Lee Phelps
Born: 1893-05-14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1953-03-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Phelps (May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films - Grand Hotel, You Can't Take It with You, and Gone with the Wind - that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Phelps appeared in the 1952 episode "Outlaw's Paradise" as a judge in the syndicated western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams in the title role. He also appeared in a 1952 TV episode (#90) of The Lone Ranger.
Filmography
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1953
- Vice Squad as Vickie's Apartment Manager (uncredited)
- The Magnetic Monster as City Engineer
- The Blue Gardenia as Information Desk Guard (uncredited)
- America for Me as Indian Dance Spectator
1952
- Kansas City Confidential as Jailer (uncredited)
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Callaway Went Thataway as Ranch Hand (uncredited)
- Fort Defiance as Bartender
1950
- The Cisco Kid as Sheriff
- Father of the Bride as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Timber Fury as Sheriff Williams
- Devil's Doorway as Posse Member (uncredited)
- Western Pacific Agent as Chief of Police
- Hunt the Man Down as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
- The Baron of Arizona as Guest at Governor's Mansion (uncredited)
- The Girl from San Lorenzo as Sheriff Marlowe
- Hi-Jacked as Highway Patrolman
- Desperadoes of the West as Rusty Steele
- Champagne for Caesar as Neighbor
- Hills of Oklahoma as Rancher Scotty Davis
1949
- White Heat as Prison Tower Guard (uncredited)
- The Fountainhead as Juror (uncredited)
- Sky Dragon as Detective at Airport Gate
- The Window as Police Officer (Uncredited)
- A Woman's Secret as District Attorney's Office Clerk (Uncredited)
- The File on Thelma Jordon as Chauffeur (Uncredited)
- Knock on Any Door as Policeman (uncredited)
- Gun Law Justice as Hank Cardigan
- Follow Me Quietly as Detective
- Red, Hot and Blue as Cop (uncredited)
1948
- Red River as Gambler (uncredited)
- The Fuller Brush Man as Fire Captain (uncredited)
- Walk a Crooked Mile
1947
- High Barbaree as Workman (uncredited)
- They Won't Believe Me
- Undercover Maisie as Police Officer Mitchell (Uncredited)
- The Sea of Grass as Homesteader (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as Detective (uncredited)
- A Likely Story as Cop at Intersection (uncredited)
1946
- Magnificent Doll as Hatch (uncredited)
- Duel in the Sun as Train Fireman (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Cop at Fire (Uncredited)
- The Dark Corner as Policeman on Street (uncredited)
- Blonde Alibi as Policeman #1 (Uncredited)
- The Harvey Girls as Player (uncredited)
- Her Adventurous Night as Cop #3 (uncredited)
- Accomplice as Lt. Hayden
1945
- Scarlet Street as First Policeman in Hogarth's Office (uncredited)
- Adventure as Bartender at Frank & Bob's Place (uncredited)
- Anchors Aweigh as Cop (uncredited)
- Along Came Jones as Jailkeeper (uncredited)
- Pillow of Death
- Girls of the Big House as Detective Benson
- Betrayal from the East as Immigration Officer with Black Hatband (uncredited)
- Circumstantial Evidence as Cop
- The Hidden Eye as Polasky
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Umpire (uncredited)
- The Lady and the Monster as Headwaiter with Phone (Uncredited)
- Youth Runs Wild as Night Watchman (uncredited)
- Dark Mountain as Police Dispatcher in montage (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Patrolling the Ether as Bit Role
1943
- Swing Shift Maisie as Security Officer (Uncredited)
- Action in the North Atlantic as Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Bronson - Prison Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Power of the Press as Policeman (uncredited)
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Police Officer Ryan (uncredited)
1942
- Gentleman Jim as Detective (uncredited)
