Movie1951Never Trust a GamblerCap Douglas (uncredited)
Movie1949Lust for GoldParsons (uncredited)
Movie1949Adam's RibJudge Marcasson
Movie1949All the King's MenDolph Pillsbury
Movie1952The Las Vegas StoryMike Fogarty
Movie1949Act of ViolencePop
Movie1952Holiday for SinnersThe Man with a Cigar
Movie1945The Loose NutConstruction Worker (voice)
Movie1946The Reckless DriverWally Walrus (voice)
Movie1946Fair Weather FiendsWolfie Wolf (voice)
Movie1945BewitchedMr. Herkheimer
Movie1950The Savage HordeJudge Thomas Cole
Movie1946The Madonna's SecretThe Riverman
Movie1943Cowboy in ManhattanHiggins
Movie1958Gunman's WalkJudge
Movie1951Vengeance ValleyMr. Willoughby
Movie1949Little WomenMr. Grace (uncredited)
Movie1957Johnny TremainEphraim Lapham
Movie1946Without ReservationsPullman Conductor (uncredited)
Movie1946The Blue Dahlia"Dad" Newell
Movie1949They Live by NightMobley
Movie1956These Wilder YearsOld Cab Driver
Movie1942The Major and the MinorTicket Agent #1 (uncredited)
Movie1959Alias Jesse JamesTitus Queasley
Movie1961The Deadly CompanionsDoctor Acton
Movie1948DisasterPop Hansford
Movie1953NiagaraBoatman
Movie1946The Inner CircleHenry Boggs
Movie1946Blue SkiesDan - Stage Manager (uncredited)
Movie1941Shadow of the Thin ManMaguire - Nervous Ticket Seller (uncredited)
Movie1941Nothing But the TruthMr. Bart Prichard (uncredited)
Movie1961Twenty Plus TwoNewspaper morgue attendant
Movie1947Mother Wore TightsWithers (uncredited)
Movie1941The Tell-Tale HeartSecond Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Movie1943So Proudly We HailColonel Clark (Uncredited)
Movie1953The Last PosseTodd Mitchell
Movie1957The Wayward BusVan Brunt
Movie1958Quantrill's RaidersJudge Wood
Movie1947Danger StreetPolice Chief Bullward
Movie1948The Inside StoryJ. J. Johnson
Movie1954River of No ReturnTrader (uncredited)
Movie1949Big JackWill Farnsworth
Movie1952O. Henry's Full HouseManager (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
Movie1955The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie1950Sunset in the WestSheriff Tad Osborne
Movie1952PaulaRaymond Bascom
Movie1947Blaze of NoonMr. Thomas
Movie1957The Iron SheriffJudge
Movie1947Keeper of the BeesDr. Grayson
Movie1952Lure of the WildernessSheriff Brink
Movie1958The Missouri TravelerSheriff Marvin Peavy
Movie1958Rock-a-Bye BabyFire Chief (uncredited)
Movie1947CynthiaGus Wood, Thatcher's Real Estate Rep
Movie1949BrimstoneMartin Tredwell
Movie1942WildcatJohn 'Paw' Smithers
Movie1949The Green PromiseMr. Grenstedt
Movie1948Whispering SmithSheriff McSwiggin
Movie1941Cracked NutsSylvanus Boogle
Movie1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseEph Hackett (uncredited)
Movie1953The Wild OneArt Kleiner
Movie1954The RaidJosiah Anderson
Movie1942A Letter From BataanMr. Limpert
Movie1944Practically YoursSen. Cowling (uncredited)
Movie1945High PoweredJeff Hines
Movie1942BambiFriend Owl (voice) (uncredited)
Movie1945The Strange Affair of Uncle HarryMr. Nelson
Movie1943The Meanest Man in the WorldPawn Shop Owner (uncredited)
Movie1952O. Henry's Full HouseHotel Desk Clerk (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
Movie1940You, the PeopleMr. Roberts
Movie1946One Exciting WeekOtis Piper
Movie1946Rendezvous with AnnieElmer Snodgrass
Movie1945Scarlet StreetGlobe Loan Office Manager (uncredited)
Movie1960Inherit the WindBible Salesman (uncredited)
Movie1944Take It BigRodeo Judge (uncredited)
Movie1950No Way OutDr. Cheney (uncredited)
Movie1942Shut My Big MouthJim Long
Movie1941The Richest Man in TownFrederick Johnson
Movie1949Mrs. MikeDr. McIntosh
Movie1946The Hoodlum SaintAllan 'Knucklehead' Smith - Times Editor (uncredited)
Movie1957Jeanne EagelsMarshal (uncredited)
Movie1948An Act of MurderJudge Jim Wilder
Movie1945Rhapsody in BlueRachmaninoff
