Walter Catlett(1889-1960)
- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
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.
