Eugene Pallette
Born: 1889-07-07 in Winfield, Kansas, USA
Died: 1954-09-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Eugene William Pallette (July 8, 1889 – September 3, 1954) was an American actor. He appeared in over 240 silent era and sound era motion pictures between 1913 and 1946. An overweight man with large stomach and deep, gravelly voice, Pallette is probably best-remembered for comic character roles such as Alexander Bullock, Carole Lombard's father, in My Man Godfrey (1936), his role as Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn and his similar role as Fray Felipe in The Mark of Zorro (1940) starring Tyrone Power Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugene Pallette, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1946
- In Old Sacramento as Sheriff Jim Wales
- Suspense as Harry Wheeler
1945
- The Cheaters as James C. Pidgeon
1944
- In the Meantime, Darling as Henry B. Preston
- Pin Up Girl as Barney Briggs
- Step Lively as Simon Jenkins
- Sensations of 1945 as Gus Crane
- Lake Placid Serenade as Carl Cermak
- Heavenly Days as Senator Bigbee
1943
- Heaven Can Wait as E.F. Strabel
- Slightly Dangerous as Durstin
- It Ain't Hay as Gregory Warner
- The Gang's All Here as Andrew Mason Sr.
- The Kansan as Tom Waggoner
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
1942
- Tales of Manhattan as Luther
- The Male Animal as Ed Keller
- Silver Queen as Steve Adams
- The Big Street as Nicely Nicely Johnson
- Lady in a Jam as Billingsley
- The Forest Rangers as Howard Huston
- Are Husbands Necessary? as Bunker
- Almost Married as Doctor Dobson
1941
- The Lady Eve as Horace Pike
- Swamp Water as Jeb McKane
- The Bride Came C.O.D. as Lucius K. Winfield
- Appointment for Love as George Hastings
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- World Premiere as Gregory Martin
- Unfinished Business as Elmer
- Ride, Kelly, Ride as Duke Martin
1940
- The Mark of Zorro as Friar Felipe
- Young Tom Edison as Mr. Nelson
- He Stayed for Breakfast as Maurice Duval
- Sandy Is a Lady as P.J. Barnett
- A Little Bit of Heaven as Herrington
- It's a Date as Gov. Allen
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Chick McGann
- First Love as James Clinton
- Wife, Husband and Friend as Mike Craig
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Friar Tuck (archive footage) (uncredited)
- There Goes My Heart as Mr. Stevens - Editor
1937
- Topper as Casey
- Clarence as Mr. Wheeler
- One Hundred Men and a Girl as John R. Frost
- She Had to Eat as Raymond Q. Nash
- The Crime Nobody Saw as 'Babe' Lawton
1936
- My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock
- Stowaway as The Colonel
- Dishonour Bright as Busby
- The Luckiest Girl in the World as Campbell Duncan
- The Golden Arrow as Mr. Samuel Burke-Meyers
- Easy to Take as Reginald "Doc" Kraft
1935
- Bordertown as Charles 'Charlie' Roark
- Steamboat Round the Bend as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
- The Ghost Goes West as Mr. Joe Martin
- Black Sheep as Col. Upton Calhoun Belcher
- All the King's Horses as Conrad Q. Conley
- Baby Face Harrington as Uncle Henry
1934
- The Dragon Murder Case as Sgt. Ernest Heath
- Cross Country Cruise as Willy Bronson
- One Exciting Adventure as Kleinsilber
- Friends of Mr. Sweeney as Wynn Rixey
- Caravan as Gypsy Chief
- I've Got Your Number as Joseph 'Joe' Flood
- Strictly Dynamite as Sourwood
- Making the Rounds
1933
- The Kennel Murder Case as Detective Heath
- Shanghai Madness as Lobo Lonergan
- Made on Broadway as Terwilliger
- Mr. Skitch as Cliff Merriweather
- Hell Below as Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man
- Storm at Daybreak as Janos
- From Headquarters as Sgt. Boggs
- Sailor Beware! as Jonesy
- Hip Zip Hooray as Sheriff Bell
1932
- Shanghai Express as Sam Salt
- Strangers of the Evening as Detective Brubacher
- Dancers in the Dark as Gus
- Wild Girl as Yuba Bill
- The Half-Naked Truth as Achilles
- Thunder Below as Bill Horner
- The Night Mayor as Hymie Shane
- Tom Brown of Culver as Deaf Diner
- Always Kickin'
- Off His Base as Jerry Minor
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- Girls About Town as Benjamin Thomas
- Gun Smoke as Stub Wallock
- It Pays to Advertise as Cyrus Martin
- Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bilgewater
- Dude Ranch as Judd
- Fighting Caravans as Seth Higgins
1930
- Let's Go Native as Deputy Sheriff 'Careful' Cuthbert
- Paramount on Parade as Sergeant Heath
- The Sea God as Square Deal McCarthy
- The Border Legion as Bunco Davis
- The Santa Fe Trail as Doc Brady
- Slightly Scarlet as Sylvester Corbett
- Playboy of Paris as Pierre Bourdin
- The Benson Murder Case as Sgt. Edward Heath
- Follow Thru as J.C. Effingham
- Sea Legs as Hyacinth Nitouche
- The Kibitzer as Klaus
- Men Are Like That as Traffic Cop
1929
- Pointed Heels as Joe Carrington
- The Virginian as 'Honey' Wiggin
- The Love Parade as Minister of War
- The Greene Murder Case as Sergeant Heath
- The Canary Murder Case as Sergeant Heath
- The Studio Murder Mystery as Detective Lieutenant Dirk
- The Dummy as Madison
1928
- Lights of New York as Gene
- Should Women Drive?
