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Birthdate: January 2, 1900
Death date: December 26, 1973
William Haines
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
1.6822
38
1930s
1.1618
12
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
1.1940
1.1940
William Haines Movie Rankings
1
2.5113Tough slum girl (Mary Pickford) faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves (William Haines) is accused of shooting her cop father. Her brother stalks the accused slayer and finally shoots him down in the street. ...more about Little Annie Rooney
DVD from $10.59
(4 sellers)
2
2.4474Haines plays the role of a festive British nobleman, for whom a marriage has been arranged by his relatives. He goes to a European Summer resort and poses as a gigolo to meet the girl chosen, learn what she's like and to apply the "acid test". ...more about Just a Gigolo
- Not Available on DVD
3
2.3287U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. ...more about Tell It to the Marines
- Not Available on DVD
4
1.6027
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. ...more about Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Not Available on DVD
5
1.5068
Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. ...more about Slippery Pearls
DVD from $5.84
(3 sellers)
8
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter. ...more about Brown of Harvard
- Not Available on DVD
11
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. ...more about Duke Steps Out
- Not Available on DVD
13
Two sailors are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all that they succeed in doing is to sink the Admiral's launch. ...more about Fast Life
- Not Available on DVD
16
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. ...more about Free and Easy
DVD from $25.55
(10 sellers)
18
Tom Ward is just back from College and the only thing that he seemed to learn is how to be obnoxious and loud. He forgoes a bank job to work at Sutton and Company just to make time with Mary, McAndrews' fiancée. ...more about Girl Said No
- Not Available on DVD
23
When Lt. "Wild Bill" Traynor, bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton (Conrad Nagel). ...more about Marines Are Coming
- Not Available on DVD
24
Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come along on their honeymoon. ...more about Memory Lane
- Not Available on DVD
28
Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years. Jimmy's latest deal involves land and a clay pot factory in a small town. ...more about New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
- Not Available on DVD
30
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love. Sally wants wealth and gets it finally in Marcus. Mary plots and schemes but winds up with salt-of-the-earth Jimmy. Irene shuns devoted Charles for dashing cad Glen. ...more about Sally
- Not Available on DVD
31
Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. ...more about Show People
- Not Available on DVD
36
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. ...more about Speedway
- Not Available on DVD
45
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. ...more about Way Out West
- Not Available on DVD
46
Wealthy Bruce Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. ...more about West Point
- Not Available on DVD
50
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. ...more about Young and Beautiful
- Not Available on DVD
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