William Nigh

William Nigh

1881-10-12 Berlin, Wisconsin, USA 115 Credits

Biography

William Nigh (October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955) was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye". He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin. His film career began with acting in 17 films in 1913 and 1914; he also directed one of these, Salomy Jane. He acted in 8 more films in the 1910s and two more in the 1920s, but directed a total of 119 films, the last in 1948. His film-writing credits numbered 18, mostly concentrated earl...

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Stage Struck

Stage Struck

1948

Director

5.6
Directing

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1948

Director

5.5
Directing

An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetr...

Riding the California Trail

Riding the California Trail

1947

Director

4.0
Directing

Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but e...

Beauty and the Bandit

Beauty and the Bandit

1946

Director

6.0
Directing

In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The...

South of Monterey

South of Monterey

1946

Director

Directing

The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Wood...

Partners in Time

Partners in Time

1946

Director

6.0
Directing

Squire Skimp has a new plan to swindle the people of Pine Ridge. However, Lum has something more important on his mind. He has to tell a young engaged...

The Gay Cavalier

The Gay Cavalier

1946

Director

Directing

The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to...

Allotment Wives

Allotment Wives

1945

Director

6.0
Directing

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

Divorce

Divorce

1945

Director

5.0
Directing

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the ...

Forever Yours

Forever Yours

1945

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting ex...

Are These Our Parents?

1944

Director

Directing

A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage da...

Trocadero

Trocadero

1944

Director

4.7
Directing

A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator,...

Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?

1943

Director

4.0
Directing

Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jac...

The Underdog

The Underdog

1943

Director

Directing

During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep...

The Ghost and the Guest

The Ghost and the Guest

1943

Director

5.2
Directing

Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks, searching...

Corregidor

Corregidor

1943

Director

3.5
Directing

A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, i...

Lady from Chungking

Lady from Chungking

1942

Director

5.2
Directing

During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to ...

City of Silent Men

1942

Director

Directing

The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town we...

Tough as They Come

Tough as They Come

1942

Director

Directing

The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and t...

Escape from Hong Kong

Escape from Hong Kong

1942

Director

6.0
Directing

Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

1942

Director

5.1
Directing

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer...

Black Dragons

Black Dragons

1942

Director

4.7
Directing

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a br...

Mr. Wise Guy

Mr. Wise Guy

1942

Director

6.1
Directing

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes ...

Zis Boom Bah

Zis Boom Bah

1941

Director

6.5
Directing

"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy...

Mob Town

Mob Town

1941

Director

Directing

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

The Kid from Kansas

The Kid from Kansas

1941

Director

Directing

Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops.

No Greater Sin

No Greater Sin

1941

Director

3.5
Directing

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commis...

Secret Evidence

1941

Director

5.0
Directing

A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfri...

The Ape

The Ape

1940

Director

4.8
Directing

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experime...

Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die

1940

Director

5.5
Directing

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chine...

Son of the Navy

Son of the Navy

1940

Director

5.5
Directing

A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.

The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour

1940

Director

5.7
Directing

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessma...

Mutiny in the Big House

Mutiny in the Big House

1939

Director

4.4
Directing

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

1939

Director

5.2
Directing

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to ...

Streets of New York

Streets of New York

1939

Director

4.8
Directing

Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous ...

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

1939

Director

5.7
Directing

Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His...

I Am a Criminal

I Am a Criminal

1938

Director

Directing

In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes...

Gangster's Boy

Gangster's Boy

1938

Director

Directing

A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.

Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr. Wong, Detective

1938

Director

5.5
Directing

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two sub...

Romance of the Limberlost

Romance of the Limberlost

1938

Director

Directing

An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The girl'...

Female Fugitive

Female Fugitive

1938

Director

Directing

Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.

Rose of the Rio Grande

Rose of the Rio Grande

1938

Director

Directing

The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence...

Boy of the Streets

Boy of the Streets

1938

Director

5.0
Directing

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

A Bride for Henry

A Bride for Henry

1937

Director

5.5
Directing

On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the wo...

Atlantic Flight

1937

Director

4.0
Directing

Famous pioneer aviator Dick Merrill was front-page news in the 1930s, so it's understandable that he was summoned to Hollywood to star in his own film...

Hoosier Schoolboy

Hoosier Schoolboy

1937

Director

6.0
Directing

A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.

The 13th Man

The 13th Man

1937

Director

5.5
Directing

A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for ...

The Law Commands

The Law Commands

1937

Director

1.0
Directing

Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are ki...

Bill Cracks Down

Bill Cracks Down

1937

Director

5.0
Directing

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he ...

North of Nome

North of Nome

1936

Director

6.0
Directing

John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation....

Crash Donovan

Crash Donovan

1936

Director

Directing

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

The Old Homestead

The Old Homestead

1935

Director

Directing

A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

His Night Out

His Night Out

1935

Director

Directing

When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by th...

She Gets Her Man

She Gets Her Man

1935

Director

Directing

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wre...

Dizzy Dames

Dizzy Dames

1935

Director

6.0
Directing

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.

The Headline Woman

The Headline Woman

1935

Director

4.0
Directing

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping...

Without Children

Without Children

1935

Director

Directing

Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadv...

Sweepstake Annie

1935

Director

3.7
Directing

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and...

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

The Mysterious Mr. Wong

1935

Director

4.2
Directing

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession o...

Two Heads on a Pillow

Two Heads on a Pillow

1934

Director

Directing

A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.

