Douglas Fowley
Born: 1911-05-30 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1998-05-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Douglas Fowley (born Daniel Vincent Fowley; May 30, 1911 – May 21, 1998) was an American movie and television actor in more than 240 films and dozens of television programs. Fowley is probably best remembered for his role as the frustrated movie director Roscoe Dexter in Singin' in the Rain (1952), and for his regular supporting role as Doc Holliday in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
Filmography
2002
- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone as Doc Holliday / Doc Fabrique (flashback sequences) (archive footage)
1979
- Detective School
- The North Avenue Irregulars as Delaney
1977
- CHiPs as Barney (as Douglas V. Fowley)
- The White Buffalo as Amos Bixby
- Black Oak Conspiracy as Bryan Hancock (as Douglas V. Fowley)
- Sunshine Christmas as Stanley
- The Golden Dog as Narrator
1976
- Family as Watchman
- From Noon Till Three as Buck Bowers
1975
- Switch as Jake
- Starsky & Hutch as Lijah
1974
- The Rockford Files as Ted (as Douglas V. Fowley)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as The Super
- Homebodies as Mr. Crawford
1973
- Walking Tall as Judge Clarke
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Kung Fu as Trapper
- Run, Cougar, Run as Joe Bickley
- Here Comes the Judge
1969
1968
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Judson
1967
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- The Second Hundred Years as Henry Sykes
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Grandpa Andrew Hanks
1966
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Grandpa Andrew Hanks
1964
- Daniel Boone as Rufus C. Hoops
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Guns of Diablo as Mr. Knudsen
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao as Toothless Cowboy
1963
- Temple Houston as Doc Webb
- The Bill Dana Show
1962
- The Virginian as Sorrowful
- The Lucy Show as Indian Chief
1961
- Hazel as Mr. Jeffries
- Barabbas as Vasasio
- Buffalo Gun as Sheriff
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Hobo
- My Three Sons as Toby Chambers
- Desire in the Dust as Zuba Wilson
- Macumba Love ... (Director)
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Tolliver Bender
- Sea Hunt as Pop
- The Texan
- Jefferson Drum as Wooley
- The Geisha Boy as GI in Korea (uncredited)
- A Gift for Heidi as Alm Uncle
1957
- Perry Mason as Rubin Cason
- Wagon Train as Ed Graham
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Bailey
- Trackdown as Carlson
- Alcoa Theatre as Pop
- Raiders of Old California as Sheriff
- Bayou as Emil Hebert
- Kelly and Me as Dave Gans
- The Badge of Marshal Brennan as Marshal Brennan
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Luke
- State Trooper
- Bandido! as McGhee
- Man from Del Rio as Doc Adams
- The Broken Star as Hiram Charleton
- Rock, Pretty Baby as Pop Wright
1955
- Cheyenne as Pritchard
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Gunsmoke as Buck Doolin
- The Millionaire as Tom Diamond
- The Great Gildersleeve
- The Girl Rush as Charlie - Stickman
- Texas Lady as Clay Ballard (Clarion owner)
- The Lonesome Trail as Crazy Charley Bonesteel
- The Matchmaking Marshal as Jack Ruskin
1954
- Lassie
- Studio 57
- December Bride
- Public Defender
- The High and the Mighty as Alsop
- The Naked Jungle as Medicine Man
- Casanova's Big Night as Second Prisoner
- Deep in My Heart as Harold Butterfield (uncredited)
- Southwest Passage as Toad Ellis
- The Lone Gun as Bartender
- Untamed Heiress as Pal
- With This Ring as Gordon, Miller Executive
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Eddie
- City Detective
