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