William Demarest Movies

Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the...

A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

A wire-walker, on the run from gangsters, masquerades as a soldier at her boyfriend's Army base.

A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is...

Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he...

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his ship to sail. She falls in love with him, and when...

Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.

Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name....

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But...

Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a...

The heir to a fortune will only receive his inheritance if he spends the night in a supposedly haunted house.

The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry. While...

Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping...

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years...

Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.

The Crash (1928)

William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one who, unknown to his daughter Betty and wife,...

A police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for...