Will Cowan

出生 : 1911-01-20, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

死亡 : 1994-01-04

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The Thing That Couldn't Die
Producer
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.
The Thing That Couldn't Die
Director
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.
The Big Beat
Producer
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.
The Big Beat
Director
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.
Hawaiian Nights
Director
This Universal "Musical Featurette" eatures a slight story line woven around the comedian Pinky Lee and Universal glamour girls Mamie Van Doren and Lisa Gaye. Also included are the 1953 Miss Universe contestants, the Danny Stewart Orchestra and the Tani Marsh Dancers.
'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
Producer
Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.
'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
Director
Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.
Gold Strike
Director
Musical western short
The Fargo Phantom
Director
This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits. This film was combined with another Tex Williams short, Coyote Canyon, and reissued as the feature-length "Tales of the West No.2.)
Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
Director
Production number 5302 in Universal-International "Name Band Musical" series of shorts featuring Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, with a much-larger-than usual number of supporting acts.
Coyote Canyon
Director
This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.
The Pecos Pistol
Director
A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.
Prairie Pirates
Director
In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey and Deuce, wipes out the crooked rival line, and has enough time left over, from this shorts' twenty-six minutes , to toss in four songs.
Cheyenne Cowboy
Producer
Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.
The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra
Director
15 minute musical short featuring Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Director
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Dottie O'Brien, The Mello-Larks and Bill Lawrence.
Red Ingle and His Natural Seven
Director
The Universal Name Band Musical short (house-production number 3306) features Red Ingle and His Natural Seven Band, and band vocalist Karen Tedder. The opening number is "Natural Seven Stomp," a Red Ingle original,followed by Karen Tdder singing "The Man with the Big Sombrero." The Albins do a burlesque-ballet to "How Strange," and Tedder returns to sing "Your Red Wagon."
The Drummer Man
Director
This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should make it a 1947 and not a 1948 film) features Gene Krupa, his drums and his trio. It opens with Krupa and the trio playing "Lover" and then Carolyn Grey comes on to sing "Boogie Blues." Krupa and the trio band also play "Blanchette", "Stompin' at the Savoy" and end on "Let Us Leap."
Tony Pastor and His Orchestra
Director
This edition of Universal's "Name Band" shorts (production number 2312) features Tony Pastor, his saxophone, his orchestra, the Nilsson Twins, the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary and Betty in possibly their first film appearance)and Mildred Law. The bands opens with "Hawaiian War Chant" (sung by the Clooney Sisters), and other music includes "Spell of the Moon", "My Sister's a Little Bit Crazy" (sung by the Nilsson Twins), "Movie Tonight" (sung by Rosemary Clooney and Tony Pastor), "Girl Singer" and "Paradiddle Joe." (sung by Tony Pastor)
Girl Time
Director
The busty blonde bombshell of big band and swing music is the charming host and lead performer of this short and entertaining vintage film featuring an all-female cast.
Champagne Music
Director
This is an entry in Universal's "Name Band Musical" series of shorts. Welk and the band open with a medley including "Josephine", Stumbling", "Honey" and "Running Wild" and vocalist Betty Jane Pettit sings "No Can Do." Kenny Stevens does "Alone" while comedienne-singer Judy Clark offers her versions of "Playmates" and "I'm Nobody's Baby." The dance team of Jon and Inga Bergy is also in the mix.
The Dark Horse
Associate Producer
This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the "honest government functionary" with whom the hero falls in love. Terry finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
Cuban Pete
Producer
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but complications arise when the squeaky-voiced, addle-brained sponsor of the program decides she wants to be the vocalist on the program.
The Frozen Ghost
Associate Producer
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.
Dead Man's Eyes
Associate Producer
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant / model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
Jungle Woman
Associate Producer
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
Artistry in Rhythm
Director
Short film featuring band leader Stan Kenton and vocalist Anita O'Day.
Stagecoach Buckaroo
Associate Producer
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
Jingle Belles
Associate Producer
Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Herth Trio, the singing trio of Lee, Lyn and Lou, and the Schuplatter Dancers
The Masked Rider
Associate Producer
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.
Man from Montana
Associate Producer
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.