- The Swell Head
- His Private Life as Henri Bérgere
- Out of the Ruins as Volange
- The Red Mark as Sergeo
- Aching Youth
1927
- The Battle of the Century as Insurance agent (uncredited)
- Jewish Prudence as Rent Collector
- The Second 100 Years as Dinner Host (uncredited)
- Moulders of Men as Barney Mulholland
- Chicago as Rodney Casley
- Fluttering Hearts as Motorcycle Cop
- Sugar Daddies as Hardy look-alike
- Should Men Walk Home? as Detective, Intelligence Bureau
- Many Scrappy Returns as Wellington - Charley's Brother
- The Lighter That Failed as Charley's Brother-in-Law
- Assistant Wives as Charley's Boss
1926
- You Never Know Women as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Mantrap as E. Wesson Woodbury
- Whispering Smith as Bill Dancing
- The Volga Boatman as Revolutionary
- Desert Valley as Deputy
- Rocking Moon as Side Money
- Whispering Canyon as Harvey Hawes
1925
- The Light of Western Stars as Stub (as Gene Pallette)
- Wild Horse Mesa as Melberne Townsman
- Without Mercy as Simon Linke
1924
- Wandering Husbands as Percy
- The Wolf Man as Pierre
- Stupid, but Brave as Richard Peeling
- The Cyclone Rider as Eddie
- The Galloping Fish as Anti-Volstead Esquire
1923
- The Ten Commandments as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
- North of Hudson Bay as Peter Dane
- Hell's Hole as Pablo
- To the Last Man as Simm Bruce
1922
- Without Compromise as Tommy Ainsworth
1921
- The Three Musketeers as Aramis
- Fine Feathers as Bob Reynolds
1920
- Terror Island as Guy Mourdant
- Alias Jimmy Valentine as 'Red' Jocelyn
- Twin Beds
1919
- Be a Little Sport as Dick Nevins
- Words and Music by - as Gene Harris
- The Amateur Adventuress as George Goodie
1918
- Tarzan of the Apes
- The Turn of a Card as Eddie Barrett
- No Man's Land as Sidney Dundas
- Madam Who as Lieutenant Conroy
- His Robe of Honor as Clifford Nordhoff
- Breakers Ahead as Jim Hawley
1917
- The World Apart as Clyde Holt
- The Winning of Sally Temple as Sir John Gorham
- Each to His Kind as Dick Larimer
- The Bond Between as Raoul Vaux
- The Ghost House as Spud Foster
- The Marcellini Millions as Mr. Murray
- The Heir of the Ages as Larry Payne
- A Man's Man as Captain Benevido
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Prosper Latour (French Story)
- Sunshine Dad as Alfred Evergreen
- Going Straight as Jimmy Briggs
- The Children in the House as Arthur Vincent
- Hell-to-Pay Austin as Harry Tracey
- Gretchen the Greenhorn as Rodgers
1915
- The Birth of a Nation as Union Soldier (uncredited)
- The Spell of the Poppy as Manfredi
- After Twenty Years as Tom's Grown Son
- The Terror of the Mountains as Soapy Smith
- How Hazel Got Even as Patsy
1914
- The Thief and the Book as The Fly
- The Tardy Cannon Ball as Dink
- The Stolen Ore as Dick Raleigh
- The Sheriff's Prisoner as John Walsh - the Miner
- A Pair of Cuffs
- Turned Back as Tom Johnston
1913
- The Tattooed Arm as Jim Halliday
- The Brothers as Estabon
- Youth and Jealousy
- The Kiss
- When Jim Returned