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name: "Bill Goodwin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-goodwin"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 July 1910"
died: "9 May 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T01:19:14.465231+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bill Goodwin

Actor. Born 28 July 1910 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 9 May 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 July 1910, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 9 May 1958
- **Active:** 1942–1945
- **Also known as:** Билл Гудвин, William Nettles Goodwin
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Goodwin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15999120, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329433/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34287

## Biography

Bill Goodwin was an American actor and radio announcer. Born William Nettles Goodwin on 28 July 1910 in San Francisco, California, he began his career as a radio announcer, notably for *The Burns and Allen Show* on NBC and CBS from 1941 to 1950, before transitioning to film in the early 1940s.

He appeared in numerous films, including *Wake Island* (1942) as Sgt. Higbee and narrator, *Spellbound* (1945) as the house detective, *House of Horrors* (1946) as Police Lt. Larry Brooks, *The Jolson Story* (1946), *The Stork Club* (1945), *Tea for Two* (1950) and *Jolson Sings Again* (1949). He also worked in television and provided narration for the animated series *Gerald McBoing-Boing*.

Goodwin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio in 1960. He died of a heart attack on 9 May 1958 in Palm Springs, California, aged 47.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, as House Detective — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Wake Island* (1942), Fi1m 73, as Sgt. Higbee / Narrator (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wake-island.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Evils of the Night* (1985), Second Assistant Director
- *Colgate Theatre* (1958), series, Actor
- *The Big Beat* (1958), as Joseph Randall
- *Going Steady* (1958), as Gordon P. Turner
- *The Family Nobody Wanted* (1956), Actor
- *The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show* (1956), series, as Narrator (voice)
- *Bundle of Joy* (1956), as Mr. Creely
- *The Opposite Sex* (1956), as Howard Fowler
- *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor
- *The Atomic Kid* (1954), as Dr. Rodell
- *Lucky Me* (1954), as Otis Thayer
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Frederick Morrow
- *The First Time* (1952), as Mel Gilbert
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Dr. Fiston
- *Tea for Two* (1950), as William 'Moe' Early
- *Your Show of Shows* (1950), series, Actor
- *It's a Great Feeling* (1949), as Arthur Trent
- *Jolson Sings Again* (1949), as Tom Baron
- *The Life of Riley* (1949), as Sidney Monahan
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor
- *Mickey* (1948), as George R. Kelly
- *So This Is New York* (1948), as Jimmy Ralston
- *Heaven Only Knows* (1947), as Bill Plumber
- *Hit Parade of 1947* (1947), as Rod Huntley
- *The Jolson Story* (1946), as Tom Baron
- *Earl Carroll Sketchbook* (1946), as Rick Castle
- *House of Horrors* (1946), as Police Lt. Larry Brooks
- *To Each His Own* (1946), as Mac Tilton
- *The Stork Club* (1945), as Sherman Billingsley
- *Spellbound* (1945), as House Detective — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *River Gang* (1945), as Mike
- *Incendiary Blonde* (1945), as Tim Callahan
- *Bathing Beauty* (1944), as Willis Evans
- *Riding High* (1943), as Chuck Steuart
- *So Proudly We Hail* (1943), as Captain O'Rourke (Uncredited)
- *Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour* (1943), as Steve
- *No Time for Love* (1943), as Christley (uncredited)
- *Wake Island* (1942), as Sgt. Higbee / Narrator (voice) — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/wake-island.md)
- *Blondie Goes to College* (1942), as Announcer at Shell Race
- *Blondie in Society* (1941), as Dog Show Announcer

## Gallery

- ![Bill Goodwin](https://film.one/media/person/1233443/gallery-31ede8860945.jpg) Bill Goodwin — NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Bill_Goodwin_1951.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Bill Goodwin](https://film.one/media/person/1233443/gallery-3a8c0370e5b1.jpg) Bill Goodwin — Image via TMDB
- ![Bill Goodwin](https://film.one/media/person/1233443/gallery-c408ddb08b20.jpg) Bill Goodwin — Image via TMDB

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