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William A. Wellman

William A. Wellman

American director, actor (1896-1975)
February 29, 1896 (December 9, 1975)
U.S. 1957. War drama by William A. Wellman with Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, Dalio. A young American who deserted the Foreign Legion rehabilitates himself in the Lafayette Escadrille.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1957. War drama by William A. Wellman with James Garner, Jack Warden, Etchika Choureau. The training and fierce fighting of American commandos.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1956. Drama by William A. Wellman with Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde, Sidney Poitier. An orphan finds a rare breed of dog and adopts it.
U.S. 1955. Adventures by William A. Wellman with John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Anita Ekberg. A captain brings fugitives from Communist China onto his ship.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1954. Western by William A. Wellman with Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn. The members of a family chase after a predatory feline.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1954. Drama by William A. Wellman with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Loraine Day. A plane has major technical problems during a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco.
Runtime: 141 min.
U.S. 1953. Adventures drama by William A. Wellman with John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel.
U.S. 1952. Western by William A. Wellman with Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Julie Bishop. A convoy transports women destined for marriage to settlers to the West.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 1952. Drama by William A. Wellman with Shelley Winters, Richard Montalban, Wendell Corey. A generous young worker of Mexican origin is falsely accused of murder.
U.S. 1951. Western by William A. Wellman with Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, Adolphe Menjou. A Scottish trapper marries a young native woman and becomes the chief of the Blackfoot.
Runtime: 78 min.
U.S. 1950. Dramatic comedy by William A. Wellman with Dean Stockwell, Leo G. Carroll, Darryl Hickman. At the turn of the 20th century, a rambunctious teenager is admitted to a strict institution for young men, from wealthy families.
U.S. 1950. Social drama by William A. Wellman with James Whitmore, Nancy Davis, Gary Gray. In an American family, one day, the radio announces the live transmission of a message from God.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1948. Western by William A. Wellman with Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark. Outlaws take refuge in an abandoned town where an elderly gold prospector and his granddaughter live.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1948. Spy drama by William A. Wellman with Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc. An employee of the Soviet embassy in Canada reveals the existence of a spy ring.
Runtime: 87 min.
U.S. 1948. War drama by William A. Wellman with Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Marshall Thompson. The battle of Bastogne between the American hundred-and-first Division and the German troops.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1947. Comedy by William A. Wellman with James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Wallace Ford. An advertising executive disturbs the tranquility of a small town when he chooses it as a model of typical American life.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1946. Biography by William A. Wellman with Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charlie Ruggles. In 1883, a young man from California develops the first gliders.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1945. Dramatic comedy by William A. Wellman with Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason. A middle-aged sailor becomes attached to a young boy whom he encourages to become an aviator.
U.S. 1945. Drama by William A. Wellman with Ronald Colman, Ida Lupino, Walter Huston. A painter who has become blind loses his taste for life.
U.S. 1945. War drama by William A. Wellman with Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddy Steele. The life of an infantry regiment during the campaign in North Africa and Italy.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 1944. Biography by William A. Wellman with Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell. The life of Colonel William Cody, nicknamed Buffalo Bill.
Runtime: 151 min.
U.S. 1943. Western by William A. Wellman with Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn. Following the murder of a rancher, the population of a village lynches three innocent people.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1943. Crime drama by William A. Wellman with Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg. Several crimes are committed backstage at a Broadway music hall.
U.S. 1942. Western by William A. Wellman with Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy. A centenarian remembers her support for a western pioneer.
U.S. 1942. Satire by William A. Wellman with Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery. In the 1920s, a publicity-hungry dancer confesses to a murder that she did not commit.
U.S. 1941. Comedy by William A. Wellman with Joel McCrea, Eddie Bracken, Ellen Drew. A young farmer works in an automobile factory in Detroit.
U.S. 1939. Adventures by William A. Wellman with Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston.
U.S. 1937. Fantasy comedy by William A. Wellman with Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly.
Runtime: 75 min.
U.S. 1937. Mores drama by William A. Wellman with Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou.
Runtime: 141 min.
U.S. 1936. Adventures by William A. Wellman with Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1931. by William A. Wellman with Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde. After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island.
U.S. 1931. Crime drama by William A. Wellman with Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable.
Runtime: 72 min.
U.S. 1931. Crime drama by William A. Wellman with James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Eddie Woods.
Runtime: 83 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 139 min.

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