Movie Database

Movies by Actor - William Demarest (118 [Missing: 32])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Amateur NightNA1927 Short Not Available
The Black Diamond ExpressNA1927 Drama Not Available
The Bush LeaguerNA1927 Comedy Not Available
Don't Tell the WifeNA1927 Comedy,Romance Not Available
Finger PrintsNA1927 Comedy,Crime Not Available
First Auto, TheHank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of the horseless carriage and not of the horse. This causes proble1927Roy Del RuthComedy,Drama6.3 (246 votes)7520211228
The Gay Old BirdNA1927 Comedy Not Available
Matinee LadiesNA1927 Comedy Not Available
A Million BidNA1927 Drama,Romance Not Available
A Reno DivorceNA1927 Drama,Romance Not Available
A Sailor's SweetheartNA1927 Adventure,Comedy,Romance Not Available
Simple SisNA1927 Comedy,Drama Not Available
What Happened to FatherNA1927 Comedy,Romance Not Available
The Butter and Egg ManNA1928 Comedy Not Available
The CrashNA1928 Drama Not Available
The EscapeNA1928 Drama Not Available
Five and Ten Cent AnnieNA1928 Comedy,Romance Not Available
Pay as You EnterNA1928 Comedy,Romance Not Available
Sharp ShootersNA1928 Action,Comedy,Drama Not Available
Fugitive LadyNA1934 Drama,Romance Not Available
Many Happy ReturnsGracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beaut1934Norman Z. McLeodComedy,Music6.4 (42 votes)6420211228
Bright LightsJoe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chorus 1935Busby BerkeleyComedy,Music,Mystery6.3 (221 votes)8220211228
Murder Man, TheWhen a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.1935Tim WhelanCrime,Drama,Mystery6.8 (1.1K votes)6920211228
White LiesNA1934 Crime,Drama Not Available
Love on the RunA runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.1936W.S. Van DykeComedy,Fantasy,Romance5.9 (1.2K votes)8020211228
Wedding PresentWhen Charlie Mason is promoted from irresponsible reporter to hard-nosed city editor, it costs him his girlfriend, ace reporter Rusty Fleming. After he hears she's engaged to another, he quits and tries to win her back.1936Richard WallaceComedy,Romance6.3 (630 votes)8120211228
Big CityTo avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue1937Frank Borzage, George B. SeitzDrama,Romance6.4 (573 votes)8020211228
Blonde TroubleNA1937 Comedy,Music,Romance Not Available
Great Hospital Mystery, TheWhen gangsters threaten the life of the brother of a nurse, she and her superintendent make it look as if he died while a hospital patient.1937James TinlingComedy,Crime,Drama6.4 (66 votes)5820211228
Don't Tell the WifeA seasoned con artist and his associates discover that their scheme to get rich by selling stock in a worthless gold mine is fraught with obstacles.1937Christy CabanneComedy5.9 (225 votes)6220211228
Easy LivingWhen a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.1937Mitchell LeisenComedy,Romance7.6 (3.4K votes)8820211228
Great Gambini, TheA millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancé and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.1937Charles VidorMystery6.3 (66 votes)7020211228
Mind Your Own BusinessA newspaper columnist uses wildlife critters to report city gossip. He becomes a celebrity until he alludes to a murder that takes place the same day. All mayhem breaks out after that.1936Norman Z. McLeodComedy,Crime,Mystery6.4 (24 votes)7520240622
Oh, DoctorNA1937 Comedy Not Available
Time Out for RomanceA girl (Trevor) escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man (Whalen) in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.1937Malcolm St. ClairAdventure,Comedy,Romance5.8 (73 votes)7220211228
JosetteTwo young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.1938Allan DwanComedy,Music,Romance6.4 (101 votes)7320211228
One Wild NightWhen four men disappear after withdrawing large sums from the same bank, crime student and son of the police chief (Baldwin) and newspaper reporter (Lang) try to uncover a possible extortion ring.1938Eugene FordeComedy,Crime6.3 (40 votes)7220211228
Peck's Bad Boy with the CircusNA1938 Drama,Romance Not Available
Romance on the RunA man has the knack for finding stolen items. Then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.1938Gus MeinsAdventure,Comedy,Crime6.4 (111 votes)6820211228
While New York SleepsNewspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).1938H. Bruce HumberstoneCrime,Drama6.26320260711
Cowboy Quarterback, TheFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn C1939Noel M. SmithComedy,Romance,Sport4.6 (133 votes)5620211228
Gracie Allen Murder Case, TheThe zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a nightclub that night, Gracie inadvertently links Bi1939Alfred E. GreenComedy,Crime,Mystery6.5 (221 votes)7820211228
King of the TurfMason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.1939Alfred E. GreenDrama,Romance,Sport4.98820260711
Laugh It OffNA1939 Musical Not Available
Christmas in JulyWhen the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?1940Preston SturgesComedy,Drama,Romance7.4 (3.8K votes)6720211228
Comin' Round the MountainA Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.1940George ArchainbaudComedy,Music,Romance5.46320260622
Farmers Daughter, TheBroadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon, an ex-flame whose flickerings have become u1940James P. HoganComedy,Music,Romance6.9 (64 votes)6020211228
Great McGinty, TheDan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.1940Preston SturgesComedy,Drama7.3 (3.9K votes)8220211228
