Acting credits
100
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
William Gargan
Acting
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Movies: 96Series: 4
TMDB ID: 87697
IMDb ID: nm0307326
Known for: Acting
Born: July 17, 1905
Died: February 18, 1979
Age: 73
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1930 - 2003
Years active: 74
Average TMDB rating: 6.24
Wikidata: Q1358712
Also known as
William Dennis Gargan • Bill Gargan
Biography
William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego. He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with William Gargan.
6.7
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003 Movie
5.5
The Rawhide Years
as Marshal Sommers
1956 Movie
6.7
Miracle in the Rain
as Harry Wood
1956 Movie
Man on the Ledge
as Officer Bragan
1955 Movie
2.5
Dynamite
as "Gunner" Peterson
1949 Movie
4.0
Waterfront at Midnight
as Mike Hanrohan
1948 Movie
6.0
The Argyle Secrets
as Harry Mitchell
1948 Movie
6.0
Swell Guy
as Martin Duncan
1946 Movie
6.4
Till the End of Time
as Sgt. Gunny Watrous
1946 Movie
Hot Cargo
as Joe Harkness
1946 Movie
4.6
Murder in the Music Hall
as Inspector Wilson
1946 Movie
5.4
Night Editor
as Tony Cochrane
1946 Movie
6.0
Strange Impersonation
as Dr. Stephen Lindstrom
1946 Movie
5.5
Behind Green Lights
as Lt. Sam Carson
1946 Movie
6.8
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Joe Gallagher
1945 Movie
6.0
Follow That Woman
as Sam Boone
1945 Movie
4.5
Midnight Manhunt
as Pete Willis
1945 Movie
5.0
Song of the Sarong
as Drew Allen
1945 Movie
3.7
She Gets Her Man
as 'Breezy' Barton
1945 Movie
6.8
The Canterville Ghost
as Sergeant Benson
1944 Movie
5.0
Swing Fever
as 'Waltzy' Malone
1943 Movie
Harrigan's Kid
as Tom Harrigan
1943 Movie
6.0
No Place for a Lady
as Jess Arno
1943 Movie
6.9
Who Done It?
as Detective Inspector Lou
1942 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with William Gargan.
