Billy Wayne
Popularity:0.109
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1897-02-11
Place of Birth:New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Also Known As:William Daniel Overing, William Wayne, Billie Wayne

Manpower (1941)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...

Flaming Fury (1949)
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.

Go West (1940)
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and...

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off...

Panhandle (1948)
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

The House Across the Bay (1940)
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be...

The Street with No Name (1948)
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the...

Young People (1940)
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe...

Maid's Night Out (1938)
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom...

The Crowd Roars (1932)
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to...

River Lady (1948)
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver....

O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he...

Dr. Socrates (1935)
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling...

The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.

Because of You (1952)
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Frenchie (1950)
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she...

Air Devils (1938)
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

The Missing Guest (1938)
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the...

While New York Sleeps (1938)
Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

The Gay Deception (1935)
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he...

The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a...

Reported Missing (1937)
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.

My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...

Love Is on the Air (1937)
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Here Comes Carter (1936)
A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep...

My Bill (1938)
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Dangerous (1935)
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his...

Bombay Clipper (1942)
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.

Greenwich Village (1944)
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Stronger Than Desire (1939)
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Too Late for Tears (1949)
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

The Nitwits (1935)
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

Castle on the Hudson (1940)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Blackwell's Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Let Us Live (1939)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

East Side of Heaven (1939)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

The Flying Irishman (1939)
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Boulder Dam (1936)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

They Shall Have Music (1939)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

Second Fiddle (1939)
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

News Is Made at Night (1939)
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Sitting Pretty (1948)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...

Dr. Broadway (1942)
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob....

Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

Eternally Yours (1939)
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a...

There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Heart of the North (1938)
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

Hers to Hold (1943)
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...

Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Deadline at Dawn (1946)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Dixie Dugan (1943)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

One Wild Night (1938)
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money...

Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join...

Time Out for Romance (1937)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Man Hunt (1936)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Ladies in Distress (1938)
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid...

Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

White Bondage (1937)
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.

City for Conquest (1940)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

Strike Up the Band (1940)
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time...

They Drive by Night (1940)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles...

Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...

Too Many Husbands (1940)
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

An Angel from Texas (1940)
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Girl in 313 (1940)
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

The Great Profile (1940)
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

City of Chance (1940)
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Topper (1937)
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...

It Can't Last Forever (1937)
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a...

Jackass Mail (1942)
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Top of the Town (1937)
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....

Sin Town (1942)
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.

Belle Starr (1941)
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

Early to Bed (1936)
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

The Gun Runners (1958)
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled...

I Stole a Million (1939)
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

The Go-Getter (1937)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

The Great Morgan (1945)
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

Somewhat Secret (1939)
At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be...

The Lady Pays Off (1951)
The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her...

Star Dust (1940)
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

Hot Sands (1931)
In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.

Hot Water (1937)
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three...

The Jury's Secret (1938)
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear...

State Police (1938)
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Madame Spy (1942)
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

Marked Woman (1937)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Who Done It? (1942)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

Hit the Ice (1943)
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an...

Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

Between Two Women (1945)
A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

Midnight Intruder (1938)
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

Love Nest (1951)
Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further...

In This Our Life (1942)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

Swing Shift Maisie (1943)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

Out of the Fog (1941)
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...

Hot Steel (1940)
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.

The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936)
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Adventures of Superman (1952)
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single...