- War Dogs as Sgt. Day
- Broadway as Detective (uncredited)
- Seven Miles from Alcatraz as Patrol Launch Captain Luther
- Night in New Orleans as Grady, Police Car Driver (uncredited)
- In This Our Life as Police Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- The Secret Code as Jailer
- Grand Central Murder as First Railroad Yardman (uncredited)
- Scattergood Rides High as Trainer
- Riders of the West as The Sheriff-Conspirator
- Joe Smith, American as Second Police Driver (uncredited)
- Saboteur as Plant Security Officer (uncredited)
- Blondie Goes to College as Coach Hartley
- Fingers at the Window as Police Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Life Begins at Eight-Thirty as Bartender
- Spy Ship as Listener on Street
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Murder in the Big House as Executioner (uncredited)
1941
- Pacific Blackout as Cop
- Manpower as Detective in Raid (uncredited)
- A Shot in the Dark as Blaney
- The Great Man's Lady as Chairman
- Lady from Louisiana as Cop
- The Face Behind the Mask as Detective at Cary's Office (uncredited)
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary as Barnes
- The Spider Returns as Police Officer Mulligan
- Her First Beau as State Trooper
- Dead Men Tell as Detective (unconfirmed)
- Love Crazy as Uniformed Sanitarium Guard (uncredited)
- Honky Tonk as Townsman at Meeting House (uncredited)
1940
- Wyoming as Ed James
- The Philadelphia Story as Bartender (uncredited)
- Hidden Gold as Sheriff Cameron
- Brother Orchid as 1st Policeman at Buck's Hideout (uncredited)
- Flowing Gold as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Return of Frank James as Denver House Bartender (uncredited)
- Murder Over New York as Police Officer Joe
- The Light of Western Stars as Train Conductor
- The Fargo Kid as Bartender
- Men Against the Sky as Shop Foreman
- Stranger on the Third Floor as Cab Driver Sitting on Cab (uncredited)
- Women Without Names as Police Broadcaster
- Angels Over Broadway as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- The Saint's Double Trouble as Police Sergeant Outside Bohlen's Office (uncredited)
- Santa Fe Marshal as Blacksmith
- Dance, Girl, Dance as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
- Gold Rush Maisie as Man Outside General Store (Uncredited)
- Young Tom Edison as Train Engineer Miller
- Little Nellie Kelly as Detective Barter (uncredited)
- I Take This Woman as Policeman (uncredited)
- It All Came True as Police Officer Pegasee (uncredited)
- Pop Always Pays as Policeman at the Pawnbroker's
- Knute Rockne All American as Army Coach (uncredited)
- Girl in 313 as Second Detective
- And One Was Beautiful as Bailiff
- Boom Town as Man Fighting Oil Fire (uncredited)
- Gallant Sons as Police Lieutenant Bill Maloney (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Ring Announcer (uncredited)
- Ellery Queen, Master Detective as Flynn (uncredited)
- Castle on the Hudson as Visitor Room Guard (uncredited)
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Bartender (uncredited)
- Golden Boy as Ring Announcer
- Tiny Troubles as Officer O'Brien
- Kid Nightingale as Ring Announcer
- Fixer Dugan as Hammer Game Barker
- Lucky Night as Waiter At George's (uncredited)
- The Roaring Twenties as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Dog Daze as Officer Sweeney
- Each Dawn I Die as Guard (uncredited)
- Sued for Libel as Policeman Playing Cards (uncredited)
- Angels Wash Their Faces as Guard at Reform School (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Foreman at Accident
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Idiot's Delight as Train Announcer
- Smashing the Money Ring as Night Gate Guard (uncredited)
- They Shall Have Music as Policeman in Auditorium (uncredited)
- Scouts to the Rescue as G-Man Jim Carson [Chs. 11-12]
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Riley - Airplane Workman
