Si Wills

Acting

Si Wills

Born — Died

1896-09-20 — 1977-10-03

Place of birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 11 titles

A Night in a Dormitory poster
5.4

The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters.

A Night in a Dormitory

1930

Penrod and Sam poster
6.5

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Penrod and Sam

1937

Cipher Bureau poster
5.3

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Cipher Bureau

1938

Honor Among Lovers poster
5.9

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

Honor Among Lovers

1931

No artwork available
7.0

Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor grades cause him to be suspended from play.

Time Out for Lessons

1939

Nobody's Baby poster
6.0

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.

Nobody's Baby

1937

Under the Cock-eyed Moon poster
NR

Horace and Chester search for peace and quiet in the Arizona desert, with Lizzy, their personalized jalopy. Arriving in a small town they befriend two girls, a crack-pot prospector, and attract the ire of a dangerous outlaw.

Under the Cock-eyed Moon

1930

No artwork available
8.0

A claustrophobic stage revue where McNaughton comes out to introduce the numbers with Thelma white and chorines, but is interrupted by Wills and Carney with painful gags, and some clothes-tearing horseplay. For a costume number with the boys, McNaughton is replaced by McKay.

Sixteen Sweeties

1930

Racing Blood poster
7.0

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.

Racing Blood

1936

No artwork available
NR

Si Jenks and Bob Carney go to one of those colleges where there are no classes -- although there is one befuddled, elderly professor who shows up for thirty seconds -- but there is lots of dancing, ukulele-playing, upper class men tormenting freshmen, and competition over Sally Starr, who seems to be the only student less than 30 years old.

All for Mabel

1930

No artwork available
7.0

Two correspondence school detectives attempt to apprehend a maniac on the loose and get him back to the asylum.

One Nutty Night

1930

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