Gardner Warren Reineck (1886-1962) is believed to have made his first screen appearance in 1911, in the Edison Company short Mae’s Suitors. By the time he retired, forty-eight years later, he had been in over 300 films, usually without credit. He also made a number of appearances on Broadway in the 1920s.
Bailey acted in Frank Borzage’s Lazybones (1925), Josef von Sternberg’s adaptation of An American Tragedy (1931), Mata Hari (1931) and It Happened One Night (1934). He was back with Borzage for What Now, Little Man? (1934), and in Stahl’s Magnificent Obsession (1935). He was in Two-Faced Woman (1941), National Velvet (1944), Under the Clock (1945), The Three Musketeers (1948), Act of Violence (1948), Father of the Bride (1950) and Lang’s Clash by Night (1952).
William Bailey worked on ten MGM musicals, always in uncredited roles: Student Tour, The Big Store, Rio Rita, I Dood It, Two Girls and a Sailor, Ziegfeld Follies, Easy to Wed, In the Good Old Summertime, Three Little Words and Duchess of Idaho.
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