Acting
William Bakewell
Biography
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.
Movies with William Bakewell
Gone with the Wind
1939
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
Quality Street
1937
Call Her Mom
1972
Zenobia
1939
Seven Sinners
1940
The Strongest Man in the World
1975
The Show of Shows
1929
Romance on the High Seas
1948
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
1955
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956
Radar Men from the Moon
1952
Harold Teen
1928
Speed Wings
1934
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
The Trespasser
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
King of the Mounties
1942
Old Ironsides
1926
Come Fill the Cup
1951
The Saint Takes Over
1940
The Capture
1950
Back Street
1932
Lucky Devils
1933
The Iron Mask
1929
Lucky Me
1954
So This Is Love
1953
Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
Down Liberty Road
1957
Reducing
1931
Together We Live
1935
So This Is New York
1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
Guilty Hands
1931
Strangers All
1935
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
1966
Straightaway
1933
Beyond Tomorrow
1940
Jungle Menace
1937
Three Cornered Moon
1933
Cheaters at Play
1932
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
1951
Night Wind
1948
The Bat Whispers
1930
The Devil's Trademark
1928
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
Hotel Imperial
1939
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
The Dawn Express
1942
I Live on Danger
1942
Lady Luck
1936
Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
Sea Spoilers
1936
The Curtain Falls
1934
The Quitter
1934
Yanks Ahoy
1943
The Higgins Family
1938
When the Redskins Rode
1951
On With the Show!
1929
King of the Turf
1939
A Man of Sentiment
1933
Daybreak
1931
On Probation
1935
The Shield of Honor
1927
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
1926
Playing Around
1930
Davy Crockett Goes to Congress
1955
A Woman of Experience
1931
Paid
1930
The Heart Thief
1927
Jungle Terror
1946
Set This Town on Fire
1973
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
1954
The Duke of West Point
1938
Crimson Romance
1934
Laddie
1935
Trapped by G-Men
1937
Messenger of Peace
1947
King of the Bandits
1947
Green Eyes
1934
Mile a Minute Love
1937
While Paris Sleeps
1932
The Last Edition
1925
The Battle of the Sexes
1928
Straight Is the Way
1934
Whispering Wires
1926
Dangerous Holiday
1937
You Can't Buy Everything
1934
The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931
Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways
1946
Hot Stuff
1929
Annapolis
1928
The Party's Over
1934
Sons of Steel
1934
The Latest from Paris
1928
Arthur Takes Over
1948
Lady of the Pavements
1929
Politics
1931
Bruised Celluloid
1984
West Point
1928
Happiness C.O.D.
1935
Mother
1927
TV Shows with William Bakewell
Maverick
1957
Peter Gunn
1958
Leave It to Beaver
1957
Love, American Style
1969
The Virginian
1962
Mister Ed
1961
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Green Acres
1965
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Highway Patrol
1955
Run for Your Life
1965
Hazel
1961
That Girl
1966
87th Precinct
1961
Sea Hunt
1958
Official Detective
1957
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
M Squad
1957
It Takes a Thief
1968
Harbor Command
1957
Guestward, Ho!
1960
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Profiles in Courage
1964
The Roaring 20's
1960
Pete and Gladys
1960
Boston Blackie
1951
Casey Jones
1957
I'm the Law
1953
Bringing Up Buddy
1960
The Great Gildersleeve
1955