Acting

Willard W. Willingham

Acting credits

Night Passage poster
6.5

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.

Night Passage

1957

40 Guns to Apache Pass poster
5.3

The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers

40 Guns to Apache Pass

1967

Hell Bent for Leather poster
6.3

When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

Hell Bent for Leather

1960

Arizona Raiders poster
6.4

Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.

Arizona Raiders

1965

Joe Butterfly poster
6.5

The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?

Joe Butterfly

1957

Red Canyon poster
5.8

A horse breeder's daughter falls for a cowboy out to capture the stallion she aims to ride.

Red Canyon

1949

Magic Christmas Tree poster
2.9

A boy is given a ring by an old witch, he uses the ring to bring upon a magic Christmas that grants him 3 wishes.

Magic Christmas Tree

1964

The Law Comes to Gunsight poster
6.7

Brown arrives in the town of, yes, Gunsight, in the company of saddle pal Raymond Hatton. Like a new broom, Brown sweeps clean, going after the town's corrupt element.

The Law Comes to Gunsight

1947

Deadwood '76 poster
5.0

A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.

Deadwood '76

1965

Behind the camera