The Informer (1935 film) film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning four. McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered "Mutiny on the Bounty", and Ford won Best Director. Dudley Nichols won Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, but turned it down because of union disagreements. It was the first time an Oscar was declined, though he later claimed it three years later. The film also won the Oscar for Best Score; Max Steiner won for the first time. The film was nominated for Outstanding Production, as well as for Best
William Stack legal drama "A Free Soul", in a small role. The film stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, and Clark Gable. 1932 would see him in another small role, that of a doctor in "Payment Deferred", starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan. In "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case" (1933), starring Warner Oland in the title role, Stack had the minor part of Jack Eagan. Small roles followed in the 1934 films "The Fountain", starring Ann Harding, "Manhattan Melodrama", starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy, "Wonder Bar", starring Al Jolson, and "Chained", starring Gable and Joan Crawford. Before he appeared