Warren William
Born: 1894-12-02 in Aitkin, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1948-09-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
Warren William (born Warren William Krech; 2 December 1894 - 24 September 1948) was an American stage, screen, and radio actor, popular as a film leading man during the early 1930s, and later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code". He is best remembered for portraying amoral businessmen, lawyers, and other heartless types.
Filmography
2008
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
1994
- Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1947
- The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Laroche-Mathieu
1946
- Fear as Police Capt. Burke
1945
- Strange Illusion as Brett Curtis
1943
- Passport to Suez as Michael Lanyard / The Lone Wolf
- One Dangerous Night as Michael Lanyard / The Lone Wolf
1942
- Counter-Espionage as Michael Lanyard
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Harry Farrel
1941
- The Wolf Man as Dr. Lloyd
- Secrets of the Lone Wolf as Michael Lanyard
- Wild Geese Calling as Blackie Bedford
- The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Michael Lanyard
1940
- Arizona as Jefferson Carteret
- The Lone Wolf Strikes as Michael Lanyard
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Michael Lanyard
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Mark Dawson
- The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady as Michael Lanyard
- Lillian Russell as Jesse Lewisohn
1939
- The Man in the Iron Mask as D'Artagnan
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Michael Lanyard
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Philo Vance
- Day-time Wife as Bernard Dexter
1938
- Wives Under Suspicion as District Attorney Jim Stowell
- Arsène Lupin Returns as Steve Emerson
- The First Hundred Years as Harry Borden
1937
- Madame X as Bernard Fleuriot
- Midnight Madonna as Blackie Denbo
- Outcast as Dr. Wendell Phillips / Phil Jones
- The Firefly as Major de Rouchemont
1936
- Stage Struck as Fred Harris
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- Satan Met a Lady as Ted Shane
- Times Square Playboy as Victor 'Vic' Arnold
- The Case of the Velvet Claws as Perry Mason
- Go West Young Man as Morgan
1935
- The Case of the Curious Bride as Perry Mason
- A Dream Comes True as Self (uncredited)
- Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
- The Case of the Lucky Legs as Perry Mason
- Living on Velvet as Walter 'Gibraltar' Pritcham
- The Widow from Monte Carlo as Allan Chepstow
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Oscar 'Odds' Owen
- A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio as Himself (uncredited)
1934
- Cleopatra as Julius Caesar
- Bedside as Bob Brown
- Smarty as Tony
- Dr. Monica as John Braden
- Imitation of Life as Stephen 'Steve' Archer
- Upperworld as Alexander Stream
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
- The Case of the Howling Dog as Perry Mason
- The Secret Bride as Robert Sheldon
- The Dragon Murder Case as Philo Vance
1933
- Goodbye Again as Kenneth L. 'Ken' Bixby
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 as Self
- Lady for a Day as Dave the Dude
- The Mind Reader as Chandra
- Gold Diggers of 1933 as Lawrence
- Employees' Entrance as Kurt Anderson
- Just Around the Corner as Mr. Sears
1932
- Skyscraper Souls as David Dwight
- Under Eighteen as Raymond Harding
- Three on a Match as Robert Kirkwood
- The Woman from Monte Carlo as Lieutenant d'Ortelles
- The Match King as Paul Kroll
- Beauty and the Boss as Baron Josef von Ullrich
- The Dark Horse as Hal Samson Blake
- The Mouthpiece as Vincent 'Vince' Day
1931
- Expensive Women as Neil Hartley
- Honor of the Family as Captain Boris Barony
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 7: 'The Spoon' as Warren William - the Husband (uncredited)
1923
- Plunder as Mr. Jones
1922
- The Town That Forgot God as Eben