|  William Wellman, Jr., son of Hollywood's legendary director, "Wild
Bill" Wellman, spent most of his childhood around filmdom's
celebrities. His neighborhood was filled with them. Gary Cooper,
Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Lana
Turner, John Payne, Jennifer Jones, Red Skelton, Peter Lawford,
William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd to name just a few.
If
they weren't coming to his family home, he met them at theirs,
or on the sets and locations of 23 of his father's films.
His first girlfriend was Jane Fonda.
While
still in his teens, he left Duke University for a career in
the movies. He is credited with over 180 movies and television
shows, 17 stage productions and some 200 commercial and industrial
films. In 1981, he was awarded the Best Actor of The Year
by the Christian Film Distributors for Heartland's BROTHER
ENEMY. He was nominated again in 1982 for Mark IV Pictures'
THE PRODIGAL PLANET.
Some of
his feature roles include:
- STAR
TREK: OF GODS AND MEN (2008);
- IMAGE
OF THE BEAST (1982);
- PRIVATE
FILES OF J. EDGAR HOOVER (1977);
- MACARTHUR
(1977);
- THE
TRIAL OF BILLY JACK (1974);
- IT'S
ALIVE (1973);
- BLACK
CAESAR (1972);
- PRIVATE
NAVY OF SGT. O'FARRELL (1967);
- THE
HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE (1967);
- BORN
LOSERS (1967);
- WINTER-A-GO-GO
(1965);
- A
SWINGIN' SUMMER (1964);
- REBEL
IN THE RING (1962);
- THE
ERRAND BOY (1962);
- YOUNG
SINNER (1960);
- MACUMBA
LOVE (1960);
- THE
HORSE SOLDIERS (1959);
- DARBY'S
RANGERS (1958);
- LAFAYETTE
ESCADRILLE (1958);
- SAYONARA
(1957)
 His
television work includes recurring roles in the daytime dramas
DAYS OF OUR LIVES and YOUNG LIVES, and guest roles in episodes
of:
- CSI
CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
- WATCHING
ELLIE
- ALIAS
- JAG
- THE
PRACTICE
- THE
PRETENDER
- STAR
TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
- BURNING
ZONE
- MARCUS
WELBY, MD
- THE
BRADY BUNCH
- 12
O'CLOCK HIGH
- FBI
- ALFRED
HITCHOCK HOUR
In TV
Movies and mini-series shows such as:
- SPACE
- THE
BLUE AND THE GRAY
- THE
LOU GEHRIG STORY
- LIES
OF THE HEART
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