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown as Detective (uncredited)
- Women in the Wind as Wichita Official (uncredited)
- Tell No Tales as Policeman at School (uncredited)
- Dancing Co-Ed as Workman's Stooge (uncredited)
- Pirates of the Skies
- Girl from Rio as Dennis Slater
- Hell's Kitchen as Bailiff (uncredited)
- The Long Shot
- The Lady and the Mob as Policeman
- Money to Loan as Policeman
- Undercover Agent as Pete Higgens - Bartender
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Sheriff (uncredited)
- Boys' Reformatory as Officer on Train
- Bad Little Angel as Fireman (uncredited)
- Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation as Police Guard (uncredited)
- Let Us Live as Cop (uncredited)
- Coast Guard as Senior Officer (uncredited)
- Balalaika as Doorman (uncredited)
- These Glamour Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Flying Irishman as Mechanic Hiring Doug
- Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Policeman
- Wings of the Navy as Train Conductor
- Sergeant Madden as Policeman
1938
- Spring Madness as Police Officer Ryan
- You Can't Take It with You as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Trade Winds as Detective (Uncredited)
- Gold Diggers in Paris as Detective
- Too Hot to Handle as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Carpenter (uncredited)
- Men with Wings as Photographer
- The Saint in New York as Detective Kestry (Uncredited)
- Over the Wall as Patrolman Who Arrests Davis
- Female Fugitive as Investigator Steve Roberts
- Heart of Arizona as Ranger Captain
- The Chaser as Ambulance Dispatcher
- The First Hundred Years as The Judge's clerk (uncredited)
- Midnight Intruder as Deputy (uncredited)
1937
- Raw Timber as Goss 'Bull' Riley
- Under Suspicion as Private Detective
- Easy Living as Hotel Detective (uncredited)
- Sandflow as Singing Guard
- Wells Fargo as Printer
- Behind The Headlines as FBI Agent Harris
- Left-Handed Law as Sheriff Joe Grant
- You Only Live Once as Corridor Guard (uncredited)
- Blossoms On Broadway as Cop (uncredited)
- Boss of Lonely Valley as Peter Starr
- One Mile from Heaven as Radio Cop
- Sudden Bill Dorn as Ken Fairchild
- Let Them Live as Fireman
- Midnight Taxi as Chief of Detectives
- Black Legion as Guard at Jail (uncredited)
- Time Out for Romance as Reporter
- Man Of The People as Relative of Sentenced Boy (uncredited)
1936
- Show Boat
- Road Gang as Guard in Blackfoot Mine (uncredited)
- Crash Donovan as Patrolman (uncredited)
- Human Cargo as Gangster
- The Boss Rider of Gun Creek as Sheriff Lem Morrison
- Strike Me Pink as Stage Doorman at Club Lido (uncredited)
- The Garden Murder Case as Bus Driver (Uncredited)
- Theodora Goes Wild as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger as Riley
- Big Brown Eyes as Lee (Uncredited)
- And Sudden Death as Court Clerk
- The Voice of Bugle Ann as Davis' Cellmate (uncredited)
- Hideaway Girl as Police Sgt. Davis
- Wives Never Know as Doorman (uncredited)
- Postal Inspector as Cop (uncredited)
- Robin Hood of El Dorado as Off-Key Singer Hank
- Little Miss Nobody as Policeman
- Absolute Quiet as First Mechanic (Uncredited)
- Sinner Take All as Police Officer Beaumont (uncredited)
- Palm Springs as Bartender
- After the Thin Man as Flop House Proprietor (uncredited)
- Murder with Pictures as Girard Henchman (uncredited)
1935
- Frisco Kid as Second Lookout (uncredited)
- Confidential as One of Keaton's Lieutenants
- 'G' Men as McCord's Aide (uncredited)
- Sequoia as Hunter (uncredited)
- Woman Wanted as Detective Charlie Beale (uncredited)
- Hot Money as Policeman (uncredited)
- Murder in the Fleet as Officer Berating Guard (Uncredited)
- It's in the Air as Investigator (uncredited)
- Vagabond Lady as Yelling Ship Official (uncredited)
- Special Agent as Court Clerk (uncredited)
- The Calling of Dan Matthews as Club Owner (uncredited)
- We're Only Human as Detective
- Waterfront Lady as Detective Bates