Wolf of New YorkA New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.1940William C. McGannCrime,Drama6.76720260711
Country FairNA1941 Comedy Not Available
Devil and Miss Jones, TheA tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.1941Sam WoodComedy,Romance7.6 (4K votes)9220211228
Dressed to KillDetective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.1941Eugene FordeCrime,Drama,Film-Noir6.5 (1K votes)7420211228
Glamour BoyFormer child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.1941Ralph Murphy, Ted TetzlaffComedy,Drama6.87920260711
Lady Eve, TheA trio of classy card sharps targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.1941Preston SturgesComedy,Romance7.8 (20.9K votes)9420211228
Ride on VaqueroNA1941 Drama,Western Not Available
Rookies on ParadeNA1941 Comedy,Musical,Romance Not Available
Sullivans TravelsHollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.1941Preston SturgesAdventure,Comedy,Drama7.9 (25.8K votes)9020211228
All Through the NightRunyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.1942Vincent ShermanAction,Comedy,Crime7.1 (4.2K votes)10720211228
Behind the Eight BallThe members of a summer theater group get mixed up with spies and murder.1942Edward F. ClineComedy,Crime,Musical5.7 (57 votes)6020211228
Johnny DoughboyAn arrogant young actress doesn't want to play "young" parts anymore, and runs off. The studio replaces her with the president of her fan club, who just happens to be a lookalike. Meanwhile, some other former child actors, trying to 1942John H. AuerMusical5.7 (97 votes)6420211228
Life Begins at Eight-ThirtyKathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant R1942Irving PichelComedy,Drama,Romance6.2 (212 votes)8520211228
My Favorite SpyKay Kyser is late to his wedding. He is taking a short cut through Central Park when he finds out that he is in the army and is due to check in that afternoon. It turns out that the army wants him as an undercover agent because a spy1942Tay GarnettComedy,Musical5.8 (266 votes)8620211228
Pardon My SarongA pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans fo1942Erle C. KentonComedy6.9 (2.3K votes)8420211228
True to the ArmyWhile doing her tight-rope act in a local circus, Daisy Hawkins (Judy Canova), sees the owner shot by gangsters. The gangsters are after her to eliminate the only eye witness and the police chase her to testify against the gangsters.1942Albert S. RogellComedy,Music6.7 (40 votes)7720211228
Dangerous BlondesA crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.1943Leigh JasonComedy,Crime,Drama6.7 (340 votes)8120211228
True to LifeA writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he b1943George MarshallComedy,Romance6.5 (118 votes)9420211228
Great Moment, TheThe biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.1944Preston SturgesBiography,Drama6.3 (955 votes)8320211228
Hail The Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.1944Preston SturgesComedy,War7.7 (4.6K votes)10120211228
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, TheAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.1943Preston SturgesComedy,Romance,War7.6 (7.4K votes)9820211228
Once Upon A TimeA cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy's dancing caterpillar.1944Alexander HallComedy,Family,Fantasy6.1 (996 votes)8920211228
Along Came JonesA good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.1945Stuart HeislerComedy,Romance,Western6.5 (2.1K votes)9020211228
Salty O'RourkeSalty owes money to Doc Baxter; he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Brooks an1945Raoul WalshCrime,Drama6.4 (218 votes)10020211228
Jolson Story, TheThis movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her. In the 1946Alfred E. GreenBiography,Drama,Music7.3 (1.6K votes)12820211228
Our Hearts Were Growing UpCornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor derives from pre-Roaring Twenties naivity.1946William D. RussellAdventure,Comedy,Romance6.7 (78 votes)8320211228
Pardon My PastAn ex-GI wants to open a mink farm in Wisconsin; but is mistaken for a look-alike, a gambler who owes a lot of money.1945Leslie FentonAction,Comedy,Romance6.8 (234 votes)8820211228
Perils of Pauline, TheThe real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.1947George MarshallBiography,Drama,Romance6.5 (1.2K votes)9620211228
Night Has a Thousand EyesAfter phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.1948John FarrowCrime,Drama,Fantasy7.1 (1.3K votes)8120211228
On Our Merry WayThree short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.1948Leslie Fenton, King Vidor, John Huston, George StevensComedy,Music,Romance5.8 (654 votes)10720211228
Sainted SistersAfter stealing 10 thousand dollars from a New York businessman, two female cons hide in a small Maine town where, against their will, they perform good deeds and become respectable.1948William D. RussellComedy6.8 (111 votes)8920211228
Whispering SmithLegendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.1948Leslie FentonDrama,Western6.6 (1.3K votes)8820230728
Jolson Sings AgainIn this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the spotlight isn't what it used to be. This time Jolso1949Henry LevinBiography,Drama,Music6.7 (649 votes)9620211228
Red, Hot and BlueAn aspiring actress finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is in, is found dead in her apartment.1949John FarrowComedy,Crime,Musical6.1 (270 votes)8420211228
Sorrowful JonesA young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crook1949Sidney LanfieldComedy,Drama7.0 (724 votes)8820211228
