Billie Seward

Acting

Billie Seward

Born 1912-10-23 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Billie Seward (born Rita Ann Seward) was an American actress in films from 1934 to 1944.

Acting credits

Jane Eyre poster
6.9

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Jane Eyre

1943

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island poster
6.7

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939

The 9th Guest poster
6.0

Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.

The 9th Guest

1934

The Gang's All Here poster
5.9

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

The Gang's All Here

1943

Twentieth Century poster
6.8

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Twentieth Century

1934

Branded a Coward poster
6.0

Safely from behind some shrubbery, Johnny Hume, a boy of 6 or 7, witnesses the slaughter of his mother, father and brother by the guns of a gang led by "the Cat". Twenty years later finds Johnny grown to manhood, an expert bronc rider and target shooter - but paralyzed with fearful memories in an actual gunfight. This is brought home to him when some outlaws stick up the local saloon and Johnny ends up cowering behind the bar.

Branded a Coward

1935

Fugitive Lady poster
8.0

In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.

Fugitive Lady

1934

Riding Wild poster
8.0

It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.

Riding Wild

1935

Men of the Hour poster
8.0

Dave Durkin and Andy Blane are a pair of ace newsreel cameramen with Durkin being the assistant who does all the dirty work, with Blane getting the credit and collecting the bonuses. They are both in love with Ann Jordan. Fed up with being double-crossed, Durkin quits the team and goes free-lancing on his own...and promptly screws up. Now he has to find a big story to redeem himself in Ann's eyes.

Men of the Hour

1935

Reno poster
6.7

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Reno

1939

One Crowded Night poster
5.5

The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.

One Crowded Night

1940

Justice of the Range poster
9.0

The McLean and Brennan ranches are both losing cattle to rustlers and each blames the other when cattle buyer Graves is the real culprit. To throw suspicion off himself Graves hires Tim to investigate, not knowing that this will be his downfall.

Justice of the Range

1935

School for Romance poster
4.3

Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.

School for Romance

1934

Among the Missing poster
6.5

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

Among the Missing

1934

Blind Date poster
8.0

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

Blind Date

1934

Take It or Leave It poster
6.0

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

Take It or Leave It

1944

Once to Every Woman poster
6.1

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

Once to Every Woman

1934

Air Hawks poster
6.2

A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

Air Hawks

1935

Li'l Abner poster
6.1

Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.

Li'l Abner

1940

No Hands on the Clock poster
5.6

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

No Hands on the Clock

1941

Voice in the Night poster
7.0

Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.

Voice in the Night

1934

Law Beyond the Range poster
7.0

Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.

Law Beyond the Range

1935

The Revenge Rider poster
8.0

Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.

The Revenge Rider

1935

Trails of the Wild poster
8.0

An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.

Trails of the Wild

1935