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)
2005
- The Great Man: W.C. Fields as Self - Tommy Nash (clip from International House (1933)) (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
- General Electric Theater as George Parsons
- Main Street to Broadway as Self (uncredited)
1950
- The Stu Erwin Show as Stu Erwin
- Father Is a Bachelor as Constable Pudge Barnham
1948
- Strike It Rich as Delbart Lane
1947
- Heaven Only Knows as Sheriff Matt Bodine
- Heading for Heaven as Henry Elkins
- Killer Dill as Johnny 'Killer' Dill
- Doctor Jim as Doctor James Gateros
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
- The Bride Came C.O.D. as Tommy Keenan
- Cracked Nuts as Lawrence Trent
1940
- When the Daltons Rode as Ben Dalton
- Our Town as Howie Newsome
- Sandy Gets Her Man as Bill Kerry
- A Little Bit of Heaven as Cotton
1939
- Back Door to Heaven as Jud Mason
- The Honeymoon's Over as Donald Todd
- It Could Happen to You as Mackinley Winslow
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Pete Tinney
1938
- Passport Husband as Henry Cabot
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Oliver Boggs
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
- Three Blind Mice as Mike Brophy
1937
- Slim as Aaron "Stumpy" Stump
- Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Stuart Erwin
- I'll Take Romance as 'Pancho' Brown
- Checkers as Edgar Connell
- Second Honeymoon as Leo MacTavish
- Dance Charlie Dance as Andy Tucker
- Small Town Boy as Henry Armstrong
1936
- Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
- Exclusive Story as Timothy Aloysius Higgins
- Ceiling Zero as Texas Clarke
- 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
- Bachelor Bait as William Watts
- Chained as John L. 'Johnnie' Smith
- The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited)
- The Band Plays On as Stuffy Wilson
- Viva Villa! as Jonny Sykes
- The Party's Over as Bruce Blakely
- Palooka as Joe Palooka
- Have a Heart as Gus Anderson
1933
- Before Dawn as Dwight Wilson
- The Crime of the Century as Dan McKee
- The Stranger's Return as Simon Bates
- Hold Your Man as Al Simpson
- Face in the Sky as Lucky
- He Learned About Women as Peter Potter Kendall II
- Under the Tonto Rim as Tonto
- International House as Tommy Nash
- Going Hollywood as Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer
- Day of Reckoning as Jerry
1932
- Make Me a Star as Merton Gill
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 as Self - Host
- Two Kinds of Women as Hauser
- The Misleading Lady as Boney
- 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
1931
- Working Girls as Pat Kelly
- Up Pops the Devil as Stranger
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- The Magnificent Lie as Elmer Graham
- Dude Ranch as Chester Carr
- No Limit as Ole Olson
1930
- Love Among the Millionaires as Clicker Watson
- Only Saps Work as Oscar
- Men Without Women as Jenkins
- Paramount on Parade as Marine (The Montmartre Girl)
- Dangerous Nan McGrew as Eustace Macy
- Playboy of Paris as Paul Michel
- Young Eagles as Pudge Higgins
- Along Came Youth as Ambrose
1929
- Happy Days as Jig
- This Thing Called Love as Fred
- The Cock-Eyed World as Buckley
- The Trespasser as Reporter (uncredited)
- New Year's Eve as Landlady's Son
- A Pair of Tights as Marion's Boyfriend
- Speakeasy as Cy Williams
- Dangerous Curves as Rotarian
- Sweetie as Axel Bronstrup
- The Sophomore as Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited)
- Thru Different Eyes as Reporter
- The Exalted Flapper as Bimbo Mehaffey
1928
- Mother Knows Best as Ben