---
name: "Will Rogers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-rogers-89686"
fi1m_id: "will-rogers-89686"
imdb_id: "nm0737259"
tmdb_id: 89686
wikidata_id: "Q457840"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 November 1879"
died: "15 August 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:14:20.808335+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."
---

# Will Rogers

## Identity

Will Rogers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/will-rogers-89686
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** will-rogers-89686
- **IMDb ID:** nm0737259
- **TMDB ID:** 89686
- **Wikidata ID:** Q457840
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89686

Actor. Born 3 November 1879 in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Died 15 August 1935.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 November 1879, Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
- **Died:** 15 August 1935
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89686

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Judge Priest*](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Will Rogers (1879–1935) was an American actor, humorist and performer. He appeared as Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest in the 1934 film *Judge Priest*, directed by John Ford.

Rogers began his career in Wild West shows and vaudeville before joining the Ziegfeld Follies. He went on to make numerous films for Fox, including *Steamboat Round the Bend* (1935), and wrote syndicated newspaper columns. He died in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska, alongside aviator Wiley Post.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Judge Priest* (1934), Fi1m 58, as Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest — [page](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

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

- *The Parrott Chase* (2009), as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Going Hollywood: The '30s* (1984), as (archive footage)
- *If I Forget You* (1940), as Will Rogers (uncredited/archive footage)
- *In Old Kentucky* (1935), as Steve Tapley
- *Steamboat Round the Bend* (1935), as Doctor John Pearly
- *Doubting Thomas* (1935), as Thomas Brown
- *Life Begins at Forty* (1935), as Keneshaw H. Clark
- *The County Chairman* (1935), as Jim Hackler
- *Judge Priest* (1934), as Judge William Pitman 'Billy' Priest — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md)
- *Handy Andy* (1934), as Andrew Yates
- *Stand Up and Cheer!* (1934), Story
- *David Harum* (1934), as David Harum
- *Mr. Skitch* (1933), as Ira Skitch
- *Doctor Bull* (1933), as Dr. George 'Doc' Bull
- *State Fair* (1933), as Abel Frake
- *Too Busy to Work* (1932), as Jubilo
- *Down To Earth* (1932), as Pike Peters
- *Business and Pleasure* (1932), as Earl Tinker
- *Ambassador Bill* (1931), as Bill Harper
- *Young as You Feel* (1931), as Lemuel Morehouse
- *A Connecticut Yankee* (1931), as Hank Martin
- *Lightnin'* (1930), as Lightnin' Bill Jones
- *So This Is London* (1930), as Hiram Draper
- *They Had to See Paris* (1929), as Pike Peters · Additional Dialogue
- *Happy Days* (1929), as Minstrel Show Performer
- *Exploring England with Will Rogers* (1927), Actor
- *A Texas Steer* (1927), as Cattle Brander · Writer
- *Winging Around Europe with Will Rogers* (1927), Director, Writer
- *Tiptoes* (1927), as Uncle Hen Kaye
- *A Truthful Liar* (1924), as Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle
- *Jubilo, Jr.* (1924), as Jubilo / Himself
- *Don't Park There* (1924), as Jubilo
- *Going to Congress* (1924), as Alfalfa Doolittle
- *Big Moments from Little Pictures* (1924), Actor
- *The Cake Eater* (1924), Actor
- *The Cowboy Sheik* (1924), as 'Two Straw' Bill
- *Two Wagons Both Covered* (1924), as Bill Bunian / Joe Jackson · Writer
- *Uncensored Movies* (1923), as Lem Skagwillow
- *Hustlin' Hank* (1923), as Hank
- *Jus' Passin' Through* (1923), as Jubilo
- *Hollywood* (1923), as Will Rogers
- *The Headless Horseman* (1922), as Ichabod crane
- *The Ropin' Fool* (1922), as 'Ropes' Reilly · Writer, Producer
- *One Glorious Day* (1922), as Professor Ezra Botts
- *A Poor Relation* (1921), as Noah Vale
- *Doubling for Romeo* (1921), as Sam Cody / Romeo · Writer
- *Boys Will Be Boys* (1921), as Peep O'Day
- *An Unwilling Hero* (1921), as Dick
- *Guile of Women* (1921), as Hjalmar Maartens
- *Honest Hutch* (1920), as Hutch
- *Cupid the Cowpuncher* (1920), as Alec Lloyd
- *Jes' Call Me Jim* (1920), as Jim Fenton
- *The Strange Boarder* (1920), as Sam Gardner
- *Water, Water, Everywhere* (1920), as Billy Fortune
- *Jubilo* (1919), as Jubilo
- *Almost a Husband* (1919), as Sam Lyman
- *Laughing Bill Hyde* (1918), as Bill Hyde

## Gallery

- ![Will Rogers](https://film.one/media/person/3856339/gallery-36e4a519dc3a.jpg) Will Rogers — Melbourne Spurr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Will_Rogers_1922.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![PictionID:42249769 - Title:Photo of Frank M. Hawks on the right with Will Rogers on the left. While flying Will Rogers to a fund-raising campaign for the Red Cr (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/3856339/gallery-3ab1a7bb740c.jpg) PictionID:42249769 - Title:Photo of Frank M. Hawks on the right with Will Rogers on the left. While flying Will Rogers to a fund-raising campaign for the Red Cr (2015) — San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Photo_of_Frank_M._Hawks_on_the_right_with_Will_Rogers_on_the_left._While_flying_Will_Rogers_to_a_fund-raising_campaign_for_the_Red_Cross_to_assist_Oklahoma_drought_victims_in%2C_they_became_friends._%2816952171407%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Seattle Mayor Charles L. Smith (left) with Will Rogers, circa 1935. Rogers took off for his ill-fated Alaska trip in 1935 from the Renton, Washington airport, j](https://film.one/media/person/3856339/gallery-88f6a18d79fc.jpg) Seattle Mayor Charles L. Smith (left) with Will Rogers, circa 1935. Rogers took off for his ill-fated Alaska trip in 1935 from the Renton, Washington airport, j — Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Seattle_Mayor_Charles_L._Smith_with_Will_Rogers%2C_circa_1935.jpg/1280px-Seattle_Mayor_Charles_L._Smith_with_Will_Rogers%2C_circa_1935.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Will Rogers](https://film.one/media/person/3856339/gallery-d65f1ecf50eb.jpg) Will Rogers — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- National Aviation Hall of Fame 1977: National Aviation Hall of Fame (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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