Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With William Collier Sr.
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Votes: 16,871 | Gross: $11.80M
2. High Society Blues (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Music, Romance
When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper
Votes: 31
3. Pilgrimage (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Drama
A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 829
4. Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: El Brendel, Fifi D'Orsay, William Collier Sr., Ruth Warren
Votes: 25
5. Give Us This Night (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Musical
Antonio, a singing Neapolitan fisherman who loves opera, is in trouble after throwing some eggs at a bad tenor. Trying to elude the carabinieri he hides in church and finds himself singing with Maria, a soprano in need of a tenor.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Gladys Swarthout, Philip Merivale, Benny Baker
Votes: 46
6. Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
Approved | 76 min | Romance
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks in a mining enterprise by her husband and told ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, Sam Hardy
Votes: 37
7. Say It in French (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
In this farcical comedy, a couple with money woes arrange a financially motivated marriage between their golf-pro son and a wealthy heiress. Little do they know, their son has already been wed while playing a tournament in France.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher
Votes: 83
8. Madison Square Garden (1932)
74 min | Drama, Sport
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Thomas Meighan, Marian Nixon, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 35
9. The Murder Man (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 1,283
10. Love on a Bet (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to raise money to produce a play (as well as prove that the plot isn't ridiculous), Michael McCreigh makes a bet with his Uncle Carlton that he can begin in Central Park in his ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 199
11. The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
12. After Tomorrow (1932)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 329
13. Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty is janitor of the studio and is sweeping the entrance, when the Broadway stars come trooping in for the day's work. He is always getting into other people's way, stirring up dust and ... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Sennett, Ivy Crosthwaite, Al St. John
Votes: 18
14. I'm from Missouri (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial ... See full summary »
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Bob Burns, Gladys George, Gene Lockhart, Judith Barrett
Votes: 23
15. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,374
16. Persons in Hiding (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A beautiful but greedy woman teams up with a small-time hoodlum to become two of the most wanted criminals in the country.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, William Henry
Votes: 61
17. Thanks for the Memory (II) (1938)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth, Otto Kruger
Votes: 380
18. Disputed Passage (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Votes: 161
19. Invitation to Happiness (1939)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charles Ruggles, Billy Cook
Votes: 184
20. Cain and Mabel (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 2,067
21. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Gladys George, a superlative actress often wasted in secondary roles, carries her starring assignment in Valiant is the Word for Carrie with singular brilliance. George plays the town ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard, Dudley Digges
Votes: 237
22. Face in the Sky (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Sign painters Joe and Lucky travel around New England looking for jobs. After Joe uses Madge as a model, she hides in their wagon. The painters are about to be charged with kidnapping until... See full summary »
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon, Stuart Erwin, Sam Hardy
Votes: 97
23. Nothing But the Truth (1929)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Helen Kane, Louis John Bartels, Ned Sparks
Votes: 104
24. The Bride Comes Home (1935)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Robert Young, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 260
25. Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
The discovery of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve brings new meaning to a lonely and depressed Los Angeles dancer.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell
Votes: 197
26. Cheaters (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A criminal gang is after a rich man's money. A female member of the gang gets the bright idea of getting him to marry her, then getting a healthy settlement after a quick divorce.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: William Boyd, June Collyer, Dorothy Mackaill, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 28
27. The Brat (1931)
60 min | Comedy
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Alan Dinehart, Frank Albertson, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 216
28. Annapolis Farewell (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Guy Standing, Rosalind Keith, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell
Votes: 19
29. Josette (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis
Votes: 150
30. All of Me (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, George Raft, Helen Mack
Votes: 124
31. She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to his French chateau, where she risks terrible cruelty and even death.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Joan Bennett, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, James Kirkwood
Votes: 113
32. The Washington Masquerade (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
US senator (Lionel Barrymore) falls in love with a young woman (Karen Morley), without realizing she's using him to back the lobbyist she works for.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Diane Sinclair, Nils Asther
Votes: 175
33. Going Crooked (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Disguised as an old woman, Marie assists a gang, headed by Mordaunt, in a daring jewel robbery. A murder is committed during the holdup, and Rogers, a young boy, is held for the crime and ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Bessie Love, Oscar Shaw, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 11
34. Up the River (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 1,376
35. Going Places (1938)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 430
36. Television Spy (1939)
58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A scientist invents a television device called the iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Henry, Judith Barrett, William Collier Sr., Richard Denning
Votes: 64
37. The Crosby Case (1934)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Wynne Gibson, Onslow Stevens, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 78
38. The Seas Beneath (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
At the end of WWI the US Navy camouflages a battleship as a harmless schooner and sails for the Canary Islands to confront a notoriously effective German U-boat. No one sees the US submarine secretly escorting the schooner.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Marion Lessing, Mona Maris, Walter C. Kelly
Votes: 421
39. 6 Cylinder Love (1931)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy
Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car. Friends press them for rides; Marilyn has an accident which Gilbert must get $5, 000 from his boss to pay for. They finally sell the car to the janitor.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Edward Everett Horton, Sidney Fox, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 75
40. Free and Easy (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 1,025
41. Happy Days (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Margie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 179
42. A Successful Failure (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: William Collier Sr., Lucile Gleason, Russell Hopton, George P. Breakston
Votes: 86
43. Wife and Auto Trouble (1916)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
Director: Dell Henderson | Stars: William Collier Sr., Blanche Payson, Joseph Belmont, Alice Davenport
Votes: 201
44. She's My Weakness (1930)
Passed | 71 min | Romance, Comedy
Tommy Mills wants to marry Marie Thurber, but cannot afford it. He inherits some property but complications ensue.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Sue Carol, Arthur Lake, William Collier Sr., Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 101
45. The Hottentot (1929)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Sam Harrington (Edward Everrett Horton) is a simple horse lover who is mistaken for a champion steeplechase jockey and prevailed upon by Peggy Fairfax (Patsy Ruth Miller) to take part in an upcoming race.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Douglas Gerrard, Edward Earle
Votes: 14
46. The March of Time (1930)
Musical
A musical revue scheduled for release in September 1930 but shelved midway through production when musicals fell out of favor at the box office. In the years since, film aficionados have ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Albertina Rasch Dancers, Betty Brown, William Collier Jr., William Collier Sr.
47. Harmony at Home (1930)
69 min | Comedy
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Marguerite Churchill, Rex Bell, Charlotte Henry, Charles Eaton
48. Stepping Sisters (1932)
59 min | Comedy
Breezy little yo-yo comedy has former burlesque beauties straining to keep their currish past careers under wraps from high society snobs.
Director: Seymour Felix | Stars: Louise Dresser, Minna Gombell, Jobyna Howland, William Collier Sr.
49. The Hottentot (1922)
60 min | Comedy
A young man happens to have the same name as a famous steeplechase jockey, and when he finds out that people keep mistaking him for the jockey (although he's never been on a horse in his ... See full summary »
Directors: James W. Horne, Del Andrews | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Lila Leslie, Martin Best
Gross: $0.27M
50. Glamour Girl (1938)
68 min | Comedy
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Lesley Brook, Ross Landon, Betty Lynne