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