Emerging from a family of entertainers, he was raised in San Diego after his parents’ 1900 divorce and first honed his craft on stage before entering Mack Sennett’s film studio in 1912. A versatile utility player, he returned to Sennett in the mid-1920s, frequently appearing in both silent and sound comedies and even stepping into Andy Clyde’s “old-man” persona for a studio short. Over a career th… Read more
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Known for Gone with the Wind 1939 It Happened One Night 1934 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Series ★ 7.9 I Love Lucy 1951
Will Potter ★ 7.8 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
Bill - Barber (uncredited) ★ 7.3 Meet John Doe 1941
Beany ★ 7.1 Holiday Inn 1942
Gus ★ 7 The Glenn Miller Story 1954
Mr. Miller ★ 7.2 Bachelor Mother 1939
Clerk at Exchange Window (uncredited) ★ 7.1 Lady for a Day 1933
Pool Hall Dupe (uncredited) ★ 6.9 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947
Melvin ★ 7.1 Action in the North Atlantic 1943
Bartender (uncredited) ★ 7.5 Star in the Night 1945
Mr. Dilson (uncredited) ★ 7 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 1938
Foreman of Jury Series ★ 6.9 Leave It to Beaver 1957
Postal Clerk ★ 7.2 It Started with Eve 1941
Raven ★ 7.1 It's Love I'm After 1937
Elevator Operator (uncredited) Series ★ 7.2 77 Sunset Strip 1958
Apt. House Manager ★ 6.9 O. Henry's Full House 1952
Ebeneezer Dorset (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief") (uncredited) ★ 6.8 State of the Union 1948
Buck Swenson ★ 6.9 Broadway Melody of 1940 1940
Orange Stand Counterman (uncredited) ★ 6.9 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 1941
The Soda Jerk ★ 6.8 Tobacco Road 1941
Bank Teller ★ 7 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man 1939
Jailer (uncredited) ★ 6.7 Topper 1937
Hotel Clerk (uncredited) ★ 6.7 They Died with Their Boots On 1941
Uniform Salesman (uncredited) ★ 7 Johnny Come Lately 1943
Chief of Police ★ 6.8 Run for Cover 1955
Scotty ★ 6.8 Edison, the Man 1940
Sheriff ★ 6.7 A Guy Named Joe 1944
Cpl. Henderson (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Million Dollar Legs 1932
Secretary of War (uncredited) ★ 6.7 Whispering Smith 1948
★ 6.7 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939
Tad (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940
Becker ★ 6.6 The Texas Rangers 1936
David's father (uncredited) ★ 6.6 Room for One More 1952
Mayor Michael J. Kane ★ 6.6 Since You Went Away 1944
Bartender at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited) ★ 6.6 San Francisco 1936
Picnicker (uncredited) Series ★ 6.5 The Donna Reed Show 1958
Mayor Webster ★ 6.5 Internes Can't Take Money 1937
Jeff ★ 6.5 Albuquerque 1948
Dave Walton ★ 6.5 Double Harness 1933
Crab Counterman ★ 6.5 Pardon My Sarong 1942
Gas Station Proprietor (uncredited) ★ 6.5 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936
Mailman ★ 6.4 Mr. Moto's Gamble 1938
Sheriff Tuttle (Uncredited) ★ 6.5 If I Had a Million 1932
China Shop Salesman (uncredited) ★ 6.4 Casanova Brown 1944
Hotel Manager ★ 6.4 High Wall 1947
★ 6.3 Good Sam 1948
Tramp ★ 6.3 The Story of Dr. Wassell 1944
Missionary (uncredited) ★ 6.4 The Mad Miss Manton 1938
Spangler, the Process Server (uncredited) ★ 6.3 The Cowboy and the Lady 1938
Chester - Smith's Secretary (uncredited) ★ 6.3 Female 1933
Gas Station Attendant (Uncredited) ★ 6.2 Fort Massacre 1958
Charlie ★ 6.2 The Big Broadcast of 1938 1938
Prisoner Playing Harmonica (uncredited) ★ 6.2 Private Detective 62 1933
Cab Driver ★ 6.3 Woman in Hiding 1950
Link ★ 6.3 They Made Me a Criminal 1939
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) ★ 6.1 True Confession 1937
Coroner ★ 6.4 Moonrise 1948
Judd Jenkins ★ 6.2 The Velvet Touch 1948
Herbie ★ 6 Broadway Bill 1934
Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited) ★ 6.4 At the Circus 1939
Telegraph Clerk (uncredited) ★ 5.9 Words and Music 1948
Hollywood Realtor (uncredited) ★ 6.1 Nancy Drew... Reporter 1939
Tracy (uncredited) ★ 6.2 In Old Oklahoma 1943
Ben ★ 6 The Oklahoma Kid 1939
Hotel Clerk ★ 6.2 Made for Each Other 1939
Newark Radio Operator (uncredited) ★ 5.9 The Desperadoes 1943
Dan Walters - Bartender ★ 5.7 This Is the Army 1943
Waiter (uncredited) ★ 6.2 The Spoilers 1942
Hotel Manager (uncredited) ★ 5.6 Goin' to Town 1935
Cowboy ★ 6 Born to Be Bad 1950
Jewelry Salesman ★ 6 Great Guns 1941
Postman ★ 6 Bad Girl 1931
Expectant Father (uncredited) ★ 5.5 Ambush at Cimarron Pass 1958
Judge Stanfield ★ 5.9 It's a Great Feeling 1949
RR Information Clerk ★ 5.9 Cause for Alarm! 1951
Mr. Carston, Postman ★ 6.3 The Return of Frank James 1940
Bystander ★ 5 Fighting Caravans 1931
Mustachioed Barfly (uncredited) ★ 5 Kansas Pacific 1953
Casey ★ 6 Western Union 1941
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