William Forsyth

Movies

Spree
Assistant Director
This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers performed by the film's stars aside, "Spree" also includes scenes of gambling casinos, cock fights and boxing.
Tormented
Assistant Director
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
The Boy and the Pirates
Assistant Director
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
The Young Land
Assistant Director
An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Assistant Director
Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior.
Johnny Holiday
Assistant Director
A guard (William Bendix) befriends a wayward youth (Allen Martin Jr.) sent to the Indiana Boys School.
For You I Die
Assistant Director
A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.
High Tide
Assistant Director
A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.
Fun on a Weekend
Assistant Director
Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.
The Guilty
Assistant Director
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
The Imperfect Lady
Assistant Director
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Miss Susie Slagle's
Assistant Director
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
I Married a Witch
Second Assistant Director
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
Bahama Passage
Second Assistant Director
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas owned by Adrian Ainsworth, descendant of many ancestors who have handled it over the years to the satisfaction of its 250 native residents. He is married to a woman who stays away from the island because she is lonely when there. Adrian doesn't want Carol or her father there, and they don't want to be there. Romance can't be lurking far behind the beautiful sunset.
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Assistant Director
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
Love and Hisses
Assistant Director
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
Thin Ice
Assistant Director
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
The Lady Escapes
Assistant Director
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
Café Metropole
Assistant Director
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
One in a Million
Assistant Director
American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Ladies In Love
Assistant Director
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
Cardinal Richelieu
Second Assistant Director
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
Clive of India
Second Assistant Director
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
The Last Gentleman
Second Assistant Director
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.
The House of Rothschild
Second Assistant Director
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
The House on 56th Street
Casting Assistant
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
The World Changes
Casting Assistant
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Female
Casting Assistant
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Ever in My Heart
Casting Assistant
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
Footlight Parade
Casting Assistant
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
The Bowery
Second Assistant Director
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Wild Boys of the Road
Casting Assistant
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
I Loved a Woman
Casting Assistant
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Casting Assistant
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Baby Face
Casting Assistant
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Picture Snatcher
Casting Assistant
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
Elmer, the Great
Casting Assistant
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
The Keyhole
Casting Assistant
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
The Telegraph Trail
Casting Assistant
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
Parachute Jumper
Casting Assistant
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
The Match King
Casting Assistant
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Casting Assistant
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Lawyer Man
Casting Assistant
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Silver Dollar
Casting Assistant
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Central Park
Casting Assistant
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
You Said a Mouthful
Casting Assistant
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Casting Assistant
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
They Call It Sin
Casting Assistant
An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
Three on a Match
Casting Assistant
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
The Crash
Casting Assistant
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
One Way Passage
Casting Assistant
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
The Big Stampede
Casting Assistant
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
The Cabin in the Cotton
Casting Assistant
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
Tiger Shark
Casting Assistant
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
A Successful Calamity
Casting Assistant
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Life Begins
Casting Assistant
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.
Two Against the World
Casting Assistant
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.
Blessed Event
Casting Assistant
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
Ride Him, Cowboy
Casting Assistant
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
Crooner
Casting Assistant
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Doctor X
Casting Assistant
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
The Purchase Price
Casting Assistant
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Jewel Robbery
Casting Assistant
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Week-End Marriage
Casting Assistant
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
Love Is a Racket
Casting Assistant
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
Street of Women
Casting Assistant
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.
High Pressure
Casting Assistant
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...