Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career. Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, where he and his first wife Myrtle Glass played the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuits billed as "Conlin & Glass", a song-and-dance team. They also starred together in two short films, Sharps and Flats (1928) and Zip! Boom! Bang! (1929)...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
1959
as Magruder
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his gir...
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
as Clarence Madigan
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. ...
The Seven Little Foys
1955
as Stage Doorman
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they...
It Happens Every Thursday
1953
as Matthew
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problem...
The Jazz Singer
1953
as Mr. Demming, Photographer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
On Dangerous Ground
1951
as Doc Hyman (uncredited)
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he ...
Sideshow
1950
as Johnny
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He fin...
Operation Haylift
1950
as Ed North
A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.
The Great Rupert
1950
as Joe Mahoney
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday wil...
The Inspector General
1949
as Turnkey (uncredited)
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mist...
Prejudice
1949
as Young Joe
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.
Tulsa
1949
as Homer Triplette
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee pla...
Knock on Any Door
1949
as Kid Fingers Carnahan (uncredited)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Hazard
1948
as Manager, Nevada Rest Motel (uncredited)
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private dete...
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Abner Small
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conn...
The Hucksters
1947
as Blake - Blue Penguin Inn Proprietor
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947
as Pete the Hermit
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" ke...
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947
as Sightless
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a h...
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
as Wormy
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, de...
It's a Joke, Son!
1947
as Senator Alexander P. Leeds
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke...
Rolling Home
1946
as Grandpa Crawford
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of various citizens in a small town. Released in 1946.
Blue Skies
1946
as Jeffrey - Valet (uncredited)
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves com...
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
as Grandpa Chandler (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house ...
Whistle Stop
1946
as Al - the Barber
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and...
Fallen Angel
1945
as Walton Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...
What, No Cigarettes
1945
as Uncle Wilbur
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and reluctantly with Florence's mother and brother. Without E...
Bring on the Girls
1945
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...
The Town Went Wild
1944
as Lemuel Jones, Justice of the Peace
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is ab...
Lost in a Harem
1944
as Arab Follower (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
as Mayor (uncredited)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married some...
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
as Judge Dennis
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to ...
Summer Storm
1944
as Man Mailing Letter (uncredited)
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...
And the Angels Sing
1944
as Messenger (uncredited)
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Po...
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
as Boarding House Tenant (uncredited)
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944
as Little Thief
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal thr...
Old Acquaintance
1943
as Frank - Photographer (uncredited)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
as Man at Meeting (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Bre...
Petticoat Larceny
1943
as Jitters
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soo...
Dixie
1943
as Publisher (uncredited)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music ...
Hitler's Madman
1943
as Dvorak - the Shopkeeper
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Taxi, Mister
1943
as Disgruntled Former Baseball Player for Bay Ridge Turtles
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
Slightly Dangerous
1943
as Bartender at opera (uncredited)
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Madame Spy
1942
as Winston
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins kee...
The Forest Rangers
1942
as Otto Hanson
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...
The Palm Beach Story
1942
as Mr. Asweld
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an...
Broadway
1942
as Newsman (uncredited)
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Mr. McIntyre - Linda's Neighbor (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as Private Henry Bartholowmew Smith
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...
The Lady Is Willing
1942
as Bum (uncredited)
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...
Woman of the Year
1942
as Reporter at Bar (uncredited)
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...
Sullivan's Travels
1941
as Trusty
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise a...
New York Town
1941
as Burt (uncredited)
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...
The Gay Falcon
1941
as Bartender (uncredited)
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along ...
Out of the Fog
1941
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather...
A Shot in the Dark
1941
as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
The Lady Eve
1941
as Third Steward (uncredited)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean start...
Ridin' on a Rainbow
1941
as Joe
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves ...
Let's Make Music
1941
as Tim
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
Second Chorus
1941
as Mr. Dunn
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exam...
Christmas in July
1940
as Arbuster (uncredited)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford Ho...
Angels Over Broadway
1940
as Pawn Shop Proprietor (uncredited)
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a...
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940
as Tour Bus Barker
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the d...
The Great McGinty
1940
as The Lookout - At Felgman's
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...
The Way of All Flesh
1940
as Second Hobo
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver so...
Florian
1940
as Stock Guard
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Edison, the Man
1940
as Waiter
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
as Poem Vendor (uncredited)
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney wh...
King of the Lumberjacks
1940
as Jimmy, the Piano Player (uncredited)
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
My Little Chickadee
1940
as Squawk Mulligan - Bartender (uncredited)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold...
Calling Philo Vance
1940
as Dr. Doremus - Coroner
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's ...
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
as Master of Ceremonies (uncredited)
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For ...
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as Sheriff (uncredited)
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
No Place to Go
1939
as Rivers
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befri...
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
as Coroner (uncredited)
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
as Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter...
Idiot's Delight
1939
as Stagehand
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Comet Over Broadway
1938
as Burlesque Comic (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
The Shining Hour
1938
as Man Shaving on Plane (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Hard to Get
1938
as Dour Diner (uncredited)
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making b...
Broadway Musketeers
1938
as Hobart Skinner
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nig...
Smashing the Rackets
1938
as Witness
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile...
Prison Farm
1938
as Dave, the Grocer
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...
Cocoanut Grove
1938
as Motel Proprietor
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
as Botkin (as James Conlon)
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Over the Wall
1938
as Davis' Handler
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
He Couldn't Say No
1938
as Ambulance Driver
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which...
Blondes at Work
1938
as Coroner (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...
Mannequin
1938
as Elevator Operator (Uncredited)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...
Crashing Hollywood
1938
as Crisby
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
The Adventurous Blonde
1937
as Dr. Bolger, coroner
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...
Living on Love
1937
as Man with Monkey
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Captains Courageous
1937
as Martin (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...
The Man Who Found Himself
1937
as Nosey Watson
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it ...
Rose Bowl
1936
as Browning Hills
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is ba...
The Accusing Finger
1936
as (scene deleted)
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...
And Sudden Death
1936
as Mr. Tweets
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she ...
Rose Marie
1936
as Joe - Piano Player (uncredited)
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
The Bride Comes Home
1935
as Len Noble
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...
Handy Andy
1934
as Henry (uncredited)
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty y...
She Learned About Sailors
1934
as Irate Neighbor
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the Sta...
City Limits
1934
as Napoleon, Second Hobo
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up ...
Cross Country Cruise
1934
as Sid
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murde...
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper's "Miss Lonelyhearts" advic...
Footlight Parade
1933
as Uncle in 'Honeymoon Hotel' (uncredited)
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going ...
College Humor
1933
as Dr. Mandel
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Grand Slam
1933
as Oscar Smelt
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Sharps and Flats
1928
as Self
Jimmy Conlin and Myrtle Glass perform a short vaudeville routine.