He's a Cockeyed WonderFreddie Frisby is informed by Bob Sears that he can't marry Bob's daughter, Judy, as he is only a fumbling failure as an orange picker, and Judy can do better. Freddie's prospects brighten up when he learns his uncle has left him his1950Peter GodfreyComedy5.2 (146 votes)7620211228
Never a Dull MomentSophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Hayward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married and leave for his ranch in the west. Kay makes one1950George MarshallComedy,Romance,Western5.7 (623 votes)8920211228
Riding HighA horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.1950Frank CapraComedy6.1 (528 votes)11220211228
When Willie Comes Marching HomeWillie Kluggs enters the service with hopes of going overseas, but his uncanny marksmanship keeps him at home as a shooting instructor... much to his embarrassment.1950John FordComedy,War6.4 (737 votes)8220211228
Behave Yourself!When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?1951George BeckComedy,Crime5.5 (686 votes)8120211228
Excuse My DustJoe, an inventor in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", and only his girlfriend believes in him. When he's halfw1951Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Edward SedgwickComedy,Musical6.1 (353 votes)8220211228
First Legion, TheA Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.1951Douglas SirkDrama6.58620260711
Strip, TheDrummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.1951László KardosCrime,Drama,Film-Noir6.0 (625 votes)8520211228
Blazing Forest, TheEstranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.1952Edward LudwigAction,Adventure,Mystery6.19020260711
What Price GloryThe wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.1952John FordComedy,Drama,Romance6.2 (1.3K votes)11120211228
Dangerous When WetA young woman enters a contest to be the first to swim the English Channel.1953Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William HannaComedy,Musical,Romance6.3 (948 votes)9520211228
Escape from Fort BravoDuring the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.1953John SturgesDrama,Romance,Western6.7 (2.7K votes)9920211228
Here Come the GirlsA clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.1953Claude BinyonComedy,Musical5.9 (382 votes)7820211228
Lady Wants Mink, TheFor her birthday, Ritchie Connors gives his wife Nora a coat from the store where he works. His workday gloom is made even worse when their friend from next-door shows up that evening in a mink. To try and make things right, Nora goe1953William A. SeiterComedy6.0 (129 votes)9220211228
Yellow Mountain, TheFrontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.1954Jesse HibbsDrama,Western6.1 (297 votes)7820211228
Far Horizons, TheVirginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.1955Rudolph MatéDrama,History,Romance6.110820260711
Hell on Frisco BayAfter 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.1955Frank TuttleCrime,Drama,Film-Noir6.4 (579 votes)9920211228
Jupiter's DarlingFabius loves his beautiful but vulnerable city, Rome, and he also loves his beautiful but invulnerable fiancée, Amytis. Fascinated by the tales she has heard about Hannibal, who is about to attack Rome, Amytis is driven by curiosity 1955George SidneyAdventure,Comedy,Fantasy5.8 (593 votes)9520211228
Lucy GallantThe success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.1955Robert ParrishDrama6.3 (603 votes)10420221212
Private War of Major Benson, TheAs a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.1955Jerry HopperComedy,Family,Romance6.5 (827 votes)10520211228
Sincerely YoursTony Warrin has it all: a popular pianist who plays any style, he has money, great clothes, a penthouse overlooking Central Park, a rich blond fiancée, a loyal brunette secretary secretly in love with him, and a date at Carnegie Hall1955Gordon DouglasDrama,Musical,Mystery5.6 (382 votes)11520211228
Mountain, TheSelfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.1956Edward DmytrykAdventure,Drama6.8 (2K votes)10520220414
Rawhide Years, TheDishonest riverboat gambler Ben Matthews is blamed for a murder he didn't commit and must find the real killer before the lynch mob finds him.1956Rudolph MatéWestern6.3 (730 votes)8520211228
King of the Roaring 20'sThe story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.1961Joseph M. NewmanBiography,Crime,Drama5.7 (275 votes)10620211228
Twenty Plus TwoA famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?1961Joseph M. NewmanCrime,Drama,Mystery6.210220260711
Son of FlubberWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.1962Robert StevensonComedy,Family,Sci-Fi6.1 (2.9K votes)10020211228
Viva Las VegasA race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix, wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.1964George SidneyComedy,Musical,Romance6.4 (7.6K votes)8520211228
That Darn CatAfter a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.1965Robert StevensonComedy,Crime,Family6.8 (6.8K votes)11620211228
Don't Be Afraid of the DarkA young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.1973John NewlandHorror,Mystery,Thriller6.7 (3.7K votes)7420211228
The Wild McCullochsNA1975 Drama,Romance Not Available
Seeing ThingsNA1930 Comedy,Short Not Available
Hollywood Victory CaravanNA1945 Comedy,Music,Short Not Available
The Run AroundNA1932 Comedy,Short Not Available
Night Court, TheA police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for the judge.1927Bryan FoyComedy,Musical,Short6.2920260711
A Night at Coffee Dan'sNA1927 Comedy,Short Not Available