Fred Kelsey
Born: 1884-08-20 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Died: 1961-09-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.
Filmography
1959
- Westbound as Townsman (uncredited)
1958
- Auntie Mame as Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
1957
- The Helen Morgan Story as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
- Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend as Barfly (uncredited)
1956
- Serenade as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
- The Opposite Sex as Club Patron (uncredited)
1955
- To Catch a Thief as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Illegal as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Tall Man Riding as Townsman (uncredited)
1954
- Lucky Me as Passerby on Street (uncredited)
- Riding Shotgun as Townsman (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born as Audience Member (uncredited)
- So You Want to Know Your Relatives as Mr. Watson (uncredited)
- The Silver Chalice as Silversmith (uncredited)
- Outlaw's Son
1953
- Crime Wave as Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
- So You Think You Can't Sleep as Sleeping patient in waiting room
- So You Want to Be a Musician as Restaurant diner
- Murder Without Tears as Sergeant-at-Arms
1952
- Springfield Rifle as Barfly (uncredited)
- O. Henry's Full House as Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
- Carson City as Townsman (uncredited)
- Hans Christian Andersen as First Gendarme
- Room for One More
- So You Want to Enjoy Life as Boat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)
- My Six Convicts as Store Detective
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Doc Jones (uncredited)
- Strangers on a Train as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
- Goodbye, My Fancy as Party Guest (Uncredited)
- Storm Warning as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Enforcer
1950
- Backfire as Fight Fan (uncredited)
- The Flame and the Arrow as Guard (uncredited)
- Revenue Agent as Sgt. Wallace
- The Damned Don't Cry as Man on Dock (uncredited)
- So You Want to Hold Your Husband as Lamb - Curry's Partner
- So You Think You're Not Guilty as Police Turnkey (uncredited)
- So You Want a Raise
1949
- Flamingo Road as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Fountainhead as Old Watchman (uncredited)
- Colorado Territory as Train Engineer (uncredited)
- The Inspector General as Villager (uncredited)
- Dancing in the Dark as Deputy
- Homicide as Officer O'Brien
- So You Want to Be a Muscle Man as Delivery Man
- So You Want to Be an Actor as Counter Man
1948
- Silver River as Townsman (uncredited)
- The Noose Hangs High as Cop (uncredited)
- So You Want an Apartment as Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)
1947
- The Unfaithful as Courtroom Spectator
- Nora Prentiss as Turnkey (uncredited)
1946
- Night and Day as First-Nighter (uncredited)
- Three Strangers as Man on the Street / Man in Pub (uncredited)
- Detour to Danger as Det. Kelsey
- Never Say Goodbye as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Man I Love as Mac the Doorman (uncredited)
- So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck as Fred
- Andy Plays Hookey as Policeman
- So You Want to Play the Horses as Detective (uncredited)
- Hiss and Yell as Policeman (uncredited)
- A Stolen Life as Bartender (uncredited)
1945
- Mildred Pierce as Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
- Frontier Days as Mayor Stone (uncredited)
- Christmas in Connecticut as Harper (uncredited)
- How DOooo You Do as Detective
- If a Body Meets a Body as Detective
- Snooper Service
- Come Out Fighting as Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)
- Saratoga Trunk as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Strange Mr. Gregory as Lefert
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as Cop in Raid (uncredited)
- Roaring Guns
- Make Your Own Bed as Turnkey
- Trial by Trigger as Jerry (uncredited)
- Crime by Night as Dad Martin (uncredited)
- Shine on Harvest Moon as Policeman in patrol car (uncredited)
1943
