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William Wellman Jr. (born January 20, 1937) is an American former actor. In a career spanning 65 years, he appeared in about 77 films and television series.
Actor: Image of the Beast. Rangy, sturdy-looking actor William Wellman Jr., was born in Los Angeles on January 20, 1937, one of seven children born to legendary director William A. Wellman and his fourth wife, one-time actress Dorothy Coonan Wellman, who appeared in a few of her husband's pictures.
Decades after Wellman's death, William Jr. wrote two biographies about his father, The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture (2006) and Wild Bill Wellman—Hollywood Rebel (2015). Fellow filmmakers have also examined Wellman's career.
William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937) , was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.
Well, my father, William Wellman, who directed seventy six films and he directed six films for John Wayne’s production company in the 1950s, several of them starring John Wayne. Speaker They...
May 8, 2015 · Wellman Jr. was the man who helped the fabled director pack up his office after the debacle of “Lafayette Escadrille,” a dream that became a shambles partly because of Warner Bros ...
Feb 10, 2012 · William A. Wellman earned the nickname as a flier in World War I, and it stuck to him for the 40 years or so he spent directing movies in Hollywood.
