Billy Wilkerson

Billy Wilkerson

Born: September 18, 1902
Died: March 3, 1966
in Oklahoma Territory, USA
William Wilkerson was born on September 18, 1902 in Cobb, Oklahoma, USA as William Penn Wilkerson. He is known for his work on Rock Island Trail (1950), Riding West (1944) and Apache Chief (1949). He died on March 3, 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Movies for Billy Wilkerson...

Foxfire
Title: Foxfire
Character: Apache Chief (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1955
Type: Movie
A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
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Thunder Pass
Title: Thunder Pass
Character: Chief Growling Bear (as William Wilkerson)
Released: September 20, 1954
Type: Movie
A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
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Yukon Vengeance
Title: Yukon Vengeance
Character: Chief Lone Eagle (as Bill Wilkerson)
Released: January 17, 1954
Type: Movie
In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Title: Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Character: Sub-Chief (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Title: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Character: Native Warrior
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human experiments.
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California Conquest
Title: California Conquest
Character: Fernando
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the Russians have established bases in the northern part of the state. To further their hold they have stolen guns and Don Arturo Bordega, a leader of those wanting statehood, is out to recover them.
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Brave Warrior
Title: Brave Warrior
Character: Chief Little Cloud
Released: May 31, 1952
Type: Movie
In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
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Rancho Notorious
Title: Rancho Notorious
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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Broken Arrow
Title: Broken Arrow
Character: Juan
Released: August 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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Rock Island Trail
Title: Rock Island Trail
Character: Lakin, Indian Chief
Released: May 18, 1950
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Title: Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Character: High Tree (as William Wilkerson)
Released: January 6, 1950
Type: Movie
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.
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Apache Chief
Title: Apache Chief
Character: Grey Cloud
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief must deal with renegade Apache Black Wolf.
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Singin' Spurs
Title: Singin' Spurs
Character: Chief Wolfpack
Released: September 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
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Bowery Buckaroos
Title: Bowery Buckaroos
Character: Big Moose
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Title: Robin Hood Of Texas
Character: Guest
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Sgt. Smith (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Title: Swingin' on a Rainbow
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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Riding West
Title: Riding West
Character: Chief Red Eagle (as Bill Wilkerson)
Released: May 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to sabotage the new Pony Express mail service, and hard-ridin' Steve Jordan (Charles Starrett) aims to find out who.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Soldier
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Steve
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Indian
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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Wake Island
Title: Wake Island
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
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Go West, Young Lady
Title: Go West, Young Lady
Character: Indian Chief
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Indian
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Indian
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Dr. Cyclops
Title: Dr. Cyclops
Character: Silent Indian
Released: April 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
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Santa Fe Marshal
Title: Santa Fe Marshal
Character: Indian
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
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Bad Lands
Title: Bad Lands
Character: Apache
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
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Susannah of the Mounties
Title: Susannah of the Mounties
Character: Indian
Released: June 13, 1939
Type: Movie
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Tomas Mejia
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Title: Cyclone of the Saddle
Character: Indian
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.