Willard Waterman
Date of birth: 1914-08-29
Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Willard Lewis Waterman
Biography
Willard Waterman was an American radio, screen, and television character actor. He was memorable as the star of radio's The Great Gildersleeve from 1950 to 1955. Waterman additionally starred in the 1955 television version.
Movie Credits
Flaming Fury
1949-07-28
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Rhubarb
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
Flame of Youth
1949-09-22
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950-04-01
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble wi
Auntie Mame
1958-12-04
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric
So You Want a Raise
1950-09-23
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run t
No Man of Her Own
1950-02-21
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Get Yourself a College Girl
1964-12-18
A young music student faces expulsion after her instructors learn she is moonlighting as a pop-music
Riding High
1950-04-12
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b
Half a Hero
1953-05-11
A man moves his family from the big city to the suburbs.
Sunny Side of the Street
1951-09-01
A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
Three for the Show
1955-02-24
This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950-04-15
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setba
Hail
1973-07-27
A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to sup
Free For All
1949-11-01
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young invent
Fourteen Hours
1951-04-01
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to
The Apartment
1960-06-21
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to
Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Pa
Louisa
1950-05-31
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to dis
Hollywood or Bust
1956-12-06
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Stev
It Happens Every Thursday
1953-04-22
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspap
Father of the Bride
1950-05-18
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she annou
Mystery Street
1950-06-23
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas
Three Secrets
1950-10-20
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952-06-25
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950-12-08
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1949-07-02
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
The Lawless
1950-06-01
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.