Acting

Lottie Williams

Born — Died

1874-01-20 — 1962-11-16

Place of birth

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Lottie Williams was an American character actress whose career spanned the years 1920 to 1949. Williams appeared mostly in small uncredited roles.

Known for

Mr. Skeffington poster
6.8

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Mr. Skeffington

1944

All This, and Heaven Too poster
7.2

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess as the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow.

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

Dangerously They Live poster
6.3

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Dangerously They Live

1941

The Roaring Twenties poster
7.5

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Roaring Twenties

1939

Dark Victory poster
6.9

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

Dark Victory

1939

Broken Lullaby poster
7.4

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.

Broken Lullaby

1932

Film credits

1940s · 27 titles

Mr. Skeffington poster
6.8

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Mr. Skeffington

1944

All This, and Heaven Too poster
7.2

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess as the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow.

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

Dangerously They Live poster
6.3

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Dangerously They Live

1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner poster
7.0

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941

Edge of Darkness poster
6.4

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Edge of Darkness

1943

Money and the Woman poster
4.4

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

Money and the Woman

1940

Men of the Sky poster
5.8

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Men of the Sky

1942

One Foot in Heaven poster
6.9

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

One Foot in Heaven

1941

An Angel from Texas poster
5.3

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

An Angel from Texas

1940

A Dispatch from Reuters poster
6.4

In 19th-century England, German journalist Paul Julius Reuter and his partner, Max Wagner, utilize messenger pigeons to connect telegraph stations across Europe. As time passes and technology outdates his system, Reuter invents a wire system that transmits news stories directly to newspapers. But when a rival creates a faster means, Reuter must transmit high-profile news to stay on top of the industry.

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

Hotel Berlin poster
6.2

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Hotel Berlin

1945

Ladies Must Live poster
7.0

A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money.

Ladies Must Live

1940

Million Dollar Baby poster
6.3

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Million Dollar Baby

1941

Night Unto Night poster
5.4

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.

Night Unto Night

1949

King of the Lumberjacks poster
3.7

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

King of the Lumberjacks

1940

Wild Bill Hickok Rides poster
5.5

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

Service with the Colors poster
5.4

Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

Service with the Colors

1940

Nora Prentiss poster
6.3

Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings, they become heavily involved, and Talbot finds himself faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.

Nora Prentiss

1947

Princess O'Rourke poster
6.5

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

Princess O'Rourke

1943

The Nurse's Secret poster
5.6

An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

The Nurse's Secret

1941

A Fugitive from Justice poster
5.7

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

A Fugitive from Justice

1940

Shadow of a Woman poster
4.5

Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.

Shadow of a Woman

1946

No artwork available
6.2

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

So You Want to Be a Salesman

1947

Homicide poster
5.7

Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?

Homicide

1949

Old Acquaintance poster
7.1

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Old Acquaintance

1943

Busses Roar poster
6.6

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

Busses Roar

1942

Here Comes Happiness poster
6.0

Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.

Here Comes Happiness

1941

1930s · 29 titles

The Roaring Twenties poster
7.5

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Roaring Twenties

1939

Dark Victory poster
6.9

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

Dark Victory

1939

Broken Lullaby poster
7.4

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.

Broken Lullaby

1932

Hell's Kitchen poster
6.8

A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.

Hell's Kitchen

1939

Wonder Bar poster
6.0

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Wonder Bar

1934

That Man's Here Again poster
7.0

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.

That Man's Here Again

1937

Bullets or Ballots poster
6.6

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Bullets or Ballots

1936

These Three poster
7.1

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.

These Three

1936

King of the Underworld poster
6.4

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.

King of the Underworld

1939

Talent Scout poster
6.7

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Talent Scout

1937

6 Day Bike Rider poster
7.0

To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.

6 Day Bike Rider

1934

Yes, My Darling Daughter poster
4.5

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.

Yes, My Darling Daughter

1939

Dust Be My Destiny poster
6.5

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

The Great O'Malley poster
6.9

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad publicity to the force when his pigheaded ethics become the subject of a scathing news story, and he's subsequently relegated to traffic cop. While on the beat, he tickets impoverished family man John Phillips, unaware that his stubbornness will set off a series of devastating events for Phillips.

The Great O'Malley

1937

Hard to Get poster
6.3

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

Hard to Get

1938

Four Wives poster
5.5

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.

Four Wives

1939

Espionage Agent poster
6.3

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Espionage Agent

1939

Wine, Women and Horses poster
5.2

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.

Wine, Women and Horses

1937

The Case of the Black Cat poster
7.0

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm

The Case of the Black Cat

1936

Nancy Drew… Detective poster
6.5

After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.

Nancy Drew… Detective

1938

Land Beyond the Law poster
8.5

A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.

Land Beyond the Law

1937

Quiet, Please poster
6.2

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

Quiet, Please

1939

The Payoff poster
5.5

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

The Payoff

1935

Blackwell's Island poster
5.5

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Blackwell's Island

1939

Murder by an Aristocrat poster
5.0

A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.

Murder by an Aristocrat

1936

Off the Record poster
6.4

After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.

Off the Record

1939

Penrod's Double Trouble poster
7.5

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Penrod's Double Trouble

1938

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

Sarah and Son poster
5.5

A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.

Sarah and Son

1930

1920s · 4 titles