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- The Band Wagon as Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Kansas Pacific as Max Janus
- The Man Behind The Gun as Buckley Saloon Manager
- A Slight Case of Larceny as Mr. White
- Cat-Women of the Moon as Walter 'Walt' Walters
- Red River Shore as Case Lockwood
- Cruisin' Down the River as Humphrey Hepburn
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Frank Harvey
- Singin' in the Rain as Roscoe Dexter
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Lefty
- Horizons West as Ed Tompkins
- Finders Keepers as Franke Simmons
- This Woman Is Dangerous as Saunders (Uncredited)
- Just This Once as Frank Pirosh
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Pete
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Angels in the Outfield as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Across the Wide Missouri as Tin Cup Owens (uncredited)
- Tarzan's Peril as Herbert Trask
- Callaway Went Thataway as Gaffer (uncredited)
- South of Caliente as Dave Norris
- Criminal Lawyer as Harry Cheney
- Chain of Circumstance as Lt. Fenning
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Charles Lowe
- Bunco Squad as Det. Sgt. Mack McManus
- Armored Car Robbery as Benjamin 'Benny' McBride
- Edge of Doom as Detective #2
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone as Steve Kepplar
- Hoedown as Gang Leader (uncredited)
- Stage to Tucson as Ira Prentiss
- Killer Shark as Louie Bracado
- So You Think You're Not Guilty as Convict (uncredited)
- He's a Cockeyed Wonder as 'Crabs' Freeley
- Rider from Tucson as Bob Rankin
- Rio Grande Patrol as Bragg Orcutt
1949
- Mighty Joe Young as Jones
- Battleground as 'Kipp' Kippton
- Flaxy Martin as Max, Detective
- Any Number Can Play as Smitty (uncredited)
- Satan's Cradle as Steve Gentry
- Search for Danger as The Inspector
- Arson, Inc. as Frederick P. 'Fred' Fender
- Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch as Thurston
- Massacre River as Simms
- Clunked in the Clink
- Susanna Pass as Roberts aka Walter P. Johnson
- Manhattan Angel as Mr. Fowley - Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Renegades of the Sage as Sloper
1948
- Black Bart as Sheriff Mix (uncredited)
- Docks of New Orleans as Grock
- Coroner Creek as Stew Shallis
- Behind Locked Doors as Larson
- If You Knew Susie as Marty
- Waterfront at Midnight as Joe Sargus
- So You Want to Be a Gambler as Honest John (uncredited)
- The Dude Goes West as Beetle
- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All as Reporter
- Gun Smugglers as Steve Reeves
- The Denver Kid as Henchman Slip
1947
- The Sea of Grass as Joe Horton (uncredited)
- The Hucksters as Georgie Gaver
- Desperate as Pete
- Fall Guy as Inspector Shannon
- Jungle Flight as Tom Hammond
- Backlash as Red Bailey
- Scared to Death as Terry Lee
- Merton of the Movies as Phil
- Ridin' Down the Trail as Mark Butler
- Wild Country as Clark Varney
- Undercover Maisie as Daniels
- Roses Are Red as Ace Oliver (as Doug Fowley)
- The Trespasser as Bill Monroe
- Key Witness as Jim Guthrie (uncredited)
- Yankee Fakir as Murgatroyd Bartholomew Davis
- Fun on a Weekend as Gambling House Owner (uncredited)
- The Gas House Kids in Hollywood as Mitch Gordon
- Three on a Ticket as Mace Morgan
- Rose of Santa Rosa as Larry Fish
1946
- Drifting Along as Jack Dailey
- Blonde Alibi as Henchman Willie (Uncredited)
- Chick Carter, Detective as Rusty Farrell
- High School Hero as Coach Carter
- North of the Border as Nails Nelson
- 'Neath Canadian Skies as Ned Thompson
- The Glass Alibi as Joe Eykner
- Larceny in Her Heart as Doc H. C. Patterson
- In Fast Company as Steve Trent
1945
- Life with Blondie as Blackie Leonard (uncredited)
- Don't Fence Me In as Jack Gordon
- Along the Navajo Trail as J. Richard Bentley
1944
- The Story of Dr. Wassell as Bit Part (uncredited)
