CHILL WILLS
ACTING
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Chill Theodore Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American film actor, and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.
He was a performer from early childhood, forming and leading the Avalon Boys singing group in the 1930s.
After appearing in a few westerns he disbanded the group in 1938, and struck out on a solo acting career.
One of his more memorable roles was that of the distinctive voice of Francis the Mule in a series of popular films.
- Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
- Giant 1956
- The Alamo 1960
- I'll Be Seeing You 1944
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973
- Rio Grande 1950
- The Rounders 1965
- City That Never Sleeps 1953
- Tarzan's New York Adventure 1942
- The Westerner 1940
- The Wheeler Dealers 1963
- Where the Boys Are 1960
- The Sundowners 1950
- McLintock! 1963
- Western Union 1941
- Allegheny Uprising 1939
- Francis in the Navy 1955
- Mr. Billion 1977
- The Man from the Alamo 1953
- Sky Murder 1940
- The Deadly Companions 1961
- Leave Her to Heaven 1945
- The Yearling 1946
- Belle Starr 1941
- Boom Town 1940
- From Hell to Texas 1958
- Fireball 500 1966
- Honky Tonk 1941
- The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again 1970
- High Lonesome 1950
- Family Honeymoon 1948
- The Bugle Sounds 1942
- Her Cardboard Lover 1942
- Tulsa 1949
- Cattle Drive 1951
- Gun Glory 1957
- Red Canyon 1949
- A Stranger in Town 1943
- Santiago 1956
- What Next, Corporal Hargrove? 1945
- Tugboat Annie Sails Again 1940
- Francis Joins the WACS 1954
- The Sad Horse 1959
- Francis Goes to the Races 1951
- The Sainted Sisters 1948
- Young Guns of Texas 1962
- Bronco Buster 1952
- Racketeers of the Range 1939
- Gun for a Coward 1956
- Gallant Bess 1946
- Tumbleweed 1953
- The Cardinal 1963
- Oh! Susanna 1951
- Gold of the Seven Saints 1961
- Timberjack 1955
- Barbary Coast Gent 1944
- Northwest Stampede 1948
- Kentucky Rifle 1956
- That Wonderful Urge 1948
- Apache Trail 1942
- Sorority House 1939
- Way Out West 1937
- Billy the Kid 1941
- Rock Island Trail 1950
- Ride the Man Down 1952
- Arizona Legion 1939
- Bar 20 Rides Again 1935
- Ricochet Romance 1954
- Best Foot Forward 1943
- The Day the Bookies Wept 1939
- Call of the Prairie 1936
- Timber Stampede 1939
- The Omaha Trail 1942
- Lawless Valley 1938
- Trouble in Sundown 1939
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones 1970
- Stella 1950
- Wyoming 1940
- Hell's Outpost 1954
- Stand by for Action 1942
- Heartaches 1947
- Francis 1950
- Francis Goes to West Point 1952
- Francis Covers the Big Town 1953
- The Sea Hornet 1951
- That's Entertainment! III 1994
- The Bad Man 1941
- Loaded Pistols 1948
- Guns of a Stranger 1973
- See Here, Private Hargrove 1944
- The Steagle 1971
- The Harvey Girls 1946
- The Saxon Charm 1948
- The Over the Hill Gang 1969
- Burke's Law 1963
- Gunsmoke 1955
- Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
- Rawhide 1959
- Night Gallery 1970