Stuart Erwin
Born: 1903-02-14 in Squaw Valley, California, USA
Died: 1967-12-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stuart Erwin (14 February 1903, Squaw Valley, California — 21 December 1967, Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor. Erwin began acting in college in the 1920s, first appearing on the stage, then breaking into films in 1928 in Mother Knows Best. He was cast as amiable oafs in several films such as The Sophomore, The Big Broadcast, Hollywood Cavalcade, Our Town, International House and Viva Villa!. In 1934 he was cast as Joe Palooka in the film Palooka, and in 1935 he had a supporting role in After Office Hours (starring Clark Gable). He co-starred in the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). In 1936, he was cast in Pigskin Parade, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In Walt Disney's Bambi, he did the voice of a tree squirrel. In 1950, Erwin made the transition to television, where he starred in Trouble with Father, which was eventually retitled The Stu Erwin Show. He co-starred with his wife, actress June Collyer. He later appeared in the Disney films Son of Flubber and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. He also appeared with Jack Palance in the ABC series The Greatest Show on Earth during the 1963-1964 television season. Erwin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. He is buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Erwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2014
- Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
- Shadow Over Elveron as Merle
1965
- The Big Valley as Charlie Carter
- Green Acres as Mr. Johnson
1964
- The Misadventures of Merlin Jones as Police Captain Loomis
1963
- Son of Flubber as Coach Wilson
1962
- The Virginian as Williams
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dave Lesser
- The Defenders as Joseph Green
- Straightaway
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Tom Silby
- Thriller as Uncle Florian
- Peter Loves Mary
- For the Love of Mike as Dr. Mills
1959
- Moochie of the Little League as Lou Rosson
1958
1957
- Perry Mason as Clem P. 'Sandy' Sandover
- Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses as Sentimental Mousie
1955
- Gunsmoke as Doc Brown
1953
- Main Street to Broadway as Self (uncredited)
- General Electric Theater as George Parsons
1950
- The Stu Erwin Show as Stu Erwin
- Father Is a Bachelor as Constable Pudge Barnham
1948
- Strike It Rich as Delbart Lane
1947
- Doctor Jim as Doctor James Gateros
- Killer Dill as Johnny 'Killer' Dill
- Heaven Only Knows as Sheriff Matt Bodine
- Heading for Heaven as Henry Elkins
1945
- Pillow to Post as Captain Jack Ross
1944
- The Great Mike as Jay Spencer
1943
- He Hired the Boss as Hubert Theodore Wilkins
1942
- The Adventures of Martin Eden as Joe Dawson
- Drums of the Congo as Congo Jack
- Blondie for Victory as Pvt. Herschel Smith
1941
- Cracked Nuts as Lawrence Trent
- The Bride Came C.O.D. as Tommy Keenan
1940
- Our Town as Howie Newsome
- When the Daltons Rode as Ben Dalton
- A Little Bit of Heaven as Cotton
- Sandy Gets Her Man as Bill Kerry
1939
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Pete Tinney
- Back Door to Heaven as Jud Mason
- It Could Happen to You as Mackinley Winslow
1938
- Passport Husband as Henry Cabot
- Three Blind Mice as Mike Brophy
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Oliver Boggs
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
1937
- Slim as Aaron "Stumpy" Stump
- Checkers as Edgar Connell
- Second Honeymoon as Leo MacTavish
- Dance Charlie Dance as Andy Tucker
- Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Stuart Erwin
- I'll Take Romance as 'Pancho' Brown
- Small Town Boy as Henry Armstrong
1936
- Ceiling Zero as Texas Clarke
- Exclusive Story as Timothy Aloysius Higgins
- Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
- Absolute Quiet as Oscar "Chubby" Rudd
- Women Are Trouble as Matt Casey
- All American Chump as Elmer Lamb
1935
- After Office Hours as Hank Parr
1934
- Chained as John L. 'Johnnie' Smith
- Palooka as Joe Palooka
- Viva Villa! as Jonny Sykes
- Bachelor Bait as William Watts
- The Party's Over as Bruce Blakely
- The Band Plays On as Stuffy Wilson
- Have a Heart as Gus Anderson
- The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited)
1933
- Going Hollywood as Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer
- Before Dawn as Dwight Wilson
- Under the Tonto Rim as Tonto
- International House as Tommy Nash
- Hold Your Man as Al Simpson
- The Crime of the Century as Dan McKee
- Day of Reckoning as Jerry
- The Stranger's Return as Simon Bates
- Face in the Sky as Lucky
- He Learned About Women as Peter Potter Kendall II
1932
- Make Me a Star as Merton Gill
- The Big Broadcast as Leslie McWhinney
- 70,000 Witnesses as Man Talking to Connors (uncredited)
- Strangers in Love as Stan Kenney
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
- Two Kinds of Women as Hauser
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 as Self - Host
- The Misleading Lady as Boney
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- Up Pops the Devil as Stranger
- Working Girls as Pat Kelly
- The Magnificent Lie as Elmer Graham
- No Limit as Ole Olson
- Dude Ranch as Chester Carr
1930
- Paramount on Parade as Marine (The Montmartre Girl)
- Along Came Youth as Ambrose
- Love Among the Millionaires as Clicker Watson
- Playboy of Paris as Paul Michel
- Men Without Women as Jenkins
- Dangerous Nan McGrew as Eustace Macy
- Young Eagles as Pudge Higgins
- Only Saps Work as Oscar
1929
- The Trespasser as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Sophomore as Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited)
- Dangerous Curves as Rotarian
- Speakeasy as Cy Williams
- Thru Different Eyes as Reporter
- This Thing Called Love as Fred
- The Exalted Flapper as Bimbo Mehaffey
- Happy Days as Jig
- New Year's Eve as Landlady's Son
- A Pair of Tights as Marion's Boyfriend
- The Cock-Eyed World as Buckley
- Sweetie as Axel Bronstrup
1928
- Mother Knows Best as Ben