Will Rogers
Birthday
1879/11/03
Day of death
1935/08/15 (55 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
Also know as
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Biography
William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated new...Read more
Acting
(1934) Judge Priest
as Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest
(1922) Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
(1933) State Fair
as Abel Frake
(1933) Doctor Bull
as Dr. George 'Doc' Bull
(1935) Steamboat Round the Bend
as Doctor John Pearly
(1927) A Texas Steer
as Cattle Brander
(1961) The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1923) Hollywood
as Will Rogers
(1931) Ambassador Bill
as Bill Harper
(1931) A Connecticut Yankee
as Hank Martin
(1922) The Ropin' Fool
as 'Ropes' Reilly
(1929) Happy Days
as Minstrel Show Performer
(1932) Down To Earth
as Pike Peters
(1924) Two Wagons Both Covered
as Bill Bunian / Joe Jackson
(1924) Big Moments from Little Pictures
as ---
(1924) Don't Park There
as ---
(1935) Doubting Thomas
as Thomas Brown
(1935) Life Begins at Forty
as Keneshaw H. Clark
(1929) They Had to See Paris
as Pike Peters
(1933) Mr. Skitch
as Ira Skitch
(1932) Business and Pleasure
as Earl Tinker
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1934) David Harum
as David Harum
(2010) Will Rogers and American Politics
as Self (archive footage)
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1923) Jus' Passin' Through
as Jubilo
(1927) Tiptoes
as Uncle Hen Kaye
(1919) Almost a Husband
as Sam Lyman
(1919) Jubilo
as Jubilo
(1924) Jubilo, Jr.
as Jubilo / Himself
(1920) Water, Water, Everywhere
as Billy Fortune
(1920) Cupid the Cowpuncher
as Alec Lloyd
(1920) Jes' Call Me Jim
as Jim Fenton
(1920) Honest Hutch
as Hutch
(1921) Guile of Women
as Hjalmar Maartens
(1921) Boys Will Be Boys
as Peep O'Day
(1976) The Biggest Little Star of the 30's
as Self(archive footage)
(1921) Doubling for Romeo
as Sam Cody / Romeo
(1918) Laughing Bill Hyde
as Bill Hyde
(1932) Too Busy to Work
as Jubilo
(1927) Winging Around Europe with Will Rogers
as Himself
(1993) Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) In Old Kentucky
as Steve Tapley
(1924) The Cowboy Sheik
as 'Two Straw' Bill
(1990) Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
as himself
(1930) Lightnin'
as Lightnin' Bill Jones
(1924) Going to Congress
as Alfalfa Doolittle
(1924) A Truthful Liar
as Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle
(1923) Uncensored Movies
as Lem Skagwillow
(1930) So This Is London
as Hiram Draper
(1935) The County Chairman
as Jim Hackler
(1934) Handy Andy
as Andrew Yates
(1927) Exploring England with Will Rogers
as ---
(1931) Young as You Feel
as Lemuel Morehouse
(1940) If I Forget You
as Will Rogers (uncredited/archive footage)
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1923) Hustlin' Hank
as Hank
(1924) The Cake Eater
as ---
(1957) The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footage
(1921) A Poor Relation
as Noah Vale
(1922) The Headless Horseman
as Ichabod crane
(1921) An Unwilling Hero
as Dick
(1927) With Will Rogers in Dublin
as Self
(1922) One Glorious Day
as Professor Ezra Botts
(1920) The Strange Boarder
as Sam Gardner
(1931) Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3)
as Himself