William Edmunds
Italian born William Edmunds (born Michele F. Pellegrino) was a stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1934 to 1953, his television career continuing to 1959. Edmunds is best remembered for his portrayal of bar owner Giuseppe Martini in the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7505 |
| Birthday | 1885-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | San Fele, Basilicata, Italy |
| Also Known As | William Edmonds, Billy Edmunds, Bill Edmunds, Michele Frondino Pellegrino, Michael Fondonia Pellegrino, Michele F. Pellegrino, Michael F. Pellegrino, Michele Pellegrino, Michael Pellegrino, Michele Giuseppe Pellegrino, |
1940
The Mortal Storm
7.345/97
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...
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The Mortal Storm
1946
It's a Wonderful Life
8.281/4869
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entir...
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It's a Wonderful Life
1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
5.986/243
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T...
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1942
Berlin Correspondent
6/9
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Robe...
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Berlin Correspondent
1946
The Man I Love
6.103/29
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various wa...
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The Man I Love
1947
The Beast with Five Fingers
6.372/47
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: t...
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The Beast with Five Fingers
1953
The Caddy
6.393/61
Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he act...
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The Caddy
1947
Where There's Life
6.429/7
In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael...
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Where There's Life
1949
Mr. Soft Touch
6.833/12
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's...
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Mr. Soft Touch
1940
Strange Cargo
7.018/55
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1947
The Lost Moment
6.22/25
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared m...
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The Lost Moment
1940
Girls Under 21
4.75/4
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's acti...
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Girls Under 21
1949
Any Number Can Play
6.885/13
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...
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Any Number Can Play
1949
The Big Sombrero
5.667/3
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who i...
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The Big Sombrero
1941
Knockout
5.125/8
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to r...
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Knockout
1940
He Married His Wife
5.611/9
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...
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He Married His Wife
1935
Shadow of Doubt
6.6/5
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
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Shadow of Doubt
1943
Assignment in Brittany
7.1/5
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Assignment in Brittany
1947
That Hagen Girl
5.278/9
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her re...
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That Hagen Girl
1944
The Seventh Cross
6.837/43
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...
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The Seventh Cross
1943
Casablanca
8.142/6015
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1942
The Pied Piper
6.929/14
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded...
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The Pied Piper
1939
Idiot's Delight
6.118/17
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Idiot's Delight
1939
Everything Happens at Night
5.3/5
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Everything Happens at Night
1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
6.583/12
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-...
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Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
The Rains Came
6.019/27
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken art...
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The Rains Came
1950
The Lawless
5.906/15
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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The Lawless
1944
House of Frankenstein
6.038/184
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count...
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House of Frankenstein
1941
Forbidden Passage
6.4/10
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the countr...
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Forbidden Passage
1940
You, the People
6.2/5
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the cu...
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You, the People
1939
Fixer Dugan
6.625/4
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
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Fixer Dugan
1940
The Shop Around the Corner
8.077/831
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...
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The Shop Around the Corner
1948
The Pirate
6.458/106
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
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The Pirate
1940
The Mark of Zorro
7.115/231
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless...
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The Mark of Zorro
1948
The Three Musketeers
6.77/161
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Ara...
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The Three Musketeers
1940
The Great McGinty
6.987/78
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br...
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The Great McGinty
1940
Escape
7.469/16
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess h...
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Escape
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.467/107
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1939
Geronimo
5.333/6
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud betwee...
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Geronimo
1946
Swamp Fire
5.636/11
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Ca...
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Swamp Fire
1940
Know Your Money
9/3
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counte...
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Know Your Money
1940
Earthbound
4.857/7
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
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Earthbound
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
5.2/5
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
1934
Going Spanish
6/5
A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
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Going Spanish
1949
Ringside
5/5
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight....
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Ringside
1941
Paris Calling
6/6
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi st...
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Paris Calling
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
5.667/3
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship...
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The Well Groomed Bride
1941
They Met in Bombay
7.289/19
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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They Met in Bombay
1943
Background to Danger
6.661/28
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1943
Edge of Darkness
6.23/37
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...
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Edge of Darkness
1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
6.529/210
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side t...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Madame Curie
7.2/51
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...
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Madame Curie
1945
A Bell for Adano
5.964/14
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without int...
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A Bell for Adano
1941
A Very Young Lady
4.5/2
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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A Very Young Lady
1944
Dangerous Passage
5.05/10
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
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Dangerous Passage
1942
Reunion in France
6.405/21
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
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Reunion in France
1944
The Climax
5.528/36
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obs...
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The Climax
1940
Girl from Havana
7.5/2
Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
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Girl from Havana
1944
Till We Meet Again
7/3
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in...
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Till We Meet Again
1951
Double Dynamite
6.5/15
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
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Double Dynamite
1942
The Black Swan
6.474/95
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane...
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The Black Swan
1948
13 Lead Soldiers
6.2/5
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two soldie...
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13 Lead Soldiers
1941
Baby Blues
8/2
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a Chin...
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Baby Blues
1943
There's Something About a Soldier
5.375/4
Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training.
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