Vince Barnett
Born: 1902-07-04 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1977-08-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vince Barnett (July 4, 1902 – August 10, 1977) was an American film and television actor. He appeared on stage originally. Barnett's initial involvement with Hollywood was as a screenwriter, writing screenplays for the two-reeler movies of the late 1920s. He began appearing in films in 1930, playing hundreds of comedy bits and supporting parts. One of his more sizable screen roles was the moronic, illiterate gangster "secretary" in Scarface (1932). Among his best-regarded early roles, apart from Scarface, were The Big Cage (1933), Thirty Day Princess (1934) and Princess O'Hara (1935). In later years, Barnett played straight character parts, often as careworn little men, undertakers, janitors, bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir (The Killers, 1946) to westerns (Springfield Rifle, 1952). He was a welcome presence in "B" comedies and mysteries: as Runyonesque gangsters in Petticoat Larceny (1943), Little Miss Broadway (1947), and Gas House Kids Go West (1947), and notably as Tom Conway's enthusiastic sidekick in The Falcon's Alibi (1946). After World War II, with the Hollywood studios making fewer films, Barnett became a familiar face on television.
Filmography
1975
- Sixpack Annie as Bartender
- Crazy Mama as Homer
1974
- Summer School Teachers as Principal Adams
1968
- Here's Lucy as Cabbie #1
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Elmo
1967
- Cimarron Strip
- The Big Mouth as Man at Telephone Booth (uncredited)
- The Spy in the Green Hat as 'Scissors'
1965
- Green Acres
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine as Janitor
- The Family Jewels as Automobile Owner at Gas Station
- Zebra in the Kitchen as Man in Manhole
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Scissors
1963
- Glynis
- The Sound of Laughter as Vince (Small Duck Hunter)
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Elmo
1959
- The Rookie as Pentagon janitor
1958
- Girl on the Run as Janitor
1957
- Perry Mason as Noonan
- Outlaw Queen as Gamler
- The Quiet Gun as Undertaker
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
- The Crooked Web as Ed - Stan's Partner in Drive-In (uncredited)
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Herman
- Letter to Loretta as Grimes
- Charade as Berg
- The Jazz Singer as Bartender
1952
- Springfield Rifle as Cook (uncredited)
- Carson City as Henry
1951
- On Dangerous Ground as George (uncredited)
- I'll See You in My Dreams as Burlesk Comedian (uncredited)
- Kentucky Jubilee as Mugsy
1950
- Hunt the Man Down as Joe (uncredited)
- International Burlesque as Comedian
- Mule Train as Joe - Barber
- The Grass Is Always Greener as Cooky
- Border Treasure as Pokey
1949
- Knock on Any Door as Carl Swanson - Bartender (uncredited)
- Deputy Marshal as Hotel Clerk
1948
- Loaded Pistols as Sam Gardner
- Thunder in the Pines as Bernard, the Bartender
- Big Town Scandal as Louie Snead
1947
- Brute Force as Muggsy
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Schuyler (uncredited)
- Big Town After Dark as Louie Snead
- High Wall as Henry Cronner
- Gas House Kids Go West as Steve
- I Cover Big Town as Louis Murkil
- The Trespasser as Bartender
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Russell
- Shoot to Kill as Charlie Gill
- Little Miss Broadway as Mack Truck
1946
- The Killers as Charleston
- The Virginian as Baldy
- Two Sisters from Boston as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- No Leave, No Love as Ben
- The Falcon's Alibi as Goldie Locke
- Bowery Bombshell as Street Cleaner
1945
- Thrill of a Romance as Oscar
- The Big Show-Off as Voice Student
- Sensation Hunters as Agent
- High Powered as Short Bald Man at Dance
- River Gang as Organ Grinder
1944
- The Mask of Dimitrios as Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
- Leave It to the Irish as Barney Baker
- Jungle Woman as Curley (archive footage / uncredited)
