William Fawcett
- Birthday
- Sep 8, 1894
Bio: From his first film appearance in 1946 until his retirement sometime in the late 1960s, the wizened, rusty-voiced actor William Fawcett specialized in cantankerous farmers, grizzled old prospectors and Scroogelike millionaires. He worked frequently at Columbia, appearing in that studio's quota of "B" westerns and Arabian Nights quickies, as well as such serials as… More Bio: From his first film appearance in 1946 until his retirement sometime in the late 1960s, the wizened, rusty-voiced actor William Fawcett specialized in cantankerous farmers, grizzled old prospectors and Scroogelike millionaires. He worked frequently at Columbia, appearing in that studio's quota of "B" westerns and Arabian Nights quickies, as well as such serials as The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949), in which he played the juicy bad-guy role of Merlin the Magician. Though occasionally seen in sizeable parts in "A" pictures--he played Andy Griffith's septuagenarian father in No Time For Sergeants (1957)--Fawcett's appearances in big-budgeters frequently went unbilled, as witness The Music Man (1962) and What a Way to Go (1964). Baby boomers will fondly recall William Fawcett as ranch-hand Pete ("who cut his teeth on a brandin' iron") in the Saturday-morning TV series Fury (1956-60). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
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Menace on the Mountain (1970)
- Actor
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The Lottery (1969)
- Actor
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The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
- Chauffeur
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Hostile Guns (1967)
- Jensen
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King Rat (1965)
- Steinmetz
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William Fawcett Videos
Gypsy
4 minutes 46 seconds
The Music Man
1 minutes 55 seconds
Blackhawk
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Elvira's Movie Macabre: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1 minutes 21 seconds
King Rat
1 minutes 20 seconds
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