- Northern Pursuit as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- True to Life as Cop (uncredited)
- One Dangerous Night as Detective Dickens
- Action in the North Atlantic as Joe (uncredited)
- Here Comes Mr. Zerk as Policeman
- Old Acquaintance as Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
- Food and Magic
- A Gem of a Jam as Police Chief
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
- Murder on the Waterfront as Capt. Beal
1942
- Gentleman Jim as Sutro (uncredited)
- Bullet Scars as Police Chief Hansen
- Lady Gangster as Policeman (uncredited)
- Counter-Espionage as Dickens
- In This Our Life as Jailer (uncredited)
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Jailer
- I Was Framed as Drunk
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Policeman (uncredited)
- X Marks the Spot as Police Officer Martin
- My Favorite Blonde as Sam - Policeman
- Larceny, Inc. as Bronson
- Spy Ship as Night Watchman
- Murder in the Big House as "Screw"
- Dear! Deer! as Policeman
1941
- Invisible Ghost as Detective Ryan
- Pacific Blackout as Cop
- Secrets of the Lone Wolf as Wesley Dickens
- The Man Who Came to Dinner as Detective (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Detective Dickens
- They Died with Their Boots On as Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Mr. District Attorney as Officer McCloskey
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Police Sergeant
1940
- Mutiny in the County as Policeman
- High School as Junk Man
- Mexican Spitfire Out West as Jim - Detective
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Dickens
- The Lone Wolf Strikes as Dickens
- The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady as Dickens
- The Green Archer as Capt. Thompson
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Bailiff
- The Golden Fleecing as Cop (uncredited)
- Misbehaving Husbands as Sgt. Murphy
- Deadwood Dick as Bottles
1939
- Tiny Troubles as Judge
- Clock Wise as Landlord
- Tell No Tales as Policeman at School (uncredited)
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Agitator
- Chicken Wagon Family as Policeman
- Charlie Chan in Reno as Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan at Treasure Island as Detective - in Cab and at Theatre
- Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as Pete - Railroad Detective
- Too Busy to Work as Hank Fidler
- Moving Vanities as Police Officer (uncredited)
1938
- Night Spot as Police Band Leader
- Many Sappy Returns as Finnegan
- Everybody's Doing It as Police Sergeant
- Safety in Numbers as Cop
- Straight, Place and Show as Cop at Racetrack
- Down on the Farm as Bit Role
- Josette as Hotel Detective
- Berth Quakes as Train Conductor
1937
- Borrowing Trouble as Policeman
- Big Business as Oil Man at Well
- Super-Sleuth as Jailer
- Love Is News as Cop (uncredited)
- Love and Hisses as Officer
- She Had to Eat as Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)
- The Lady Escapes as Man on telephone (uncredited)
- One Mile from Heaven as Smitty - Policeman
- Angel's Holiday as Conductor
- That I May Live as Abner Jenkins
- Wild and Woolly as Policeman (uncredited)
- Slave Ship as Seaman at Auction
- Time Out for Romance as Policeman
1936
- Private Number as Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)
- High Tension as Desk Sergeant
- The Little Red Schoolhouse as First Detective
- The Garden Murder Case as Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)
- The Witness Chair as Detective Costigan
- At Sea Ashore as Cop (uncredited)
1935
- Danger Ahead as Detective O'Brien
- Diamond Jim as Horsley's Secretary
- Hot Money as Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
- Carnival as Bit Part
- The Public Menace as Mike - Cop
- The Sagebrush Troubadour as Hank Polk
- A Notorious Gentleman as Detective
- One Frightened Night as Sheriff Jenks
- Death Flies East as Police Lieutenant O'Brien
- Atlantic Adventure as Police Officer Riley
- Horses' Collars as Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)
1934
- Among the Missing as Police Sgt. Murphy
- Beloved as Mulvaney
- Rough Necking as Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.
