Date of birth: 1888-10-18
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

Walter B. McGrail (October 19, 1888 – March 19, 1970) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1916 and 1951. Besides feature films, he appeared in The Scarlet Runner, a 12-chapter serial.

1947-12-25
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage takin

1933-07-24
A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister

1921-12-12
After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresfor

1930-07-09
A dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.

1923-11-12
Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is

1938-06-15
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have d

1927-09-04
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of

1924-11-30
Virginia Carter accedes to her family's pressures and marries Jordan Southwick, who comes from a wea

1932-01-02
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the

1929-04-14
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own

1920-08-11
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness h

1942-10-30
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bo

1937-10-29
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an

1918-03-04
Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a

1942-08-21
Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rus

1918-01-10
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not

1935-04-02
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men

1936-05-04
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up t

1932-01-20
A Shadow Detective Story.

1922-12-04
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to

1936-12-05
Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more amb

1916-05-29
The story of two small-town barbers, Eddie and Gene, who are tricked into fronting a speakeasy for b

1934-08-10
Dyer is buying ranches and then retrieving his check by having his gang kill the owner. Bob Worth ar

1938-07-22
Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two

1928-03-25
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman h

1930-11-01
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith.

1938-01-12
Tim Hart (Tim McCoy), a former Texas Ranger, comes out of retirement to avenge the death of Lightnin

1931-07-16
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh

1930-04-30
Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is hav

1930-06-01
Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French F

1938-06-17
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

1921-05-01
Canadian schoolteacher Julie Leneau becomes the bride of Geoffrey Arnold but is soon confronted by C

1933-02-10
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chi

1923-02-16
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra

1930-02-08
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example

1928-12-16
Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless fe

1919-01-02
Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war

1930-10-14
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the

1917-04-09
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the

1923-07-01
A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised b

1930-08-31
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He fi

1930-11-30
The story concentrates of neglectful husband Jim Murdock (Edmund Lowe) and his frustrated wife Betty

1929-06-28
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been br

1925-04-26
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fe

1939-02-05
The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a

1926-11-14
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was direct

1939-01-05
When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it

1923-07-19
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.

1939-03-02
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo

1939-05-31
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr

1932-10-14
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get he

1931-12-26
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.

1940-12-13
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an ar

1939-09-20
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome ho

1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t

1940-01-08
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske

1932-08-26
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his

1921-10-10
A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.

1925-01-30
Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by

1940-09-30
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into

1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked

1941-12-27
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

1923-01-28
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person

1923-03-16
Directed by Wallace Worsley.

1925-09-27
A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace i

1925-09-06
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a vill

1928-04-22
When Madge, a clerk in a flower shop, is sent to a bachelor's apartment to deliver and arrange a bou

1940-07-20
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Linc

1942-02-27
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of

1941-02-07
A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' mur

1925-01-04
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in searc

1950-06-23
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home i

1934-11-18
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he exp

1932-12-30
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to r

1925-12-06
"When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Cl

1927-10-09
Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Clave

1934-06-27
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to

1931-07-21
A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a fa

1930-01-05
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which

1936-11-17
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c

1919-01-06
A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her w

1926-10-02
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a ban

1922-03-04
A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce

1924-04-13
As a boy, Raoul is reared by an Arab tribe in Algerian Sahara. Years later, as a refined Europeanize

1926-09-05
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his moth

1925-09-28
'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous H

1921-09-26
The son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term to s
1926-03-28
Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of

1941-10-31
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo

1931-01-30
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarin

1919-11-02
The Country Cousin

1932-01-14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr

1924-06-22
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albrigh

1925-07-26
Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own p

1922-06-18
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Mick

1920-08-16
Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from I

1917-10-27

1934-03-02
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom

1925-01-22
Loring, an author, in getting material for a book, goes to a gambling den. He sees Wilbur, who acts

1919-03-03
A model by day and a short-story writer by night, Erminie Foster is insulted when novelist Ernest Sa

1926-03-21
After divorcing her husband in Reno, Nancy Bell is arrested for speeding and thrown into jail. Unabl

1921-01-09
Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has t

1921-02-14
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken

1924-10-19
Gerald Cranston, a successful financier and industrialist who worked his way up through the ranks, e

Cousins Jim and Ned Thorpe are best friends, but that comes to an end when they both vie for the aff

1923-10-08
Infamous Mexican bandit Pancho López recognizes Gilbert Jones as the man who once saved his life; th

1925-02-22
A young couple's future is put in jeopardy by both the past and present actions of their parents.

1926-11-24
Miners Bucky Malone and Pierre Le Grande are closing their northern mine for the winter when Sergean

1918-11-25
A beautiful and ambitious young woman leaves her boyfriend for a famous sculptor, and later--after s

1920-03-15
Maurie Monnier, a poor young American sculptor in Paris, marries Clarice, a gold-digging model who l

1918-10-21
Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It i

1918-05-13
The opening picture finds Edith in prison where she has been for the last three years. She is a wido

1918-04-18
Carrying on with the antique business of her deceased father, Jacqueline Nevers is asked to catalog