William Gargan
Popularity:0.327
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1905-07-17
Place of Birth:Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Also Known As:William Dennis Gargan, Bill Gargan

Man on the Ledge (1955)
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk...

Strange Impersonation (1946)
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her...

Hot Cargo (1946)
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the...

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip...

Midnight Manhunt (1945)
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt...

Sealed Lips (1942)
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself....

Night Editor (1946)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...

Within the Law (1939)
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful...

The Milky Way (1936)
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in...

Broadway Gondolier (1935)
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Rain (1932)
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...

Four Frightened People (1934)
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave...

Behind Green Lights (1946)
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a...

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...

A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942)
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942)
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942)
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

The Canterville Ghost (1944)
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Lucky Devils (1933)
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

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.

You Only Live Once (1937)
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

Double Alibi (1940)
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his...

Black Fury (1935)
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

Night Flight (1933)
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she...

Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

Till the End of Time (1946)
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with...

The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage,...

Waterfront at Midnight (1948)
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has...

Emergency Call (1933)
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.

Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

Turnabout (1940)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Bright Lights (1935)
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Broadway Serenade (1939)
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

British Agent (1934)
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

The House of Fear (1939)
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

Destination Unknown (1942)
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

Three Sons (1939)
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her...

Headline Shooter (1933)
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Sweepings (1933)
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the...

Harrigan's Kid (1943)
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.

Traveling Saleslady (1935)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

Women in the Wind (1939)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Strictly Dynamite (1934)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

The Argyle Secrets (1948)
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated...

Swing Fever (1943)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

A Night at the Ritz (1935)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

Navy Born (1936)
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...

She Gets Her Man (1945)
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

The Devil's Party (1938)
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out....

The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is...

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.

Isle Of Destiny (1940)
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.

Personal Secretary (1938)
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.

Follow the Leader (1930)
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

The Sport Parade (1932)
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

The Crowd Roars (1938)
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy...

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.

She Asked for It (1937)
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends...

The Sky Parade (1936)
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.

Dynamite (1949)
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their...

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

You're a Sweetheart (1937)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...

Fury and the Woman (1936)
A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.

Alibi for Murder (1936)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...

Sporting Blood (1940)
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...

The Misleading Lady (1932)
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.

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

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

Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937)
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his...

No Place for a Lady (1943)
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott &...

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.

Song of the Sarong (1945)
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

Swell Guy (1946)
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

The Rawhide Years (1956)
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But...

The Hollywood Gad-About (1934)
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Breezing Home (1937)
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.

Complicated Women (2003)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Follow That Woman (1945)
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.

Flying Hostess (1936)
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.

Behind the Mike (1937)
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.

Blackmailer (1936)
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.

Flying Cadets (1941)
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

Studio One (1948)
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Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949)
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The George Gobel Show (1954)
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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953)
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The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)
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