Selmer Jackson
Born: 1888-05-06 in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA
Died: 1971-03-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
Selmer Jackson (May 7, 1888 - March 30, 1971) was an American stage, film and television actor who appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963.
Filmography
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1963
- The Wheeler Dealers as Businessman (uncredited)
1960
1959
- The Atomic Submarine as Admiral Terhune
1958
- The Lost Missile as The Secretary of State
1956
- Autumn Leaves as Mr. Wetherby
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Butler
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire as Dr. Jim O'Toole
- Devil Goddess as Prof. Carl Blakely
1954
- Annie Oakley as John Cromby - Rancher
- City Story
1953
- Sky Commando as Gen. Carson
- Jack McCall, Desperado as Col. Brand
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Col. Jack Redding
- The Ford Television Theatre as Gen. Maddux
- We're Not Married! as Chaplain Hall (uncredited)
- Deadline - U.S.A. as Williams (uncredited)
- Young Man with Ideas as Merritt Crayton - Attorney (uncredited)
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Governor
- Bowery Battalion as Col. Masters
- Elopement as Dr. Halsey (uncredited)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- That's My Boy as Doc Hunter
- Purple Heart Diary as Col. Tappen
- Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas as Governor
- The Living Christ as Pharisee
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Dr. Allen
- Lucky Losers as David Thurston
- The Flying Missile as Col. Halliburton
- No Man of Her Own as Minister (uncredited)
- Gunmen of Abilene as Dr. Johnson
- Mark of the Gorilla as Warden Frank R. Bentley
- Land of Opportunity: The Mardi Gras as Selmer Jackson
1949
- Tulsa as Oilman (uncredited)
- Alaska Patrol as Capt. Wright
- The Fountainhead as Cortlandt Official (uncredited)
- Squadron of Doom as Meredith
- Sorrowful Jones as Doctor (uncredited)
- Renegades of the Sage as Brown
- Forgotten Women as Judge Donnell
1948
- Pitfall as Ed Brawley
- Every Girl Should Be Married as Clergyman (uncredited)
- Dream Girl as Judge Jed Allerton
- The Girl from Manhattan as Dr. Moseby
- The Fuller Brush Man as Henry Seward (uncredited)
- Blonde Ice as District Attorney Ed Chalmers
- The Cobra Strikes as Dr. Keating
- The Gentleman from Nowhere as District Attorney
- Stage Struck as Mr. Howard
- The Dark Past as Warden Benson (uncredited)
- Sealed Verdict as Dr. Bossin
1947
- High Wall as Police Insp. Harding (uncredited)
- Key Witness as Edward Clemmons
- Magic Town as Stringer
- Stepchild as Judge
- The Pretender as Charles Lennox
- Sarge Goes to College as Marine Capt. R.S. Handler
- The Thirteenth Hour as Judge William B. Collins
- A Likely Story as Doctor in Elevator (uncredited)
1946
- Dangerous Money as Ship's Doctor
- San Quentin as Rev. Eckles (uncredited)
- Mysterious Intruder as Dr. Connell (Uncredited)
- The Time of Their Lives as Mr. Dibbs - Museum Curator (uncredited)
- Boston Blackie and the Law as Warden Lund
- The Glass Alibi as Dr. Lawson
- Child of Divorce as Dr. Sterling
- The French Key as Walter Winslow
- She Wrote the Book as Fielding
- Wife Wanted as Lowell Cornell
- Shock as Dr. Blair
1945
- Allotment Wives as Deacon Sam
- Dakota as Dr. Judson
- First Yank into Tokyo as Col. Blaine (uncredited)
- Thrill of a Romance as 2nd Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Royal Mounted Rides Again as RCMP Superintendant MacDonald
- Out of This World as Doctor
- Forever Yours as Williams
- Purity Squad as Darles F. Peters (uncredited)
- This Love of Ours as Dr. Melnik
- Circumstantial Evidence as Warden
- Black Market Babies
- A Sporting Chance as John Smalley
1944
- Hey, Rookie as Col. Robbins
- She's a Sweetheart as General
- Sheriff of Las Vegas as Arthur Stanton
- Stars on Parade as J. L. Carson
- Patrolling the Ether as Chief of Radio Intelligence Division
1943
- Guadalcanal Diary as Col. Thompson (uncredited)
- Honeymoon Lodge as Carol's Lawyer
- Reconnaissance Pilot as Lt. General
- Flight for Freedom as Sea Captain (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Around the World as Consul
- Margin for Error as Medical Examiner
- It Ain't Hay as Grant
- Harrigan's Kid as Mr. Ranley
- You Can't Beat the Law as Mr. Bedford
1942
- Cairo as Ship Captain (uncredited)
- Thunder Birds as Bit role
- Madame Spy as Harrison K. Woods
- Secret Agent of Japan as American Navy Captain
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point as Sersen
- The Falcon Takes Over as Laird Burnett (Uncredited)
- My Favorite Spy as Minister at Wedding
- The Strange Case of Doctor Rx as Judge
- Meet the Stewarts as Club Member (uncredited)
- Thru Different Eyes as Chaplain
- The Secret Code as Maj. Henry Barton
- Romance on the Range as Lawyer Harrison
