Willard Robertson

Willard Robertson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California. Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting. He appeared on Broadway in 16 plays between 1907 and 1930. Robertson played supporting roles in many Hollywood films from 1930 until the year he died, typically portraying men of authority such as doctors, elected officials, military officers, and also lawyers. He played Jackie Cooper's stern but loving father in the oscar-winning drama Skippy (1931) and its sequel Sooky (1931). Robertson also portrayed a flamboyant lawyer in Remember the Night (1940) and the straight sheriff in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). Willard Robertson was also a notable writer of numerous plays, two of them were adapted into films. He also wrote the novel Moon Tide (1940) which was turned into Archie Mayo's drama thriller Moontide (1942) starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino.

Known For: Acting

Born: Runnels, Texas, USA, 1885-12-31

Died: 1948-04-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1924	Daughters of the Night	Prof. Woodbury	0
2	1930	The Last of the Duanes	Texas Ranger Captain	30
3	1931	Fair Warning	Tex Calder	0
4	1931	Skippy	Herbert Skinner	61
5	1931	Silence	Phil Powers	75
6	1931	Shanghaied Love	Newman	0
7	1931	Graft	E. T. Scudder	45
8	1931	The Cisco Kid	Enos Hankins	59
9	1931	Sooky	Herbert Skinner	10
10	1932	The Gay Caballero	Major Lawrence Blount	0
11	1932	Behind the Mask	Capt. E.J. Hawkes	58
12	1932	Steady Company	Pop Henley	0
13	1932	The Broken Wing	Sylvester Cross	50
14	1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Sheriff	60
15	1932	The Rider of Death Valley	Bill Joyce	70
16	1932	The Texas Bad Man	Millard Keefe	10
17	1932	Tom Brown of Culver	Capt. White	52
18	1932	Doctor X	Detective O'Halloran	60
19	1932	Guilty as Hell	Police Sgt. Alcock	58
20	1932	Okay, America!	Bit Role	53
21	1932	Virtue	Detective MacKenzie	67
22	1932	Wild Girl	Red Pete	60
23	1932	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Prison Board Chairman	78
24	1932	If I Had a Million	Fred - Glidden Associate (uncredited)	67
25	1932	Call Her Savage	Pete Springer	58
26	1933	Frisco Jenny	Police Capt. Tom	63
27	1933	Destination Unknown	Joe Shano	0
28	1933	Central Airport	Havana Airport Manager	61
29	1933	Trick for Trick	Dr. Frank Fitzgerald	0
30	1933	Supernatural	Prison Warden	60
31	1933	Another Language	Harry Hallam	63
32	1933	Tugboat Annie	Red Severn	70
33	1933	Wild Boys of the Road	Captain of Detectives	69
34	1933	Ever in My Heart	Kennel Caretaker	53
35	1933	Female	Department Head (Uncredited)	63
36	1933	Roman Scandals	Warren Finley Cooper	60
37	1933	East of Fifth Avenue	Dr. Morgan	60
38	1933	Lady Killer	Detective Conroy	68
39	1934	Two Alone	George Marshall	70
40	1934	Dark Hazard	Bill 'Billy' Fallen	54
41	1934	Heat Lightning	Everett Marshall	67
42	1934	Gambling Lady	District Attorney	63
43	1934	Whirlpool	Judge Jim Morrison	61
44	1934	I'll Tell the World	Hardwick	0
45	1934	Upperworld	Police Captain Reynolds	63
46	1934	One Is Guilty	Wells Deveroux	35
47	1934	Let's Talk It Over	Dr. Preston	0
48	1934	Operator 13	Captain Channing	57
49	1934	He Was Her Man	Police Captain	67
50	1934	Murder in the Private Car	Hanks	56
51	1934	Here Comes the Navy	Executive Officer	59