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. as Clipper - 3rd Robber
1943
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher as Henchman 'Gimp'
- Captive Wild Woman as Curly
- Petticoat Larceny as Stogie
- Danger! Women at Work as Benny
- Kid Dynamite as Klinkhammer
- Tornado as Alvin
1942
- X Marks the Spot as Waiter at Diner
- Gallant Lady as Baldy
- The Corpse Vanishes as Sandy
- The Lady or the Tiger? as The King
- Stardust on the Sage as Haskins
- My Favorite Spy as Kay's 2nd Taxi Driver
- Foreign Agent as Silly Drunk at Bar
- Bowery at Midnight as Charley
- Baby Face Morgan as Lefty Lewis
- Girls' Town as Dimitri
- The Phantom Plainsmen
- Klondike Fury as Alaska
- Queen of Broadway as Schultz
1941
- Mr. District Attorney as Coroner's Messenger
- Jungle Man as Buckthorn 'Buck' the Guide
- I Killed That Man as Drunk
- Gangs Inc. as Scribbler, a Petty Forger
- A Dangerous Game as Ephriam
- How to Hold Your Husband - BACK as Husband #2 (uncredited)
- Puddin' Head as Broken Teapot Man
- What the Country Needs as Political Speaker / Singer
- Blonde Comet as Curly
1940
- Stranger on the Third Floor as Cafe Customer (uncredited)
- Seven Sinners as Bartender
- Boys of the City as Simp
- Heroes of the Saddle as Night Watchman
- East Side Kids as Whisper
1939
- Water Rustlers as Mike - the cook
- Exile Express as Kentville Deputy Constable
- Overland Mail as Porchy
- Ride 'em, Cowgirl as Dan Haggerty
- Yankee Doodle Home as Song Writer
1938
- The Headleys at Home as Vince Bergson
- The Singing Cowgirl as Kewpie
- Sunset Murder Case as Barney
1937
- The Woman I Love as Mathieu
- Bank Alarm as Clarence "Bulb" Callahan
- Boots of Destiny as Acey Ducey- Sidekick
1936
- After the Thin Man as Wrester's Manager (uncredited)
- Down to the Sea as Hector
- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
- We're in the Legion Now as Spike Conover
- Riffraff as Lew
- Dancing Feet as Willoughby
- Captain Calamity as Burp
- The Brain Busters as Vince
- Yellow Cargo as Speedy 'Bulbs' Callahan
- I Cover Chinatown as Puss McGaffey, the Bus Driver
1935
- I Live My Life as Clerk
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Chuck aka 'Brains'
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Fairground Fortune Teller
- Pirate Party on Catalina Isle as Performer
- Black Fury as Kubanda
- Princess O'Hara as Fingers
- Champagne for Breakfast as Bennie
- Streamline Express as Mr. Jones
- Just Another Murder as Vincent Smart
1934
- She Loves Me Not as Baldy Schultz
- The Cat's-Paw as Wilks
- Now I'll Tell as Peppo
- The Affairs of Cellini as Ascanio
- Hell in the Heavens as Ace McGurk
- Thirty Day Princess as Count Nicholeus
- Super Stupid
- The 9th Guest as William Jones
- Crimson Romance as The Courier
- Registered Nurse as Jerry
- Young and Beautiful as Sammy
- The Secret Bride as Drunk in Diner
- Madame Spy as Peter
- Take the Stand as Tony
- No Ransom as Bullet
- Kansas City Princess as Quincy - Dynamite's Henchman
- Two Lame Ducks as Vince
1933
- Man of the Forest as Little
- The Prizefighter and the Lady as Bugsie
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum as Undetermined Secondary Role
- The Girl in 419 as Otto Hoffer
- Tugboat Annie as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Fast Workers as Spike
- The Big Cage as Soupmeat
- Sunset Pass as Windy
- The Trial of Vince Barnett
- Made on Broadway as Snitz Lepedis
- Air Maniacs as Comic Photographer
1932
- Scarface as Angelo
- Heritage of the Desert as Windy
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
- The Death Kiss as Officer Gulliver
- Ma's Pride and Joy as Sidney Goldblatt
- Flesh as Waiter
- Tiger Shark as Fishbone
- Rackety Rax as 'Dutch'
- The Night Mayor as Louis Mossbaum, Tailor
1931
- Scratch-As-Catch-Can
- Scandal Sheet as Barrett, Convict Reporter
- Side Show as The Great Santini
1930
- All Quiet on the Western Front as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
- A Royal Flush
- Wide Open as Dvorak