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
- Green Acres as Mr. Johnson
- The Big Valley as Charlie Carter
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
- Heading for Heaven as Henry Elkins
- Killer Dill as Johnny 'Killer' Dill
- Heaven Only Knows as Sheriff Matt Bodine
- 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
- Blondie for Victory as Pvt. Herschel Smith
- The Adventures of Martin Eden as Joe Dawson
- Drums of the Congo as Congo Jack
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
- Sandy Gets Her Man as Bill Kerry
- A Little Bit of Heaven as Cotton
1939
- Back Door to Heaven as Jud Mason
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Pete Tinney
- The Honeymoon's Over as Donald Todd
- It Could Happen to You as Mackinley Winslow
1938
- Passport Husband as Henry Cabot
- Three Blind Mice as Mike Brophy
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Oliver Boggs
1937
- Slim as Aaron "Stumpy" Stump
- Dance Charlie Dance as Andy Tucker
- Checkers as Edgar Connell
- Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Stuart Erwin
- I'll Take Romance as 'Pancho' Brown
- Second Honeymoon as Leo MacTavish
- Small Town Boy as Henry Armstrong
1936
- Exclusive Story as Timothy Aloysius Higgins
- Absolute Quiet as Oscar "Chubby" Rudd
- Pigskin Parade as Amos Dodd
- Ceiling Zero as Texas Clarke
- 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
- Viva Villa! as Jonny Sykes
- Have a Heart as Gus Anderson
- The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited)
- Palooka as Joe Palooka
- The Party's Over as Bruce Blakely
- The Band Plays On as Stuffy Wilson
1933
- Before Dawn as Dwight Wilson
- International House as Tommy Nash
- The Stranger's Return as Simon Bates
- Going Hollywood as Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer
- Hold Your Man as Al Simpson
- Face in the Sky as Lucky
- He Learned About Women as Peter Potter Kendall II
- The Crime of the Century as Dan McKee
- Day of Reckoning as Jerry
- Under the Tonto Rim as Tonto
1932
- Make Me a Star as Merton Gill
- Two Kinds of Women as Hauser
- The Misleading Lady as Boney
- Strangers in Love as Stan Kenney
- The Big Broadcast as Leslie McWhinney
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 as Self - Host
- 70,000 Witnesses as Man Talking to Connors (uncredited)
1931
- Working Girls as Pat Kelly
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- Dude Ranch as Chester Carr
- No Limit as Ole Olson
- Up Pops the Devil as Stranger
- The Magnificent Lie as Elmer Graham
1930
- Young Eagles as Pudge Higgins
- 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
- Love Among the Millionaires as Clicker Watson
- Playboy of Paris as Paul Michel
1929
- Happy Days as Jig
- The Sophomore as Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited)
- Dangerous Curves as Rotarian
- Thru Different Eyes as Reporter
- The Trespasser as Reporter (uncredited)
- This Thing Called Love as Fred
- The Cock-Eyed World as Buckley
- A Pair of Tights as Marion's Boyfriend
- Sweetie as Axel Bronstrup
- Speakeasy as Cy Williams
- The Exalted Flapper as Bimbo Mehaffey
- New Year's Eve as Landlady's Son
1928
- Mother Knows Best as Ben