Will Rogers
Actor
Born November 3, 1879 in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
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 newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was adored by the American people. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed near Barrow, Alaska.
Filmography
Will Rogers and American Politics
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Self (archive footage)
Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
himself
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
In Old Kentucky
Steve Tapley
Steamboat Round the Bend
Doctor John Pearly
Doubting Thomas
Thomas Brown
Life Begins at Forty
Keneshaw H. Clark
The County Chairman
Jim Hackler
Judge Priest
Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest
Handy Andy
Andrew Yates
Stand Up and Cheer!
David Harum
David Harum
Mr. Skitch
Ira Skitch
Doctor Bull
Dr. George 'Doc' Bull
State Fair
Abel Frake
Too Busy to Work
Jubilo
Down To Earth
Pike Peters
Business and Pleasure
Earl Tinker
Voice of Hollywood (Series 2, No. 3)
Himself
Ambassador Bill
Bill Harper
Young as You Feel
Lemuel Morehouse
A Connecticut Yankee
Hank Martin
Lightnin'
Lightnin' Bill Jones
So This Is London
Hiram Draper
They Had to See Paris
Pike Peters
Happy Days
Minstrel Show Performer
A Texas Steer
Cattle Brander
Tiptoes
Uncle Hen Kaye
Jubilo, Jr.
Jubilo / Himself
Going to Congress
Alfalfa Doolittle
Big Moments from Little Pictures
The Cake Eater
The Cowboy Sheik
'Two Straw' Bill
Two Wagons Both Covered
Bill Bunian / Joe Jackson
Uncensored Movies
Lem Skagwillow
Jus' Passin' Through
Jubilo
Hollywood
Will Rogers
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Self
The Headless Horseman
Ichabod crane
The Ropin' Fool
'Ropes' Reilly
One Glorious Day
Professor Ezra Botts
A Poor Relation
Noah Vale
Doubling for Romeo
Sam Cody / Romeo
Boys Will Be Boys
Peep O'Day
An Unwilling Hero
Dick
Guile of Women
Hjalmar Maartens
Honest Hutch
Hutch
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Alec Lloyd
Jes' Call Me Jim
Jim Fenton
The Strange Boarder
Sam Gardner
Water, Water, Everywhere
Billy Fortune
Jubilo
Jubilo
Almost a Husband
Sam Lyman
Laughing Bill Hyde
Bill Hyde