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, and died in

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Selected filmography

* ''The Fashion Shop'' (1915, Short) - Fat Customer * ''The Tale of the Night Before'' (1915) - Henry's friend * ''Fat and Furious'' (1917) - Merta's Father * '' Clean Sweep'' (1918) - The Butcher * '' Smoldering Embers'' (1920) - Tramp * ''Dangerous Days'' (1920) - Bartender (uncredited) * '' The Slim Princess'' (1920) - The Governor General * '' The Soul of Youth'' (1920) - Patrolman Jones * '' One Stolen Night'' (1923) * '' Kindled Courage'' (1923) - Marshal * '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (uncredited) (1923) * '' A Boy of Flanders'' - Baas Kronstadt (1924) * '' Open All Night'' (1924) (uncredited) * ''

Dynamite Smith ''Dynamite Smith'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film stars Charles Ray, Bessie Love, and Wallace Beery, and was distributed through Pathé Exchange. The film is presumed ...

'' (1924) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * '' The Red Mill'' (1927) * '' Tillie the Toiler'' (1927) (uncredited) * ''

Soft Cushions ''Soft Cushions'' is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and featuring Boris Karloff. It is a comic take by actor and producer Douglas MacLean on the 1911 play '' Kismet'' and the 1920 silent film adaptation. It is liste ...

'' (1927) * '' Why Sailors Go Wrong'' (1928) (uncredited) * '' Vamping Venus'' (1928) * '' The Cossacks'' (1928) (uncredited) * ''

Napoleon's Barber ''Napoleon's Barber'' is a 1928 American featurette drama film directed by John Ford, and filmed in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. The film, Ford's first talkie, is now considered to be a lost film. Cast * Otto Matieson as Napoleon * N ...

'' (1928 short) * '' Riley the Cop'' (1928) (uncredited) * '' Sailor's Holiday'' (1929) (uncredited) * '' Safety in Numbers'' (1930) (uncredited) * ''

The Big Trail ''The Big Trail'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western early widescreen film shot on location across the American West starring 23-year-old John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh. In 2006, the United States Library ...

'' (1930) (uncredited) * '' Check and Double Check'' (1930) * '' The Grand Parade'' (1930) * '' The Sin Ship'' (1931) * ''

The Public Enemy ''The Public Enemy'' (''Enemies of the Public'' in the UK) is a 1931 American talkie, all-talking Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code gangster film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The film was directed by William A. Wellman and stars James Ca ...

'' (1931) (uncredited) * ''

An American Tragedy ''An American Tragedy'' is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial ...

'' (1931) * '' The Sin of Madelon Claudet'' (1931) * '' Lady and Gent'' (1932) * ''

King Kong King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...

'' (1933) - Watchman (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1933) (uncredited) * ''

Roman Scandals ''Roman Scandals'' is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate productio ...

'' (1933) (uncredited) * '' The House on 56th Street'' (1933) (uncredited) * ''

The Count of Monte Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with '' The Three Musketeers''. L ...

'' (1934) (uncredited) * ''

Call of the Wild ''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Bu ...

'' (1935) * ''

The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight f ...

'' (1935) (uncredited) * '' Barbary Coast'' (1935) (uncredited) * '' A Night at the Opera'' (1935) (uncredited) * '' Divot Diggers'' (1936, Short) (voice) * '' A Day at the Races'' (1937) (uncredited) * '' The Emperor's Candlesticks'' (1937) (uncredited) * '' Stella Dallas'' (1937) (uncredited) * ''

The Prisoner of Zenda ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in or ...

'' (1937) (uncredited) * ''

The Wrong Road ''The Wrong Road'' is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, and Lionel Atwill. The film is now in the public domain. Plot A young unmarried couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose ...

'' (1937) * '' The Cowboy and the Lady'' (1938) (uncredited) * '' Santa Fe Stampede'' (1938) (uncredited) * ''

Son of Frankenstein ''Son of Frankenstein'' is a 1939 American horror film that was directed by Rowland V. Lee and stars Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The film is the third in Universal Pictures' ''Frankenstein'' series and is the follow-up to the ...

'' (1939) (uncredited) * '' I Stole a Million'' (1939) (uncredited) * '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1939) (uncredited) * '' When the Daltons Rode'' (1940) (uncredited) * '' The Return of Frank James'' (1940) (uncredited) * ''

Citizen Kane ''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. ''Citizen Kane'' is frequently cited ...

'' (1941) (uncredited) * ''

Action in the North Atlantic ''Action in the North Atlantic'', also known as ''Heroes Without Uniforms'', is a 1943 American black-and-white war film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Lloyd Bacon, that stars Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey ...

'' (1943) (uncredited)

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