- I'll Be Suing You as Insurance Adjustor
- I'll Tell the World as Sergeant at Border
- Lightning Strikes Twice as Dugan
- School for Girls as Detective
- The Crime Doctor as Bloodgood
- Twentieth Century as Train Detective (uncredited)
- The Moth as Detective Blake
- Strictly Fresh Yeggs as Policeman
1933
- Quiet Please! as Train Conductor
- The Bowery as Detective Kelsey (uncredited)
- The Crime of the Century as Police Guard (uncredited)
- King of the Jungle as Cop (uncredited)
- Sailor's Luck as Cop
1932
- If I Had a Million as Prison Jailer (uncredited)
- Discarded Lovers as Delaney
- Speak Easily as Process Server
- Huddle as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Iceman's Ball as Police Sergeant
- Yoo-Hoo as Detective
- Shopping with Wifie as Det. Dugan
- Love in High Gear as Detective Duffy
- Red Haired Alibi as Corcoran
- Boys Will Be Boys as Doorman
- Guilty as Hell as Detective Duffy
1931
- Subway Express as Detective Kearney
- Side Show as Sheriff Hornsby
- Young Donovan's Kid as Collins
- The Naughty Flirt as Policeman (uncredited)
- Scandal Sheet as Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy
1930
- Going Wild as The Conductor
- Wide Open as Detective
- Scarlet Pages as Murphy
- Men Without Law as Deputy Sheriff Jeff
- The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case as Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
- Road to Paradise as Casey
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self - Tour Guide
- The Girl Said No as Policeman
- Murder on the Roof as Ryan
- She Got What She Wanted
- Only Saps Work as Murphy (uncredited)
- The Woman Racket as Police Captain
1929
- Wrong Again
- The Donovan Affair as Carney
- Smiling Irish Eyes as County Fair Manager
- The Faker as Police Detective
1928
- Tenderloin as Detective Simpson
- Harold Teen as Mr. Lovewell
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Detective
- The Last Warning as Inspector
- A Woman of Affairs as Detective (uncredited)
- While the City Sleeps as Detective in Shadow Box
- Plastered in Paris
- Naughty Baby as Dugan
- On Trial as Clerk
- The Wright Idea as M. T. Flatt
1927
- The Gorilla as Mulligan
- Soft Cushions as The Police
- Jewish Prudence as Rent Collector
- The 13th Juror as The Detective
- The Thirteenth Hour as Det. Shaw
- Orchids and Ermine as Police Sergeant
- Held by the Law as Detective
1926
- Atta Boy as Detective
- Say It with Babies as Policeman
- There Ain't No Santa Claus as Store Detective (uncredited)
- The Third Degree as Assistant Chief of Detectives
- Bromo and Juliet as The Detective (uncredited)
- Crazy Like a Fox as Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)
- Dog Shy as Cop
- That's My Baby as Murphy
- The Mystery Pilot as Skipper Larsen
1925
- Youth and Adventure as Red Mullin
- Seven Sinners as Policeman
- Excuse Me as George Ketchem
- Seven Keys to Baldpate
- Paths to Paradise as Confederate
- The Lawful Cheater as Tom Horan
- Little Annie Rooney as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Uneasy Three
- Friendly Enemies
1924
- The Night Hawk
- The Yankee Consul as Agent John J. Doyle
1923
- Lights Out as Decker
- Souls for Sale as Detective Quinn (uncredited)
- The Eleventh Hour as The Submarine Commander
- Lovebound as Detective Hahn
- Bag and Baggage as Fred
1922
- Manslaughter as Member of the Jury (uncredited)
- The Song of Life as Police Inspector
- Deserted at the Altar as The Other Man
- South of Suva as Karl Swartz
- Captain Fly-by-Night as Gomez
- Don't Shoot as Police Officer
- One Clear Call as Starnes
1921
- The Last Card as Detective (uncredited)
- There Are No Villains as Dugall
- Puppets of Fate as Bobs
- The Match-Breaker as Detective
- The Off-Shore Pirate as Sailor
1920
- Alias Jimmy Valentine as Bit Part (uncredited)
1919
- The Fire Flingers as Sgt. Powers
- The Light of Victory as Captain Eric von Prohme
- The Silk Lined Burglar as Capt. von Hoffmeier
1918
- A Society Sensation as JIm Cox
- The Empty Cab as The Detective
- The Yellow Dog as Max Kummich
- The Purple Lily ... (Director)
1917
- The Drifter ... (Director)
- Blood Money ... (Director)
- The Wrong Man ... (Director)
- The Fighting Gringo ... (Director)
- Hair-Trigger Burke ... (Scenario Writer)
- Six-Shooter Justice ... (Director)
- The Almost Good Man ... (Director)
- The Honor of an Outlaw as The Deputy
- The Golden Bullet ... (Director)
- Goin' Straight ... (Director)
- A 44-Calibre Mystery ... (Director)
- The Bad Man of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- The Outlaw and the Lady ... (Director)
- The Mysterious Outlaw ... (Director)
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
1916
- The Nymph ... (Director)
- The Black Terror ... (Director)
- Brothers Equal ... (Director)
1915
- Station Content ... (Director)
- Her Buried Past ... (Director)
- The Pretender ... (Director)
1914
- Silent Sandy as Silent Sandy
- Arms and the Gringo
- Over the Ledge ... (Director)
- The Exposure ... (Director)