Billy Griffith

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Billy Griffith was born on December 18, 1897 in Brazil, Indiana, USA as William Morrison Griffith. He was an actor. He died on July 21, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Alternate Names: Billy M. Griffith | Bill Griffith | William H. Griffith | William M. Griffith | William Griffith

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Devil Goddess
Prof. Ralph Dixon (as William M. Griffith)
Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.
Pistol Harvest
Prouty
Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, they set about to track down the genuine killer.
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Lawyer Blakely
Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine. As usual, Maggie spends her time trying to climb the frontier social ladder, while down-to-earth Jiggs is more interested in finding a plate of corned beef and cabbage.
Range Land
Professor Ambrose (as William M. Griffith)
Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.
This Time for Keeps
Drugstore Clerk
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.
Let's Go Collegiate
Prof. Whitaker
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
The Devil Bat
Coroner (scenes deleted)
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
Safety in Numbers
Mourner / Customer
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Whirlwind Horseman
Happy
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one of the prominent citizens is the real boss and sets a trap to find him.
Time Out for Romance
Ambrose Healy
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Larceny on the Air
Kellogg
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
The White Angel
Orderly (uncredited)
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Sing and Like it
Webster - Frink's Secreatary
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
A Famous Male Impersonator