Buddy Messinger
Born: 1907-10-26 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1965-10-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
Filmography
1950
- Devil's Doorway as Barfly (uncredited)
1944
- Crime by Night as Bellboy (uncredited)
1942
- Brooklyn Orchid as Bellhop with Flowers
- The Affairs of Martha as Butcher Boy (uncredited)
1941
- Citizen Kane as Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
- Hold Back the Dawn as Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- The Mexican Spitfire's Baby as Reporter
1940
- Hullabaloo as Third Page
- Keeping Company as Basketball Ticket Boy
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- Love Thy Neighbor as Elevator Boy
- Turnabout as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
1939
- Four Girls in White as Messenger
- Idiot's Delight as Usher
- Fast and Loose as Clerk (uncredited)
- Fast and Furious as First Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- The Housekeeper's Daughter as Reporter
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Rance
- Sergeant Madden as Hospital Clerk
1938
- Hold That Kiss as Theatre Usher
- Too Hot to Handle as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
- The Shining Hour as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1937
- Midnight Madonna as Messenger
- Wings Over Honolulu as Boy
1936
- Modern Times as Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
- College Holiday as Dancer
- Libeled Lady as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- The Devil Is a Sissy as Elevator Operator
- An All American Toothache as (uncredited)
- Three of a Kind as Bellhop
1933
- Keyhole Katie
- Wild Boys of the Road as Boy (uncredited)
- Stage Mother as Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)
1930
- Cheer Up and Smile as Donald
1929
- Hot Stuff as Tuffy
1928
- A Lady of Chance as Hank
1924
- The Whispered Name as The Office Boy
- What an Eye as Buddy - the Office Boy
- Young Ideas as Bob Lowden
1923
- Penrod and Sam as Rodney Bitts
- A Howling Success
- Abysmal Brute as Buddy Sangster
1922
- Shadows as 'Mr. Bad Boy'
- The Flirt as Hedrick Madison
- When Love Comes as Coleridge Twin
1921
- The Old Nest as Jim at 10
- Edgar, the Detective as Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar's Country Cousin as Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar's Feast Day
1920
- Edgar and the Teacher's Pet as Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Hamlet as Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Jonah Day as Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar Camps Out as Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar Takes the Cake as Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Little Saw as Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar's Sunday Courtship as Freddy Littlefield
1919
- The Hoodlum as Dish Lowry
- Jinx as Orphan
1918
- Fan Fan as Head Collector
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Kasim Baba
1917
- Treasure Island as Captain Smolett
- The Babes in the Woods
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp as Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit