Acting

Billy Lechner

Born 1924-09-02 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Acting credits

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington poster
7.8

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Sands of Iwo Jima poster
6.4

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

Sands of Iwo Jima

1950

Susan and God poster
6.5

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Susan and God

1940

Junior Army poster
6.3

An English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.

Junior Army

1942

Phffft poster
6.2

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.

Phffft

1954

On an Island with You poster
5.9

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.

On an Island with You

1948

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

The Flying Missile poster
5.3

A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

The Flying Missile

1950

Make a Wish poster
5.8

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.

Make a Wish

1937

Living on Love poster
6.1

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

Living on Love

1937

Miss Grant Takes Richmond poster
5.6

A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

1949

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

Penrod and His Twin Brother poster
6.0

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

Penrod and His Twin Brother

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

Five Little Peppers in Trouble poster
7.2

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

1940

Over 21 poster
6.7

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Over 21

1945

Chain Gang poster
7.5

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

Chain Gang

1950

The Lady and the Rocket poster
NR

Romance, music, and 1952 Oldsmobiles.

The Lady and the Rocket

1952