American actor William Jones, better known by his stage name Billy DeWolfe, was BOTD in 1907. Born in Wollaston, Massachusetts, he spent his childhood in Wales, returning to the United States as a teenager. He began his career as a theatre usher and dancer, developing his own comedy-dance act on the vaudeville circuit in New York and London. By the 1930s, he was an established nightclub performer, appearing in satirical revues, sometimes in drag as his alter-ego Mrs. Murgatroyd. He enlisted in the Navy during World War Two but was discharged on medical grounds, and went to Hollywood. He played a series of camp sissies in the popular comedies Our Hearts Were Growing Up, The Perils of Pauline and Dear Ruth. He also starred in the musical films Tea for Two and Lullaby of Broadway alongside Doris Day, and went head-to-head with Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam. After his studio contract expired, he returned to the stage, performing in the last Broadway circuit of The Ziegfeld Follies, and Stephen Sondheim‘s musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. A regular on television during the 1960s, he is perhaps best known for voicing Professor Hinkle in the 1969 animated film Frosty the Snowman. Scheduled to return to Broadway (in drag) in a revival of the musical Irene, he withdrew due to illness, dying in 1974, aged 67. Closeted for his entire career, little is known about his personal life, though his homosexuality was confirmed after his death by Day and John Gielgud.