Gene Roth
Born: 1903-01-08 in Redfield, South Dakota, USA
Died: 1976-07-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gene Roth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976) was an American film actor. Born in Redfield, South Dakota, Roth was born Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth. He appeared in over 250 films between 1922 and 1967. Roth is remembered for his portrayals of heavies and bad guys in Three Stooges short films such as Slaphappy Sleuths, Hot Stuff, Quiz Whizz, Outer Space Jitters and Pies and Guys. His most memorable role was as Russian spy Bortsch in Dunked in the Deep (1949), as well as its remake, Commotion on the Ocean (1956). His most famous line was his threat to Shemp Howard: "Give me dat fill-um!" ('fill-um' being 'film' with a Russian accent). Roth also starred in the 1953 Columbia Pictures serial The Lost Planet, as the dictator of the lost planet Ergro. He later made frequent television appearances including seven episodes of The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1954. His Stooge film appearance was in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules. Roth was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Roth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1967
- Rosie! as Joseph
1966
- Mission: Impossible as General von Cramm
- The Claw Monsters as Barkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
- Sylvia as Professor Eglebert (uncredited)
- Young Dillinger as Herman, Justice of the Peace
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Cycle Repairman
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as 1st Policeman
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Dakotas
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father as The Minister (uncredited)
- Twice-Told Tales as Cabman
1962
- How the West Was Won as Riverboat Poker Player (uncredited)
- Tower of London as The Tailor
- The Three Stooges Meet Hercules as Captain (uncredited)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Berlin Royal Academy Representative at Train Station
- Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock as Jude
1961
- Ben Casey
- Cain's Hundred as Syndicate Board Member (uncredited)
- 87th Precinct
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent as Governor of Animals (uncredited)
- The Cat Burglar as Pete
- Famous Ghost Stories as Mr. Nelson (segment 'Tormented')
1960
- The Tall Man
- Cimarron as Connors (uncredited)
- Tormented as Mr. Nelson
1959
- Lock-Up
- Tightrope
- The Rebel Set as Train Conductor
- The Blue Angel as Drunken Sea Captain (uncredited)
- Attack of the Giant Leeches as Sheriff Kovis
- Alaska Passage as Anderson
- The Miracle of the Hills as Sheriff Crane
1958
- Bat Masterson as Mayor Oliver Hinton
- Sea Hunt
- The Young Lions as Bavarian Café Manager (uncredited)
- I Want to Live! as Eric (uncredited)
- Quiz Whizz as Montgomery M. Montgomery
- Earth vs. the Spider as Sheriff Cagle
- Pies and Guys
- She Demons as Igor
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Man
- Tombstone Territory as Townsperson who takes the bets
- Suspicion as The Doorman
- 26 Men
- The Thin Man
- Harbor Command
- Outer Space Jitters as The Grand Zilch
- The Quiet Gun as Frank Townsend (uncredited)
- Utah Blaine as Tom Cory
- Zombies of Mora Tau as Sam, the chauffeur
- Rockabilly Baby as Mr. Harry Johnson
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Wilkie - Storekeeper
- The Man Called X
- Friendly Persuasion as Farmer (uncredited)
- Nightfall as Bartender (uncredited)
- Wetbacks as Truck Thug
- Flight to Hong Kong as Ship captain
- Running Target as Holesworth
- Commotion on the Ocean as Bortch
1955
- Cheyenne
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Highway Patrol
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- Interrupted Melody as King Marke in 'Tristan und Isolde' (non-singing scene)
1954
- Climax! as Basil
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as Tom ('Nobody can cook like Milly') (uncredited)
- Désirée as Von Essen
- Casino Royale as Basil
- Port of Hell as Detonation Ship Captain
1953
- I Led Three Lives
- General Electric Theater as Doorman
- Count the Hours! as Prison Guard
- Jack McCall, Desperado
- Prince of Pirates as Captain Brock
- The Lost Planet as Reckov
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Ethan McCarthy (uncredited)
1952
- Mutiny as Mr. Potter (uncredited)
- Montana Belle as Marshal Ripple
- Fargo as Blacksmith
- Red Snow as Russian Colonel
- Gold Fever as Bill Johnson
- The Maverick as Fred Nixon
1951
- Dragnet
- Boston Blackie
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as March
- Westward the Women as Bartender (uncredited)
- Target Unknown as German Guard (uncredited)
- Mysterious Island as Pirate Capt. Shard
- Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere as Vultura
- Chicago Calling as Guard
1950
- The Baron of Arizona as Father Guardian
- Slaphappy Sleuths as Fuller Grime
- Again Pioneers as Monty Barnes
- Pirates of the High Seas as Gov. Frederick Whitlock
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Sergeant Bolan
- The James Brothers of Missouri as Marshal Rand [Chs. 10-12]
- Alaska Patrol as Ehrlich
- Dunked in the Deep as Mr. Bortch
- Ghost of Zorro as George Crane
- Sheriff of Wichita as Howard Thornton
- The Big Sombrero as Ben McBride
- The Sickle or the Cross as Pakin
1948
- Four Faces West as Poker Player
- Adventures of Frank and Jesse James as The Marshal [Chs. 9-10]
- The Valiant Hombre as Pete (Bartender)
- Smuggler's Cove as Franz Drum
- The Gallant Legion as Agitator in Bar
- Oklahoma Badlands as Oliver Budge
1947
- Nightmare Alley as Masseur (uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Homesteader (uncredited)
- Framed as (uncredited)
- The Black Widow as John M. Walker
- Mr. District Attorney as Doorman (uncredited)
- Homesteaders of Paradise Valley as Bill Hume
- Jesse James Rides Again as Sheriff Duffie
- The Gas House Kids in Hollywood as Policeman (uncreditited)
- Marshal of Cripple Creek as Long John Case
1946
- Canyon Passage as Miner (uncredited)
- Lost City of the Jungle as Police Captain Hammond
- Strange Journey as Hansen
- Larceny in Her Heart as Asylum Orderly
- Girl on the Spot as Gambler (uncredited)
1945
- Crime, Inc. as Big Ed Johnson (uncredited)
- Sudan as Executioner (uncredited)
- Stairway to Light as Hector Chevigny (uncredited)
- A Game of Death as Pleshke
- The Shanghai Cobra as Morgan
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Second Policeman in Car 13 (uncredited)
- Bad Men of the Border as Bill
- Beyond the Pecos as John Heydrick
1944
- Charlie Chan in the Secret Service as Luis Philipe Vega
- Shake Hands with Murder as Mr. Howard
- Seven Doors to Death as Detective Morgan (uncredited)
- Rogues' Gallery as Mr. Joyce
1943
- The Spider Woman as Henchman Taylor (uncredited)
- Crazy House as Dead End Character
- The Sultan's Daughter as Ludwig
1940
- Melody Ranch as Henchman Joe #1
1939
- Daughter of the Tong as Henchman
- Mercy Plane as Mechanic
1923
- Merry-Go-Round as Guard