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Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1945–2010. Parent (s) William A. Wellman. Dorothy Wellman. William Wellman Jr. (born January 20, 1937) is an American former actor. In a career spanning 65 years, he appeared in about 77 films and television series.
Actor: Image of the Beast. Rangy, sturdy-looking actor William Wellman Jr., was born in Los Angeles on January 20, 1937, one of seven children born to legendary director William A. Wellman and his fourth wife, one-time actress Dorothy Coonan Wellman, who appeared in a few of her husband's pictures.
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Pero su unión más sólida fue con su quinta y última esposa (1934-1975), de la que tuvo siete hijos y veintiocho nietos, la bailarina Dorothy Coonan Wellman. Cuatro de sus vástagos también trabajaron en el cine: los actores Michael Wellman, William Wellman Jr., Gloria Wellman y Cissy Wellman.
- William Augustus Wellman
- Wild Bill
- Early Life
- World War I
- Film Career
- Personal Life and Death
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Wellman was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, Arthur Gouverneur Wellman, was a Boston Brahmin. William was a five times great-grandson of Puritan Thomas Wellman, who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1640. He was also a great-great-great-grandson of Welsh-born Francis Lewis of New York, one of the signatories to the Declar...
In World War I, Wellman enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps to serve as a driver in Europe. While in Paris, Wellman joined the French Foreign Legion and was assigned on December 3, 1917, as a fighter pilot, becoming the first American to join Escadrille N.87 in the Lafayette Flying Corps (not the sub-unit Lafayette Escadrille as usually s...
While in San Diego, Wellman flew to Hollywood for the weekends in his Spad fighter, using Douglas Fairbanks' polo field in Bel Air as a landing strip. Fairbanks was fascinated with the true-life adventures of "Wild Bill" and promised to recommend him for a job in the movie business; he was responsible for Wellman being cast in the juvenile lead of ...
Wellman revealed near the end of his life that he had married a French woman named Renee during his time in The Lafayette Flying Corps. She was killed in a bombing raid during the war.Later, between 1918 and 1934, he married four additional times in the United States: 1. Helene Chadwick: married (1921-1923) separated after a month; later divorced 2...
Decades after Wellman's death, William Jr. wrote two biographies about his father, The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture (2006) and Wild Bill Wellman—Hollywood Rebel (2015). Fellow filmmakers have also examined Wellman's career. Richard Schickel in 1973 devoted an episode of his PBS series The Men Who Ma...
1978 interview with Wellman at the Wayback Machine(archived January 4, 2011)William A. Wellman at IMDbWilliam A. Wellman at AllMovieWilliam A. Wellman at the TCM Movie Database- 1919–1958
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- 1917–1918 (FR), 1918–1919 (U.S.)
8 de ene. de 2016 · Let’s ask his son William Wellman, Jr. (b. 1937), the guardian of his father’s tremendous film legacy, who made the documentary “Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick” (1995), and then authored two highly acclaimed books “The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture” (2006) and “Wild Bill ...
Well, my father, William Wellman, who directed seventy six films and he directed six films for John Wayne’s production company in the 1950s, several of them starring John Wayne. Speaker They...
William Wellman Jr. es un actor nacido en el año 1937 en Estados Unidos conocido por V (Serie de TV), Wild Bill: Un pionero en Hollywood, Macumba Love, ¡Estoy vivo!, Nacidos para perder, A Swingin' Summer, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, The Return of Billy Jack, La escuadrilla Lafayette y Arroyo Comanche.
