Warren William
Fear (1946)
Fear is a 1946 low-budget film noir directed by Alfred Zeisler and produced by Monogram Pictures. The film loosely follows the main plot of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, without attribution.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Alice Brady•Lewis Stone
Strange Illusion (1945)
Strange Illusion is a 1945 film noir version of Hamlet, envisioned as a modern crime film. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starred Jimmy Lydon, Warren William and Sally Eilers. According to noir historian Spencer Selby the film is "a stylish cheapie by the recognized master of stylish cheapies."
Starring: Ruth Ford•Gladys George•Jane Thomas
One Dangerous Night (1943)
One Dangerous Night (1943) is the tenth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features Warren William in his seventh and second-to-last performance as the protagonist jewel thief turned detective Lone Wolf, and Warren Ashe as Sidney Shaw, the film's antagonist. The film was directed by Michael Gordon and written by Arnold Phillips, Max N...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Warren William
Passport to Suez (1943)
Passport to Suez is the 20th film featuring the Lone Wolf character. It was the eleventh of fifteen in the Columbia Pictures series, and the last to star Warren William as the lead character, a jewel thief turned private detective. The Lone Wolf battles Nazi spies in Egypt in World War II.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Genevieve Tobin
Counter-Espionage (1942)
Counter-Espionage is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Edward Dmytryk. Counter-Espionage was the ninth film in Columbia's Lone Wolf series, based on characters created by Louis Joseph Vance. It is also known as The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Dolores del Río•Claudette Colbert
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a 1942 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot and Warren William. Bennett was paid $10,000 for her appearance, a significant drop from what she had recently been earning. Cabot is one of a number of actors to have played Wild Bill Hickok on screen.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Loretta Young•Lili Damita
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1941)
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1941) is the sixth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures. It features Warren William, in his fourth appearance as the title character Lone Wolf, and Edward Gargan, Lester Matthews and Don Beddoe as the film's antagonists. The film was directed by Sidney Salkow and written by Salkow and Earl Felton.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Kay Francis
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance is a 1941 American mystery film directed by Sidney Salkow, which stars Warren William, June Storey, and Henry Wilcoxon. Salkow also wrote the original screenplay, along with Earl Felton, and the film was released on March 6, 1941. It is the sixth Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures, and the fourth appearance of...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Reginald Owen•Barbara Stanwyck
Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)
Secrets of the Lone Wolf is a 1941 American crime film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Warren William. It is part of Columbia Pictures series of Lone Wolf films.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Wallace Ford•Ginger Rogers
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
Wild Geese Calling is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett. It was distributed by 20th Century-Fox. The screenplay was written by Horace McCoy, based on a 1940 novel by Stewart Edward White. The music score is by Alfred Newman.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Bruce Cabot•Maureen O'Sullivan
Arizona (1940)
Arizona is a 1940 American Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Bette Davis•Constance Cummings
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady is a 1940 American drama directed by Sidney Salkow, starring Warren William, Eric Blore and Jean Muir.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Karen Morley•Wallace Ford
The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
The Lone Wolf Strikes is a 1940 crime drama film directed by Sidney Salkow, which stars Warren William, Joan Perry, and Eric Blore.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Sidney Fox•Wallace Ford
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Trail of the Vigilantes is a 1940 75-minute black-and-white Western comedy directed by Allan Dwan, written by Harold Shumate, and featuring Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford and Andy Devine.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Gracie Allen•Guy Kibbee
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
The Gracie Allen Murder Case is a 1939 American comedy mystery film taken from the Philo Vance series by writer S.S. Van Dine and directed by Alfred E. Green from a screenplay by Nat Perrin. The film stars the female member of the comedy duo Burns and Allen Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor, Judith Barrett, Donald MacBride and J...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Alison Skipworth•Allen Jenkins
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt is a 1939 American adventure film directed by Peter Godfrey and written by Jonathan Latimer. The film stars Warren William and Ida Lupino. The film was released by Columbia Pictures on January 27, 1939.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Virginia Bruce•Lil Dagover
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1939 American film very loosely adapted from the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Bruce Cabot•Patricia Ellis
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns is a 1938 American mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by James Kevin McGuinness, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Harmon Coxe. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Nat Pendleton, and Monty Woolley. The film was released on February 25, 1938 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Jean Muir•Gene Lockhart
The First Hundred Years (1938)
The First Hundred Years is a 1938 American comedy-drama film directed by Richard Thorpe. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, and Warren William.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Gail Patrick•Gene Lockhart
Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Wives Under Suspicion is a 1938 American crime film based on a 1932 Ladislas Fodor play that was previously adapted into the film, The Kiss Before the Mirror. This version was directed by James Whale and stars Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, and Constance Moore. It released by Universal Pictures. In 1966, the film entered the public dom...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Rita Hayworth•Henry Fonda
The Firefly (1937)
The Firefly is a 1937 musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones. The film is an adaptation of the operetta of the same name by composer Rudolf Friml and librettist Otto A. Harbach that premiered on Broadway in 1912. The film used nearly all of the music from the operetta but jettisoned the plot in favor of a new storyline set in Spai...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Eric Blore•June Travis
Madame X (1937)
Madame X is a 1937 American drama film, a sanitized remake of several Pre-Code films of the same name. It was directed by Sam Wood, with additional direction by Gustav Machatý (uncredited). The film is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912).
