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