- Get Hep to Love as George Arnold, Insurance Man
- Joe Smith, American as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
- Saboteur as FBI Chief (uncredited)
- A Date with the Falcon as Mr. Wallis (uncredited)
- Miss Annie Rooney as Mr. Thomas
- Frisco Lil
- The Power of God as The Pastor
- Powder Town as Mr. Tuttle (uncredited)
1941
- Back Street as Arthur the butler
- Parachute Battalion as Thomas Morse
- Sergeant York as General Duncan (uncredited)
- Buck Privates as Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
- Meet John Doe as Radio Announcer at Convention (uncredited)
- Play Girl as Fred Dice
- Blossoms in the Dust as Senator
- The Shepherd of the Hills as Doctor (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On as Capt. McCook (uncredited)
- Road to Happiness as Sam Rankin
- She Knew All the Answers as Broker
- Remember the Day as Graham
- Three Sons o' Guns as Head of Draft Board
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Board Member (uncredited)
- Devil Pays Off as Adm. Curtiss
- Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. as Army Officer
- Love Crazy as Doctor at Susan's Apartment (uncredited)
- Gangs Inc. as District Attorney
1940
- Wagons Westward as Major Marlowe
- The Grapes of Wrath as Inspection Officer
- Florian as Desk Sergeant
- Brigham Young as Caleb Kent
- Johnny Apollo as Prison Warden
- Hired Wife as Hudson (uncredited)
- Men Against the Sky as Capt. Sanders
- Millionaires in Prison as Dr. Harry Lindsay
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Aide to Stephen Douglas (uncredited)
- No Time for Comedy as First-Nighter (uncredited)
- Public Deb No. 1 as Lawyer
- If I Had My Way as Mr. Melville (uncredited)
- Sailor's Lady as Executive Officer
- The Marines Fly High as Medical Officer
- Forty Little Mothers as Missing Persons Detective
- Teddy the Rough Rider as John W. Riggs
- The Green Hornet as District Attorney
- Glamour for Sale as District Attorney Thomas (uncredited)
- Babies for Sale as Arthur Kingsley
- Gallant Sons as Henry, Gambling Man (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Doctor
- Santa Fe Trail as Officer Reading Names of Graduates (uncredited)
- The Ape as Dr. McNulty
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as James Sawyer
- Lady with Red Hair as Henry DeMille
- Son of the Navy as Capt. Parker
- Murder in the Air as Dr. Riddell
1939
- Missing Evidence as Manager
- Pacific Liner as San Francisco Port Doctor (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Sorority House as Mr. Grant
- Inside Information as Alfred Huxley
- Reno as Disbarment Lawyer
- Each Dawn I Die as Editor Patterson (uncredited)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Customs Official (uncredited)
- Espionage Agent as Instructor
- Five Came Back as Airlines Official (uncredited)
- Off the Record as Detective Mendall
- Union Pacific as Jerome (uncredited)
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island as Doctor
- South of the Border as American Consul
- The Under-Pup as Lawyer
- Undercover Agent as John Graham
- Private Detective as Simmy Sanger
- Blondie Brings Up Baby as Tom Malcolm (uncredited)
- 20,000 Men a Year as C.A.A. Official
- Stand Up and Fight as Whittingham P. Talbot
- On Dress Parade as Capt. Evans Dover
- Outside These Walls as John Wilson
- The Escape as Mr. Henley
- Swanee River as Army Medical Examiner
- Naughty But Nice as Plaintiff's Attorney (uncredited)
- Calling All Marines as Col. C.B. Vincent
- Wings of the Navy as First Doctor
- Scandal Sheet as Douglas Haynes
- Two Thoroughbreds as Bill Conway
1938
- Prison Nurse as Parker
- Personal Secretary as Blackmere
- Crime Ring as Ernie-Lawyer
- Garden of the Moon as Doctor (uncredited)
- Too Hot to Handle as Coast Guard Captain (uncredited)
- Gangster's Boy as Judge Davis
- Gambling Ship as Steve Riley
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Manager Radio Station
- The Missing Guest as Frank Baldrich
- Secrets of an Actress as Thompson
- Gateway as Inspector
- The Chaser as Judge #2
- Arson Racket Squad as Commissioner Benton
- Flight to Fame as Jules Peabody
- Midnight Intruder as Judge Hammond
1937
- Jungle Jim as Attorney Tyler
- Hot Water as Maxwell
- The Duke Comes Back as Jim Watson
- Behind The Headlines as J.H. Scott, FBI
- A Family Affair as Hoyt Wells
- Smashing the Vice Trust as District Attorney
- Meet the Boy Friend as Ned Madison
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop as Victor Stockton
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics as Navy Commander
- The Westland Case as The Warden
- The Wrong Road as Judge
- West of Shanghai as Harry
- You're Only Young Once as Hoyt Wells
- Two Wise Maids as Dr. MacIntyre
- Man Of The People as Governor
- The 13th Man as Andrew Baldwin
- Federal Bullets as Harker
1936
- Parole! as Earl Bigbee
- Show Boat
- Ace Drummond as William Meredith, Sr.