Monte Carlo Nights

Monte Carlo Nights

1934

Director

5.9
Directing

A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.

City Limits

City Limits

1934

Director

4.0
Directing

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up ...

House of Mystery

House of Mystery

1934

Director

4.7
Directing

Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace ...

School for Girls

School for Girls

1934

Director

6.0
Directing

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However,...

Mystery Liner

Mystery Liner

1934

Director

4.1
Directing

Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.

He Couldn't Take It

He Couldn't Take It

1933

Director

Directing

Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes ...

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools

1932

Director

Directing

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...

Border Devils

Border Devils

1932

Director

5.3
Directing

Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity. He and his pal Squint Saunders t...

Without Honor

Without Honor

1932

Director

5.0
Directing

Pete Marlan is a gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Pete plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gan...

The Sea Ghost

The Sea Ghost

1931

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Sub...

The Single Sin

The Single Sin

1931

Director

Directing

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with ...

Fighting Thru

Fighting Thru

1930

Director

4.0
Directing

Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and...

Today

Today

1930

Director

1.0
Directing

A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden ...

Lord Byron of Broadway

Lord Byron of Broadway

1930

Director

4.7
Directing

A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he us...

Thunder

Thunder

1929

Director

Directing

A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.

Desert Nights

Desert Nights

1929

Director, Producer

5.4
Directing Producing

A con man with his beautiful accomplice and a hostage steals a half million dollars worth of diamonds but finds they're all lost in the desert without...

Four Walls

Four Walls

1928

Director

7.0
Directing

After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.

Across to Singapore

Across to Singapore

1928

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their ret...

The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range

1928

Director

2.5
Directing

Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu

1927

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

The Fire Brigade

The Fire Brigade

1926

Director

3.5
Directing

Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that he...

Casey of the Coast Guard

1926

Director

Directing

Film serial.

The Little Giant

The Little Giant

1926

Director

Directing

Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufacture...

Born Rich

Born Rich

1924

Writer, Director, Producer

1.0
Writing Directing Producing

When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds...

Rags to Riches

Rags to Riches

1922

Writer

10.0
Writing

A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll ac...

Your Best Friend

Your Best Friend

1922

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A Jewish mother in New York finds herself at odds with her son's new wife, a pretty Gentile girl.

School Days

School Days

1921

Director, Writer, Story

Directing Writing

A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune. Overwhelmed by the city's hustle and bustle, and entranced ...

Why Girls Leave Home

Why Girls Leave Home

1921

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model. Hedder bel...

The Soul of Man

The Soul of Man

1921

as David Fortune

Acting
The Soul of Man

The Soul of Man

1921

Director

Directing
Democracy: The Vision Restored

Democracy: The Vision Restored

1920

as David Fortune

Acting

A powerful financial magnate is plotted against by his greedy son.

Democracy: The Vision Restored

Democracy: The Vision Restored

1920

Director

Directing

A powerful financial magnate is plotted against by his greedy son.

Beware!

Beware!

1919

as German Officer

Acting

The American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards ar...

Beware!

Beware!

1919

Director

Directing

The American ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard warns that Germany will rise again to power and an attempt at world domination unless safeguards ar...

The Fighting Roosevelts

1919

Director

Directing

A dramatization of the life of Theodore Roosevelt leading up to his presidency of the United States

Kaiser's Finish

Kaiser's Finish

1918

Editor

During World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--i...

The Rainbow Trail

The Rainbow Trail

1918

as Shad

Acting

Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so doing,...

My Four Years in Germany

My Four Years in Germany

1918

as Socialist

4.7
Acting

The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.

My Four Years in Germany

My Four Years in Germany

1918

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.

Wife Number Two

Wife Number Two

1917

Scenario Writer, Director, Screenplay

Writing Directing

Bored by her country life and misunderstood by her parents, Emma Rolfe marries Dr. Charles Bovar, an older man whose dedication to his medical practic...

The Slave

The Slave

1917

Director, Scenario Writer, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she mar...

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

1916

as Buttsy Gallagher

Acting

"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged...

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

1916

Director, Scenario Writer

Directing Writing

"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged...

The Kiss of Hate

The Kiss of Hate

1916

Director

Directing

When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of ...

Her Debt of Honor

1916

as Olin Varcoe

Acting

Marian Delmar, whose father has died without an estate, believes he has left her a settlement. The film follows Marian's journey as she navigates this...

Her Debt of Honor

1916

Director, Scenario Writer

Directing Writing

Marian Delmar, whose father has died without an estate, believes he has left her a settlement. The film follows Marian's journey as she navigates this...

A Yellow Streak

A Yellow Streak

1915

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin . This Marvin does so that he can win Dal...

Emmy of Stork's Nest

Emmy of Stork's Nest

1915

Director

Directing

Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property...

A Royal Family

A Royal Family

1915

as Minister of Police

Acting

The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny ...

A Royal Family

A Royal Family

1915

Director

Directing

The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny ...

Story of Jewel City

1915

Director

4.8
Directing

The little fantasy film The Story of Jewel City was made for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. It stars two little girls otherwise ...

Salomy Jane

Salomy Jane

1914

as Rufe Waters

3.0
Acting

When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangl...

Salomy Jane

Salomy Jane

1914

Director

3.0
Directing

When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangl...

The Star Boarder

The Star Boarder

1914

as Boarder (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

The Waiters' Picnic

The Waiters' Picnic

1913

as The Head Waiter

5.0
Acting

Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much tro...