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Stanley Fields Biography — Blustery Thirties Character Actor

December 18, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Stanley Fields in Little Caesar

Unraveling truth and myth in the life of character actor Stanley Fields. Born Walter L. Agnew, you’ll know him from Cimarron, Little Caesar (1931), Island of Lost Souls (1932), Algiers (1938), and several other major 1930s Hollywood releases.

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Guy Kibbee Biography – Character Actor Played Sugar Daddies, Goofballs, and Patriarchs

January 11, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Guy Kibbee in Big Hearted Herbert

Biography of 1930s and 1940s character actor Guy Kibbee, who starred in over one hundred Hollywood films. Lovable Kibbee could play lecherous sugar daddies and folksy patriarchs with equal skill.

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Grant Mitchell – WHAT A CHARACTER! – Broadway to Hollywood, 1902-1948

November 19, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 17 Comments

Grant Mitchell in Wild Boys of the Road

Biography of prolific Hollywood character actor Grant Mitchell. His great-uncle was a US President and his father a famed Civil War General. Mitchell tried careers in law and the military, but eventually took to the stage where he began a slow rise to stardom in 1902.

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Hugh Herbert – Woo Woo Man vs. F. Hugh and Other Biographical Corrections

November 11, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 22 Comments

Hugh Herbert illustration from August 1938 issue of Hollywood Magazine

A complete biography of Woo Woo! man Hugh Herbert that reestablishes many writing and directorial credits previously given to F. Hugh Herbert and reveals his wife, Rose Epstein, and co-star, Anita Pam, were the same person. Hugh’s early vaudeville days dating from 1911 are covered as well as his earliest work at the film studios.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: anita pam, comedy shorts, f hugh herbert, Goodbye Again, Hugh Herbert, RKO (Pathe), tom francis, tom herbert, vaudeville, vitaphone, what a character, woo woo

David Landau, the Pre-Code Era’s Own Bitter Man

September 24, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 18 Comments

David Landau in Street Scene

A biography of gruff character actor David Landau including his background, stage career and brief movie career as Hollywood’s bitter man of the pre-code era.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Broadway, character actors, David Landau, horse feathers, i am a fugitive from a chain gang, Judge Priest, pre-Code, she done him wrong, stage actors, street scene, what a character

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