Starring: Allan Jones•Ruth Ford•Constance Moore
Midnight Madonna (1937)
Midnight Madonna is a 1937 American drama film directed by James Flood and written by David Boehm, Gladys Lehman and Doris Malloy. The film stars Warren William, Edward Ellis, Jonathan Hale, Mady Correll, and Kitty Clancy. The film was released on July 2, 1937, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Ellen Drew
Outcast (1937)
Outcast is a 1937 American drama film directed by Robert Florey. Unusually for Florey, this was an independent production released through Paramount Pictures.
Starring: William Holden•Ruth Ford•Marguerite Chapman
The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
The Case of the Velvet Claws is a 1936 mystery film, based on the first Perry Mason novel (1933) by Erle Stanley Gardner and featuring the fourth and final appearance of Warren William as defense attorney Mason.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Broderick Crawford
Go West, Young Man (1936)
Go West, Young Man is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Mae West, Warren William, and Randolph Scott. Released by Paramount Pictures and based on the 1934 play Personal Appearance by Lawrence Riley, the film is about a movie star who gets stranded out in the country and trifles with a young man's affections. The ph...
Starring: Forrest Tucker•Ruth Ford•Anne Gwynne
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis and Warren William.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Ann Savage•Peter Cookson
Times Square Playboy (1936)
Times Square Playboy is a 1936 American romance film directed by William C. McGann and starring Warren William, June Travis and Barton MacLane. It is also known by the alternative title of His Best Man. The film's art direction was by Esdras Hartley, its costume design by Orry-Kelly.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Bebe Daniels•May Robson
The Widow from Monte Carlo (1936)
The Widow from Monte Carlo is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Arthur Greville Collins and starring Warren William, Dolores del Río, Louise Fazenda and Colin Clive. It was based on the play A Present from Margate by Ian Hay and A.E.W. Mason. It was shot at Warner Brothers's Burbank Studios with sets designed by the art director Hugh Reticker...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Jane Thomas•Mary Astor
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
The Case of the Curious Bride is a 1935 American mystery film, the second in a series of four starring Warren William as Perry Mason, following The Case of the Howling Dog. The script was based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner, published by William Morrow and Company, which proved to be one of the most popular of all the P...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Loretta Young•Broderick Crawford
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
The Case of the Lucky Legs is a 1935 mystery film, the third in a series of Perry Mason films starring Warren William as the famed lawyer.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Alan Mowbray•Claudette Colbert
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Don't Bet on Blondes is a 1935 American romantic comedy film.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Broderick Crawford
Bedside (1934)
Bedside is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring Warren William, Jean Muir and Allen Jenkins.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Loretta Young•Karen Morley
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner. The film stars Warren William and Mary Astor. This was the first in a series of four films in which William played Perry Mason. The next three films in the series were The Case of the Curious Bride...