- Libeled Lady as Adams the Washington Chronicle Editor (uncredited)
- The Great Ziegfeld as Barber Shop Customer (uncredited)
- The Magnificent Brute as Dr. Coleman
- Paddy O'Day as Ship's Officer
- The Accusing Finger as Medical Examiner
- The Singing Kid as J.A. Hanson (uncredited)
- Public Enemy's Wife as Duffield
- My Man Godfrey as Blake (Socialite) (uncredited)
- Postal Inspector as Chief Postal Inspector
- Little Miss Nobody as Judge Gibson
- Three Smart Girls as Hamilton
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track as Lansing
- The Bridge of Sighs as Defense Attorney Alan Adams
- Revolt of the Zombies as Officer (uncredited)
- Educating Father as Prof. Howard (uncredited)
- Sing, Baby, Sing as City Editor
- Easy Money as D. A. Allen Harrison
- Wanted: Jane Turner as Ferris - Postal Inspector (uncredited)
- Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island as Mr. Canfield
1935
- Grand Exit as District Attorney Cope
- Traveling Saleslady as J.C. Scoville
- Navy Wife as Doctor
- Red Salute as Army Officer
- A Night at the Opera as Committeeman (uncredited)
- $10 Raise as Real Estate Agent (uncredited)
- Carnival as Baby Judge
- Shipmates Forever as Commander Gibbs (uncredited)
- Chinatown Squad as Detective
- The Murder Man as Lt. White - Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
- The Best Man Wins as O'Neill
- Page Miss Glory as Radio Announcer (uncredited)
- Public Hero Number 1 as Simpson - Prison Board Member (uncredited)
- Front Page Woman as Joe Davis
- She Married Her Boss as Andrews (uncredited)
- Broadway Gondolier as Program Director
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Gambler Who Bet $30,000 (Uncredited)
1934
- Sadie McKee as Tiffany Salesman (uncredited)
- Blind Date as George E. Martin
- The Richest Girl in the World as Dr. Harvey (uncredited)
- Murder in the Clouds as Radio Announcer (Voice)
- Fog Over Frisco as Radio Announcer (Uncredited)
- I've Got Your Number as Joe, a Gangster
- The Secret Bride as Vincent's Counsel (uncredited)
- Stand Up and Cheer! as White House Correspondent
- The Defense Rests as Duffy
1933
- Picture Snatcher as Joe Chase - Record Editor (uncredited)
- Let's Fall in Love as Barton
- The Working Man as Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)
- Luxury Liner as Older Man (uncredited)
- Police Car 17 as Police Radio Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Forgotten as Hans Strauss
- The Little Giant as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
1932
- Doctor X as Willard Keefe, Daily World Night Editor (Uncredited)
- Three on a Match as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- You Said a Mouthful as Jones (uncredited)
- Big City Blues as Joe (uncredited)
- The Mouthpiece as Prison Clerk (Uncredited)
1931
- Subway Express as Mason
- Dirigible as Lt. Rowland (uncredited)
- The Secret Call as Matt Stanton
- Left Over Ladies as Churchill
1930
- Brothers as Assistant Defense Attorney (uncredited)
- Lovin' the Ladies as George Van Horne
1929
- Thru Different Eyes as King (defense attorney)
- Why Bring That Up? as Eddie