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Jan 10, 2014 · McFarland, Jan 10, 2014 - Performing Arts - 240 pages. On the motion picture screen, Hollywood star Warren William (1894-1948) was a magnificent rogue, often deliciously immoral and utterly callous, yet remarkably likable in his wickedness. Off-screen, the actor was as humble and retiring as his film characters were mean and heartless.
Warren William, the stalwart leading man of pre-Production Code talkies, was born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894 in Aitkin, Minnesota, the son of a newspaper publisher. William originally planned to become a journalist, but he had a change of heart, and instead went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and trained to become an actor.
Left to right: Eric Blore, Marlo Dwyer, Warren William, Ruth Ford and Roger Clark. We just completed a string of four Lone Wolf pictures directed by Sidney Salkow and despite the return of all of the main actors you will notice a distinct difference in tone for the next pair of entries. Edward Dmytryk, later director of film noir classics ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Warren William (born Warren William Krech; December 2, 1894 – September 24, 1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s; he was later nicknamed the King of Pre-Code. He was the first actor to play Perry Mason.
An article titled “Warren William Talks” was published in the July 24, 1932 issue of The New York Times. An interesting time to catch up with William as Hollywood is still kind of new for him and yet the interview actually took place on his first time back East since having “abruptly left the cast of ‘The Vinegar Tree’ two seasons ago.”
Overview. My research focuses on the visual control of action - in particular, human locomotion and navigation. On the one hand, I want to understand how motor behavior such as gait and other rhythmic movements are dynamically organized. On the other, I seek to explain how such behavior is adaptively regulated by visual information in complex ...
Warren William was only in his early fifties when he died of multiple myeloma. With the advent of the twenty-first century -- more than 50 years after his death -- Warren William's popularity experienced a resurgence, owing to the repertory programming at New York's Film Forum, which began running a surprisingly large number of his movies ...