Starring: Maureen O'Sullivan•Ruth Ford
Cleopatra (1934)
Cleopatra is a 1934 American epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures. A retelling of the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, the screenplay was written by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence and was based on Bartlett Cormack's adaptation of historical material. Claudette Colbert stars as Cleopatra, Warren William a...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Walter Huston•Reginald Owen
The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
The Dragon Murder Case is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot and Eugene Pallette, and featuring Helen Lowell, Robert McWade, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Tree, George E. Stone and Etienne Girardot.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Kay Francis
Dr. Monica (1934)
Dr. Monica is a 1934 American pre-Code melodrama film produced by Warner Bros. starring Kay Francis, Warren William, and Jean Muir. An obstetrician, who is unable to have children, discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Barbara Stanwyck•Karen Morley
The Secret Bride (1934)
The Secret Bride is a 1934 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William. Based on the play Concealment by Leonard Ide, the film is about governor's daughter and a state attorney general who are forced to keep their marriage secret after the governor is accused of a crime.The initial plot concerns...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Ginger Rogers•Colin Clive
Smarty (1934)
Smarty, known in the United Kingdom as Hit Me Again, is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Florey and starring Warren William and Joan Blondell. It was adapted from F. Hugh Herbert's play by Carl Erickson (writer).
Starring: Ruth Ford•Glenda Farrell
Upper World (1934)
Upperworld is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder. Upperworld is one of the last films released before the strict enforcement of the Hollywood Production Code by Joseph I....
Starring: Maureen O'Sullivan•Ruth Ford•Joan Blondell
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Employees' Entrance is a 1933 pre-Code film about the devious manager of a New York department store and his romantic involvement with a reluctant new employee. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetical...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Constance Cummings•Marian Marsh
Goodbye Again (1933)
Goodbye Again is a 1933 pre-Code romantic comedy film made by First National Pictures and Warner Bros.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Alan Mowbray•Glenda Farrell
Lady for a Day (1933)
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture...
Starring: Sidney Fox•Ruth Ford•Lil Dagover
The Mind Reader (1933)
The Mind Reader is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Robert Lord and Wilson Mizner. The film stars Warren William, Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Natalie Moorhead, Mayo Methot and Clarence Muse. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 1, 1933.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Guy Kibbee
Beauty and the Boss (1932)
Beauty and the Boss is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Marian Marsh, David Manners and Warren William. It was based on a 1928 Hungarian play by Ladislas Fodor about a secretary who eventually marries her boss. An English language adaptation of the play by Benn Levy, entitled A Church Mouse, opened...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Margaret Lindsay•Allen Jenkins
The Dark Horse (1932)
The Dark Horse is a 1932 American pre-Code political comedy film, starring Warren William and Bette Davis. The movie was directed by Alfred E. Green.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Ann Savage•Lil Dagover
The Match King (1932)
The Match King is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film made by First National Pictures, directed by William Keighley and Howard Bretherton. The film starred Warren William and Lili Damita, and follows the rise and fall of Swedish safety match tycoon Ivar Kreuger. Based on the novel by Einar Thorvaldson, the film was released on December 31, 1932.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Patricia Ellis
The Mouthpiece (1932)
The Mouthpiece is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film starring Warren William and directed by James Flood and Elliott Nugent. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film is currently available on DVD in the Forbidden Hollywood series.
Starring: Ruth Ford•Gene Lockhart
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Skyscraper Souls is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Warren William, Anita Page, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, and Verree Teasdale. Directed by Edgar Selwyn, it is based on the 1931 novel Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin.
Starring: Ruth Ford•June Travis
The Woman from Monte Carlo (1932)
The Woman from Monte Carlo is an American pre-Code film produced by Warner Bros. subsidiary First National Pictures in 1931 and released on January 9, 1932. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and gave top billing to German star Lil Dagover in her sole Hollywood film. Leading men Walter Huston and Warren William were listed after the title in the man...
Starring: Ruth Ford•Bebe Daniels•Jane Thomas
Honor of the Family (1931)
Honor of the Family is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film released by First National Pictures, starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from the Honoré de Balzac novel, La Rabouilleuse.
Starring: Walter Huston•Ruth Ford•Alan Mowbray
The Town That Forgot God (1922)
The Town That Forgot God is a 1922 American drama film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by Paul Sloane. The film stars Ben Grauer, Warren William, Jane Thomas, Harry Benham, Edwin Denison and Grace Barton. The film was released on February 11, 1923, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Lil Dagover•Ruth Ford