Joseph Crehan
Born: 1883-07-14 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: 1966-04-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Crehan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in Union Pacific and They Died With Their Boots On. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Hollywood, California from a stroke. Crehan often played alongside Charles C. Wilson with whom he is sometimes confused.
Filmography
1965
- The Great Race as Observer at Start (uncredited)
1964
- Seven Days in May as Bit Part (uncredited)
1961
- Judgment at Nuremberg as Courtroom Spectator at Verdict (uncredited)
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Councilman
1958
- Bat Masterson as Thomas Bolland
1957
- Leave It to Beaver as Train Conductor
- 26 Men
1955
- MGM Parade
- The Twinkle In God's Eye as Doctor
1954
- The Whistler
- The Lone Wolf as Conductor
- Highway Dragnet as Elderly Border Inspection Officer
1953
- Crazylegs as Hank Hatch
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Mr. Kramer
- Deadline - U.S.A. as City Editor of The Standard (uncredited)
1951
- I Love Lucy as Detective
- Pride of Maryland as Mr. Herndon
- Roadblock as Thompson (uncredited)
- The Family Secret
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Doctor
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Police Boat Captain (uncredited)
- Gun Crazy as Plant Foreman (uncredited)
- Triple Trouble as Warden Burnside
- The Flying Missile as Rear Admiral
- The Arizona Cowboy as Colonel Jefferson
- The Tougher They Come as Thompson
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Tom Patrict
- Ringside as Oscar Brannigan
- Duke of Chicago as 'Tex' Harman
- Bad Men of Tombstone as Mine Superintendent
- Dancing in the Dark as Board Member
- The Last Bandit as Local No. 44 Engineer
- Prejudice as J.P. Baker
- State Department: File 649 as Government Official
- Red Desert as President Ulysses S. Grant
- Amazon Quest as De Ruyter
- Alias the Champ as Tim Murphy
- Unto Thyself Be True as Frank Hartwell
1948
- Silver River as Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
- Relentless as Doctor (uncredited)
- Street Corner as Dr. James Fenton
- April Showers as William Barnes
- Adventures in Silverado as McHugh
- The Gallant Legion as George Trent - State Official
- The Hunted as Small Town Police Captain
- The Countess of Monte Cristo as Joe
- The Story of Life
- Night Time in Nevada as Engineer Casey
- Homicide for Three as Police Captain
- The Enchanted Valley as Chief Scott
- Sundown in Santa Fe as Major Larkin
- Because of Eve as Dr. West
1947
- Monsieur Verdoux as Broker (uncredited)
- Louisiana as Neilson
- The Sea of Grass as Colorado Sen. Grew (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as Chief Brandon
- The Trespasser as The Doctor
- Philo Vance's Gamble as Ellis Mason
1946
- The Big Sleep as Medical Examiner (uncredited)
- Strange Journey as Thompson
- The Virginian
- O.S.S. as Gen. Donovan
- Magnificent Doll as Williams (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball as Chief Brandon
- Girl on the Spot as Editor (uncredited)
- Behind the Mask as Police Inspector Cardonna
- Deadline at Dawn as Lt. Kane
- Dangerous Money as Captain Black
- Bad Bascomb as Gov. Clark (uncredited)
- The Falcon's Adventure as Inspector Cavanaugh
- The Mysterious Mr. M as Dan Blair
- The Phantom Thief as 'Jumbo' Madigan - Pawnbroker
- The Brute Man as Police Commissioner Salisbury (uncredited)
- The Shadow Returns as Police Insp. Cardona
- Tars and Spars as Admiral
- A Guy Could Change as McCarthy
- Night Train to Memphis as John Stevenson
1945
- Dick Tracy as Chief Brandon
- Lady on a Train as Train passenger (uncredited)
- I Love a Mystery as Police Captain Quinn (Uncredited)
- Captain Tugboat Annie as Alec Severn
- Adventure as Ed - Maritime Office (uncredited)
- The Royal Mounted Rides Again as RCMP Sergeant Nelson
- Man Alive as Dr. James P. Whitney
- The Chicago Kid as Chief Rogers
1944
- Black Magic as Police Sgt. Matthews
- Phantom Lady as Detective
- The Thin Man Goes Home as Clancy - Policeman at Railroad Station (uncredited)
- The Missing Juror as Willard Apple
- Shine on Harvest Moon as Harry Miller (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain as Ulysses S. Grant
- Hands Across the Border as Jeff "Bet-A-Hundred" Adams
- Christmas Holiday as Steve (uncredited)
- One Mysterious Night as Jumbo Madigan (Uncredited)
