William McCall

Acting

William McCall

Born — Died

1870-05-18 — 1938-01-10

Place of birth

Delavan, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

It Happened One Night poster
7.8

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

It Happened One Night

1934

Three Godfathers poster
6.9

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).

Three Godfathers

1936

Hollywood Round-Up poster
5.3

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.

Hollywood Round-Up

1937

A Hollywood Theme Song poster
8.0

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.

A Hollywood Theme Song

1930

Remember When? poster
8.0

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Remember When?

1925

A Fight for Millions poster
NR

Jean must marry one of two unwanted men to claim her fortune, but she and her true love, Bob, team up to defeat the scheming suitors and keep her inheritance. 15 episodes: (1) The Snare; (2) Flames of Peril; (3) The Secret Stockade; (4) The Precipice of Horror; (5) The Path of Thrills; (6) The Spell of Evil; (7) The Gorge of Destruction; (8) In the Clutches; (9) The Estate; (10) The Secret Tunnel; (11) The Noose of Death; (12) The Tide of Disaster; (13) The Engine of Terror; (14) The Decoy; and (15) The Sealed Envelope.

A Fight for Millions

1918

Film credits

1930s · 27 titles

It Happened One Night poster
7.8

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

It Happened One Night

1934

Three Godfathers poster
6.9

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).

Three Godfathers

1936

Hollywood Round-Up poster
5.3

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.

Hollywood Round-Up

1937

A Hollywood Theme Song poster
8.0

During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.

A Hollywood Theme Song

1930

No artwork available
NR

Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.

Idle Roomers

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.

Lodge Night

1937

Prison Shadows poster
5.2

A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Prison Shadows

1936

No artwork available
10.0

Landis kills Tom Ross but fails to get his money. Now he is after the Ross ranch for the money he knows is there. When he tries to evict Ross with gambling IOU's, Bill drives him away. With the Ross cowhands out after his rustlers, he finds the money. But Bill is right on his trail.

Lighting Bill

1934

Breed of the Border poster
7.0

Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Stafford and takes his bonds. Brent's old friend Chuck arrives and the two head out to find the gang and recover the bonds.

Breed of the Border

1933

Queenie of Hollywood poster
NR

Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.

Queenie of Hollywood

1931

Under Texas Skies poster
6.5

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.

Under Texas Skies

1930

The Fugitive Sheriff poster
10.0

Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,

The Fugitive Sheriff

1936

Western Frontier poster
9.0

Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden hair Girl only to find that she's his long lost sister.

Western Frontier

1935

Big Calibre poster
9.0

Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.

Big Calibre

1935

No artwork available
8.0

Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.

Won by a Neck

1930

No artwork available
7.0

Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl friend, Natalie (Dorothy Christy) who had left the Sunflower state as she did not care much for the company of pigs and/or pig handlers, although Andy wasn't rich when she left, else she would have most likely been a bit more tolerant. Andy runs into his old friend Jake (Billy Bevan), who has been married for about a year to another belle from Kansas, that Andy hasn't met.

The Big Squeal

1933

Outlaws of the Range poster
6.5

When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as arrested. Jimmy Wilson breaks him out of jail and he heads after the real killer.

Outlaws of the Range

1936

Paradise Express poster
5.8

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.

Paradise Express

1937

In Old Santa Fe poster
5.8

Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.

In Old Santa Fe

1934

The Range Feud poster
5.2

Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.

The Range Feud

1931

The Last of the Clintons poster
7.0

Cowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang to expose their rackets, but after he's ordered to kidnap a young girl, the gang finds out who he really is.

The Last of the Clintons

1935

Moonlight on the Range poster
8.0

Tom "Killer" Dane kills Jeff's friend, who then pursues him. Jeff and Dane are look-alike half brothers, which allows Dane to make a raid dressed like Jeff. Jeff is arrested, but before Dane's henchman can organize a lynch mob, Fuzzy breaks him out and Jeff heads after Dane again.

