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Will Hay
Writer 1888 - 1949

Will Hay

Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Thomson "Will" Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, film director and amateur astronomer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Hay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of... Read full bio →

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Where There's a Will

Where There's a Will

William Beaudine 1936 1h 20m 5.0

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later.

Dandy Dick

Dandy Dick

William Beaudine 1935 1h 14m 6.0

A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.

Boys Will Be Boys

Boys Will Be Boys

William Beaudine 1935 1h 20m 6.0

Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (J.B. Morton, "Beachcomber")

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