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Acting

Will Wright

Career: Active from 1934 to 1961, busiest in 1946 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 4
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: They Live by Night
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 118 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Will Wright Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.2, average 2.5
Scare
1.4, average 2.6
Dark Humor
1.7, average 2.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Film Noir 3
Historical Setting 3
Crime Thriller 2
Classic Cinema 2
Moral Dilemma 2
Classic Western 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

198

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1960s

12 titles · average score 73

Fail Safe

83

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Cape Fear

80

as Dr. Pearsall

The Deadly Companions

66

as Doctor Acton

The Dick Van Dyke Show

84

TV show · as Sam Petrie

Mister Ed

45

TV show · as Mr. Thompson

Twenty Plus Two

65

as Newspaper morgue attendant

The Andy Griffith Show

81

TV show · as Ben Weaver

Thriller

74

TV show · as Constable Tom Walker

Inherit the Wind

82

as Bible Salesman (uncredited)

The Tall Man

71

TV show

Pete and Gladys

TV show

Outlaws

TV show

1950s

81 titles · average score 63

Alias Jesse James

54

as Titus Queasley

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

56

as Pentagon General

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Grandfather

Perry Mason

82

TV show · as Chuck Clark / Adam Thompson

Leave It to Beaver

78

TV show · as Pete at Firehouse #7

Maverick

75

TV show · as Jabe Hallock / Sheriff Chester Bentley

Lassie

64

TV show · as Caleb Brown

The Last Posse

59

as Todd Mitchell

Paula

74

as Raymond Bascom

Lure of the Wilderness

62

as Sheriff Brink

I Love Lucy

81

TV show · as Mr. Walters / Sheriff

Dragnet

46

TV show

1940s

103 titles · average score 66

They Live by Night

81

as Mobley

Grape Nutty

as Crow (Voice)

The Lone Ranger

48

TV show · as Uncle Ed

An Act of Murder

69

as Judge Jim Wilder

Uncle Tom's Cabaña

60

as Uncle Tom (uncredited)

Wild Harvest

as Mike Alperson

Who's Cookin Who?

as Wolfie Wolf (voice)

The Inner Circle

58

as Henry Boggs

Fall Guy

as Mr. Nedsen, Parkson's Attorney (uncredited)

Here Comes Elmer

as Horace Parrot

Bambi

81

as Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)

The Tell-Tale Heart

66

as Second Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

1930s

2 titles

It's A Small World

as Courtroom spectator (uncredited)

Pure Feud

as Lem (uncredited)