Highest rated movie: Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Lowest rated movie: Escape in the Fog (1945)
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Looking for reviews of William Wright movies? Cinafilm has a total of 14 reviews across 5 movies.
Movies starring William Wright have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 54%.
Meet the Stewarts - released in 1942 - is William Wright's highest rated movie, with a score of 58% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from William Wright is Escape in the Fog - released in 1945 - with a score of 51% based on 2 reviews.
William Wright (January 5, 1911 – January 19, 1949) was an American leading man in films who was most popular in the 1940s when he was typically compared to Clark Gable, whose career was temporarily derailed by World War II. Wright even played Gable's part in a 1945 musical comedy remake of It Happened One Night entitled Eve Knew Her Apples. He also played Philo Vance in Philo Vance Returns (1947) and the title role in King of the Gamblers (1948). Wright's other films include Eadie Was a Lady (1945), Rose of the Yukon (1949), Daughter of the Jungle (1949), and Impact (1949). Wright died from cancer in 1949 at the age of 38.
William Wright has acted in films with Ann Miller, Robert B. Williams, Cyril Ring and Tom Dugan.
William Wright has worked with these film directors: Budd Boetticher, Charles Barton, Alfred E. Green and Arthur Dreifuss.
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