William Wyler Filmography
William Wyler Filmography
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorWilliam Wyler directs his first silent short.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorJack Mower is the featured player in this Mustang Western in which a band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of firearms, to hold up the owner and make way with the payroll. Jack, as the new foreman, trails them and in a running fight unhorses them, one by one. He has a hand-to-hand encounter with the leader of the band but subdues him also, and of course, wins the girl. There is the usual quota of riding and fighting, and the absence of "gats" gives an out of the ordinary touch. Audiences that like Westerns will probably find it of average entertainment value.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorRobert Kane, owner of the Bar-L Ranch, has received word from his attorney that he will have to marry Ann Scott before the 15th of the month, whom he has never met, or else lose the title to the Vista Water Company, which Ann has inherited under the condition that she be married. There is dirty-work afoot, instigated by a lawyer.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerJanet GaynorAn irascible and brutal boss, Will King, owner of the Deux Croix ranch, sends his employees back on the slightest pretext. A bum who is looking for a bad move, shows up on the ranch pretending to be an experienced cowboy.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerFay WrayJanet GaynorNancy Burton, niece of the sheriff, is in love with Deputy Tom Farrell, but she as an aversion to bloodshed. She overhears that he shot and killed an outlaw three years in the past. He swears to her that it never happened but she does not believe him. Later her uncle tells he that it was he who killed the outlaw, Trevis, in the line of duty. She also learns that the brother of Trevis, seeking revenge, is on his way to kill Farrell.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJack MowerVelma ConnorBilly EngleA ranch owner who has inherited his property and consequently fled the walled cities and his relatives has his seclusion invaded by an aunt, her son and the supposed fiancée of the latter, a charming girl. To get rid of them Jack gets his side partner, the cook of the ranch, to tell them he is dead. That doesn't accomplish anything, for they proceed to take possession on the score that they are the next of kin and consequently the rightful heirs. The heroine, fleeing the importunities of the aunt to marry Cyril, is rescued from a buckboard runaway by the hero, who tells her for some unexplained reason that he is the notorious bad man of the district. Ultimately the city trio escape in their auto from the menial tasks they have been performing around the ranch, but in so doing fall into the hands of the real bad man and his associates in crime. They are rescued by the hero and "all's well with the world."
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanMarie TorpieEdmund CobbIt looks as though the heroine's father is in league with fur thieves, but he is not and he emerges with a clean bill of health at the end. Also the chief villain, not content with robbing the old man of his furs, has also plotted the theft of his fair daughter. He nearly succeeds, but the resourceful Martin blocks both games.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsArt AcordFay WrayRobert GordonRance Lighton, a lazy wanderer, is arrested for vagrancy and taken to the Rogers Ranch, where Dickie Rogers, an invalid child who is confined to a wheelchair, takes a liking to the stranger.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred HumesLouise LorraineWilliam BaileyTwo friends return to America after serving in the Great War. Suffering from shell shock, Frank is helpless and Breezy has become his de facto caregiver. Strangers now run Frank's home, the Wilcox Ranch. Breezy goes to investigate.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbElsa BenhamHoward DaviesCobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund Cobb
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanAlma Rayford
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbHazel Keener
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred HumesEna GregoryChurchill RossI saw this film at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 2019. The movie was screened from a DVD provided specially by the Library of Congress archive. The music for the silent film was played live by a pianist in the auditorium. The movie is not currently available commercially. Smilin' Sam Perry (Fred Humes) is a rancher who has taken out a loan with the local Shylock, Ezra Skinner (Bernard Siegel). Skinner warns him the note is coming due, but Sam is unconcerned because he has money coming in on the stage. Meanwhile, Dude Dutton (Bruce Gordon) has been cultivating the friendship of invalid Jim Morgan (Churchill Ross) in order to get close to Jim's sister Milly (Ena Gregory). Jim wants to move somewhere else, but they cannot because they don't have the money. Dude confides to Jim that he knows a way they can get the money. The next day, when Sam checks with the stage office, he learns the stage was robbed and his money is gone. Jim however, exultantly tells Milly he won enough money at gambling to move out. She is suspicious, but agrees to move with him. Sam goes out to a line shack on his ranch with his foreman and is incensed to find a shepherd herding sheep on his land and kicks the shepherd out. Dude, leaving town in a hurry, runs into the shepherd and gives him money to buy the sheep and change clothes with him. He herds the sheep right back to the line shack however, and is summarily ejected by Sam, thinking he is the same shepherd he kicked out before. On the road, Dude encounters Jim and Milly, and suggests that if Jim wants to improve his health in the outdoors, he should take up sheep herding, and tells him he can live in the line shack. Jim and Milly move in to the shack, whereupon Sam is once again enraged to find sheep on his land, but softens when he meets Milly and agrees to help them. Milly hides Jim's money in the mattress, still suspecting he stole it. Sam resolves to find Milly a place in town, but the town's rough reputation worries him. He asks Ma Bascomb, (Eva Thatcher) who owns all the saloons in town, to help, and she makes the startling decision to close down all her saloons in the interest of cleaning up the town. Sam and Ma proceed to shut down all the saloons and gambling halls as a two-person temperance committee. (The movie was filmed during Prohibition.) Dude tries to sneak into the shack to steal the money, but is discovered and arrested for the stage robbery. He tries to shift the blame for the robbery on to Jim, but the sheriff (Max Asher) attests that Jim did indeed win the money gambling. Sam discovers that his money went to buy sheep, thus he now owns the flock. Milly shows him a little lamb, which Sam has to admit is cute.