William Bakewell; Co-Founder of Screen Actors Guild

William Bakewell, 85, a co-founder of the Screen Actors Guild and a character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and 200 television programs. A native of Los Angeles educated at Page Military Academy and Harvard School, Bakewell first appeared in the 1925 silent film “He’s a Prince.” Among his many roles were a character part in the 1939 classic “Gone With the Wind” and a part in Marlene Dietrich’s 1940 “Seven Sinners.” In 1933, Bakewell was No. 44 among the 50 actors who formed the Screen Actors Guild. He served on the board of the Motion Picture and Television Fund for four decades. Bakewell, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, chronicled his long screen career in a 1991 autobiography, “Hollywood Be Thy Name--Random Recollections of a Movie Veteran From Silents to Talkies to TV.” On Thursday in Los Angeles of leukemia.