Chill Wills

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Colorful character actor of American Westerns. Named "Chill" as an ironic comment on his birth date being the hottest day of 1902. A musician from his youth, he performed from the age of 12 with tent shows, in vaudeville, and with stock companies. While performing in vaudeville in Kansas City, he married ballet dancer Betty Chappelle, with whom he had two children. He formed a musical group, Chill Wills and His Avalon Boys. During an appearance at the Trocadero in Hollywood, they were spotted by an RKO executive, subsequently appearing as a group in several low-budget Westerns. After a prominent appearance with The Avalon Boys as both himself and the bass-singing voice of Stan Laurel in Way Out West (1937), Wills disbanded the group and began a solo career as a usually jovial (but occasionally sinister) character actor, primarily in Westerns. His delightful portrayal of Beekeeper in The Alamo (1960) won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but his blatant and embarrassing campaign for the Oscar cost him the award and subjected him to a great deal of humiliation -- and probably cost the film a number of awards as well. His wife died in 1971, and he remarried, to Novadeen Googe, in 1973. He continued to work in films and television, usually in roguishly lovable good-ol'-boy parts, up until his death in 1978. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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Streaming Availability

Starz has the most number of Chill Wills’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Chill Wills on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1971 to 1977. See the full graphs of the number of Chill Wills movies released per year from 1971 till 1977.

Top Genres

Chill Wills works mostly in Adventure Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 14% of Chill Wills movies are Adventure Genre movies. See Top Genres that Chill Wills worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Chill Wills has worked on is 5.3.

5.3 / 10

Chill Wills's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Adventure,Drama,Family
Poco... Little Dog Lost (1977)

It looks like the end of the line for Poco and Kim when they are separated following a car accident. Poco's relentless search takes him through the desert. Bravely facing the odds, Poco ...

6.1/1088 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Comedy
The Steagle (1971)

In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopting a different persona in each city.

5.1/1087 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Music,Western
Guns of a Stranger (1973)

Forced in the line of duty to kill a young Abilene gunman, Sheriff Matthew Roberts (Marty Robbins)is torn by inner anguish and takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Time passes and Roberts...

4.5/1091 min

Available in 3 platform(s).