Movie1941Maisie Was a LadyJudge Thatcher (Uncredited)
Movie1954Johnny GuitarNed - Bank Teller (uncredited)
Movie1947Wild HarvestMike Alperson
Movie1945Grissly's MillionsJohn Frey
Movie1950A Ticket to TomahawkMarshal Kit Dodge
Movie1942USS VD: Ship of ShameCommandant (uncredited)
Movie1947Along the Oregon TrailJim Bridger
Movie1948Black EagleSheriff Clancy
Movie1948RelentlessSam - the Horse Dealer
Movie1941Honky TonkTownsman at Meeting House (uncredited)
Movie1941Blossoms in the DustSenator
Movie1948California's Golden Beginning
Movie1934Pure FeudLem (uncredited)
Movie1952The Happy TimeFamily Doctor
Movie1943In Old OklahomaDoctor
Movie1955Atomic Energy as a Force for GoodTim Summers
Movie1950Walk Softly, StrangerJake, Poker Player (uncredited)
Movie1951My Forbidden PastLuther Toplady
Movie1946Road to UtopiaMr. Latimer (uncredited)
Movie1952Young Man with IdeasParty Guest (uncredited)
Movie1951The Tall TargetThomas Ogden (uncredited)
Movie1946They Made Me a KillerHenry, the Blacksmith
Movie1955The Court-Martial of Billy MitchellAdmiral William S. Sims
Movie1955The KentuckianJohn Decker (uncredited)
Movie1951Excuse My DustRace judge
Movie1955The Tall MenGus - Bartender (uncredited)
Movie1959The 30 Foot Bride of Candy RockPentagon General
Movie1946Down Missouri WayProf. Morris
Movie1943Sleepy LagoonCyrus Coates
Movie1951People Will TalkUncle John Higgins (uncredited)
Movie1946Apple AndyDevil
TV Show1960The Andy Griffith ShowBen Weaver3
TV Show1957Maverick2
TV Show1957Trackdown1
TV Show1954December Bride3
TV Show1961The Dick Van Dyke ShowSam Petrie1
TV Show1951I Love LucyMr. Walters2
TV Show1951Dragnet1
TV Show1957Perry MasonJames Vardon1
TV Show1953General Electric Theater1
TV Show1951I Love LucySheriff1
TV Show1960The Tall Man1
TV Show1957Leave It to BeaverPete at Firehouse #71
TV Show1960Outlaws1
TV Show1959RawhideGrandfather1
TV Show1959Dennis the MenaceMerrivale4
TV Show1955The MillionaireGrandpa Costello1
TV Show1960ThrillerConstable Tom Walker1
TV Show1951Schlitz Playhouse of StarsPop1
TV Show1957The Real McCoys1
TV Show1960Pete and Gladys1
TV Show1958Bronco1
TV Show1953You Are There1
TV Show1951The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok1
TV Show1958Lawman1
TV Show1957SugarfootCharlie Cade1
TV Show1958Bat MastersonBilly Willow3
TV Show1959RiverboatJ.C. Sickel1
TV Show1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey TheatreKing - Newspaper Editor1
TV Show1952Cavalcade of AmericaGeorge's Father1
TV Show1949The Lone RangerUncle Ed1
TV Show1957Official Detective1
TV Show1953Letter to LorettaFather Gourdian1
TV Show1956Hey, Jeannie!McClish1
TV Show1950The George Burns and Gracie Allen ShowJudge Kramer1
TV Show1957Perry MasonAdam Thompson1
TV Show1957MaverickGeneral Hoyt Bosco1
TV Show1957MaverickJabe Hallock1
TV Show1957MaverickGeneral Eakins1
TV Show1955The 20th Century Fox HourJudge O'Neill1
TV Show1954LassieCaleb Brown1
TV Show1957SugarfootJohn Chamberlain1
TV Show1957SugarfootJob Turner1
TV Show1953General Electric TheaterJake Marley1
TV Show1953General Electric TheaterMcCrain1
TV Show1953General Electric TheaterGrandpaw1
TV Show1952The Adventures of Ozzie and HarrietMr. Jackson1
TV Show1952Four Star PlayhouseWillie1
TV Show1952Four Star PlayhouseScupper1
TV Show1957Perry MasonChuck Clark1
TV Show195877 Sunset StripLuther Hanks1
TV Show1957MaverickSheriff Chester Bentley1
TV Show1958The Donna Reed ShowOliver1
TV Show1961Mister EdMr. Thompson1
TV Show1951The Living ChristHerod The Great1
TV Show1951The Living ChristAnnas2
TV Show1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1
TV Show1959Mr. LuckyThe Leadville Kid1
TV Show1957TrackdownZack1
TV Show1952The Ford Television TheatreMr. Crane1
TV Show1951Schlitz Playhouse of StarsFather1

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