Wallace Rooney

Wallace Rooney

Born: December 29, 1910
Died: October 10, 1996
in Plattsburgh, New York, USA

Movies for Wallace Rooney...

Say Yes
Title: Say Yes
Character: Annie's Grandfather
Released: June 12, 1986
Type: Movie
A wealthy man leaves all his money to his grandson on the condition that he marries within 24 hours. If not the money will go to the boy's father...
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Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Title: Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Character: Jimbo - the Barman
Released: October 4, 1983
Type: Movie
A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).
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Rehearsal for Murder
Title: Rehearsal for Murder
Character: Ernie
Released: May 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Title: Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Character: Editor
Released: June 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
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Tail Gunner Joe
Title: Tail Gunner Joe
Character: Speaker
Released: February 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Title: Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
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Foster & Laurie
Title: Foster & Laurie
Character: Commissioner
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
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The Gun
Title: The Gun
Character: Howie
Released: November 13, 1974
Type: Movie
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Eric Saunders
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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Senior Year
Title: Senior Year
Character: Dr. Arnold
Released: March 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Bishop Michael
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
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Desperate Characters
Title: Desperate Characters
Character: Man on Subway
Released: September 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
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Title: Adam-12
Character: George Atkinson
Released: September 21, 1968
Type: TV
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.
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Damn Yankees
Title: Damn Yankees
Character: Commissioner
Released: April 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
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Title: Bewitched
Character: Gardener
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: TV
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
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Title: The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Character: Capt. Foyle
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Man
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: George
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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World in My Corner
Title: World in My Corner
Character: Nelson
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.