William Janney

William Janney

Born: February 15, 1908
Died: December 22, 1992
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for William Janney...

Clipped Wings
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Mickey Lofton
Released: December 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Character: Buddy Cassidy
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: John Sutter Jr.
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Allan Douglas
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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Born to Gamble
Title: Born to Gamble
Character: Fred Mathews
Released: July 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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Without Children
Title: Without Children
Character: David Sonny Cole Jr.
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Harry Prentice
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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Sweepstake Annie
Title: Sweepstake Annie
Character: Arthur Foster
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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A Successful Failure
Title: A Successful Failure
Character: Robert Cushing
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.
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A Modern Hero
Title: A Modern Hero
Character: Young Pierre Croy
Released: April 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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As the Earth Turns
Title: As the Earth Turns
Character: Ollie
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
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Should Ladies Behave
Title: Should Ladies Behave
Character: Geoffrey Cole
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: Orin Nordholm III
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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King of the Wild Horses
Title: King of the Wild Horses
Character: Two Feathers
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same name -- and with the same "star," Rex the Wonder Horse, in the lead. Most of the story involves the romantic triangle between rogue stallion Rex, the gorgeous mare Lady, and villainous black steed Marquis.
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Secret of the Blue Room
Title: Secret of the Blue Room
Character: Thomas Brandt
Released: July 20, 1933
Type: Movie
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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Terror Aboard
Title: Terror Aboard
Character: Edward Wilson
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
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The Crime of the Century
Title: The Crime of the Century
Character: Jim Brandt
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A doctor who is also a “mentalist” confesses to a murder. The only problem is that the murder he’s confessed to hasn’t happened yet – although dead bodies are now starting to turn up all over the place. A reporter sets out to solve the “mystery”.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: David Stillman
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Jimmie Madigan
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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A Successful Calamity
Title: A Successful Calamity
Character: Eddie Wilton
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
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Crooner
Title: Crooner
Character: Pat - Band Member
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
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Two Seconds
Title: Two Seconds
Character: College Boy at Execution
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
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The Mouthpiece
Title: The Mouthpiece
Character: John 'Johnny' Morris
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
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Girls Demand Excitement
Title: Girls Demand Excitement
Character: Freddie
Released: February 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Man Phoning Ambulance (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Billy Wantage
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: Tommy
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Tommy Powell
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Gordon 'Donny' Scott
Released: July 10, 1930
Type: Movie
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
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Young Desire
Title: Young Desire
Character: Bobby Spencer
Released: June 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Tim Brady
Released: April 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: Jimmie Ward
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: Bob Manning
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
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Salute
Title: Salute
Character: Midshipman Paul Randall
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Coquette
Title: Coquette
Character: Jimmy Besant
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.