Roscoe Karns
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series.
From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale.
His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964.
Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Fotos
Películas (138)
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964 · Major Phipps
Onionhead
1958 · 'Windy' Woods
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Officer Carmody
Speed to Spare
1948 · Kangaroo
Devil's Cargo
1948 · Lt. Hardy
The Inside Story
1948 · Eustace Peabody
That's My Man
1947 · Toby Gleeton
Vigilantes of Boomtown
1947 · Bill Delaney
Avalanche
1946 · Red Kelly
I Ring Doorbells
1946 · Stubby
One Way to Love
1946 · Hobie Simmons
Hi, Good Lookin'!
1944 · Archie
The Navy Way
1944 · Frankie Gimble
Minstrel Man
1944 · Lasses White
Old Acquaintance
1943 · Charlie Archer
His Butler's Sister
1943 · Fields
Riding High
1943 · Shorty
Stage Door Canteen
1943 · Roscoe Karns
My Son, The Hero
1943 · Big-Time Morgan
You Can't Escape Forever
1942 · 'Mac' McTurk
Yokel Boy
1942 · Al Devers
Woman of the Year
1942 · Phil Whittaker
A Tragedy at Midnight
1942 · Cassidy
Road to Happiness
1941 · Charley Grady
Half Shot at Sunrise
1941 · Henry Warren
The Gay Vagabond
1941 · Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon
Black Eyes and Blues
1941 · Alfred Harmon
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · Monahan
Petticoat Politics
1941 · Joe Higgins
Meet the Missus
1940 · Joe Higgins
Ladies Must Live
1940 · Pete Larrabee
They Drive by Night
1940 · Irish McGurn
Saturday's Children
1940 · Willie Sands
Double Alibi
1940 · Jeremiah Jenkins
His Girl Friday
1940 · McCue
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939 · Mal Stamp
Everything's on Ice
1939 · Felix Miller
Dancing Co-Ed
1939 · Joe Drews
King of Chinatown
1939 · Rip Harrigan
Thanks for the Memory
1938 · George Kent
You and Me
1938 · Cuffy
Tip-Off Girls
1938 · Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan
Dangerous to Know
1938 · Duncan
Scandal Street
1938 · Austin Brown
Partners in Crime
1937 · Sim Perkins
On Such a Night
1937 · Joe Flynn
Night of Mystery
1937 · Sergeant Heath
Murder Goes to College
1937 · Sim Perkins
Clarence
1937 · Clarence Smith
Cain and Mabel
1936 · Reilly
Three Married Men
1936 · Peter Cary
Three Cheers for Love
1936 · Doc 'Short Circuit' Wilson
Border Flight
1936 · Calico Smith
Woman Trap
1936 · Mopsy
Two-Fisted
1935 · Chick Moran
Front Page Woman
1935 · Toots O'Grady
Alibi Ike
1935 · Carey
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Johnson
The Woman in Red
1935 · Man in court room (uncredited)
Red Hot Tires
1935 · Bud Keene
Wings in the Dark
1935 · Nick Williams
I Sell Anything
1934 · Monk
Elmer and Elsie
1934 · Rocky Cott
Shoot the Works
1934 · Sailor Burke
Twentieth Century
1934 · Owen O'Malley
Come On, Marines!
1934 · Spud McGurke
It Happened One Night
1934 · Oscar Shapeley
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Tweedledee
The Women in His Life
1933 · Aloysius Lester
One Sunday Afternoon
1933 · Snappy Downer
Gambling Ship
1933 · Blooey
A Lady's Profession
1933 · Tony
Today We Live
1933 · McGinnis
Grand Slam
1933 · Contest Radio Announcer
Lawyer Man
1932 · Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
Under-Cover Man
1932 · Dannie
If I Had a Million
1932 · Private O'Brien
They Call It Sin
1932 · Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
Night After Night
1932 · Leo
One Way Passage
1932 · S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
The Crooked Circle
1932 · Harry Carter
Two Against the World
1932 · Segall, reporter
Week-End Marriage
1932 · Jim Davis
The Roadhouse Murder
1932 · Dale
Play Girl
1932 · Gambler (uncredited)
Stowaway
1932 · Insp. Redding
High Pressure
1932 · Telephone Salesman (uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House
1931 · Frank - Twenty Questions player (uncredited)
Left Over Ladies
1931 · 'Scoop'
Pleasure
1931 · Arnie
Laughing Sinners
1931 · Fred Geer
Many a Slip
1931 · Stan Price
Dirigible
1931 · Sock McGuire
The Gorilla
1930 · Simmons
The Costello Case
1930 · Blair
Man Trouble
1930 · Scott
Little Accident
1930 · Gilbert
Safety in Numbers
1930 · Bertram Shapiro
Troopers Three
1930 · Bugs
New York Nights
1929 · Johnny Dolan
This Thing Called Love
1929 · Harry Bertrand
Copy
1929 · City Editor John Mack
The Flying Fleet
1929 · Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited)
The Shopworn Angel
1928 · Dance Director
Object: Alimony
1928 · Al Bryant
Jazz Mad
1928 · Sol Levy
Moran of the Marines
1928 · Swatty
Beggars of Life
1928 · Lame Hoppy
Win That Girl
1928 · Johnny Norton II
Warming Up
1928 · Hippo
The Vanishing Pioneer
1928 · Ray Hearn
Something Always Happens
1928 · George
The Desert Bride
1928 · Pvt. Terry
The Trail of '98
1928 · Man on Ship (uncredited)
Beau Sabreur
1928 · Buddy
The Jazz Singer
1927 · Agent (uncredited)
Wings
1927 · Lieutenant Cameron
Ten Modern Commandments
1927 · Benny Burnaway
Ritzy
1927 · Smith's Valet
You'd Be Surprised
1926 · Party Guest (uncredited)
Dollar Down
1925 · Gene Meadows
The Overland Limited
1925 · Patrick Henry Madden
The Foolish Virgin
1924 · Chuck Brady
The Midnight Express
1924 · Switch Hogan
Bluff
1924 · Jack Hallowell
The Ten Commandments
1923 · The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
Other Men's Daughters
1923 · Hubert
Conquering the Woman
1922 · Shorty Thompson
The Trouper
1922
Her Own Money
1922 · Jerry Woodward
The Man Tamer
1921 · Bradley P. Caldwell Jr
The Life of the Party
1920 · Sam Perkins
The Family Honor
1920 · Dal Tucker
Poor Relations
1919 · Henry
A Western Governor's Humanity
1915 · The Sheriff
A Species of Mexican Man
1915
From Champion to Tramp
1915 · The Girl's Father
Mr. Carlson of Arizona
1915