Moonlight on the Range

1937

Stormy Trails poster
6.5

A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.

Stormy Trails

1936

Share the Wealth poster
6.5

A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.

Share the Wealth

1936

Trailing Trouble poster
10.0

Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men.

Trailing Trouble

1930

Beggars in Ermine poster
7.2

John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.

Beggars in Ermine

1934

Red River Valley poster
6.0

Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.

Red River Valley

1936

1920s · 32 titles

Remember When? poster
8.0

Little orphan Harry is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

Remember When?

1925

The Soapsuds Lady poster
9.0

Betty’s parents are eager to achieve financial security and believe she is their ticket to wealth. They are easily deceived by a villain who poses as a rich man by wearing expensive, hired clothes. Despite her parents' pressure to marry the "wealthy" imposter, Betty is in love with Jack, a young man who once saved her life. Jack is currently engaged to a society girl he does not love. Through a series of fast-paced gags and fortunate circumstances, the two lovers manage to outmaneuver the villain and Betty's parents, eventually realizing their ambition to marry one another.

The Soapsuds Lady

1926

Hooked at the Altar poster
7.0

A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.

Hooked at the Altar

1926

The Jolly Jilter poster
9.0

Ben Turpin, a self-proclaimed "lady killer" finds himself in a difficult romantic predicament. Currently engaged to a woman described as a "gold-digger" (played by Madeleine Hurlock), Ben decides he must first end his relationship with his former lover, a showgirl and theater dancer named Alma Bennett.

The Jolly Jilter

1927

Boobs in the Wood poster
7.2

Chester Winfield tries to make it as a lumberjack, but he's foiled by his lack of strength and the jealous foreman, Big Bill Reardon, after Chester catches the eye of Hazel Wood, Big Bill's favorite and the camp's waitress. Bill tries to eliminate Chester, so he and Hazel head down the mountain for other work. She waits tables and gets him a job as a dishwasher. He spills kerosene in the soup and then must serve it to an angry customer. Hazel tells a couple of tall tales about Chester, and soon all the customers, the owner, and the cook, think he's a desperado. They make him the saloon bouncer. Some trick shooting seals his reputation. Then Big Bill arrives for a showdown.

Boobs in the Wood

1925

Flower of the North poster
10.0

Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.

Flower of the North

1921

Breaking Through poster
9.0

Story of Western life. The action centers about a fight to put through a single track from a mine in Alaska to the coast. If not completed within certain time heroine loses title to property. Young engineer aids in successful fight.

Breaking Through

1921

Gold Digger of Weepah poster
8.0

Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short

Gold Digger of Weepah

1927

The Suitor poster
4.9

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

The Suitor

1920

Ridin' Thunder poster
7.0

When Bill Croft, a notorious gunfighter, is bushwhacked, innocent rancher Frank Douglas is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be hanged. Jack Douglas, Frank's son, sets out to prove his father's innocence with the help of Jean, the murdered man's daughter; Jack eventually apprehends the killer and forces him to confess, but the sheriff is unable to stop the execution without an official pardon.

Ridin' Thunder

1925

His Unlucky Night poster
10.0

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.

His Unlucky Night

1928

Cured in the Excitement poster
7.0

Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!

Cured in the Excitement

1927

No artwork available
NR

A Big Boy comedy

Hot Luck

1928

When a Man's a Prince poster
8.0

The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."

When a Man's a Prince

1926

The Pride of Pikeville poster
7.0

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

The Pride of Pikeville

1927

No artwork available
8.0

Andy Fowler is made a member of a gang of rustlers after rescuing one of their number from a fire, but he finds his freedom threatened by the local sheriff, who is actually the gang's leader and wants Andy's girlfriend for his own.

