Personal Info
Birth date
1892-03-09 (133 Years)
Day of death
1940-03-30
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Also known as
William Corwin Miller
Walter C. Miller
Walter Chrystie Miller
Walter Miller
Biography
Walter Miller was an American screen actor. He appeared in 248 films between 1911 and 1940.
Filmography
Island of Doomed Men
5.3
Overview:
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.The Grapes of Wrath
7.821
Overview:
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.Each Dawn I Die
6.795
Overview:
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6.133
Overview:
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.The Raven
6.559
Overview:
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.'Til We Meet Again
6.2
Overview:
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.The Musketeers of Pig Alley
6.237
Overview:
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.They Gave Him a Gun
6.2
Overview:
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.Virginia City
6.1
Overview:
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.The Saint's Double Trouble
5.6
Overview:
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.Blessed Event
6.5
Overview:
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.Smashing the Rackets
5.5
Overview:
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...Johnny Apollo
6.8
Overview:
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.The Shadow of the Eagle
5.1
Overview:
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
6.7
Overview:
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.The Amazing Mr. Williams
5.8
Overview:
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime?Wings of the Navy
6
Overview:
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.King for a Night
6.2
Overview:
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame.Street Scene
6.814
Overview:
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.Crime Ring
4.7
Overview:
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.Castle on the Hudson
6.8
Overview:
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.The Famous Ferguson Case
6
Overview:
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.The Man Who Found Himself
7
Overview:
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.Midnight Court
4.8
Overview:
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.Gun Justice
NYR
Overview:
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.Smoking Guns
NYR
Overview:
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.Elmer, the Great
4.9
Overview:
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.Kentucky
5.833
Overview:
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.Dust Be My Destiny
6.2
Overview:
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.Acting
2002D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 as Unknown
1955Film Fun as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. as Launch Heavy (archive footage)
1941Maisie Was a Lady as Midget (Uncredited)
1940Island of Doomed Men as Detective (uncredited)
1940Gaucho Serenade as George Blake
1940Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
1940'Til We Meet Again as American Bartender (uncredited)
1940Johnny Apollo as Guard (uncredited)
1940Bullet Code as Sam Gorman
1940Virginia City as Sergeant in Saloon Reporting Irby's Whereabouts (uncredited)
1940The Grapes of Wrath as New Mexico Border Guard (uncredited)
1940Castle on the Hudson as Frank - a Night Guard (uncredited)
1940The Saint's Double Trouble as Mac (uncredited)
1939The Amazing Mr. Williams as Browning (uncredited)
1939Dust Be My Destiny as Rosedale Station Master (uncredited)
1939Dick Tracy's G-Men as Henchman Robal
1939Each Dawn I Die as Turnkey (uncredited)
1939Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Bill - Waiter with Coffee (uncredited)
1939Fixer Dugan as Joe
1939Almost a Gentleman as G-Man
1939Wings of the Navy as Henry - Pilot Who Flew Jerry to Pensacola
1939Blackwell's Island as Guard (uncredited)
1939Pacific Liner as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
1938Kentucky as Cavalry Sergeant
1938Lawless Valley as Bob North
1938Down in 'Arkansaw' as Marks
1938Smashing the Rackets as Mac
1938Come On, Leathernecks! as Coach Hank Wells
1938Crime Ring as Jenner
1938Blind Alibi as Maitland
1938Over the Wall as Lee - Prison Guard Who Sees Fight
1938The Secret of Treasure Island as Carter 'The Shark' Collins
1938International Settlement as Gangster
1938Double Danger as Police Sergeant O'Riley (uncredited)
1937Wild Horse Rodeo as Colonel Nye
1937Danger Patrol as Smoky Nelson
1937Boss of Lonely Valley as Jake Wagner
1937Saturday's Heroes as Coach Banks
