Will Stanton on AllMovie

Diminutive William Sidney Stanton enjoyed an acting career that took him from London to Los Angeles. After honing his craft in the theater, Stanton made his motion-picture debut in 1927 and continued with a busy schedule of bit parts and character roles (specializing in comic drunks) into the 1930s and early 1940s. Raoul Walsh, for one, used him in nearly identical drunk roles in two films from 1932, Me And My Gal and Sailor's Luck. Often availing himself of his Cockney accent, Stanton's range also allowed him to play parts such as menacing thugs, crowd members, valets and butlers. His last screen role was in Adam's Rib (1949), in the uncredited part of a taxi driver.