Across the Border

1922

Rounding Up the Law poster
7.0

Larry Connell arrives in a border town run by Sheriff Bull Weyman and Branch Doughty. Connell wins the sheriff's ranch at draw poker, but Weyman uses his influence with Judge Hyland to have Larry declared bankrupt. Larry attempts to fight foul with fair, but the sale of his cattle pushes him over the edge. Larry holds up Doughty and subsequently gets arrested, but escapes, intending to blow up the sheriff's office.

Rounding Up the Law

1922

Daring Chances poster
10.0

When his sister, who is married to saloon keeper Joe Slavin, dies, Jack Armstrong takes in her little daughter, Bebe. Sampson Burke, his rival for schoolteacher Agnes Rushton, conspires with Slavin to have Jack arrested for abduction.

Daring Chances

1924

Broke in China poster
6.7

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

Broke in China

1927

He Who Gets Smacked poster
6.0

Jimmie poses as a fighter to impress the boss' daughter and finds himself booked at a charity boxing match for the department store where he works.

He Who Gets Smacked

1925

Hurry, Doctor! poster
10.0

Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short

Hurry, Doctor!

1925

Smith's Army Life poster
8.0

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Smith's Army Life

1928

Kitty from Killarney poster
8.0

To bypass the quota, Kitty slips past a gateman by joining a Jewish family she befriended on the voyage. She is eventually taken in by Papa Levy (Max Davidson), who has since become a successful American citizen. Kitty came to America to reunite with her childhood sweetheart, Eddie (Eddie Quillan), who sent letters claiming to be a "big man in the shoe business". Upon finding Eddie, Kitty discovers he is merely a corner bootblack who has forgotten his Irish roots for a "fancy dame" named Rosa Cremona. Seeking fame, Eddie enters an Amateur Night contest at a local theater as a dancer. His performance is a disaster; he is pelted with vegetables by the audience, ruining a dress suit lent to him by Papa Levy. Realizing Eddie's foolishness, Kitty turns her romantic interests toward Danny (Danny O'Shea), a handsome New York police officer and "true son of Erin".

Kitty from Killarney

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Virginia Tremont, her guardian Kenly Lounsbury, and their guide Bill Bronson set out for the Northwest in search of her fiancé, Harold Lounsbury. After being left by Kenly without horses, Virginia and Bill find Harold living as a Native American. Her affections are transferred to Bill when he twice rescues her from danger and when Harold is revealed to be worthless.

The Snowshoe Trail

1922

No artwork available
8.0

Daphne and Thelma want their husbands to take them somewhere nice for dinner. But husbands Johnny and Vernon leery of the expense try a variety of slapstick ways to get them to eat at Hotcake Harry's instead.

Ladies Must Eat

1929

Good Morning, Nurse poster
8.0

Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.

Good Morning, Nurse

1925

The Back Trail poster
9.0

Jeff Prouty loses his memory as a result of war injuries and is made to believe he has committed past crimes.

The Back Trail

1924

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game poster
9.0

A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the instructor, not knowing who he is, shows her picture around the table. This prompts a round-table discussion in which none of the standard rules for civility is part of the discussion.

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game

1926

No artwork available
7.0

Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.

Love's Last Laugh

1926

A Sweet Pickle poster
NR

“Handy girl” at a local bakery Molly is sent to deliver a cake to a wealthy customer's home. Upon arriving, Molly learns that the household is hosting a party but has exactly thirteen guests—an unlucky number. To break the bad luck, Jack, the son of the house insists that his mother invite Molly to join the party as the fourteenth guest. This arrangement sparks jealousy in Flora, a wealthy girl who is in love with Jack. To sabotage her, the jealous rival takes Molly and dresses her in a ridiculous, unflattering outfit to embarrass her in front of the high-society crowd. Molly keeps her head and comes out a winner.

A Sweet Pickle

1925

No artwork available
8.0

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short

For Sale, a Bungalow

1927

The Campus Carmen poster
6.0

A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.

The Campus Carmen

1928