DeWitt Jennings
Born: 1871-06-21 in Cameron, Missouri, USA
Died: 1937-03-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.
Filmography
1942
- Thru Different Eyes as Paducah
1937
- Slave Ship as Snodgrass
- This Is My Affair as Bradley Wallace
- Fifty Roads to Town as Captain Galloway
- We Who Are About to Die as Mike Brannigan
- That I May Live as Chief of Police
1936
- The Accusing Finger as Prison Warden
- Sins of Man as Twichelesko
- Sing, Baby, Sing as Mr. Lee, the Landlord
- Exclusive Story as Captain (uncredited)
- Kelly the Second as Judge
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Fryer
- Front Page Woman as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Mary Jane's Pa as Sheriff
- Village Tale as Sheriff Ramsey
- I Dream Too Much as Man Yelling for Food (uncredited)
- The Daring Young Man as Mayor's Committee Official
- Murder on a Honeymoon as Captain Beegle
- A Dog of Flanders as Carl Cogez
1934
- Little Man, What Now? as Emil Kleninholz
- Take the Stand as Police Commissioner
- The President Vanishes as Cullen
- A Wicked Woman as The Sheriff
- Death on the Diamond as Patterson
- Massacre as Sheriff Jennings
- Secret of the Chateau as Louis Bardou
- Charlie Chan's Courage as Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings)
- The Fighting Rookie as Police Commissioner
- A Man's Game as Chief Jordan
- The Meanest Gal in Town as Police Chief (uncredited)
1933
- Mystery of the Wax Museum as Police Captain, 12th Precinct
- Golden Harvest as Sheriff (uncredited)
- Made on Broadway as Moriarty
- I Loved a Woman as Banker (uncredited)
- Ladies They Talk About as Detective Tracy (uncredited)
- On Your Guard as Joshua Perkins
- One Year Later as Deputy Russell
- Strictly Personal as Captain Reardon
- Reform Girl as Capt. Balfour
- Police Car 17 as Captain T. J. Hart
- A Lady's Profession as Mr. Stephens
1932
- Night Court as Court Policeman (uncredited)
- By Whose Hand? as City Editor (uncredited)
- Movie Crazy as Mr. Hall
- Silver Dollar as George, the Mine Foreman
- Central Park as Police Desk Sergeant Monahan (uncredited)
- Midnight Morals as Dan McKennan
- The Match King as Bodensky (uncredited)
- Dancers in the Dark as Police Sergeant McGroody
1931
- The Criminal Code as Yard Captain Gleason
- The Secret Six as Chief of Police Donlin
- Arrowsmith as B.W. Tozer (uncredited)
- The Squaw Man as Sheriff Bud Hardy
- A Dangerous Affair as City Editor
- Salvation Nell as McGovern
- The Primrose Path as Joe Malone
- Caught Plastered as Police Chief H.A. Morton
- Trapped as Police Chief
1930
- The Big Trail as Boat Captain Hollister (uncredited)
- The Big House as Wallace
- The Bat Whispers as Police Captain
- Captain of the Guard as Priest
- Min and Bill as Groot
- Those Who Dance as Captain O'Brien
- The Night Ride as Capt. O'Donnell
1929
- Alibi as Officer O'Brien
- The Valiant as Warden Holt
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Inspector Hunt
- Red Hot Speed as Judge O'Brien
- Thru Different Eyes as Paducah
- Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 as Jay Darrell
- Seven Keys to Baldpate as Jim Cargan
- Seven Footprints to Satan as Uncle Joe
1928
- The Night Flyer as Bucks
- Me, Gangster as Police Chief
- The Crash as Supt. Carleton
- The Air Mail Pilot
- Marry the Girl as Martin Wayland
1927
- Two Arabian Knights as American Consul
- The Great Mail Robbery as Captain Davis
- McFadden's Flats as Patrick Halloran
- Home Made as Mr. White
1926
- Exit Smiling as Orlando Wainwright
- The Fire Brigade as Fire Chief Wallace
- Chip of the Flying U as J.G. Whitmore
- The Ice Flood
- While London Sleeps as Inspector Burke
1925
- Go Straight! as The Hunter
- The Re-Creation of Brian Kent as Detective Ross
- The Mystic as Director of Police
- The Splendid Road as Capt. Bashford
- Don't as Mr. Moffat
1924
- By Divine Right as Tug Wilson
- The Enemy Sex as Harrigan Blood
- The Silent Watcher as Detective Stuart
- Merton of the Movies as Jeff Baird
- Name the Man as Dan Collister
- The Deadwood Coach as Jim Shields - in play
- Along Came Ruth as Captain Miles Standish
- The Gaiety Girl as John Kershaw
- The Heart Bandit as Pat O'Connell
- Hit and Run as Joe Burns
- The Desert Outlaw as Doc McChesney
1923
- Within the Law as Inspector Burke
- Out of Luck as Capt. Bristol
- Blinky as Col. 'Raw Meat' Islip
- Circus Days as Daly
1922
- Mixed Faces as Murray McGuire
- Flesh and Blood as Detective Doyle
- The Right That Failed as Mr. Talbot
- Sherlock Brown as J. J. Wallace
1921
- The Poverty of Riches as Lyons
- Alias Ladyfingers as Lt. Ambrose
- Beating the Game as G.B. Lawson
- There Are No Villains as Detective Flint
- The Golden Snare as 'Fighting' Fitzgerald
1918
- The Hillcrest Mystery as Tom Cameron
1917
- The Little American as English Barrister
1915
- At Bay as Judson Flagg