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
- Crazy Mama as Homer
- Sixpack Annie as Bartender
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
- Carson City as Henry
- Springfield Rifle as Cook (uncredited)
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
- The Grass Is Always Greener as Cooky
- International Burlesque as Comedian
- 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
- Big Town Scandal as Louie Snead
- Thunder in the Pines as Bernard, the Bartender
1947
- Brute Force as Muggsy
- High Wall as Henry Cronner
- The Trespasser as Bartender
- Little Miss Broadway as Mack Truck
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout as Russell
- Shoot to Kill as Charlie Gill
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Schuyler (uncredited)
- I Cover Big Town as Louis Murkil
- Big Town After Dark as Louie Snead
- Gas House Kids Go West as Steve
1946
- The Killers as Charleston
- The Virginian as Baldy
- Two Sisters from Boston as Singing Waiter (uncredited)
- Bowery Bombshell as Street Cleaner
- No Leave, No Love as Ben
- The Falcon's Alibi as Goldie Locke
1945
- High Powered as Short Bald Man at Dance
- Thrill of a Romance as Oscar
- The Big Show-Off as Voice Student
- Sensation Hunters as Agent
- River Gang as Organ Grinder
1944
- The Mask of Dimitrios as Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
- Jungle Woman as Curley (archive footage / uncredited)
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. as Clipper - 3rd Robber
- Leave It to the Irish as Barney Baker
1943
- Captive Wild Woman as Curly
- Petticoat Larceny as Stogie
- Kid Dynamite as Klinkhammer
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher as Henchman 'Gimp'
- Tornado as Alvin
- Danger! Women at Work as Benny
1942
- My Favorite Spy as Kay's 2nd Taxi Driver
- Klondike Fury as Alaska
- The Corpse Vanishes as Sandy
- Bowery at Midnight as Charley
- X Marks the Spot as Waiter at Diner
- Baby Face Morgan as Lefty Lewis
- Girls' Town as Dimitri
- Gallant Lady as Baldy
- The Phantom Plainsmen
- Foreign Agent as Silly Drunk at Bar
- Queen of Broadway as Schultz
- Stardust on the Sage as Haskins
- The Lady or the Tiger? as The King
1941
- Gangs Inc. as Scribbler, a Petty Forger
- A Dangerous Game as Ephriam
- I Killed That Man as Drunk
- Puddin' Head as Broken Teapot Man
- Mr. District Attorney as Coroner's Messenger
- Jungle Man as Buckthorn 'Buck' the Guide
- How to Hold Your Husband - BACK as Husband #2 (uncredited)
- Blonde Comet as Curly
- What the Country Needs as Political Speaker / Singer
1940
- Seven Sinners as Bartender
- Heroes of the Saddle as Night Watchman
- East Side Kids as Whisper
- Boys of the City as Simp
1939
- Exile Express as Kentville Deputy Constable
- Overland Mail as Porchy
- Ride 'em, Cowgirl as Dan Haggerty
- Yankee Doodle Home as Song Writer
- Water Rustlers as Mike - the cook
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
- Riffraff as Lew
- After the Thin Man as Wrester's Manager (uncredited)
- Dancing Feet as Willoughby
- Captain Calamity as Burp
- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
- I Cover Chinatown as Puss McGaffey, the Bus Driver
- Down to the Sea as Hector
- Yellow Cargo as Speedy 'Bulbs' Callahan
- The Brain Busters as Vince
- We're in the Legion Now as Spike Conover
1935
- Streamline Express as Mr. Jones
- Pirate Party on Catalina Isle as Performer
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Fairground Fortune Teller
- I Live My Life as Clerk
- Black Fury as Kubanda
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Chuck aka 'Brains'
- Princess O'Hara as Fingers
- Champagne for Breakfast as Bennie
- Just Another Murder as Vincent Smart
1934
- The Affairs of Cellini as Ascanio
- Take the Stand as Tony
- The Secret Bride as Drunk in Diner
- Hell in the Heavens as Ace McGurk
- No Ransom as Bullet
- Now I'll Tell as Peppo
- Madame Spy as Peter
- Kansas City Princess as Quincy - Dynamite's Henchman
- Crimson Romance as The Courier
- Young and Beautiful as Sammy
- Thirty Day Princess as Count Nicholeus
- Registered Nurse as Jerry
- She Loves Me Not as Baldy Schultz
- The 9th Guest as William Jones
- Super Stupid
1933
- The Prizefighter and the Lady as Bugsie
- Man of the Forest as Little
- The Girl in 419 as Otto Hoffer
- Made on Broadway as Snitz Lepedis
- Fast Workers as Spike
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum as Undetermined Secondary Role
- The Big Cage as Soupmeat
- Sunset Pass as Windy
- The Trial of Vince Barnett
- Air Maniacs as Comic Photographer
1932
- Scarface as Angelo
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
- The Death Kiss as Officer Gulliver
- Heritage of the Desert as Windy
- Flesh as Waiter
- Rackety Rax as 'Dutch'
- The Night Mayor as Louis Mossbaum, Tailor
- Tiger Shark as Fishbone
- 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