William Bakewell

Acting · 0.6 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

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

19476.9

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

19556.4

Radar Men from the Moon

19524.7

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Romance on the High Seas

19486.7

Zenobia

19395.0

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

19665.8

Seven Sinners

19405.9

The Farmer's Daughter

19477.1

King of the Mounties

19428.0

Lucky Me

19546.8

The Capture

19506.2

The Iron Mask

19296.7

Come Fill the Cup

19517.0

So This Is New York

19486.7

Harold Teen

19287.0

Speed Wings

19349.0

Straightaway

19338.0

Back Street

19326.4

You Gotta Stay Happy

19486.8

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

19426.1

The Fabulous Dorseys

19475.8

Dance, Fools, Dance

19316.4

So This Is Love

19534.3

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress

195510.0

Guilty Hands

19315.9

The Duke of West Point

19384.5

When the Redskins Rode

19515.3

Beyond Tomorrow

19406.1

Down Liberty Road

19579.0

The Saint Takes Over

19406.7

You Can't Buy Everything

19348.0

Strangers All

19356.8

Cheaters at Play

19327.0

The Bat Whispers

19306.6

Paid

19306.7

The Spirit of Notre Dame

19317.3

On With the Show!

19296.2

Three Cornered Moon

19336.0

The Devil's Trademark

19289.0

King of the Turf

19397.0

West Point

19287.5

Trapped by G-Men

19377.0

King of the Bandits

19477.0

A Woman of Experience

19316.2

Set This Town on Fire

19737.0

Sea Spoilers

19365.0

Dr. Kildare's Victory

19426.2

Lucky Devils

19336.4

I Live on Danger

19426.1

Jungle Menace

19377.0

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

Exiled to Shanghai

19375.5

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways

19464.7

Laddie

193510.0

Crimson Romance

19345.5

A Man of Sentiment

19337.0

Old Ironsides

19266.4

Happiness C.O.D.

19357.5

Messenger of Peace

19478.0

The Trespasser

19475.0

Yanks Ahoy

19436.6

The Last Edition

19256.2

Lady of the Pavements

19295.2

Gold Diggers of Broadway

19297.7

Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter

19546.5

The Dawn Express

19425.1

The Curtain Falls

19346.0

Daybreak

19314.3

The Battle of the Sexes

19285.3

Hotel Imperial

19397.0

Reducing

19315.1

The Higgins Family

19387.0

The Shield of Honor

19276.0

The Quitter

19349.0

Mile a Minute Love

19377.0

Politics

19316.9

The Latest from Paris

19288.0

Dangerous Holiday

19375.3

Sons of Steel

19347.0

Call Her Mom

19726.0

Hot Stuff

192910.0

On Probation

193510.0

Jungle Terror

19467.0

Lady Luck

19366.3

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

195110.0

Straight Is the Way

19346.3

Together We Live

19357.0

The Party's Over

19345.0

Night Wind

19489.0

The Heart Thief

192710.0

Whispering Wires

192610.0

While Paris Sleeps

19326.7

Playing Around

19305.0

Bruised Celluloid

1984

Green Eyes

19345.8

Arthur Takes Over

19483.7

Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

19269.0

Mother

192710.0

Annapolis

19285.5