Remembering the Lesser Known (actors, comedians, etc.)... (watch)

[soupson1]

Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike)










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Edwards

[dizzybint]

Thelma Ritter loved her acting. https://aurorasginjoint.com/2012/09/...t-a-character/

[picklejuice]

Joyce Bulifant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Bulifant

[Tantalust]

Here's my quickly edited list from my PC's mothballs folder. Some descriptions lifted from IMDb etc. Sorry for any dupes!

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Allen Jenkins: "slow-witted gangster/taxi driver/etc". Boss's dumb underling, wisecracking mob henchman [Dead End, etc] "But, boss...!"

Percy Helton - Fat, hyper little guy, "hoarse, raspy voice and breathy delivery". [drunk Santa Claus on "Miracle on 34th street" etc]

Walter Tetley - Chubby, high pitched voice, always looked 15, did Sherman's voice on Bullwinkle show.

John Fiedler- High-pitched nervous voice, "12 Angry Men" etc


Robert Emhardt - Chubby, "Mayor" or politician types, on "Andy Griffith".


Burt Mustin - Tall, skinny, elderly gent on Mayberry ["Jud"] etc.

Eugene Pallette - "Gargantuan-bellied, frog-voiced character actor who was a staple in 1940s movies". [Young Tom Edison, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, etc]

Byron Foulger - "Foulger's mustachioed, bespectacled, tremble-chinned, owlish countenance was one of the most familiar faces ever to grace the screen." Shopkeepers, "Andy Griffith Show" hotel clerk

Mary Wickes - Hawkish, wise-cracking, nosy-neighbor type, millions of old sitcoms.

Charles Halton, Thinning hair, rimless glasses, officious mannered weaselly attorney, played bank examiner in "It's a Wonderful Life",

Charles Lane Charles Lane Mean, miserly sourpuss, real estate salesman on "It's a Wonderful Life".

Edward Brophy- "chubby, bald-headed face with pop-eyes", always the assistant for the 'Boss'. "Bald, rasping-voiced, cigar chewing, diminutive Hollywood character actor who specialized in playing gangsters, both in a comic or serious variety, at his peak during the 1930s and 1940s."

Thurston Hall- Gray, older, blustery, pompous exec/banker type, Topper's [TV] boss [Mr. Schuyler].

[Tantalust]

Originally Posted by picklejuice

Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi - Biography - IMDb

"She was typecast as mothers and, later, grandmothers, and played James Stewart's mother four times, most famously as "Ma Bailey" in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). "

And she played Lionel Barrymore's wife in the fantasy "On Borrowed Time" [1939].

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by Tantalust

And she played Lionel Barrymore's wife in the fantasy "On Borrowed Time" [1939].

Ms. Bondi was an actress who "played old" long before she actually was old. Walter Brennan was an actor who did the same.

[Tantalust]

...Yup, another of those was William Frawley, [I Love Lucy] who forever seemed to portray only old fartish [fartlyish?] types.

[Lodestar 77]

Originally Posted by Tantalust

...Yup, another of those was William Frawley, [I Love Lucy] who forever seemed to portray only old fartish [fartlyish?] types.

Cracked me up! I L'dOL and I am alone!

Fred Mertz, fartly? Fartlyish? I think you're on to something!

Loved him in the role, BTW.

[Tantalust]

Another was C. Aubrey Smith,



[Colonel Williams, in Wee Willie Winkie -1937]
[The Lord of Dorincourt, in Little Lord Faunlelroy [great role!) -1936]
[Lord Capulet, in Romeo and Juliet - 1936]
[Commander Bragg on Tennessee Tuxedo - 1963 ]

Aubrey almost always portrayed very elderly, dignified old-fartlyesque Englishmen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkZzLUvuLLU

[P47P47]

Frank Nelson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_r1Ynl4Ls