William Will Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.Known as Oklahomas favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 talkies), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska.His vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which in turn led to the first of his many movie contracts. His 1920s syndicated newspaper column and his radio appearances increased his visibility and popularity. Rogers crusaded for aviation expansion, and provided Americans with first-hand accounts of his world travels. His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was readily appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended. His short aphorisms, couched in humorous terms, were widely quoted I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat.Rogers even provided an epigram on his most famous epigram    When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like. I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Rogers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Judge Priest

Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest

Film 1934

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

Self

Film 1922

State Fair

Abel Frake

Film 1933

Steamboat Round the Bend

Doctor John Pearly

Film 1935

A Texas Steer

Cattle Brander

Film 1927

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

Film 1961

Hollywood

Will Rogers

Film 1923

A Connecticut Yankee

Hank Martin

Film 1931

Happy Days

Minstrel Show Performer

Film 1929

Down To Earth

Pike Peters

Film 1932

Two Wagons Both Covered

Bill Bunian / Joe Jackson

Film 1924

Big Moments from Little Pictures

Film 1924

Don't Park There

Film 1924

Doubting Thomas

Thomas Brown

Film 1935

Life Begins at Forty

Keneshaw H. Clark

Film 1935

They Had to See Paris

Pike Peters

Film 1929

Mr. Skitch

Ira Skitch

Film 1933

Business and Pleasure

Earl Tinker

Film 1932

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Self (archive footage)

Film 1942

David Harum

David Harum

Film 1934

Will Rogers and American Politics

Film 2010

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage)

Film 1984

Jus' Passin' Through

Jubilo

Film 1923

Tiptoes

Uncle Hen Kaye

Film 1927

Almost a Husband

Sam Lyman

Film 1919

Jubilo

Jubilo

Film 1919

Jubilo, Jr.

Jubilo / Himself

Film 1924

Water, Water, Everywhere

Billy Fortune

Film 1920

Cupid the Cowpuncher

Alec Lloyd

Film 1920

Jes' Call Me Jim

Jim Fenton

Film 1920

Honest Hutch

Hutch

Film 1920

Guile of Women

Hjalmar Maartens

Film 1921

Boys Will Be Boys

Peep O'Day

Film 1921

The Biggest Little Star of the 30's

Self(archive footage)

Film 1976

Doubling for Romeo

Sam Cody / Romeo

Film 1921

Laughing Bill Hyde

Bill Hyde

Film 1918

Too Busy to Work

Jubilo

Film 1932

Winging Around Europe with Will Rogers

Himself

Film 1927

Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling

Self (archive footage)

Film 1993

In Old Kentucky

Steve Tapley

Film 1935

The Cowboy Sheik

'Two Straw' Bill

Film 1924

Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

himself

Film 1990

Lightnin'

Lightnin' Bill Jones

Film 1930

Going to Congress

Alfalfa Doolittle

Film 1924

A Truthful Liar

Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle

Film 1924

Uncensored Movies

Lem Skagwillow

Film 1923

So This Is London

Hiram Draper

Film 1930

The County Chairman

Jim Hackler

Film 1935

Handy Andy

Andrew Yates

Film 1934

Exploring England with Will Rogers

Film 1927

Young as You Feel

Lemuel Morehouse

Film 1931

If I Forget You

Will Rogers (uncredited/archive footage)

Film 1940

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

Film 1975

Hustlin' Hank

Hank

Film 1923

The Cake Eater

Film 1924

The Golden Age of Comedy

archive footage

Film 1957

A Poor Relation

Noah Vale

Film 1921

The Headless Horseman

Ichabod crane

Film 1922

An Unwilling Hero

Dick

Film 1921

With Will Rogers in Dublin

Self

Film 1927

One Glorious Day

Professor Ezra Botts

Film 1922

The Strange Boarder

Sam Gardner

Film 1920