- The Navy Way as Chaplain Benson
- The Great Alaskan Mystery as Bill Hudson
- When the Lights Go On Again as Bob
- Gambler's Choice as Toby (uncredited)
- To the People of the United States as Doctor at Hospital (uncredited)
1943
- Mr. Lucky as Detective (uncredited)
- Hit the Ice as Train Conductor #1 (uncredited)
- The Iron Major as Judge
- Mission to Moscow as Reporter (uncredited)
- Crazy House as Mogey (uncredited)
- City Without Men as Father Burns
- Honeymoon Lodge as Judge
- The Woman of the Town as New York Newspaper Editor
- Keep 'Em Slugging as Detective Sergeant
- Mystery Broadcast as Chief Daniels
- The Desert Song as Steve, a Reporter
- She Has What It Takes as George Clarke
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- False Faces as Police Capt. Alan O'Brien
- Adventures of the Flying Cadets as Col. George Bolton [Chs. 1-2]
1942
- Girl Trouble as Kohn
- Sealed Lips as Chief Charles R. Dugan
- Junior Army as Mr. Jeffrey Ferguson
- Gentleman Jim as Duffy - Referee (uncredited)
- Hello, Annapolis as Evans Arden
- Obliging Young Lady as Managing Editor (uncredited)
- Larceny, Inc. as Warden
- The Secret Code as Police Chief Henry Burns
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Ray Trent (uncredited)
- You Can't Escape Forever as Warden (uncredited)
- Eyes of the Underworld as Kirby - Assistant Police Chief
- Gang Busters as Police Chief Martin O'Brien
- Murder in the Big House as Ainslee
- The Courtship of Andy Hardy as Peter Dugan
- Men of Texas as Luther Crittenden
- Cadets on Parade as Jeff Shannon
- Treat 'Em Rough as Roderick Wetherbee (as Joe Crehan)
- Whistling in Dixie as Deputy Police Commissioner (uncredited)
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as President Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
- Back Street as Postman
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan as Doctor (uncredited)
- Texas as Rancher Dusty King
- Love Crazy as Judge
- A Man Betrayed as Bob - Globe Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
- Manpower as Sweeney
- Doctors Don't Tell as Judge Hoskins
- Flying Blind as Nunnally
- Nevada City as Mark Benton
- The Case of the Black Parrot as Inspector Grady
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary as Peter Dugan
- Here Comes Happiness as Tom Burke
- Scattergood Baines as Keith
- Know For Sure as supporting role
- Three Girls About Town as Labor leader
- Washington Melodrama as Phil Sampson
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as Editor (uncredited)
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Officer at Washington Party (uncredited)
- Jack Pot as Mayor Steven Andrews (uncredited)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Ballroom Manager (uncredited)
- City for Conquest as Doctor
- Brother Orchid as Brother MacEwen
- The Green Hornet as Judge Stanton
- Emergency Squad as H. Tyler Joyce, editor
- The Fighting 69th as Inoculations Doctor (uncredited)
- Parole Fixer as Warden (uncredited)
- The House Across the Bay as Federal Man
- Little Nellie Kelly as Commissioner O'Brien (uncredited)
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Johnson
- Public Deb No. 1 as Director
- Colorado as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Music in My Heart as Mark C. Gilman
- The Secret Seven as Police Chief Hobbs
- Gaucho Serenade as Edward Martin
1939
- Union Pacific as Ulysses S. Grant
- Star Reporter as Gordon
- The Roaring Twenties as Michaels
- Babes in Arms as Mr. Essex
- Dodge City as Hammond (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes as Garage Owner (uncredited)
- Society Lawyer as City Editor
- The Return of Doctor X as Editor
- Stanley and Livingstone as Morehead
- They All Come Out as Judge (uncredited)
- The Star Maker as Thomas Marlowe
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Warden of Sing Sing
- Navy Secrets as FBI Chief Herbert Daly
- Tell No Tales as Chalmers
- Geronimo as President Ulysses S. Grant
- We Are Not Alone as American at Train Station
- Wings of the Navy as Second Doctor
- Private Detective as Capt. Murphy
- Maisie as Defense Attorney Wilcox
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Attorney
- Blackmail as Mr. Blaine (uncredited)
- Almost a Gentleman as Prosecutor
- Full Confession as Warden (uncredited)
- Pride of the Navy as Brad Foster
- Whispering Enemies as George Harley