1937Flight from Glory as Old Timer
1937Wild West Days as Doc Hardy
1937Border Cafe as Evans
1937Draegerman Courage as Maxwell
1937They Gave Him a Gun as Army Captain (uncredited)
1937The Man Who Found Himself as Evans - License Renewal Inspector
1937Midnight Court as Police Lt. Jerry Burke
1937Ranger Courage as Bull
1936Night Waitress as Police Inspector
1936Without Orders as Commerce Airline Inspector
1936The Fugitive Sheriff as Flamer Willis
1936China Clipper as Instructor (uncredited)
1936Ghost Patrol as Dawson
1936Desert Gold as Henchman Hank Ladd
1936Heart of the West as Whitey - Henchman
1936Dangerous Waters as Oleson
1936Night Cargo as Shark Moran
1935The Ivory-Handled Gun as Plunkett aka The Wolverine Kid
1935Stormy as Craig
1935Valley of Wanted Men as Ralph Dexter
1935Shipmates Forever as Chief Water Tender (uncredited)
1935The Raven as Bedside Dr. at Judge's Right (uncredited)
1935The Roaring West as Gil Gillespie
1935The Call of the Savage as Dr. Frank Bracken
1935Rustlers of Red Dog as Deacon
1934The Fighting Trooper as RCMP Sergeant Leyton
1934Tailspin Tommy as Bruce Hoyt
1934Rocky Rhodes as Dan Murtch
1934The Red Rider as Jim Breen
1934Smoking Guns as Ranger Dick Evans
1934The Vanishing Shadow as Wade Barnett
1934Pirate Treasure as Stanley Brasset
1933Gun Justice as Chris Hogan
1933King for a Night as Delaney / Crap Shooter
1933Son of a Sailor as Kramer
1933Gordon of Ghost City as Rance Radigan
1933Elmer, the Great as Captain Sutton (uncredited)
1933Parachute Jumper as Pilot (uncredited)
1933Just Around the Corner as Graham (uncredited)
1932The Heart Punch as Joe Zenias
1932The Face on the Barroom Floor as Sam Turner
1932Blessed Event as Boldt
1932The Last of the Mohicans as Duncan Heyward
1932The Famous Ferguson Case as Cedric Works
1932Love Affair as One of Carol's Friends at Party (uncredited)
1932Three Wise Girls as Manager of Drugstore
1932The Shadow of the Eagle as Danby
1932The Red Shadow as Unknown
1932Ridin' for Justice as Deputy Alex Frame
1932Ghost City as Jim Blane
1931Manhattan Parade as John Roberts
1931Sealed Lips as Unknown
1931The Hurricane Horseman as Pancho Gomez
1931The Mad Genius as Opera Spectator (uncredited)
1931Street Scene as Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
1931The Galloping Ghost as George Elton
1931Swanee River as Morton
1931Hell's Valley as Carlos Valdez
1931King of the Wild as Robert Grant
1930Rogue of the Rio Grande as Walter Miller
1930The Utah Kid as Sheriff Jim Bentley
1930Rough Waters as Morris
1930On the Border as Border Patrol Commander
1930The Lone Defender as Ramon
1929The King of the Kongo as Larry Trent
1929Queen of the Northwoods as Inspector Steele
1929Hawk of the Hills as Laramie
1928The Terrible People as Arnold Long
1928The Mysterious Airman as Jack Baker
1927Hawk of the Hills as Laramie
1926The House Without a Key as John Quincy Winterclip
1926The Fighting Marine as Larry Stuart
1925The Green Archer as Unknown
1924Those Who Judge as Bob Dawson
1923Unseeing Eyes as Dick Helston
1923The Tie That Binds as David Winthrop
1922The Rapids as Jim Belding
1922Till We Meet Again as Jim Brennan
1922Unconquered Woman as Bruce Devereux
1922The Bootleggers as Jack Seville
1922Beyond the Rainbow as Robert Judson
1920The Stealers as Stephen Gregory
1920The Revenge of Tarzan as Unknown
1919The Open Door as Robert Blakemore
1917Draft 258 as John Graham
1917The Slacker as Robert Wallace
1916The Marble Heart as Laurant
1914Lord Chumley as Lt. Hugh Butterworth
1914The Fatal Wedding as Howard Wilson - the Husband
1913A Modest Hero as The Husband
1913Two Men of the Desert as Second Partner
1913Under the Shadow of the Law as The Bookkeeper
1913The Reformers as Jameson - the Lover (The Bad Influence)
1913A Gamble with Death as Reed
1913In Diplomatic Circles as The Reporter
1913The Mothering Heart as The Husband
1913Death's Marathon as The Friend - The Husband's Partner
1913His Mother's Son as The Son
1913The Yaqui Cur as Ocallo, Strongheart's Friend
1913The Wanderer as The Other Man
1913A Frightful Blunder as The Pharmacist
1913The Little Tease as On Street
1913The Perfidy of Mary as Rose's Suitor
1913Near To Earth as The Stranger
1913Love in an Apartment Hotel as One of the Fiance's Friends
1913Oil and Water as John - the Idealist's Brother - a Minister
1913An Adventure in the Autumn Woods as The Boy
1913The Coming of Angelo as Angelo
1912A Cry for Help as The Doctor
1912Brutality as The Young Man
1912The Informer as The Confederate Captain
1912The Musketeers of Pig Alley as The Musician
1912A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as A Brother
1912So Near, Yet So Far as Howard, the Boy
1912Friends as Unknown
1912An Unseen Enemy as The Brother's Friend (uncredited)