William Challee
Nascimento : 1904-04-06, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Morte : 1989-03-11
História
William John Challee (April 6, 1904 – March 11, 1989) was an American actor.
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Piano Player (uncredited)
No velho oeste, golpista se esconde na casa de uma viúva antes de desaparecer e ser dado como morto. Ela escreve um livro romanceando o encontro e acaba tornando-o um herói nacional. Mas, quando ele reaparece, e ela descobre uma realidade bem diferente.
Plunkett
The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.
Town Character
The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's faith is tested and young Ramey faces a choice between a friendship and his family.
Alchemist
A young artists spends the night at a mysterious inn, where he meets a group of strange, sullen people, among them the innkeeper's beautiful daughter. What he doesn't know is that he has wandered into a kind of spiritual void, and the inn's residents are engaging in a battle over his soul.
Timothy
An Irish radical turns East Coast bootlegger during Prohibition.
Old Man
Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.
Narrator
The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United States Information Agency, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Nicholas Dupea
Uma desiludido da classe alta Americana pega trabalhos por aí em plataformas de petróleo. Isso quando sua vida não é gasta em uma sucessão miserável de bares, motéis e outros muquifos. Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) é um ex-pianista clássico que rejeita seu modo de viver, passando a trocar constantemente de mulher e emprego. Robert retorna para casa com Rayette Dipesto (Karen Black), sua namorada, depois de descobrir que seu pai está à beira da morte. Lá, ele conhece Catherine Van Ost (Susan Anspach), uma interessante mulher que o faz ficar dividido. Recebeu 4 indicações ao Oscar: Filme, Ator (Jack Nicholson), Atriz (Karen Black) e Roteiro Original.
Gen. Riley (uncredited)
O impopular presidente (Fredric March) dos Estados Unidos consegue um tratado de desarmamento nuclear através do Senado, mas descobre que a nação está se voltando contra ele. Jiggs Casey (Kirk Douglas), um coronel da Marinha, encontra provas de que o general Scott (Burt Lancaster), o chefe popular do 'Joint Chiefs', e determinado candidato presidencial, em 2 anos, não está planejando esperar. Casey vai até o presidente com tal informação e uma rede de intrigas começa.
Schmidt
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Lt. Colonel
Durante a Guerra da Coréia, soldados marcham para o front de combate. Neste cenário, dois jovens tornam-se amigos: um é novato e idelista e acabou de chegar ao campo de batalha sem imaginar o inferno que o espera; o outro, já mais experiente, tem o hánito de fazer incursões solitárias no front inimigo à noite e pode estar perdendo o controle por causa dos horrores que vivenciou.
Barber (uncredited)
O Oklahoma Land Run de abril de 1889 define o cenário para uma saga épica de um aventureiro de fronteira, sua esposa, sua família e seus amigos. A saga épica de uma família de fronteira, Cimarron começa com o Oklahoma Land Rush em 22 de abril de 1889. A família Cravet transforma seu jornal Oklahoma Wigwam em um império comercial e Yancey Cravet é o idealista aventureiro que, para a raiva de sua esposa, desperdiça a oportunidade de se tornar governador, pois isso significa ajudar a espoliar os nativos americanos de suas terras e recursos.
Gorse
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Jailbird
Irritado com seu tio, Toby Tyler foge de seu lar adotivo para se juntar ao circo, onde logo se torna amigo de Mr. Stubbs, um chimpanzé brincalhão. No entanto, o circo não é somente diversão e jogos, quando o malvado vendedor de doces, Harry Tupper, o convence de que sua tia e tio não o amam ou o querem volta. Toby se resigna a vida no circo até descobrir as mentiras de Tupper sobre seus tios.
Lemke (uncredited)
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Sweeney
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
Barfly (uncredited)
Concedido por um pequeno pedaço de terra em um vale exuberante e uma criação de gado pelo generoso proprietário de terras e barão do gado, Dennis Deneen, o antes temido pistoleiro, Steve Sinclair, renunciou à violência, com a intenção de manter a paz na comunidade.
Tom Kesh
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Dolan
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
O famoso artista Glenn Miller (James Stewart) começa cedo a escrever sua história. Nos anos 30, ele entra nos negócios musicais e enfrenta algumas dificuldades iniciais como o fracasso de sua primeira banda de estrada. No entanto, ele não desiste e mais tarde casa-se com Helen Burger (June Allyson), que o acompanhará na sua trilha para o sucesso.
Ned Shaw (Uncredited)
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
Brother Williams (uncredited)
Madeireiro inescrupuloso pretende roubar terras onde crescem sequoias gigantes centenárias, mas enfrenta oposição de grupo religioso que habita a região, liderado por jovem viúva.
Thug (uncredited)
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Guard (uncredited)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Parking Attendant (uncredited)
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Lee Wilkins
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Leo Stasser
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
Bourdon (uncredited)
França, 1794. Robespierre, uma poderosa figura da Revolução Francesa, espalha o terror contra seus opositores. Paralelamente, uma conspiração é formada para que ele não alcance o poder.
Sergeant (uncredited)
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Reynolds
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Olsen, Police Photographer
O detetive Joe Warner investiga o assassinato do compositor mulherengo Keith Vincent. Evidências apontam para suicídio e este acaba sendo o veredito oficial, mas Joe não acredita e obsessivamene continua a investigar.
Corporal (uncredited)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Ray (Newsstand Proprietor) (uncredited)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Pawnbroker
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Snorky (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Titus (uncredited)
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Ducrenko (uncredited)
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
Reporter (uncredited)
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.