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTed WellsGarry O'DellBuck ConnorsJack Roberts and his sidekick, Malpai Joe, see John Hale and his nephew, Tom, attempting to run a bandit blockade with supplies for their mine; John is wounded by the outlaws, and Tom makes his getaway.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsEdmund CobbAlma Rayford
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanViolet La Plante
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsArt AcordLouise LorraineGilbert HolmesArt Alvord, a fancy-riding ranch hand with a mysteriously shady past, is challenged to a race by a gray-haired colonel, Jed Leach, who wins with dubious tactics.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanBarbara Worth
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanBud OsborneJ.P. Lockney
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanRhea Mitchell
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred Gilman
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanNancy DrexelJanet Gaynor
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred GilmanElaine ForrestVin Moore
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFred HumesEvelyn PierceC.E. AndersonVic Harding, a crooked Eastern land speculator, learns of a proposed railroad spur that will increase the value of the Lawton ranch and conspires with Hank Martin to buy the property.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTed WellsLotus ThompsonBruce GordonFrank Fortune, a young rancher, is jailed along with two of his men for fighting with rival ranchers.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTed WellsCharlotte StevensWilliam SteeleAs Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBessie LoveTom MooreKate PriceA French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York, where he is a police officer.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJames MurrayBarbara KentGeorge KotsonarosDave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets a mother and son. As he begins to care for them, he ultimately has to decide whether to continue in his low-life ways or turn the tables on those who have been forcing him to participate in them.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsLaura La PlanteNeil HamiltonRobert EllisA chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharles BickfordRaymond HattonFred KohlerThree bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsLupe VelezPaul CavanaghWilliam 'Stage' BoydBurr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonDouglass MontgomeryHelen ChandlerIn a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries a girl young enough to be his daughter. Complications ensue when the new wife falls in love with her husband's son.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTom BrownSlim SummervilleRichard CromwellBoy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsSlim SummervilleZasu PittsUna MerkelA peanut and candy butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of owning his own boat.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsJohn BarrymoreBebe DanielsDoris KenyonA successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsPaul LukasConstance CummingsPhillip ReedA married chorus girl falls in love with a composer.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMargaret SullavanHerbert MarshallFrank MorganA naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsFrancis LedererFrances DeeBenita HumeMirabel wins a $5, 000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMiriam HopkinsMerle OberonJoel McCreaTwo schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
- DirectorHoward HawksWilliam WylerRichard RossonStarsEdward ArnoldJoel McCreaFrances FarmerAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsSylvia SidneyJoel McCreaHumphrey BogartThe lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge BrentIn 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanDoris DavenportJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallJames StephensonThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallTeresa WrightThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsOlivia de HavillandMontgomery CliftRalph RichardsonA naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsKirk DouglasEleanor ParkerWilliam BendixOn one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsLaurence OlivierJennifer JonesMiriam HopkinsA young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckAudrey HepburnEddie AlbertA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsHumphrey BogartFredric MarchArthur KennedyThree escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperDorothy McGuireAnthony PerkinsThe pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGregory PeckJean SimmonsCarroll BakerA New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsAudrey HepburnShirley MacLaineJames GarnerA rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsTerence StampSamantha EggarMona WashbourneA man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsAudrey HepburnPeter O'TooleEli WallachThe daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBarbra StreisandOmar SharifKay MedfordThe life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsLee J. CobbAnthony ZerbeRoscoe Lee BrowneA successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsStanley WrayRobert MorganJames A. VerinisA documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- DirectorWilliam WylerJohn SturgesStarsJames StewartJohn K. CannonIra C. EakerA WW2 documentary on the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bomber pilots in missions (Operation Strangle) from their base in Corsica to Northern Italy in 1944, destroying railroads, bridges, trains, vehicles and hard targets.