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
- 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
- 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
- The Honeymoon's Over as Donald Todd
1938
- Three Blind Mice as Mike Brophy
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
- Passport Husband as Henry Cabot
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Oliver Boggs
1937
- Slim as Aaron "Stumpy" Stump
- Second Honeymoon as Leo MacTavish
- Dance Charlie Dance as Andy Tucker
- I'll Take Romance as 'Pancho' Brown
- Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Stuart Erwin
- Checkers as Edgar Connell
- Small Town Boy as Henry Armstrong
1936
- Absolute Quiet as Oscar "Chubby" Rudd
- Ceiling Zero as Texas Clarke
- Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
- Women Are Trouble as Matt Casey
- Exclusive Story as Timothy Aloysius Higgins
- All American Chump as Elmer Lamb
1935
- After Office Hours as Hank Parr
1934
- Chained as John L. 'Johnnie' Smith
- Bachelor Bait as William Watts
- Viva Villa! as Jonny Sykes
- Have a Heart as Gus Anderson
- The Band Plays On as Stuffy Wilson
- The Party's Over as Bruce Blakely
- Palooka as Joe Palooka
- The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited)
1933
- Before Dawn as Dwight Wilson
- Going Hollywood as Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer
- Hold Your Man as Al Simpson
- The Stranger's Return as Simon Bates
- International House as Tommy Nash
- Day of Reckoning as Jerry
- He Learned About Women as Peter Potter Kendall II
- Under the Tonto Rim as Tonto
- The Crime of the Century as Dan McKee
- Face in the Sky as Lucky
1932
- The Big Broadcast as Leslie McWhinney
- Make Me a Star as Merton Gill
- The Misleading Lady as Boney
- Two Kinds of Women as Hauser
- 70,000 Witnesses as Man Talking to Connors (uncredited)
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 as Self - Host
- Strangers in Love as Stan Kenney
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- No Limit as Ole Olson
- Working Girls as Pat Kelly
- The Magnificent Lie as Elmer Graham
- Dude Ranch as Chester Carr
- Up Pops the Devil as Stranger
1930
- Men without Women as Jenkins
- Paramount on Parade as Marine (The Montmartre Girl)
- Only Saps Work as Oscar
- Along Came Youth as Ambrose
- Dangerous Nan McGrew as Eustace Macy
- Playboy of Paris as Paul Michel
- Love Among the Millionaires as Clicker Watson
- Young Eagles as Pudge Higgins
1929
- The Trespasser as Reporter (uncredited)
- Sweetie as Axel Bronstrup
- Happy Days as Jig
- Thru Different Eyes as Reporter
- Speakeasy as Cy Williams
- This Thing Called Love as Fred
- New Year's Eve as Landlady's Son
- A Pair of Tights as Marion's Boyfriend
- Dangerous Curves as Rotarian
- The Exalted Flapper as Bimbo Mehaffey
- The Cock-Eyed World as Buckley
- The Sophomore as Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited)
1928
- Mother Knows Best as Ben