William Halligan

William Halligan

Born: March 29, 1883
Died: January 28, 1957
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for William Halligan...

The Dark Mirror
Title: The Dark Mirror
Character: Sergeant Temple (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Dick Tracy
Title: Dick Tracy
Character: Mayor
Released: December 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Title: Week-End at the Waldorf
Character: Chief Jennings
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Title: Flame of Barbary Coast
Character: Tom Buckman
Released: May 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
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The Great Mike
Title: The Great Mike
Character: Doc Scott
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
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Riders of the Deadline
Title: Riders of the Deadline
Character: Simon Crandall
Released: December 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
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The Seventh Victim
Title: The Seventh Victim
Character: Paul Radeaux (Uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
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Black Hills Express
Title: Black Hills Express
Character: Marshal Harvey Dorman
Released: August 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S. Marshal assigned to the case and the Mayor of the town which is at the center of the robberies, are the leaders of the gang.
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Coney Island
Title: Coney Island
Character: Murph, the Cop
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
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The Leopard Man
Title: The Leopard Man
Character: Brunton
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
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He's My Guy
Title: He's My Guy
Character: Elwood (as Bill Halligan)
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Title: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Character: Sgt. McNamara
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Miller
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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Foreign Agent
Title: Foreign Agent
Character: Bob Davis
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Title: Henry Aldrich, Editor
Character: Norman Kenly
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: "Charlie", Bartender
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Mr. Bricker, Banker
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Broadway Big Shot
Title: Broadway Big Shot
Character: Warden Collins
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
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A Gentleman at Heart
Title: A Gentleman at Heart
Character: Higgins
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
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Blonde Comet
Title: Blonde Comet
Character: Cannonball Blake
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.
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Remember the Day
Title: Remember the Day
Character: Tom Hanlon
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Mr. Celebrity
Title: Mr. Celebrity
Character: Daniel Mason
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Houston
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Police Chief Flynn
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Title: Tom, Dick and Harry
Character: Mr. Burton (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.
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Emergency Landing
Title: Emergency Landing
Character: George B. Lambert
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
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Murder Among Friends
Title: Murder Among Friends
Character: Dr. James Gerald
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Ralph Russell
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Latimer
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Earl of Puddlestone
Title: Earl of Puddlestone
Character: Henry Potter-Potter
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: McCreery's Associate #2 (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: J.R. Gillespie, Sr.
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Bartender on Boat
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: Agua Caliente Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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Blessed Event
Title: Blessed Event
Character: Herbert Flint
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
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Lady and Gent
Title: Lady and Gent
Character: Doc Hayes
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
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By Whose Hand?
Title: By Whose Hand?
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1932
Type: Movie
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
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Dancers in the Dark
Title: Dancers in the Dark
Character: Terry - Trumpeter
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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The Circus Show-Up
Title: The Circus Show-Up
Character: Detective Hickey
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Lyn Austin the Auctioneer
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Dr. Powers- Medicine Barker
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Follow the Leader
Title: Follow the Leader
Character: Bob Sterling
Released: December 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
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Waltzing Around
Title: Waltzing Around
Released: May 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his partner acting as referee.