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William Nigh (October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955) was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".
He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin.
His film career began with acting in 17 films in 1913 and 1914; he also directed one of these, Salomy Jane. He acted in 8 more films in the 1910s and two more in the 1920s, but directed a total of 119 films, the last in 1948. His film-writing credits numbered 18, mostly concentrated early in his career.
His films included Mr. Wise Guy, Thunder, Black Dragons, Corregidor, Mr. Wong, Detective, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, Lady from Chungking, The Fatal Hour, The Ape, Doomed to Die, Lord Byron of Broadway, and Casey of the Coast Guard.
He died in Burbank, California at the age of 74.
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02 November 1914
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man.
07 December 1924
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper".
29 September 1937
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party.
29 January 1935
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner.
26 March 1927
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
14 April 1934
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
24 October 1939
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
09 March 1929
A con man with his beautiful accomplice and a hostage steals a half million dollars worth of diamonds but finds they're all lost in the desert without water.
03 June 1917
Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her.
11 January 1947
Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores.
18 August 1945
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
21 December 1942
During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese.
30 March 1934
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods.
03 April 1932
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity.
06 March 1942
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis.
14 May 1935
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her.
08 January 1938
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
29 March 1943
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
25 August 1937
Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film.
08 November 1945
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
16 November 1938
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
12 April 1939
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune.
27 March 1942
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
03 April 1916
When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of Valogda, there was rejoicing among the oppressed race whose home was in the Ghetto.
03 October 1941
Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
29 June 1937
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals.
20 February 1942
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death.
15 April 1938
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
15 May 1942
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
30 March 1940
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
07 May 1937
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group.
15 April 1935
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business.
13 June 1948
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
05 August 1935
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
01 August 1936
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
22 May 1916
"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance.
26 November 1943
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training.
31 January 1941
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight.
28 February 1930
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he uses their stories or their love for himself.
07 December 1941
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
24 April 1944
A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast.
07 December 1938
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial.
07 April 1928
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother.
02 October 1934
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
06 December 1915
Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin .
22 March 1937
William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father's will request.
11 August 1928
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
01 June 1919
The American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards are taken, in this documentary-style propaganda drama.
16 June 1913
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
01 October 1935
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
30 March 1946
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission.
29 May 1935
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
16 August 1915
The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries.
01 November 1930
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
14 February 1926
Film serial.
27 June 1944
A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and murder.
22 March 1934
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder.
29 August 1941
The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s.
23 February 1931
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire.
15 June 1946
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Woods) in a small western town.
