
Birthday
1902/07/18
Day of death
1978/12/15 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Seagoville, Texas, USA
Also know as
Theodore Childress Wills
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chill Theodore Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American film actor, and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet. He was a performer from early childhood, forming and leading the Avalon Boys singing group in the 1930s. After appearing in a few westerns he disbanded the group in 1938, and struck out on a solo acting career. One of his more memorable roles was that of the distinctive voice of Francis the Mule in a series of popular films. Wills...Read more

(1944) Meet Me in St. Louis
as Mr. Neely

(1956) Giant
as Uncle Bawley

(1960) The Alamo
as Beekeeper

(1944) I'll Be Seeing You
as Swanson

(1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Lemuel

(1950) Rio Grande
as Dr. Wilkins

(1965) The Rounders
as Jim Ed Love

(1953) City That Never Sleeps
as Sgt. Joe, the 'Voice of Chicago'

(1942) Tarzan's New York Adventure
as Manchester Montford

(1940) The Westerner
as Southeast

(1963) The Wheeler Dealers
as Jay Ray Spinelby

(1960) Where the Boys Are
as Police Captain

(1950) The Sundowners
as Sam Beers

(1963) McLintock!
as Drago

(1941) Western Union
as Homer Kettle

(1939) Allegheny Uprising
as M'Cammon

(1955) Francis in the Navy
as Francis (voice) (uncredited)

(1977) Mr. Billion
as Col. Clayton T. Winkle

(1953) The Man from the Alamo
as John Gage

(1940) Sky Murder
as Sheriff Beckwith

(1961) The Deadly Companions
as Turk

(1945) Leave Her to Heaven
as Leick Thome

(1946) The Yearling
as Buck Forrester

(1941) Belle Starr
as Blue Duck

(1940) Boom Town
as Harmony Jones

(1958) From Hell to Texas
as Amos Bradley

(1966) Fireball 500
as Big Jaw

(1941) Honky Tonk
as The Sniper

(1970) The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
as Gentleman George Agnew

(1950) High Lonesome
as Boatwhistle

(1948) Family Honeymoon
as Fred

(1942) The Bugle Sounds
as Sgt. Larry Dillon

(1942) Her Cardboard Lover
as Judge

(1949) Tulsa
as Pinky Jimpson (Narrator)

(1961) The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come
as Major Buford

(1951) Cattle Drive
as Dallas

(1957) Gun Glory
as Preacher

(1949) Red Canyon
as Marshal G.T. Brackton

(1943) A Stranger in Town
as Charles Craig

(2001) Drive-In Movie Memories
as ---

(1956) Santiago
as Captain 'Sidewheel' Jones

(1945) What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
as Sgt. Cramp

(1940) Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Shiftless

(1954) Francis Joins the WACS
as Francis (voice) (uncredited)

(1959) The Sad Horse
as Capt. Connors

(1951) Francis Goes to the Races
as Francis (voice) (uncredited)

(1950) The Grass Is Always Greener
as Windy

(1948) The Sainted Sisters
as Will Twitchell

(1962) Young Guns of Texas
as Preacher Sam Shelby

(1944) Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
as Mr. York

(1952) Bronco Buster
as Dan Bream

(1939) Racketeers of the Range
as Whopper Hatch

(1956) Gun for a Coward
as Loving

(1946) Gallant Bess
as Chief Petty Officer

(1953) Tumbleweed
as Sheriff Murchoree

(1963) The Cardinal
as Monsignor

(1951) Oh! Susanna
as Sgt. Barhydt

(1961) Gold of the Seven Saints
as Doc Wilson Gates, M.D.

(1955) Timberjack
as Steve Riika

(1944) Barbary Coast Gent
as Sheriff Hightower

(1948) Northwest Stampede
as Mileaway

(1956) Kentucky Rifle
as Tobias Taylor

(1936) At Sea Ashore
as Leader of The Avalon Four (uncredited)

(1948) That Wonderful Urge
as Homer Beggs

(1942) Apache Trail
as 'Pike' Skelton

(1939) Sorority House
as Mr. Johnson

(1937) Way Out West
as Lead Singer of the Avalon Boys / Stan's Bass Singing (uncredited)

(1941) Billy the Kid
as Tom Patterson

(1950) Rock Island Trail
as Hogger McCoy

(1952) Ride the Man Down
as Ike Adams

(1939) Arizona Legion
as Whopper Hatch

(1935) Bar 20 Rides Again
as Henchman

(1954) Ricochet Romance
as Tom Williams

(1943) Best Foot Forward
as Chester Short

(1939) The Day the Bookies Wept
as Man on Bus (uncredited)

(1936) Call of the Prairie
as Singing Cowhand

(1939) Timber Stampede
as Whopper Hatch

(1942) The Omaha Trail
as Henry Hawkins

(1938) Lawless Valley
as Deputy Speedy McGow

(1939) Trouble in Sundown
as Whopper

(1970) The Liberation of L.B. Jones
as Mr. Ike

(1950) Stella
as Chief Clark

(1940) Wyoming
as Lafe

(1954) Hell's Outpost
as Kevin Russell

(1942) Stand by for Action
as Mate Jenks, Chef-Bootsmann

(1947) Heartaches
as 'Breezie' Mann

(1950) Francis
as Francis the Talking Mule (voice)

(1977) Poco… Little Dog Lost
as Big Burt

(1952) Francis Goes to West Point
as Francis (voice) (uncredited)

(1953) Francis Covers the Big Town
as Francis (voice) (uncredited)

(1978) Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as The Janitor

(1951) The Sea Hornet
as Swede

(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)

(1941) The Bad Man
as 'Red' Giddings

(1948) Loaded Pistols
as Sheriff Cramer

(1973) Guns of a Stranger
as Tom Duncan

(1956) New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
as Host

(1944) See Here, Private Hargrove
as First Sgt. Cramp

(1942) Mr. Gardenia Jones
as Hotel Employee

(1971) The Steagle
as Tall Guy McCoy

(1969) Big Daddy
as ---

(1976) It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)

(1946) The Harvey Girls
as H.H. Hartsey

(1959) Disneyland '59
as Self
(1992) John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
as Beekeeper

(1948) The Saxon Charm
as Captain Chatham

(2004) Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)

(1937) Nobody's Baby
as Amateur Hour Quartet Singer

(1969) The Over the Hill Gang
as Gentleman George Agnew

(1947) High Barbaree
as Lars (uncredited)

(1936) Hideaway Girl
as Lead Singer of Avalon Boys

(1944) The Immortal Blacksmith
as Tom Davenport

(1958) The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self

(1953) Small Town Girl
as Happy

(1963) Burke's Law
as Harry Riggs

(1957) Trackdown
as ---

(1960) Route 66
as ---

(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Abe Blocker

(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The Janitor

(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Kilmer

(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff Asa Tanner

(1967) Judd for the Defense
as ---

(1966) Tarzan
as ---

(1970) Night Gallery
as Heppelwhite (segment "The Little Black Bag")

(1961) Frontier Circus
as ---

(1958) The Texan
as ---

(1966) The Rounders
as ---

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Red Conniston

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Elihu Gorman

(1963) Burke's Law
as Stanton Custer

(1963) Burke's Law
as General Hector Harder