Biography for
Roscoe Karns More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

7 September 1891, San Bernardino, California, USA. (usually erroneously given as 1893)

Date of Death

6 February 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography

On stage since age 15, Roscoe Karns parlayed his machine-gun delivery and street-wise demeanor (although many thought of him as a New Yorker, he was actually from San Bernardino, California) into character roles in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1960s. His peak period, though, was in the 1930s, where he often played a wisecracking cab driver or a brash newspaper reporter (as in His Girl Friday (1940), usually the friend of the hero who helps him solve the murder/catch the bad guys/find the missing heiress, etc.

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Spouse

Mary M. Fraso

(1920 - 6 February 1970) (his death) 2 children

Trivia

Father of Todd Karns.

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