Willy Castello (April 24, 1910 – February 7, 1953) was a Dutch-American
film actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
, also sometimes credited as William Castello. While he spent much of his screen career playing
supporting role
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s, he appeared for producer
Willis Kent
Willis Kent (June 8, 1878, Michigan – March 11, 1966, Los Angeles, California
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in several
Poverty Row exploitation films.
[Pitts p.204]
Selected filmography
* ''
The Girl from Everywhere'' (1927)
* ''
The King of Kings'' (1927)
* ''
Border Romance
''Border Romance'' is a 1929 American pre-Code Western (genre), Western romance film directed by Richard Thorpe. An early sound film, it stars Armida (actress), Armida, Don Terry, Marjorie Kane, and Victor Potel.
A copy is preserved at the Libr ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Sailor's Song'' (1932)
* ''
Abduct Me'' (1932)
* ''
The Tars'' (1934)
* ''
Three Kids and a Queen'' (1935)
* ''
Melody Trail'' (1935)
* ''
The Great Impersonation'' (1935)
* ''
Smashing the Vice Trust'' (1937)
* ''
Heroes of the Alamo'' (1937)
* ''
Young Dynamite'' (1937)
* ''
Special Agent K-7'' (1937)
* ''
The Wages of Sin'' (1938)
* ''
Wanted by the Police'' (1938)
* ''
Race Suicide'' (1938)
* ''
The Port of Missing Girls'' (1938)
* ''
Death Rides the Range'' (1939)
* ''
Balalaika
The balalaika (, ) is a Russian string instrument, stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perf ...
'' (1939)
* ''
Chasing Trouble'' (1940)
* ''
Foreign Correspondent'' (1940)
* ''
Argentine Nights'' (1940)
* ''
Phantom of Chinatown'' (1940)
* ''
Drums of the Desert'' (1940)
* ''
Mad Youth'' (1940)
* ''
Hidden Enemy'' (1940)
* ''
You're Out of Luck'' (1941)
* ''
The Panther's Claw'' (1942)
* ''
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen'' (1942)
* ''
The Dawn Express'' (1942)
* ''
We Were Dancing'' (1942)
* ''
Hangmen Also Die!'' (1943)
*''
Confessions of a Vice Baron'' (1943)
* ''
The Boy from Stalingrad'' (1943)
* ''
You Can't Beat the Law
''You Can't Beat the Law'' is a 1943 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen; also known as ''Prison Mutiny'' (American TV title).
Plot
Johnny Gray (Edward Norris) is a self-proclaimed playboy. Gray's car is found at the scene of a crime; a ...
'' (1943)
* ''
Man on a Tightrope
''Man on a Tightrope'' is a 1953 American drama directed by Elia Kazan, starring Fredric March, Terry Moore and Gloria Grahame. The screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood was based on a 1952 novel of the same title by Neil Paterson. Paterson based ...
'' (1953)
References
Bibliography
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940''. McFarland & Company, 1997.
* Schaefer, Eric. ''"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959''. Duke University Press, 1999.
External links
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1910 births
1953 deaths
Male actors from Amsterdam
American male film actors
Dutch emigrants to the United States
Dutch male film actors
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