Billy Wilkerson
Also Known As: William Penn Wilkerson, William P. Wilkerson, William Wilkerson, Bill Wilkerson
Biography: William Wilkerson was born on September 18, 1902 in Cobb, Oklahoma, USA as William Penn Wilkerson. He is known for his work on Rock Island Trail (1950), Riding West (1944) and Apache Chief (1949). He died on March 3, 1966 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oklahoma Territory, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1902
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 03, 1966
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Rancho Notorious
Overview: A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-06
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Overview: The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Overview: With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
Genres: Romance Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Overview: Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-03
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Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Foxfire
Overview: A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-13
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Winners of the West
Overview: Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-02
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Susannah of the Mounties
Overview: This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-13
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Santa Fe Marshal
Overview: U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Riding West
Overview: Charles Starrett stars in the lightning-paced Columbia western Riding West. Somebody is planning to sabotage the new Pony Express mail service, and hard-ridin' Steve Jordan (Charles Starrett) aims to find out who.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-17
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Dr. Cyclops
Overview: Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Genres: Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-09
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Rock Island Trail
Overview: A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Robin Hood Of Texas
Overview: When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Overview: It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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California Conquest
Overview: The period is the 1840s and California is part of Mexico. Many of the citizens wish to become part of the United States. Other countries are also interested and the Russians have established bases in the northern part of the state. To further their hold they have stolen guns and Don Arturo Bordega, a leader of those wanting statehood, is out to recover them.
Genres: Adventure History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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Bowery Buckaroos
Overview: The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
Genres: Comedy Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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Brave Warrior
Overview: In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-31
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Singin' Spurs
Overview: In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Overland Mail
Overview: Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-22
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Go West, Young Lady
Overview: A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Thunder Pass
Overview: A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
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Yukon Vengeance
Overview: In this north-western set in the Yukon, a Mountie must investigate the violent deaths of three mail carriers.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-17
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Around the World
Overview: Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Batman
Overview: Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Bad Lands
Overview: A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
Overview: A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-01
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They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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Apache Chief
Overview: When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief must deal with renegade Apache Black Wolf.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Juarez
Overview: The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Broken Arrow
Overview: Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-21
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The Diamond Queen
Overview: A French jeweler travels to India in search of a fabulous diamond.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-28
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