Dooley Wilson

Acting

Dooley Wilson

Born — Died

1894-04-03 — 1953-05-30

Place of birth

Tyler, Texas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

19 titles

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, Casablanca; in the film, he also performed its theme song, "As Time Goes By". Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 14 titles

Casablanca poster
8.1

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Casablanca

1943

Knock on Any Door poster
6.2

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Knock on Any Door

1949

Come to the Stable poster
6.8

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

Come to the Stable

1949

My Favorite Blonde poster
6.5

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

My Favorite Blonde

1942

Tell It to the Judge poster
6.6

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.

Tell It to the Judge

1949

Two Tickets to London poster
7.5

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

Two Tickets to London

1943

Take a Letter, Darling poster
6.6

A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.

Take a Letter, Darling

1942

Night in New Orleans poster
4.2

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

Night in New Orleans

1942

Stormy Weather poster
6.8

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Stormy Weather

1943

Higher and Higher poster
6.2

A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.

Higher and Higher

1943

Cairo poster
6.3

Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Cairo

1942

Free For All poster
6.3

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.

Free For All

1949

Seven Days Ashore poster
4.2

Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.

Seven Days Ashore

1944

Racing Luck poster
9.0

Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. Then Stuart learns that the horse will not run without its former stablemate. But neither Stuart nor the Warrens want to give up their respective horses. It is finally agreed that both horses will be entered in the same race, and the winning owner will gain possession of both horses. The only complication is that Phyllis has fallen in love with Stuart.

Racing Luck

1948