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Willie Best

Highest Rated:
100% The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Lowest Rated:
80% Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Birthday:
May 27, 1913
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
African American actor Willie Best made his screen debut in Harold Lloyd's Feet First (1930). When Best, a veteran of a travelling show, came to Hollywood, he immediately fell prey to the stereotyping of the era. Promoted as a "new Stepin Fetchit," Best was transformed into a shuffling, "Yassuh…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 80% - 100%
Number of Movies: 42
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1962 World Of Comedy
  • Actor
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1951 South of Caliente
  • Willie
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1947 The Red Stallion
  • Jackson
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1946 Dangerous Money
  • Chattanooga
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1946 The Bride Wore Boots
  • Joe
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1945 She Wouldn't Say Yes
  • Porter
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1944 Home in Indiana
  • Mo'Rum
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1944 The Adventures of Mark Twain
  • George
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1943 80% Cabin in the Sky
  • Second Idea Man
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1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
  • Soldier
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1943 The Kansan,(Wagon Wheels)
  • Bones
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1942 Juke Girl
  • Jo-Mo
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1942 A-Haunting We Will Go
  • Waiter
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1941 Nothing But the Truth
  • Samuel
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1941 Body Disappears
  • Willie
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1941 Road Show
  • Willie
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1941 94% High Sierra
  • Algernon
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1941 Flight from Destiny
  • George
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1940 Slightly Honorable
  • Art the Elevator Operator
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1940 I Take This Woman
  • Sambo
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1940 Blondie on a Budget
  • Black Boy
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1940 100% The Ghost Breakers
  • Alex
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1940 Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
  • Andrew
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1939 The Saint Strikes Back
  • Algernon
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1939 Mr. Moto in Danger Island
  • Actor
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1939 Blondie Brings Up Baby
  • Porter
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1939 Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter
  • Apollo Johnson
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1939 100% At the Circus
  • Actor
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1938 Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
  • Driver
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1938 Gold is Where You Find It
  • Helper
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1938 Merrily We Live
  • George W. Jones
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1937 Super-Sleuth
  • Warts
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1937 Saturday's Heroes
  • Sam
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1936 The Bride Walks Out
  • Smokie
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1936 Thank You, Jeeves! (1936)
  • Drowsy
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1936 Murder on a Bridle Path
  • High Pockets
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1936 General Spanky
  • Henry
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1935 88% The Littlest Rebel
  • James Henry
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1935 The Nitwits
  • Sleepy
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1934 Little Miss Marker (The Girl in Pawn)
  • Dizzy Memphis
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1930 Feet First
  • Janitor
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Historic Reruns, V. 5
  • Actor
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