William Bakewell
William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993), also known as Billy Bakewell, was an American actor, who achieved his greatest fame as one of the premiere juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bakewell, educated at Los Angeles Harvard Military School, began his film career as an extra in the silent movie Fighting Blood (1924), and went on to appear in some 170 films and television shows. He had supporting roles at the end of the silent era and reached the peak of his career around 1930. He is perhaps best remembered for playing German soldier Albert Kropp in the film classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and Rodney Jordan, Joan Crawford's brother, in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He also co-starred in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) with Winnie Lightner and Lilyan Tashman. In 1933, he contributed to the founding of the Screen Actors Guild, and was member 44 of the original 50. He never achieved stardom after the Depression years, although he became familiar in dozens of films, including his short appearance as a mounted soldier in Gone with the Wind (1939) whom Scarlett O'Hara asks when the Yankee soldiers are coming to Atlanta. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the rank of second lieutenant. He was stationed at the 73rd Evacuation Hospital and at the Radio Section of the Special Service Division as the Post Intelligence Officer. He also worked under the department that handled distribution of recorded programs to overseas station circuits. He starred in the Columbia Pictures serial Hop Harrigan (1946), where he played a top Air Corps pilot. He also portrayed Major Tobias Norton and a Keelboat Race Master of Ceremonies in the phenomenally popular Disney series Davy Crockett (1954-1955). In the 1960s, he guest starred in numerous situation comedy television series, including Guestward, Ho!, Pete and Gladys, Bringing Up Buddy, The Tab Hunter Show, Mister Ed, Leave It to Beaver, The Jack Benny Program, Petticoat Junction , and Hazel. He also was cast in episodes of Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt, Wagon Train, The Roaring 20s, The Virginian, Arrest and Trial, and 87th Precinct He played the Virginia statesman George Wythe in the episode "George Mason" in the 1965 NBC documentary series, Profiles in Courage. He made his last film in 1975. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. He died on April 15, 1993 of leukemia at the age of 84.
137 acting credits
Acting · 137
Maverick
1957
Love, American Style
1969
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Virginian
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Green Acres
1965
Leave It to Beaver
1957
Run for Your Life
1965
That Girl
1966
Sea Hunt
1958
Mister Ed
1961
Peter Gunn
1958
Hazel
1961
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Highway Patrol
1955
M Squad
1957
Gone with the Wind
1939
It Takes a Thief
1968
Lux Video Theatre
1950
87th Precinct
1961
Pete and Gladys
1960
Boston Blackie
1951
Nanny and the Professor
1970
The Roaring 20's
1960
Profiles in Courage
1964
Official Detective
1957
Harbor Command
1957
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
Guestward, Ho!
1960
Casey Jones
1957
Quality Street
1937
I'm the Law
1953
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
The Strongest Man in the World
1975
The Great Gildersleeve
1955
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
1955
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
The Capture
1950
The Iron Mask
1929
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956
Lucky Me
1954
Seven Sinners
1940
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
Guilty Hands
1931
King of the Bandits
1947
The Saint Takes Over
1940
Straight Is the Way
1934
Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
1955
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
Romance on the High Seas
1948
Back Street
1932
Playing Around
1930
Zenobia
1939
Old Ironsides
1926
Crimson Romance
1934
Lucky Devils
1933
The Show of Shows
1929
The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931
The Bat Whispers
1930
The Duke of West Point
1938
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
Radar Men from the Moon
1952
Jungle Menace
1937
Arthur Takes Over
1948
Come Fill the Cup
1951
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
So This Is Love
1953
Politics
1931
Together We Live
1935
Green Eyes
1934
The Quitter
1934
On Probation
1935
Strangers All
1935
Call Her Mom
1972
Paid
1930
The Dawn Express
1942
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
A Woman of Experience
1931
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
Laddie
1935
Sea Spoilers
1936
Three Cornered Moon
1933
Jungle Terror
1946
West Point
1928
Harold Teen
1928
The Curtain Falls
1934
Lady Luck
1936
Hotel Imperial
1939
The Shield of Honor
1927
While Paris Sleeps
1932
Set This Town on Fire
1973
So This Is New York
1948
The Battle of the Sexes
1928
Daybreak
1931
King of the Turf
1939
Straightaway
1933
The Higgins Family
1938
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
When the Redskins Rode
1951
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
1951
The Trespasser
1947
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
1926
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
1954
The Party's Over
1934
Annapolis
1928
Yanks Ahoy
1943
Bruised Celluloid
1984
Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
King of the Mounties
1942
Dangerous Holiday
1937
Reducing
1931
Hot Stuff
1929
Night Wind
1948
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942
I Live on Danger
1942
Speed Wings
1934
A Man of Sentiment
1933
The Heart Thief
1927
Sons of Steel
1934
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
Happiness C.O.D.
1935
Trapped by G-Men
1937
Whispering Wires
1926
On With the Show!
1929
Lady of the Pavements
1929
Cheaters at Play
1932
Mile a Minute Love
1937
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
1946
The Devil's Trademark
1928
Mother
1927
The Latest from Paris
1928
The Last Edition
1925
Messenger of Peace
1947
Down Liberty Road
1957