Actor. He is best known for playing the character roles of townsmen, mobsters, henchmen, waiters, customers, and policemen, but most of them were uncredited with only a few credited. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Andrew Comstock' in the romance drama film, "Badge Of Honor" (1934). He was born as William Richmond Arnold to Willard Richmond Arnold and his wife Jessie Maud Connor Arnold in Brockton, Massachusetts, on January 6, 1884. He was educated locally and was later drafted during World War I but never served. He began his acting career on the stage in New York, New York, and also in vaudeville having played in several Winter Garden shows before moving to Los Angeles, California, to appear in films. He made his actual film debut playing the role of a 'Mobster' in "One Night At Susie's" (1930). The crime drama film which was directed by John Francis Dillion, and which also starred Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Ware, Tully Marshall, and John Loder, tells the story of a woman who owns a boarding house who winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend. When he's released, her boarding-house pals decide to try to help her out in order to keep his girlfriend's reputation isn't spoiled. Besides, "One Night At Susie's" (1930), and "Badge Of Honor" (1934), his many other film credits include, "Scandal Sheet" (1931), "Gun Smoke" (1931), "The Vice Squad" (1931), "Oh! Oh! Cleopatra" (1931), "Rich Man's Folly" (1931), "The Wide Open Spaces" (1931), "70, 000 Witnesses" (1932), "David Harum" (1934), "Bottoms Up" (1934), "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934), "In Love With Life" (1934), "Thirty Day Princess" (1934), "Murder At The Vanities" (1934), "The Personality Kid" (1934), "The Hell Cat" (1934), "Whom The Gods Destroy" (1934), "Hide-Out" (1934), "Kid Millions" (1934), "The Mighty Barnum" (1934), "Sweet Adeline" (1934), "Rendezvous At Midnight" (1935), "One More Spring" (1935), "The Woman In Red" (1935), "A Night At The Ritz" (1935), "Princess O'Hara" (1935), "Manhattan Butterfly" (1935), "Love Me Forever" (1935), "Call Of The Wild" (1935), "Annapolis Farewell" (1935), "Diamond Jim" (1935), "She Married Her Boss" (1935), "Fighting Youth" (1935), "Splendor" (1935), "The Fighting Marines" (1935), "The Bride Comes Home" (1935), "If You Could Only Cook" (1935), "Magnificent Obsession" (1935), "Riffraff" (1936), "The Preview Murder Mystery" (1936), "Don't Gamble With Love" (1936), "Love Before Breakfast" (1936), "Big Brown Eyes" (1936), "Sky Parade" (1936), "Roaming Lady" (1936), "The Golden Arrow" (1936), "Yours For The Asking" (1936), "Grand Jury" (1936), "Cain And Mabel" (1936), "The Big Broadcast of 1937" (1936), "Killer At Large" (1936), "Come Closer, Folks" (1936), "Four Days Wonder" (1936), "Sing Me A Love Song" (1936), "Gold Diggers Of 1937" (1936), "Find The Witness" (1937), "Devil's Playground" (1937), "Ready, Willing And Able" (1937), "Parole Racket" (1937), "Swing High, Swing Low" (1937), "The Frame-Up" (1937), "Speed To Spare" (1937), "Captains Courageous" (1937), "Turn Of The Moon" (1937), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Hotel Haywire" (1937), "The Devil Is Driving" (1937), "Exclusive" (1937), "The Toast Of New York" (1937), "A Dangerous Adventure" (1937), "The Women Men Marry" (1937), "She Married An Artist" (1937), "Wells Fargo" (1937), "Penitentiary" (1938), "Start Cheering" (1938), "The Overland Express" (1938), "Yellow Jack" (1938), "The Main Event" (1938), "I'll Give A Million" (1938), "I Am The Law" (1938), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938), "St. Louis Blues" (1939), "I'm From Missouri" (1939), "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" (1939), "Edison, The Man" (1940), and his last role as 'Tomanian Officer' in the Charlie Chaplin spoof of Adolf Hitler, "The Great Dictator" (1940). He was married twice, first to Bertha "Shirli" Stenzel Arnold, and secondly to Elsie Maud Reed Arnold until his death from Endocarditis.