William Roerick

Acting

William Roerick

Born 1911-12-17 · Hoboken, NJ

William George Roerick was an American actor. He is particularly associated with the stage, but also played in many films and TV productions. He was also a stage manager and writer. His name is sometimes given as William Roehrick

Acting credits

The Day of the Dolphin poster
5.8

A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.

The Day of the Dolphin

1973

The Harder They Fall poster
7.2

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

The Harder They Fall

1956

The Love Machine poster
5.0

An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.

The Love Machine

1971

The Wasp Woman poster
4.5

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

The Wasp Woman

1959

Eloise poster
NR

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

Eloise

1956

The Other Side of the Mountain poster
6.3

One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.

The Other Side of the Mountain

1975

God Told Me To poster
5.8

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.

God Told Me To

1976

A Lovely Way to Die poster
4.8

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

A Lovely Way to Die

1968

This Is the Army poster
5.7

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

This Is the Army

1943

The Sporting Club poster
4.2

The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.

The Sporting Club

1971

Not of This Earth poster
5.7

An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.

Not of This Earth

1957

92 in the Shade poster
5.8

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.

92 in the Shade

1975

No artwork available
NR

A dramatisation of the difficulties faced by actor Keenan Wynn when his father comedian Ed Wynn is cast in the dramatic production of Requiem for a Heavyweight.

The Man in the Funny Suit

1960

The Last Tycoon poster
NR

Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

The Last Tycoon

1957

A Separate Peace poster
4.6

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding them, and they are practically forced to live their lives to the fullest. The two boys attend the Devon School, which prepares them for military life that they will most likely be subjected to. The film begins with a narration by an older Gene, traveling back to Devon some years later. The thing he wishes most to see is the tree, which had a great effect on the boys' lives

A Separate Peace

1972

Topaze poster
NR

A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles - and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.

Topaze

1957