Emerging from Jersey City, New Jersey, Kilian entered the performing arts at eighteen by joining a vaudeville troupe, later transitioning to Broadway in the mid-1920s before making his first screen appearance by decade’s end. Over the next twenty years he built a steady reputation as a character actor, often cast as a villain in films such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) and sustaining a se… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Spellbound 1945 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Series ★ 7.8 All in the Family 1971
Clerk ★ 7.3 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939
Esmeralda's Hangman (uncredited) ★ 7.2 Sergeant York 1941
Andrews (uncredited) ★ 7.2 The Mark of Zorro 1940
Boatman (uncredited) Series ★ 7.3 The Jeffersons 1975
★ 7 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
Baggage Man (uncredited) ★ 7 This Gun for Hire 1942
Drew ★ 7 Yellow Sky 1948
Bartender (uncredited) ★ 7.2 All This, and Heaven Too 1940
Gendarme ★ 7 Colorado Territory 1949
Missouri Sheriff (uncredited) ★ 7.1 Stars in My Crown 1950
Ned (uncredited) ★ 6.9 No Way Out 1950
Father (uncredited) Series ★ 6.9 Planet of the Apes 1974
Human ★ 7 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940
Minor Role (uncredited) ★ 6.8 Boys Town 1938
The Sheriff ★ 6.9 City for Conquest 1940
Bill Poster (uncredited) ★ 7 Johnny Come Lately 1943
Tramp ★ 6.8 Reign of Terror 1949
Jailer (uncredited) ★ 6.8 The Tall Target 1951
John K. Gannon (uncredited) Series ★ 6.7 Gunsmoke 1955
Homer Jones ★ 6.7 Uncertain Glory 1944
LaTour, member of underground ★ 6.7 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1939
'Pap' Finn Series ★ 6.7 The Brady Bunch 1969
★ 6.6 Marie Antoinette 1938
Guard in Louis' Cell (uncredited) ★ 6.5 Dust Be My Destiny 1939
Doc Saunders ★ 6.6 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1938
Sheriff ★ 6.5 The Spanish Main 1945
Santa Madre Captain ★ 6.5 Blood and Sand 1941
Priest ★ 6.2 Invisible Stripes 1939
Loading Dock Foreman (uncredited) ★ 6.3 Virginia City 1940
Abraham Lincoln ★ 6.4 The Flame and the Arrow 1950
Apothecary Mazzoni ★ 6.3 Reap the Wild Wind 1942
Widgeon ★ 5.9 Dillinger 1945
Pa Dillinger (uncredited) ★ 6.2 I Shot Jesse James 1949
Soapy ★ 6.2 Dr. Cyclops 1940
Steve Baker ★ 5.3 Little Giant 1946
Gus Anderson (salesman) ★ 6.4 Duel in the Sun 1946
Gambler (uncredited) ★ 6.3 The Return of Frank James 1940
Preacher ★ 6 Western Union 1941
Charlie ★ 5.7 Santa Fe Trail 1940
Dispatch Rider (uncredited) ★ 4.4 Unknown World 1951
Dr. Jeremiah Morley (uncredited) Start from another title 
