William Janney
Also Known As: Russell Dixon Janney
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: February 15, 1908
Deathday: December 22, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Two Seconds
Overview: A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
Popularity:
Bonnie Scotland
Overview: Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
Popularity:
Coquette
Overview: A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
Popularity:
The Crime of the Century
Overview: Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can commit it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-18
Popularity:
Terror Aboard
Overview: An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-14
Popularity:
The Mouthpiece
Overview: A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
Popularity:
Salute
Overview: A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
Popularity:
Secret of the Blue Room
Overview: According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-20
Popularity:
Crooner
Overview: Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
Popularity:
Sweepstake Annie
Overview: A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
Popularity:
The Girl Said No
Overview: A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
Popularity:
The World Changes
Overview: Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
Popularity:
The Right of Way
Overview: Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-11
Popularity:
Clipped Wings
Overview: Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of thunderstorms developed by an incident in his boyhood days. Jerry, now a Captain in the U.S. Department of Justice, is given an assignment to capture some border oil smugglers. Through his friendship with Raoul McGuire, one of the suspects, Jerry is accepted as a member of the gang. Mickey is in love with Raoul's sister, Molly. Gang leader Moran shoots and wounds Raoul, and is himself shot down by Jerry. Mickey flies Molly and her wounded brother to a hospital. Jerry takes off in another plane to guard Mickey's craft from a pursuing airplane, and crashes his plane into the gangster's plane but parachutes to safety.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-02
Popularity:
Shooting Straight
Overview: A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-20
Popularity:
As the Earth Turns
Overview: Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
Popularity:
Should Ladies Behave
Overview: A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
Popularity:
The Pay-Off
Overview: A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-14
Popularity:
Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
Popularity:
Under-Cover Man
Overview: When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-02
Popularity:
The Iron Master
Overview: The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-04
Popularity:
Mexicali Rose
Overview: The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-26
Popularity:
Those Who Dance
Overview: A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-18
Popularity:
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Overview: A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
Popularity:
A Modern Hero
Overview: A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-21
Popularity:
Young Desire
Overview: A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-08
Popularity:
Girls Demand Excitement
Overview: Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-08
Popularity:
Cimarron
Overview: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-26
Popularity:
The Dawn Patrol
Overview: World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-10
Popularity:
King of the Wild Horses
Overview: Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same name -- and with the same "star," Rex the Wonder Horse, in the lead. Most of the story involves the romantic triangle between rogue stallion Rex, the gorgeous mare Lady, and villainous black steed Marquis.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
Popularity:
The Great Hotel Murder
Overview: Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-27
Popularity:
Born to Gamble
Overview: A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-09
Popularity:
A Successful Calamity
Overview: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
Popularity:
Without Children
Overview: Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
Popularity:
A Successful Failure
Overview: Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-worker Phil decides to see what he can do to help everyone see what his friend has to offer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
Popularity: