Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Carle (July 7, 1871 – June 28, 1941) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 132 films between 1915 and 1941. He was born as Charles Nicholas Carleton in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was on the stage for many years, appearing in important roles in London, New York and Chicago before making his screen debut. In 1941 he died in North Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
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Complete Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts o...
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Actor Outside Theater (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Moonlight in Hawaii
1941
as Lawton
Deciding to quit his singing act and become a tourist guide, Pete Fleming escorts wealthy Mrs. Floto and her three nieces to Hawaii for a vacation. Be...
Buy Me That Town
1941
as Judge Paradise
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The...
New Wine
1941
as Karl Hasslinger
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
A Dangerous Game
1941
as Agatha - alias Mooseface Hogarty
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients r...
My Life with Caroline
1941
as Reverend Dr. Curtis
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Million Dollar Baby
1941
as George the butler
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
as Albert
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
as Oliver
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...
Las Vegas Nights
1941
as Judge Elkins
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub. Frank Sinatra's first screen appearance.
One Night in the Tropics
1940
as James G. Moore
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million ...
Seven Sinners
1940
as District Officer
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangste...
The Golden Fleecing
1940
as Pattington
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
as Lester Smoot
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.
The Great McGinty
1940
as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br...
Those Were the Days!
1940
as Old Man
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.
Lillian Russell
1940
as Bradley
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
1940
as C. J. Woodbury
In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her "Miss Manhattan" to promote a cheap line of clothing. To ...
The Ghost Comes Home
1940
as John Reed Thomas
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Parole Fixer
1940
as Gustav Kalkus
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice ...
Remember?
1939
as Mr. Piper
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff...
Ninotchka
1939
as Gaston
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Maisie
1939
as Lawyer Roger Bannerman
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman...
Undercover Doctor
1939
as Elmer Porter
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his n...
It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Major I. E. Willoughby
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by ...
Persons in Hiding
1939
as Zeke Bronson
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
True Confession
1937
as Judge
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she ...
45 Fathers
1937
as Bunny Carothers
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
I'll Take Romance
1937
as Rudi
Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, how...
Merry Go Round of 1938
1937
as Col. J. Addison Frooks
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
She Asked for It
1937
as Ted Hoyt
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends th...
It's All Yours
1937
as Judge Reynolds
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, n...
Love in a Bungalow
1937
as Mr. Bisbee
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Hum...
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
as Boswell
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
Racketeers in Exile
1937
as Regan Langdon aka 'Porky'
In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begi...
Outcast
1937
as Mooney
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
Champagne Waltz
1937
as Messenger
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...
She's Dangerous
1937
as Henchman Kegley
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
College Holiday
1936
as Judge Bent (uncredited)
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Easy to Take
1936
as Attorney Olney
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
The Texas Rangers
1936
as Casper Johnson
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Spendthrift
1936
as Popsy
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all t...
The Arizona Raiders
1936
as Boswell Albernathy, Justice of the Peace
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. T...
Three of a Kind
1936
as F. Thorndyke Penfield
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
One Rainy Afternoon
1936
as Minister of Justice
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki...
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
as Uncle Gordon
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
Let's Sing Again
1936
as Carter
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
Small Town Girl
1936
as Jeffers Cass, J.P. (uncredited)
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dak...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Ezra Tolliver
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Love Before Breakfast
1936
as Brinkerhoff
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues K...
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
as The Professor, a Hobo
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
Drift Fence
1936
as Sheriff Bingham
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city ...
Anything Goes
1936
as Bishop Dobson
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he...
The Bride Comes Home
1935
as Frank - Butler
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in h...
Dangerous
1935
as Pitt Hanley
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail t...
I Dream Too Much
1935
as Snobbish Critic (uncredited)
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, ...
Nevada
1935
as Judge Franklidge
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
The Gay Deception
1935
as Mr. Spitzer
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seem...
Here Comes Cookie
1935
as Sam (uncredited)
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to ...
Together We Live
1935
as Charlie
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement i...
Love in Bloom
1935
as Sheriff
A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
Baby Face Harrington
1935
as Judge Forbes
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....
Night Life of the Gods
1935
as Grandpa Lambert
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked lep...
Life Returns
1935
as A.K. Arnold
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently de...
Caravan
1934
as Majordomo
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
The Ghost Walks
1934
as Herman Wood
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes ...
The Merry Widow
1934
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Wake Up and Dream
1934
as Roger Babcock
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
as Sheriff from Barnesville
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
Such Women Are Dangerous
1934
as Thomas H. Delahanty
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatene...
Hollywood Party
1934
as Knapp
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real ...
The Last Round-up
1934
as Judge Savin
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Clev...
Affairs of a Gentleman
1934
as Paul Q. Bindar
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
The Witching Hour
1934
as Lew Ellinger
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes...
Sing and Like It
1934
as Mr. Abercrombie Hancock - Critic
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue
George White's Scandals
1934
as Minister
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she h...
Beloved
1934
as Judge B. T. Belden
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Golden Harvest
1933
as Doctor Hoyt
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market...
Morning Glory
1933
as Henry Lawrence
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a p...
No Marriage Ties
1933
as Elderly Escort
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
Man Hunt
1933
as Sheriff Bascom
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
Diplomaniacs
1933
as Ship's Captain
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks ...
Private Jones
1933
as Lecturer (uncredited)
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter ...
Smoke Lightning
1933
as Parson
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after ...
Boys Will Be Boys
1932
as Mr. Albertson
Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young lady of class. But then Frank's father learns that ...
Rockabye
1932
as Doc (uncredited)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
The Night of June 13
1932
as Otto
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...
The Tenderfoot
1932
Story
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and p...
One Hour with You
1932
as Henri Dornier - Private Detective
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist h...
Fireman, Save My Child
1932
as Dan Toby
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for hi...
Flying High
1931
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
The Great Junction Hotel
1931
as The Desk Clerk
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the br...
Brothers
1931
as Thomas Blackwood
Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes ...
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930
as Wedding Minister (uncredited)
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes ...
Hold the Baby
1930
short subject comedy
Estrellados
1930
as Eunuch (uncredited)
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispan...
Rich Uncles
1930
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.
A Lady to Love
1930
as Postman
Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother B...
The Grand Parade
1930
as Rand
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the s...
So This Is College
1929
as Professor (uncredited)
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
His Glorious Night
1929
as Count Albert
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry of...
Madame X
1929
as Perissard
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her...
Habeas Corpus
1928
as Professor
Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
The Fleet's In
1928
as Judge Hartley
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with he...
While the City Sleeps
1928
as Wally
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though t...
Soft Cushions
1927
as The Slave Dealer
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Waz...
The Understanding Heart
1927
as Sheriff Bentley
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.
Eve's Leaves
1926
as Richard Stanley
After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his ...
Zander the Great
1925
as Mr. Pepper
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it of...
The Mad Marriage
1925
Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult,...