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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-12-02

Place of Birth

Aitkin, Minnesota, USA

Warren William

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.

Known for

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

Fear

Fear

B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.

Lady for a Day

Lady for a Day

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

Plunder

Plunder

Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.

Outcast

Outcast

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Honor of the Family

Honor of the Family

Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

The Town That Forgot God

The Town That Forgot God

A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns years later to find that David, now an orphan, is running away from his cruel foster father, the squire. Eben befriends David, and when the town is destroyed by a storm the two escape harm. An epilog shows David 25 years later as a successful businessman, happily married, helping to rebuild the town.

Wives Under Suspicion

Wives Under Suspicion

A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her.

Trail of the Vigilantes

Trail of the Vigilantes

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.