Willy Castello

Willy Castello

Born: April 24, 1910
Died: February 7, 1953
in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Movies for Willy Castello...

Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Flunky
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
Title: Confessions of a Vice Baron
Character: Lucky Lombardi aka Count de Hoven / Van Hersten / Kilonis
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
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You Can't Beat the Law
Title: You Can't Beat the Law
Character: Rico
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Jeweler (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: Otto
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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The Panther's Claw
Title: The Panther's Claw
Character: John Martin George (as William Castello)
Released: March 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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Road to Happiness
Title: Road to Happiness
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
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You're Out of Luck
Title: You're Out of Luck
Character: Johnny Burke
Released: January 20, 1941
Type: Movie
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
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Phantom of Chinatown
Title: Phantom of Chinatown
Character: Jonas
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Radio Operator
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Addullah (as William Castello)
Released: October 6, 1940
Type: Movie
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship. A romance ensues, but the two decide to part when Paul learns that Helene is the fiancée of his best friend and fellow officer Raoul. Raoul is wounded during an Arab attack and the wedding is postponed, and Helene and Paul are thrown together and find it impossible to hide their feelings. The meet in the tent of Hassan, a fortune teller, not knowing the tent is a storage place for arms and ammunition belonging to Addullah, an Arab leader determined to avenge the death of his brother Ben Ali.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Krug's Henchman at Windmill (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Mad Youth
Title: Mad Youth
Character: Count DeHoven
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
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Chasing Trouble
Title: Chasing Trouble
Character: Kurt
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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Hidden Enemy
Title: Hidden Enemy
Character: Eric Bowman
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Capt. Testoff
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Wanted by the Police
Title: Wanted by the Police
Character: Russo
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Tony Kilonis
Released: July 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
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Port of Missing Girls
Title: Port of Missing Girls
Character: Manuel
Released: February 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm, a woman-hater, and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China. Della is discovered by Jim Benton, the ship's first mate and he pleads her case to the captain. He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie at "Minnie's Joint in Shanghai, until her innocence can be established.
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Race Suicide
Title: Race Suicide
Character: Rudolf von Hertsen
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into having illegal abortions.
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Young Dynamite
Title: Young Dynamite
Character: Flash Slavin
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
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Heroes of the Alamo
Title: Heroes of the Alamo
Character: General Cos
Released: August 7, 1937
Type: Movie
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.
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Smashing the Vice Trust
Title: Smashing the Vice Trust
Character: James 'Lucky' Lombardi
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
In a meeting with the leaders of his vice syndicate, gangster boss James "Lucky" Lombardo complains that his profits are down. He demands that his henchmen get new, younger and prettier girls for his bordellos.
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Special Agent K-7
Title: Special Agent K-7
Character: Eddie Geller
Released: May 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Duval (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Gangster
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Melody Trail
Title: Melody Trail
Character: Gypsy Frantz
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.
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The Tars
Title: The Tars
Character: Dries
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
After serving in the Royal Navy, Manus, Toon and Dries return to Amsterdam working-class quarter 'the Jordaan'. Back home, they find out things have changed while they were gone; Manus's girl Jans has been unfaithful to him, Toon's father now rejects him on account of his dissolute life and barmaid Auntie Piet has been cooking up a scheme to ruin Dries' relationship with his girl Greet.
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Sailor's Song
Title: Sailor's Song
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.
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Border Romance
Title: Border Romance
Character: Lieutenant of Rurales
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Babylonian Noble
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.