52	1934	Housewife	Judge Edwin A. Matthews	77
53	1934	Have a Heart	Mr. Schauber	70
54	1934	Death on the Diamond	Cato	70
55	1934	Elinor Norton	Ranch Foreman	60
56	1934	Mills of the Gods	Thomas	0
57	1934	The Secret Bride	Representative Grosvenor	59
58	1934	Million Dollar Baby		0
59	1935	Biography of a Bachelor Girl	Grigsby, the Process Server	63
60	1935	Transient Lady	Ed Goring	55
61	1935	Laddie	Mr. John Stanton	0
62	1935	Straight from the Heart	District Attorney	0
63	1935	Oil for the Lamps of China	Speaker	73
64	1935	Dante's Inferno	Inspector Harris	62
65	1935	O'Shaughnessy's Boy	Dan Hastings	60
66	1935	His Night Out	J.J. Trent	0
67	1935	The Old Homestead	Uncle Jed	0
68	1935	Forced Landing	Martin Byrd	0
69	1936	Dangerous Waters	Bill MacKeechie	30
70	1936	Three Godfathers	Reverend McLane	68
71	1936	The First Baby	Dr. Clarke	0
72	1936	I Married a Doctor	Guy Pollock	47
73	1936	The Last of the Mohicans	Captain Winthrop	63
74	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Secretary Ingham	53
75	1936	The Man Who Lived Twice	Police Insp. Logan	67
76	1936	Winterset	Policeman in the Square	57
77	1936	Wanted: Jane Turner	Walter Davies	53
78	1936	That Girl from Paris	Immigration Officer (uncredited)	66
79	1937	Larceny on the Air	Inspector 'Mac' McDonald	50
80	1937	John Meade's Woman	Man	0
81	1937	Park Avenue Logger	Ben Morton	60
82	1937	The Go-Getter	Matt Peasely	58
83	1937	This Is My Affair	George Andrews	73
84	1937	Roaring Timber	Harrigan	50
85	1937	Exclusive	Mr. Franklin	60
86	1937	Hot Water	Dr. Enfield	50
87	1938	Island in the Sky	Walter Rhodes	70
88	1938	Gangs of New York	Inspector Sullivan	49
89	1938	You and Me	Dayton	67
90	1938	Men with Wings	Col. Hadley	50
91	1938	Torchy Gets Her Man	Charles Gilbert	59
92	1938	Kentucky	Bob Slocum	58
93	1939	Jesse James	Clarke	64
94	1939	My Son Is a Criminal	Tom Halloran Sr.	0
95	1939	Union Pacific	Oakes Ames	65
96	1939	Heritage of the Desert	Henchman Nebraska	58
97	1939	Each Dawn I Die	Lang	68
98	1939	Range War	Buck Collins	0
99	1939	Two Bright Boys	Clayton	0
100	1939	Main Street Lawyer	John Ralston	20
101	1940	Remember the Night	Francis X. O'Leary	73
102	1940	My Little Chickadee	Uncle John	64
103	1940	Castle on the Hudson	Ragan	68
104	1940	Lucky Cisco Kid	Judge McQuade	56
105	1940	Brigham Young	Heber Kimball	44
106	1940	North West Mounted Police	Supt. Harrington	63
107	1941	The Monster and the Girl	Lieutenant Strickland	58
108	1941	I Wanted Wings	Judge Advocate	54
109	1941	Men of the Timberland	Tim MacGregor	0
110	1941	Texas	Rancher Wilson	65
111	1941	The Night of January 16th	Inspector Donegan	50
112	1942	Juke Girl	Mister Just	65
113	1942	Wake Island		57
114	1943	The Ox-Bow Incident	Sheriff Risley	77
115	1943	Air Force	Colonel at Hickam Field	64
116	1943	No Time for Love	Construction Company President (uncredited)	66
117	1943	Background to Danger	'Mac' McNamara	66
118	1944	Nine Girls	Capt. Brooks	53
119	1945	Along Came Jones	Luke Packard	57
120	1946	To Each His Own	Dr. Hunt	68
121	1946	Perilous Holiday	Graeme	0
122	1946	The Virginian		61
123	1946	Renegades	Nathan Brockway	58
124	1946	Gallant Journey	Zachary Montgomery	61
125	1947	My Favorite Brunette	Prison Warden	66
126	1947	Deep Valley	Sheriff Akers	58
127	1948	Sitting Pretty	Mr. Ashcroft	72
128	1948	Fury at Furnace Creek	Gen. Leads	60

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