Acting

Billy Lee

Born March 12, 1929 · Nelson, Indiana, USA

Died November 17, 1989 · aged 60

No biography available.

Known For

The Reluctant Dragon · 1941

The Reluctant Dragon

★ 6.61941

MovieAnimationFamily

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 · 2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

★ 8.82004

MovieAnimationFamily

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley.

Hold Back the Dawn · 1941

Hold Back the Dawn

★ 6.71941

MovieDramaRomance

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · 1942

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

★ 5.01942

MovieComedyDrama

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

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The Reluctant Dragon · 1941

The Reluctant Dragon

★ 6.61941

MovieAnimationFamily

Boy (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Little Boy (uncredited)

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6 · 2004

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

★ 8.82004

MovieAnimationFamily

Boy (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Hold Back the Dawn · 1941

Tony

Boy in Window (uncredited)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · 1942

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

★ 5.01942

MovieComedyDrama

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.

Jimmy Wiggs

Seaman (uncredited)

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

Joe

Cocoanut Grove · 1938

Cocoanut Grove

★ 9.01938

MovieComedyRomance

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

Half Pint

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Bob - at 8

Challenge of the Ninja · 1986

Challenge of the Ninja

★ 5.11986

MovieAction

Mark, a local cop is investigating a string of jewel robberies. He soon discovers that the men behind the crimes is the notorious"Red Devil" and his band of Ninjas. Mark teams up with Billy, a man out for revenge. Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1979 Filipino Film "Twin Fists For The Blackmasters" with new ninja scenes.

To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.

Bill Ardmore Jr.

Eyes of the Underworld · 1942

Eyes of the Underworld

★ 5.61942

MovieCrimeDrama

Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.

Mickey Bryan

Sons of the Legion · 1938

Sons of the Legion

★ 7.51938

MovieDrama

Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]

Billy Lee

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Beak's Child

Say It in French · 1938

Say It in French

★ 7.51938

MovieComedy

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....

Boy with Lollipop

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Jimmy Mattison

A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.

Sonny Wellington

A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.

Jimmy Parker

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.

Pee Wee

All Women Have Secrets · 1939

All Women Have Secrets

★ 6.01939

MovieComedy

When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.

Bobby

The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).

Brad Coles

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.

Boy at Restaurant

The Biscuit Eater · 1940

The Biscuit Eater

★ 6.51940

MovieFamilyDrama

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.

Lonnie McNeil