- Public Hero Number 1 as Tower Guard with Machine Gun (uncredited)
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Cop
- Men of Action as Construction Worker
- Baby Face Harrington as Policeman (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Bailiff
- The Winning Ticket as Bookmaker
1934
- Chained as Ship's Bartender (uncredited)
- Sadie McKee as Brennan’s Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Blind Date as Marathon Dance Attendant
- Manhattan Melodrama as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Upperworld as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Thin Man as Detective (uncredited)
- Two Heads on a Pillow as Court Clerk
- Beggars in Ermine as Joe Swanson
- Fashions of 1934 as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The Crime Doctor as Detective (uncredited)
- The Gay Bride as Safety deposit box guard (uncredited)
- Among the Missing as Detective Gaynor
- Roast-Beef and Movies as Attendant from Asylum (uncredited)
- Cross Country Cruise as Bus Driver (Uncredited)
1933
- Frisco Jenny as Jailer (uncredited)
- Midnight Mary as Club Imperial Floor Manager (uncredited)
- Bedtime Worries as Police Officer
- Female as Man with Thorne's Blueprint (Uncredited)
- Parole Girl as Burns, 1st Store Detective (uncredited)
- Murders in the Zoo as Banquet Photographer / Zoo Guard (Uncredited)
- She Done Him Wrong as Waiter -Singer (uncredited)
- Penthouse as Detective (uncredited)
- Mary Stevens, M.D. as Station Master (uncredited)
- King of the Jungle as Customs Inspector (uncredited)
- The Chief as Tim, a Man Watching Fire
- I Cover the Waterfront
- Wild Boys of the Road as Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
- The Woman I Stole as Murdock
- Goldie Gets Along as Spring Valley Contest Judge
- Men Must Fight as Secret Service Escort
- I'm No Angel as Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1932
- Thirteen Women as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Vanity Street as Detective (uncredited)
- American Madness
- Blessed Event as Hotel Desk Clerk
- Young America as Court Clerk (Uncredited)
- Cross-Examination as Officer Myles
- Red-Headed Woman as Waiter Calling Bill to Phone (uncredited)
- Westward Passage as Bartender (uncredited)
- Man Wanted as Speakeasy Waiter (Uncredited)
- The Rich Are Always with Us as Club Clerk (uncredited)
- 70,000 Witnesses as Detective (uncredited)
- By Whose Hand? as Ticket Agent (uncredited)
- Attorney for the Defense as Radio Test Man
- Afraid to Talk as Taxi Driver
- Letty Lynton as Dennis (Uncredited)
- Emma as Railroad Ticket Agent (uncredited)
1931
- Laughing Sinners as Poker-Playing Salesman
- Daybreak as Waiter
- The Champ as Louie the Bartender (uncredited)
- Quick Millions as Tom, Man in sound track (uncredited)
- Ladies' Man as Desk clerk
- Stepping Out as Casino Patron
- The Public Enemy as Steve - Bartender (uncredited)
- The Criminal Code as Detective Doherty
- Danger Lights as Railroad Worker (uncredited)
- Flying High as Reporter from the News (uncredited)
- The Secret Six as Smelts - Waiter (uncredited)
- Strangers May Kiss as Bartender
- Ten Cents a Dance as Bouncer (uncredited)
- Local Boy Makes Good as Assistant Coach
- Traveling Husbands as Hotel Elevator Starter
1930
- Anna Christie as Larry the Bartender
- Brothers as Bailiff (uncredited)
- Dancing Sweeties as Athletic and Social Club Manager (uncredited)
- Street of Chance as Bert (uncredited)
- The Girl Said No as Truck Driver
- The Florodora Girl as Bartender (uncredited)
1929
- The Kiss as Tour Guide (uncredited)
1927
- Putting Pants on Philip as Extra
1923
- Why Worry? as Guest (uncredited)
1922
- The Freshie as Tom
1921
1920
- The Penalty as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come as Turner Boy
1919
- The Follies Girl as Basil
1918
- The Secret Code as Towen Rage
- The Reckoning Day as Jimmy Ware
- Limousine Life as Moncure Kelts
- Marked Cards as Wesley Cutting
- The Flames of Chance as Paul