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Walter Catlett(1889-1960)

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  • Additional Crew
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Walter Catlett in Leave It to Henry (1949)
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Honeymoon for Three (1941)
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Walter Catlett carved out a career for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards, and few actors did it better. A San Francisco native, he started out in vaudeville - with a detour for a while in opera - before breaking into films in the mid-1920s. Two of his best remembered roles were as the stage manager driven to distraction by James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and the local constable who throws the entire cast in jail, and winds up there himself, in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). He retired after making Beau James (1957), and died of a stroke in 1960.
BornFebruary 4, 1889
DiedNovember 14, 1960(71)
BornFebruary 4, 1889
DiedNovember 14, 1960(71)
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Walter Catlett and Norma Terris in Married in Hollywood (1929)
Walter Catlett, Marian Marsh, and Joel McCrea in The Sport Parade (1932)
Frederick Brady, Walter Catlett, and Sheila Ryan in Slightly Scandalous (1946)
Walter Catlett, Ilka Chase, Charles Judels, and Elizabeth Patterson in The Big Party (1930)
Mary Boland, Walter Catlett, and Charles Ruggles in Mama Loves Papa (1933)
Sue Carol, Walter Catlett, and Nick Stuart in Why Leave Home? (1929)
Walter Catlett, Minna Gombell, Anita Louise, and Dick Powell in Going Places (1938)
Noah Beery Jr., Walter Catlett, Hattie McDaniel, Martha O'Driscoll, Patsy Patterson, Tim Ryan, Virginia Sale, and Edna May Wonacott in Hi, Beautiful (1944)
Alan Baxter, Walter Catlett, Victor Cox, Arthur Kennedy, Dennis Morgan, and Wayne Morris in Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Iris Adrian, Mischa Auer, George Barbier, Walter Catlett, and Johnny Downs in Sing Another Chorus (1941)
Walter Catlett, Leon Errol, Frances Langford, and Robert Paige in Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)
Walter Catlett, Leon Errol, Frances Langford, and Robert Paige in Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)

Known for

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby
7.8
  • Slocum
  • 1938
Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8
  • Morrow
  • 1936
Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, and Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
The Front Page
6.7
  • Murphy(as Walter L. Catlett)
  • 1931
Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Colman, and Donald Woods in A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities
7.8
  • Barsad
  • 1935

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Actor

  • Beau James (1957)
    Beau James
  • The Gay Nineties
  • Gary Cooper, Anthony Perkins, Pat Boone, Richard Eyer, Dorothy McGuire, and Samantha the Goose in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
    Friendly Persuasion
  • The Magical World of Disney (1954)
    The Magical World of Disney
  • Climax! (1954)
    Climax!
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in The Abbott and Costello Show (1952)
    The Abbott and Costello Show
  • Angela Cartwright, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson, Marjorie Lord, and Danny Thomas in The Danny Thomas Show (1953)
    The Danny Thomas Show
  • Charles Farrell and Gale Storm in My Little Margie (1952)
    My Little Margie
  • Alan Hale Jr., Judy Canova, and Eddie Foy Jr. in Honeychile (1951)
    Honeychile
  • Bing Crosby, Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Barton, Jacques Gencel, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, Beverly Washburn, and Jane Wyman in Here Comes the Groom (1951)
    Here Comes the Groom
  • Father Takes the Air (1951)
    Father Takes the Air
  • Walter Catlett, Gary Gray, M'liss McClure, and Raymond Walburn in Father's Wild Game (1950)
    Father's Wild Game
  • Walter Catlett, Brett King, Mary Stuart, and Raymond Walburn in Father Makes Good (1950)
    Father Makes Good
  • Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949)
    The Inspector General

Writer

  • Stage Struck
  • Sue Carol, Richard Keene, Dixie Lee, David Rollins, and Nick Stuart in Why Leave Home? (1929)
    Why Leave Home?

Additional Crew

  • Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Charles Judels, Christian Rub, and Evelyn Venable in Pinocchio (1940)
    Pinocchio
    • (uncredited)
  • Happy Days (1929)
    Happy Days

Videos4

Official Trailer
Trailer 1:52
Official Trailer
Honeymoon For Three
Trailer 2:29
Honeymoon For Three
Bringing Up Baby
Trailer 1:38
Bringing Up Baby
Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition
Promo 0:17
Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition

Personal details

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    • February 4, 1889
    • San Francisco, California, USA
    • November 14, 1960
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(stroke)
    • Kathleen Martyn1932 - November 14, 1960 (his death)
    • (Sibling)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared (as "Harry Miller"; Broadway debut) in "So Long Letty" on Broadway (1916). Musical/farce. Based on material by Oliver Morosco (who also produced and directed) and Elmer Harris. Music and lyrics by Earl Carroll. Musical Direction by Harry James. Musical Staging by Julian Alfred. Shubert Theatre: 23 Oct 1916-13 Jan 1917 (96 performances). Cast: Charlotte Greenwood (as "Letty Robbins"), Roy Adams, Margaret App, Winnie Baldwin, Kay Beach, Jack Birkson, May Boley, Percy Bronson, Betty Calais, Robert Calley, Dorothy Cameron, Frances Cameron, Madeline Cameron, Jennie Cannar, Marie Cattell, Pauline De Lorme, Vera Doria, Hazel Ellsworth, Florence Flandreaux, Grover Frankne, Sydney Grant, Muriel Griel, Murray Lavone, Frank Leslie, Ben Linn, William McGuire, Vera Mercer, Margaret Moll, Frank O'Neil, Betty Parker, Gertrude Reynolds, Jessie Reynolds, Wesley Spears, Jack Wells, Ethel Westie.
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    He is the uncredited voice of the not-so-honest Honest John in the Disney classic Pinocchio (1940).

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