Will Rogers actor
- Total known movies 65
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.
Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest
Movie 1934
Self
Movie 1922
Abel Frake
Movie 1933
Doctor John Pearly
Movie 1935
Cattle Brander
Movie 1927
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1961
Will Rogers
Movie 1923
Hank Martin
Movie 1931
Minstrel Show Performer
Movie 1929
Pike Peters
Movie 1932
Bill Bunian / Joe Jackson
Movie 1924
Movie 1924
Movie 1924
Thomas Brown
Movie 1935
Keneshaw H. Clark
Movie 1935
Pike Peters
Movie 1929
Ira Skitch
Movie 1933
Earl Tinker
Movie 1932
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1942
David Harum
Movie 1934
Movie 2010
(archive footage)
Movie 1984
Jubilo
Movie 1923
Uncle Hen Kaye
Movie 1927
Sam Lyman
Movie 1919
Jubilo
Movie 1919
Jubilo / Himself
Movie 1924
Billy Fortune
Movie 1920
Alec Lloyd
Movie 1920
Jim Fenton
Movie 1920
Hutch
Movie 1920
Hjalmar Maartens
Movie 1921
Peep O'Day
Movie 1921
Self(archive footage)
Movie 1976
Sam Cody / Romeo
Movie 1921
Bill Hyde
Movie 1918
Jubilo
Movie 1932
Himself
Movie 1927
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1993
Steve Tapley
Movie 1935
'Two Straw' Bill
Movie 1924
himself
Movie 1990
Lightnin' Bill Jones
Movie 1930
Alfalfa Doolittle
Movie 1924
Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle
Movie 1924
Lem Skagwillow
Movie 1923
Hiram Draper
Movie 1930
Jim Hackler
Movie 1935
Andrew Yates
Movie 1934
Movie 1927
Lemuel Morehouse
Movie 1931
Will Rogers (uncredited/archive footage)
Movie 1940
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1975
Hank
Movie 1923
Movie 1924
archive footage
Movie 1957
Noah Vale
Movie 1921
Ichabod crane
Movie 1922
Dick
Movie 1921
Self
Movie 1927
Professor Ezra Botts
Movie 1922
Sam Gardner
Movie 1920
