Clarence Wilson
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Filmography
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The Sea Ghost
(1931)An ex-U.S. naval officer is hired to perform a dangerous underwater salvage operation with the German U-boat captain whose escape ended his career.
The Rainmakers
(1935)At the height of their powers - and the height of the infamous Dust Bowl Disaster - comedy team supreme Wheeler and Woolsey brought The Rainmakers to a laugh-parched public. As Roscoe the Rainmaker and his sidekick, destitute farmer Billy, Woolsey and Wheeler play a pair of unlikely saviors to the desperate, draught afflicted town of Lima Junction, Ca. Armed with his patented Magno-Magnetizer, Roscoe is ready to deliver the badly needed cloudburst Lima Junction needs while Billy is ready to romance banker's daughter Margie (Dorothy Lee). Unfortunately for the pair, wealthy land speculating farmer Simon Parker (Berton Churchill) and his son Orville (George Meeker) have their own designs on the land and lady. Finding themselves sabotaged, Billy and Roscoe fight back the best way possible: by staging a train wreck!
The Sport Parade
(1932)Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

Haunted House
(1940)An aspiring teenage reporter teams up with the girl he has a crush on to prove the innocence of a friend who has been wrongfully accused of murder.

When a Man's a Man
(1935)When a landslide diverts water away from a ranch, and cattle are dying, an aimless man finds purpose by taking a job and hatching an ingenious plan.