- See Here, Private Hargrove as Capt. R.S. Manville
- And the Angels Sing as N.Y. Cafe Manager (uncredited)
- Lady in the Death House as Dr. Dwight 'Brad' Bradford
- Shake Hands with Murder as Steve Morgan
- Rationing as Dixie Samson
- Detective Kitty O'Day as Harry Downs
- Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Rudy (uncredited)
- The Racket Man as Toby Sykes
- One Body Too Many as Henry Rutherford
1943
- Bar 20 as Henchman Slash
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Wallace (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Investigator (Uncredited)
- The Kansan as Ben Nash
- Colt Comrades as Joe Brass
- Sleepy Lagoon as J. 'The Brain' Lucarno
- Minesweeper as Cutter Lieutenant Wells
- The Chance of a Lifetime as Nails Blanton (Uncredited)
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Louie Barton
- Jitterbugs as Malcolm Bennett
- Riding High as Brown
1942
- Stand by for Action as Ensign Martin
- I Live on Danger as Joey Farr
- For the Common Defense! as Dutch Mullner
- Mr. Wise Guy as Bill Collins
- Lost Canyon as Jeff Burton
- Sunset on the Desert as Ramsay McCall
- The Devil with Hitler as Walter Beeter
- The Man in the Trunk as Ed Mygatt
- Hay Foot as Captain Rossmead
- So's Your Aunt Emma! as Gus Hammond
- Mississippi Gambler as Chet Matthews
1941
- The Parson of Panamint as Chappie Ellerton
- Tanks a Million as Capt. Rossmead
- Secret of the Wastelands as Slade Salters
- Dangerous Lady as Police Sgt. Brent
- The Great Swindle as Rocky Andrews
- Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case as Vincent Mackay
- Doctors Don't Tell as Joe Grant
1940
- 20 Mule Team as Stag Roper
- Wagons Westward as Bill Marsden
- The Leather Pushers as Slick Connolly
- East of the River as Cy Turner
- Cherokee Strip as Alf Barrett
- Cafe Hostess as Eddie Morgan
- Ellery Queen, Master Detective as Rocky Taylor
- Pier 13 as Johnnie Hale
1939
- Dodge City as Munger
- It Could Happen to You as Freddie Barlow
- Slightly Honorable as Madder
- Charlie Chan at Treasure Island as Peter Lewis
- Lucky Night as George
- Boy Friend as Ed Boyd
- Henry Goes Arizona as Ricky Dole
- Inside Story as Gus Brawley
- The Arizona Wildcat as Rufe Galloway
1938
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Nick Crowder
- Submarine Patrol as Seaman Pinky Brett
- Keep Smiling as Cedric Hunt
- Passport Husband as Tiger Martin
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Snapper
- Walking Down Broadway as Ace Wagner
- Time Out for Murder as J.E. 'Dutch' Moran
- City Girl as Ritchie
1937
- Fifty Roads to Town as Dutch Nelson
- Love and Hisses as Webster
- Wild and Woolly as Blackie Morgan
- On the Avenue as Eddie Eads
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Johnny Burke
- She Had to Eat as Duke Stacey
- This Is My Affair as Alec
- Time Out for Romance as Roy Webster
- One Mile from Heaven as Jim Tabor
- Woman-Wise as Stevens
- Wake Up and Live as Herman
1936
- Private Number as Sheik (Uncredited)
- Small Town Girl as Chick Page (uncredited)
- Sing, Baby, Sing as Mac
- Big Brown Eyes as Benny Battle
- 36 Hours to Kill as Duke Benson
- Crash Donovan as Harris
- Navy Born as Lt. Steve Bassett
- 15 Maiden Lane as Nick Shelby
- Ring Around the Moon as Ted Curlew
1935
- Two for Tonight as Pooch Donahue
- Night Life of the Gods as Cyril Sparks
- Straight from the Heart as Speed Spelvin
- Old Man Rhythm as Oyster
- Princess O'Hara as Emcee (uncredited)
- Transient Lady as Matt Baxter
1934
- The Thin Man as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- The Girl from Missouri as New Bellboy with Vase (uncredited)
- Student Tour as Mushy
- Let's Talk It Over as Sailor Jones
- Sleepers East as Gangster (uncredited)
- I Hate Women as Nelson
1933
- The Woman Who Dared as Kay's Boyfriend