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
- The Family Jewels as Automobile Owner at Gas Station
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine as Janitor
- 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
- The Quiet Gun as Undertaker
- Outlaw Queen as Gamler
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
- The Jazz Singer as Bartender
- Charade as Berg
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
- International Burlesque as Comedian
- Hunt the Man Down as Joe (uncredited)
- Border Treasure as Pokey
- Mule Train as Joe - Barber
- The Grass Is Always Greener as Cooky
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
- High Wall as Henry Cronner
- The Trespasser as Bartender
- Shoot to Kill as Charlie Gill
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Schuyler (uncredited)
- Big Town After Dark as Louie Snead
- Little Miss Broadway as Mack Truck
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Russell
- I Cover Big Town as Louis Murkil
- Gas House Kids Go West as Steve
1946
- The Killers as Charleston
- The Virginian as Baldy
- Two Sisters from Boston as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- No Leave, No Love as Ben
- Bowery Bombshell as Street Cleaner
- The Falcon's Alibi as Goldie Locke
1945
- Thrill of a Romance as Oscar
- High Powered as Short Bald Man at Dance
- River Gang as Organ Grinder
- Sensation Hunters as Agent
- The Big Show-Off as Voice Student
1944
- Jungle Woman as Curley (archive footage / uncredited)
- The Mask of Dimitrios as Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
- Leave It to the Irish as Barney Baker
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. as Clipper - 3rd Robber
1943
- Petticoat Larceny as Stogie
- Captive Wild Woman as Curly
- Danger! Women at Work as Benny
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher as Henchman 'Gimp'
- Tornado as Alvin
- Kid Dynamite as Klinkhammer
1942
- Gallant Lady as Baldy
- My Favorite Spy as Kay's 2nd Taxi Driver
- The Corpse Vanishes as Sandy
- Bowery at Midnight as Charley
- X Marks the Spot as Waiter at Diner
- Baby Face Morgan as Lefty Lewis
- Queen of Broadway as Schultz
- Stardust on the Sage as Haskins
- Klondike Fury as Alaska
- Girls' Town as Dimitri
- Foreign Agent as Silly Drunk at Bar
- The Phantom Plainsmen
- The Lady or the Tiger? as The King
1941
- Jungle Man as Buckthorn 'Buck' the Guide
- Mr. District Attorney as Coroner's Messenger
- Gangs Inc. as Scribbler, a Petty Forger
- How to Hold Your Husband - BACK as Husband #2 (uncredited)
- Puddin' Head as Broken Teapot Man
- Blonde Comet as Curly
- A Dangerous Game as Ephriam
- I Killed That Man as Drunk
- What the Country Needs as Political Speaker / Singer
1940
- Seven Sinners as Bartender
- Stranger on the Third Floor as Cafe Customer (uncredited)
- East Side Kids as Whisper
- Boys of the City as Simp
- Heroes of the Saddle as Night Watchman
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 Singing Cowgirl as Kewpie
- The Headleys at Home as Vince Bergson
- 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)
- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
- Riffraff as Lew
- Dancing Feet as Willoughby
- Down to the Sea as Hector
- The Brain Busters as Vince
- Captain Calamity as Burp
- We're in the Legion Now as Spike Conover
- I Cover Chinatown as Puss McGaffey, the Bus Driver
- Yellow Cargo as Speedy 'Bulbs' Callahan
1935
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Fairground Fortune Teller
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Chuck aka 'Brains'
- I Live My Life as Clerk
- Black Fury as Kubanda
- Streamline Express as Mr. Jones
- Champagne for Breakfast as Bennie
- Princess O'Hara as Fingers
- Pirate Party on Catalina Isle as Performer
- Just Another Murder as Vincent Smart
1934
- The 9th Guest as William Jones
- Thirty Day Princess as Count Nicholeus
- Hell in the Heavens as Ace McGurk
- The Affairs of Cellini as Ascanio
- The Secret Bride as Drunk in Diner
- Young and Beautiful as Sammy
- She Loves Me Not as Baldy Schultz
- Super Stupid
- No Ransom as Bullet
- Madame Spy as Peter
- Now I'll Tell as Peppo
- Kansas City Princess as Quincy - Dynamite's Henchman
- Take the Stand as Tony
- Crimson Romance as The Courier
- Two Lame Ducks as Vince
- Registered Nurse as Jerry
1933
- Sunset Pass as Windy
- Man of the Forest as Little
- Fast Workers as Spike
- Made on Broadway as Snitz Lepedis
- The Big Cage as Soupmeat
- The Girl in 419 as Otto Hoffer
- The Prizefighter and the Lady as Bugsie
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum as Undetermined Secondary Role
- Air Maniacs as Comic Photographer
- The Trial of Vince Barnett
1932
- Scarface as Angelo
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
- Heritage of the Desert as Windy
- Flesh as Waiter
- The Death Kiss as Officer Gulliver
- Tiger Shark as Fishbone
- Rackety Rax as 'Dutch'
- The Night Mayor as Louis Mossbaum, Tailor
- Ma's Pride and Joy as Sidney Goldblatt
1931
- Side Show as The Great Santini
- Scandal Sheet as Barrett, Convict Reporter
- Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1930
- All Quiet on the Western Front as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
- Wide Open as Dvorak
- A Royal Flush