- Behind Prison Gates as Prison Warden O'Neil
1938
- Happy Landing as Agent
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as American Tourist (uncredited)
- Too Hot to Handle as First Advertising Man (uncredited)
- Gateway as Inspector
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Stage Manager
- Four's a Crowd as Butler Pierce
- Night Spot as Inspector Wayland
- State Police as Mr. Owen, Mine Owner
- Gang Bullets as Wallace
- A Criminal Is Born as Frank Wheeler
- The Arkansas Traveler as McSweeney
- Illegal Traffic as Chief Daley
- Girls on Probation as Todd
- Woman Against Woman as Sen. Kingsley
- Billy The Kid Returns as U.S. Marshal Dave Conway
- Here's Flash Casey as Blaine
- Midnight Intruder as Bill Harwood - Newspaper Editor
- The Kid Comes Back as Danny Lockridge
- Crime Takes a Holiday as Gov. Bill Allen
1937
- Kid Galahad as Brady
- The Go-Getter as Karl Stone
- Smart Blonde as Tiny Torgensen
- Beg, Borrow or Steal as Mr. Parsons, Murillo Customer (uncredited)
- Her Husband's Secretary as Stevenson
- Born Reckless as District Attorney
- God's Country and the Woman as Jordan
- The Wrong Road as District Attorney
- Blossoms On Broadway as Bartender (uncredited)
- Once a Doctor as Captain Andrews
- Talent Scout as A.J. Lambert
- This Is My Affair as Priest
- The Case of the Stuttering Bishop as Paul Drake
- Midnight Court as Judge Frederick J. Thompson
- Midnight Madonna as Moe Grinnell
- Girls Can Play as Editor Brophy
- A Day at Santa Anita as Biff, Blackburn's Trainer (uncredited)
- Draegerman Courage as Dr. Stuart Hunter
- There Goes My Girl as Sgt. Wood
- The Duke Comes Back as Pat Doyle
- Mama Runs Wild as Tom Fowler
- The Cherokee Strip as Army Officer
- Outlaws of the Orient as Snyder
1936
- Road Gang as Harry Shields
- Bullets or Ballots as Grand Jury Spokesman
- Anthony Adverse as Capt. Elisha Jorham
- The Singing Kid as Agent Fulton (uncredited)
- Gold Diggers of 1937 as Chairman
- Cain and Mabel as Reed's Manager
- Boulder Dam as Ross
- China Clipper as Jim Horn
- Guns of the Pecos as Captain Norris
- King of Hockey as Mike Trotter
- Earthworm Tractors as Mr. Henderson
- Bengal Tiger as Bill Hinsdale
- The Murder of Dr. Harrigan as Lieut. Lamb
- Down the Stretch as C.D. Burch
- The Law in Her Hands as Dist. Atty. Thomas Mallon
- The Captain's Kid as Deputy Coroner Frank Knickerbocker
- Brides Are Like That as Tom Carter
- Here Comes Carter as Daniel Bronson
- Jailbreak as Warden
- Trailin' West as Colonel Douglas
- Murder by an Aristocrat as Hilary Thatcher
1935
- Special Agent as Commissioner of Police
- Front Page Woman as Spike Kiley
- Frisco Kid as McClanahan
- Black Fury as Johnny Farrell
- Bright Lights as Post Office Attendant
- Go Into Your Dance as H.P. Jackson
- Don't Bet on Blondes as Doctor Delivering Quintuplets (Uncredited)
- Page Miss Glory as Detective Chief
- Dinky as Orphanage Director
- Oil for the Lamps of China as Clements
- Shipmates Forever as Spike (uncredited)
- While the Patient Slept as Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)
- Let 'em Have It as Memory Test Instructor
- Traveling Saleslady as Murdock
- The Case of the Lucky Legs as Detective Johnson
- We're in the Money
- The Payoff as Harvey Morris
- Stranded as Johnny Quinn
- Man of Iron as Tom Martin
1934
- It Happened One Night as Detective (uncredited)
- Jimmy the Gent as Murder Trial Judge (uncredited)
- A Lost Lady as Second Doctor (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Navy as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
- The Case of the Howling Dog as Captain Kelly (uncredited)
- The Hell Cat as Captain Barnett
- Gentlemen Are Born as Haskins
- Strange Wives as Immigration Official
- The Line-Up as Police Capt. Daniel McGrath
- The Merry Frinks as Mr. Baxter
- Big Hearted Herbert as IRS Tax Investigator (uncredited)
- Now I'll Tell as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
- Voice in the Night as John Robinson
- Sleepers East as Conductor (uncredited)
- Among the Missing as Detective O'Malley
- Beyond the Law as Chief Anderson
- Against the Law as Capt. Elliott
1933
- Duck Soup as Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)
- Havana Widows as Ship Captain (uncredited)
- Before Midnight as Capt. Frank Flynn
- Female as Police Lieutenant (Uncredited)
1931
- Secrets of a Secretary as Reporter
- Stolen Heaven as Henry - Steve's Butler
1916
- Under Two Flags as Rake