Bill Cartledge

Acting
1914-10-04
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Biography

Bill Cartledge (October 4, 1914 - July 11, 1975) was an American actor.

Known For & Full Filmography29 Titles

#1White Heat

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Car-Hop at Drive-In Theatre (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

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#2Shane

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Ryker Man (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
DramaWestern

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

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#3My Favorite Wife

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Page Boy Paging Burkett (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

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#4Westward the Women

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Outrider (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Western

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

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#5Undercurrent

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Flower Delivery Man (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
DramaThriller

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

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#6Act of Violence

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Newsboy (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ThrillerDrama

A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

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#7Living It Up

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Bellboy (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyMusic

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

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#8The Lady Gambles

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Johnny - Jockey (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Drama

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

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#9Pat and Mike

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Jockey (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ComedyRomance

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

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#10The Dark Past

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Arrested Man Leaving Wagon (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
CrimeThrillerDrama

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

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#11Cry 'Havoc'

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Man

6.5 / 10
DramaWar

The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.

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#12The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Short Soldier (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ComedyRomanceWar

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.

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#13Red Light

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ThrillerCrime

Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.

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#14Joy of Living

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Boy at Roller Skating Rink (Uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ComedyRomanceMusic

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.

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#15Presenting Lily Mars

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Dixie Brill - Jockey

6.4 / 10
MusicRomance

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

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#16Bowery Blitzkrieg

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Johnny Ryan, Muggs' opponent (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

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#17Fast and Furious

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Page (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

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#18It Happens Every Spring

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Newsboy (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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#19Sorrowful Jones

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as First Jockey (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

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#20Fighting Fools

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Fighter Joey Prince

6.0 / 10
Comedy

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.

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#21Escape to Burma

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
Adventure

A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

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#22Fun on a Weekend

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Department Store Stock Boy (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.

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#23Women Without Names

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Newsboy

4.7 / 10
CrimeDramaRomance

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

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#24Gallant Sons

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Copy Boy (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
Mystery

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

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#25Junior G-Men

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Junior G-Man (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
AdventureCrimeAction

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

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#26The Payoff

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Jockey (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
RomanceCrimeDrama

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

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#27Girls on Probation

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Clerk with Mail

6.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

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#28Scouts to the Rescue

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Rip's Gang Member

10.0 / 10
AdventureAction

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure

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#29Criminals Within

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Elevator Operator

6.5 / 10
WarCrime

A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.

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