William Bakewell

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

118

Movies

105

Born: May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993
From: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993), also known as Billy Bakewell, was an American actor, who achieved his greatest fame as one of the premiere juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bakewell, educated at Los Angeles Harvard Military School, began his film career as an extra in the silent movie Fighting Blood (1924), and went on to appear in some 170 films and television shows. He had supporting roles at the end of the silent era and reached the peak of his career around 1930. He is perhaps best remembered for playing German soldier Albert Kropp in the film classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and Rodney Jordan, Joan Crawford's brother, in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He also co-starred in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) with Winnie Lightner and Lilyan Tashman. In 1933, he contributed to the founding of the Screen Actors Guild, and was member 44 of the original 50. He never achieved stardom after the Depression years, although he became familiar in dozens of films, including his short appearance as a mounted soldier in Gone with the Wind (1939) whom Scarlett O'Hara asks when the Yankee soldiers are coming to Atlanta. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the rank of second lieutenant. He was stationed at the 73rd Evacuation Hospital and at the Radio Section of the Special Service Division as the Post Intelligence Officer. He also worked under the department that handled distribution of recorded programs to overseas station circuits. He starred in the Columbia Pictures serial Hop Harrigan (1946), where he played a top Air Corps pilot. He also portrayed Major Tobias Norton and a Keelboat Race Master of Ceremonies in the phenomenally popular Disney series Davy Crockett (1954-1955). In the 1960s, he guest starred in numerous situation comedy television series, including Guestward, Ho!, Pete and Gladys, Bringing Up Buddy, The Tab Hunter Show, Mister Ed, Leave It to Beaver, The Jack Benny Program, Petticoat Junction , and Hazel. He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage. He made his last film in 1975. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. He died on April 15, 1993 of leukemia at the age of 84.

Works

105 films

Gone with the Wind

19397.9

All Quiet on the Western Front

19307.8

The Strongest Man in the World

19756.2

Quality Street

19375.8

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates

19566.3

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

19556.4

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

19476.9

Seven Sinners

19405.9

Radar Men from the Moon

19524.7

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Romance on the High Seas

19486.7

Zenobia

19395.0

The Farmer's Daughter

19477.1

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

19665.8

King of the Mounties

19428.0

The Iron Mask

19296.7

Harold Teen

19287.0

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

So This Is Love

19534.3

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress

195510.0

Lucky Me

19546.8

You Gotta Stay Happy

19486.8

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways

19464.7

Come Fill the Cup

19517.0

The Capture

19506.2

Speed Wings

19349.0

Back Street

19326.4

The Saint Takes Over

19406.7

So This Is New York

19486.7

The Duke of West Point

19384.5

Crimson Romance

19345.5

Beyond Tomorrow

19406.1

Strangers All

19356.8

Three Cornered Moon

19336.0

Jungle Menace

19377.0

Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter

19546.5

Straightaway

19338.0

Paid

19306.7

King of the Turf

19397.0

Lady of the Pavements

19295.2

Daybreak

19314.3

The Bat Whispers

19306.6

Hotel Imperial

19397.0

Cheaters at Play

19327.0

When the Redskins Rode

19515.3

The Devil's Trademark

19289.0

The Higgins Family

19387.0

I Live on Danger

19426.1

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

19426.1

Guilty Hands

19315.9

The Quitter

19349.0

Lucky Devils

19336.4

Playing Around

19305.0

Down Liberty Road

19579.0

The Fabulous Dorseys

19475.8

A Man of Sentiment

19337.0

Old Ironsides

19266.4

Yanks Ahoy

19436.6

The Curtain Falls

19346.0

The Spirit of Notre Dame

19317.3

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

Call Her Mom

19726.0

King of the Bandits

19477.0

Set This Town on Fire

19737.0

Dr. Kildare's Victory

19426.2

The Latest from Paris

19288.0

Mile a Minute Love

19377.0

A Woman of Experience

19316.2

Reducing

19315.1

The Battle of the Sexes

19285.3

The Last Edition

19256.2

Together We Live

19357.0

Dangerous Holiday

19375.3

Sea Spoilers

19365.0

Trapped by G-Men

19377.0

West Point

19287.5

Jungle Terror

19467.0

You Can't Buy Everything

19348.0

Laddie

193510.0

Night Wind

19489.0

Whispering Wires

192610.0

Exiled to Shanghai

19375.5

The Trespasser

19475.0

Messenger of Peace

19478.0

On With the Show!

19296.2

On Probation

193510.0

Sons of Steel

19347.0

The Party's Over

19345.0

The Dawn Express

19425.1

The Heart Thief

192710.0

Happiness C.O.D.

19357.5

Straight Is the Way

19346.3

Gold Diggers of Broadway

19297.7

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

195110.0

Hot Stuff

192910.0

Politics

19316.9

The Shield of Honor

19276.0

Mother

192710.0

Arthur Takes Over

19483.7

Bruised Celluloid

1984

While Paris Sleeps

19326.7

Lady Luck

19366.3

Green Eyes

19345.8

Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

19269.0

Annapolis

19285.5