Willie Best

All Movies of Willie Best

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  7.1
  The Ghost Breakers
  In this film, radio personality Lawrence L. Lawrence flees New York to avoid being mistakenly arrested for murder. He books passage on a Cuba-bound liner, where he meets heiress Mary Carter. She about to take charge of a supposedl...
  Character: Alex

   1940

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  7.0
  High Sierra
  Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on the run, and with the police and an ...
   1941

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  7.0
  Nothing But the Truth
  Stockbroker T.T.Ralston has promised his neice Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000. for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s ne...
  Character: Samuel

   1941

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  6.8
  Cabin in the Sky
  In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps at the Paradise club; he's shot and brought home with a mortal...
  Character: Second Idea Man

   1943

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  6.7
  Merrily We Live
  A cynical writer (Brian Aherne), unwittingly infiltrates a loony house of philanthropists. Mrs. Emily Kilbourne (Billie Burke) runs a household that, due to her charitable nature, is as much a loony-bin as happy home. When he join...
   1938

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  6.2
  A-Haunting We Will Go
  The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one Dante the Magician uses in his act,...
  Character: Waiter

   1942

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  6.2
  Dangerous Money
  Character: Chattanooga Brown

   1946

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  5.7
  The Kansan
  Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town an...
   1943

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  Waterfront (TV Series)
  TV Series (1954-1956). 2 seasons. 78 episodes. John Herrick was the captain of the tug "Cheryl Ann" in Los Angeles harbor. His family consisted of wife May, police detective son Jim, and the crew of the tug, his son Carl...
   1954

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  Road Show
  A playboy on the run hooks up with a sideshow''s beautiful owner.
   1941

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  The Smiling Ghost
  Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the gho...
   1941

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  The Body Disappears
  Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of even...
   1941

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  The Lady from Cheyenne
  Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm A...
   1941

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  General Spanky
  A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.
   1936

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  Kentucky Kernels
  The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fo...
   1934