Billy Wayne
Date of birth: 1897-02-11
Place of birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Daniel Overing, William Wayne, Billie Wayne
Biography
Movie Credits
Manpower
1941-08-09
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and
Theodora Goes Wild
1936-11-12
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little
Flaming Fury
1949-07-28
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Go West
1940-12-06
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out
Panhandle
1948-02-22
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951-03-14
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
The House Across the Bay
1940-03-01
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charge
The Street with No Name
1948-07-14
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released o
Young People
1940-08-30
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un
Butch Minds the Baby
1942-03-20
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her
Maid's Night Out
1938-03-03
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering mi
The Crowd Roars
1932-04-16
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discoverin
River Lady
1948-05-20
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill to
O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the
Dr. Socrates
1935-10-19
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d
The Man Who Cried Wolf
1937-08-29
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
Because of You
1952-12-04
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Frenchie
1950-12-25
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the me
Air Devils
1938-05-13
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
The Missing Guest
1938-08-12
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The o
While New York Sleeps
1938-12-16
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City,
The Wagons Roll at Night
1941-04-25
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V
Reported Missing
1937-08-15
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937-09-17
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr
Love Is on the Air
1937-10-02
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937-06-08
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of mansl
Here Comes Carter
1936-10-24
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals
My Bill
1938-07-08
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
The Case of the Black Cat
1936-10-31
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wil
Dangerous
1935-12-25
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut h
Bombay Clipper
1942-01-11
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passeng
Stronger Than Desire
1939-06-30
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Greenwich Village
1944-09-27
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
Too Late for Tears
1949-07-17
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and i
The Nitwits
1935-06-07
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a
Castle on the Hudson
1940-02-17
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Blackwell's Island
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Let Us Live
1939-03-29
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence
East Side of Heaven
1939-04-07
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul
The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred
Boulder Dam
1936-03-07
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th
They Shall Have Music
1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f
Second Fiddle
1939-06-30
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi
Indianapolis Speedway
1939-08-05
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather
News Is Made at Night
1939-07-20
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939-11-03
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Ariz
Sitting Pretty
1948-03-10
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme
Dr. Broadway
1942-05-09
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939-12-22
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who i
Swanee River
1939-12-29
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls
Eternally Yours
1939-10-07
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say pre
The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally
There Goes My Heart
1938-10-14
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Heart of the North
1938-12-10
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre
Fury
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
Hers to Hold
1943-07-16
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" film
Wings Over Honolulu
1937-05-16
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m
Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of
Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol
One Wild Night
1938-06-02
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four
Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-
Time Out for Romance
1937-02-10
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f
Man Hunt
1936-01-29
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Ladies in Distress
1938-06-13
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her tow
Moonlight on the Prairie
1935-11-02
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
White Bondage
1937-08-05
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
City for Conquest
1940-09-21
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug
Strike Up the Band
1940-09-27
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between sc
They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b
Angels Over Broadway
1940-10-02
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-
Dangerous Blondes
1943-09-23
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes ra
Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju
An Angel from Texas
1940-04-27
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Girl in 313
1940-05-31
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one
City of Chance
1940-01-13
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943-09-25
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Topper
1937-07-16
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to
The Fighting Seabees
1944-01-27
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work
It Can't Last Forever
1937-07-15
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the
Jackass Mail
1942-07-01
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Top of the Town
1937-04-17
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom
Sin Town
1942-09-25
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
Early to Bed
1936-06-05
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before
The Gun Runners
1958-08-01
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban r
I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Steel Against the Sky
1941-12-13
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
The Great Morgan
1945-01-01
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by
Somewhat Secret
1939-03-29
At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who as
Star Dust
1940-04-06
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build
The Lady Pays Off
1951-10-04
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, whe
Hot Sands
1931-02-01
In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.
Hot Water
1937-09-24
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new
Public Deb No. 1
1940-09-13
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo
The Miracle of the Bells
1948-03-27
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she
The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia
State Police
1938-03-18
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Madame Spy
1942-12-11
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his si
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together
Marked Woman
1937-04-10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste
Who Done It?
1942-10-30
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio stat
Hit the Ice
1943-06-02
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain r
Black Legion
1937-01-30
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining
Between Two Women
1945-03-28
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Midnight Intruder
1938-02-06
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941-12-24
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwester
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950-05-16
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Trac
Love Nest
1951-10-10
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from
In This Our Life
1942-05-08
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l
Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in
Out of the Fog
1941-06-14
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen
Hot Steel
1940-05-24
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Tro
The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936-10-01
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being mar
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937-05-21
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933-12-01
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demote
Rhubarb
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
A Slight Case of Murder
1938-02-26
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law
Follow the Boys
1944-05-05
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star