- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- "The Bomba"
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Billy Wells was born on August 31, 1887 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Great Game (1918), The Game Chicken (1926) and Kent, the Fighting Man (1916). He died on June 11, 1967 in London, England, UK.
- Owned a pub at the Piccadilly end of Park Lane
- Gong striker for Rank Films. Replaced the original man seen banging the gong at the start of all their films, Carl Dane. He was later succeeded by Phil Nieman and Ken Richmond.
- He was a former heavyweight boxer who admitted that he couldn't hit an opponent "whose jaw was sagging and whose eyes were blank". He was the J Arthur Rank films gong-hitter until after WWII, when movie extra Phil Nieman took over for seven years.
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