William Bakewell

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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	10.207
Birthday	1908-05-02
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As	Billy Bakewell, William Bakewell Jr., Bill Bakewell,

All Quiet on the Western Front

Gone with the Wind

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

Lucky Me

Seven Sinners

Romance on the High Seas

The Capture

West Point

The Dawn Express

Three-Cornered Moon

Green Eyes

Dance, Fools, Dance

Trapped by G-Men

On With the Show!

Guilty Hands

The Trespasser

Strangers All

Straight Is the Way

You Can't Buy Everything

Lady Luck

Happiness C.O.D.

On Probation

King of the Bandits

Dangerous Holiday

Playing Around

Jungle Menace

Crimson Romance

Exiled to Shanghai

Reducing

Radar Men from the Moon

Show of Shows

The Last Edition

Politics

A Man of Sentiment

The Iron Mask

Sons of Steel

A Woman of Experience

The Bat Whispers

While Paris Sleeps

Lucky Devils

The Curtain Falls

Harold Teen

Zenobia

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Bruised Celluloid

The Shield of Honor

Daybreak

The Quitter

The Saint Takes Over

Sea Spoilers

Mile a Minute Love

When the Redskins Rode

The Higgins Family

Annapolis

The Postman Didn't Ring

The Battle of the Sexes

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways

Quality Street

Hotel Imperial

Beyond Tomorrow

Old Ironsides

The Farmer's Daughter

The Fabulous Dorseys

Back Street

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

King of the Mounties

Wells Fargo Gunmaster

Come Fill the Cup

So This Is Love

Hot Stuff

The Strongest Man in the World

The Latest from Paris

Paid

King of the Turf

The Party's Over

Night Wind

Arthur Takes Over

Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter

Mother

The Duke of West Point