William Edmunds
Date of birth: 1885-01-01
Place of birth: San Fele, Basilicata, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Edmonds, Billy Edmunds, Bill Edmunds, Michele Frondino Pellegrino, Michael Fondonia Pellegrino, Michele F. Pellegrino, Michael F. Pellegrino, Michele Pellegrino, Michael Pellegrino, Michele Giuseppe Pellegrino
Biography
Italian born William Edmunds (born Michele F. Pellegrino) was a stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1934 to 1953, his television career continuing to 1959. Edmunds is best remembered for his portrayal of bar owner Giuseppe Martini in the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life.
Movie Credits
The Mortal Storm
1940-06-20
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft
It's a Wonderful Life
1946-12-20
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if
Berlin Correspondent
1942-08-17
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor.
The Man I Love
1946-12-26
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother,
The Beast with Five Fingers
1947-02-08
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist w
The Caddy
1953-08-10
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is to
Where There's Life
1947-11-21
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only h
Mr. Soft Touch
1949-07-28
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII
Strange Cargo
1940-03-01
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
The Lost Moment
1947-11-21
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19
Girls Under 21
1940-11-15
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some
Any Number Can Play
1949-07-15
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend mo
The Big Sombrero
1949-04-19
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the busine
Knockout
1941-03-29
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to
He Married His Wife
1940-01-19
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony
Shadow of Doubt
1935-02-15
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the vict
Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
That Hagen Girl
1947-11-01
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has bee
The Seventh Cross
1944-07-24
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven
Casablanca
1943-01-15
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un
The Pied Piper
1942-08-21
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Set
Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close
Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o
The Rains Came
1939-09-15
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor
The Lawless
1950-06-01
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
House of Frankenstein
1944-12-01
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling ch
Forbidden Passage
1941-02-08
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to ha
You, the People
1940-11-30
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "
Fixer Dugan
1939-04-21
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan
The Shop Around the Corner
1940-01-12
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling i
The Pirate
1948-06-11
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Maco
The Mark of Zorro
1940-11-08
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainou
The Three Musketeers
1948-10-20
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends
The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he
Escape
1940-11-01
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. Wi
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940-08-16
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s
Geronimo
1939-11-26
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage o
Swamp Fire
1946-09-06
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on th
Know Your Money
1940-01-27
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring an
Earthbound
1940-06-06
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942-04-28
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a
Going Spanish
1934-03-01
A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
Ringside
1949-07-14
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He need
Paris Calling
1941-12-04
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government offici
The Well Groomed Bride
1946-05-17
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a
They Met in Bombay
1941-06-27
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bom
Background to Danger
1943-07-03
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Edge of Darkness
1943-04-09
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wa
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943-07-12
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g
Madame Curie
1943-12-16
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying
A Bell for Adano
1945-06-21
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha
A Very Young Lady
1941-06-27
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the
Dangerous Passage
1944-12-18
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but
Reunion in France
1942-12-25
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed
The Climax
1944-10-20
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh
Girl from Havana
1940-09-11
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
Till We Meet Again
1944-08-30
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance
Double Dynamite
1951-12-25
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
The Black Swan
1942-12-04
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f
13 Lead Soldiers
1948-04-30
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldier
Baby Blues
1941-02-15
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born