Billy Lechner
Actor · 1924 – 1994 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Movies18
Movie7.8ComedyDramaAfter the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.4WarDramaHaunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · 181 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceA young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
On an Island with You
1948 · 17 votes
Movie5.6ComedyA bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Miss Grant Takes Richmond
1949 · 9 votes
Movie6.2AdventureActionAn English refugee and a street thug go to military school together.
Junior Army
1942 · 4 votes
Movie6.2ComedyRomanceRobert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Phffft
1954 · 41 votes
Movie7.2FamilyComedyThe last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940 · 5 votes
Movie5.3DramaA Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
The Flying Missile
1950 · 9 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaA flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Susan and God
1940 · 18 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Over 21
1945 · 6 votes
Movie7.5ComedyWhen a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
Penrod's Double Trouble
1938 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaWarA propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.
Men of the Sky
1942 · 4 votes
Movie6.0ComedyPenrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
Penrod and His Twin Brother
1938 · 3 votes
MovieRomanceMusicRomance, music, and 1952 Oldsmobiles.
Movie5.8MusicComedyWhile vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Make a Wish
1937 · 11 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceA man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.
Living on Love
1937 · 8 votes
Movie6.5DramaCrimeA boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Penrod and Sam
1937 · 2 votes
Movie7.5CrimeActionCrusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Chain Gang
1950 · 4 votes
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TV7.4Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureMen Into Space is an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.
Men Into Space
1959 · 5 votes