Known For
Complete Filmography
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1955
as Pa Kettle
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an...
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954
as Pa Kettle
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholar...
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1952
as Pa Kettle
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he i...
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
as Pa Kettle
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i...
Ellis in Freedomland
1952
as The Dehumidifier (voice)
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second...
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1951
as Pa Kettle
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether t...
Riding High
1950
as Pop Jones
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
as Pa Kettle
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money whic...
Free For All
1949
as Henry J. Abbott
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
as Rickle
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's...
The Sun Comes Up
1949
as Mr. Willie B. Williegood
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy...
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
as Frank 'Pa' Kettle
The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tob...
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
as Mr. Racknell
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel...
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1948
as Billy Caswell
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Black Bart
1948
as Jersey Brady
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman ...
You Were Meant for Me
1948
as Andrew Mayhew
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Riff-Raff
1947
as Pop
A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sig...
Welcome Stranger
1947
as Nat Dorkas
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; b...
The Egg and I
1947
as Frank 'Pa' Kettle
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While...
The Well Groomed Bride
1946
as Mr. Dawson
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship...
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
as Judge Whittaker
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with wa...
Fallen Angel
1945
as Pop
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...
State Fair
1945
as Dave Miller
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine B...
The Southerner
1945
as W. Harmie
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle d...
Guest in the House
1944
as John
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother,...
She's a Soldier Too
1944
as Jonathan Kittredge
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
Knickerbocker Holiday
1944
as Schermerhorn
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650...
The Woman of the Town
1943
as Rev. Samuel Small
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
Crazy House
1943
as Col. Cornelius Merriweather
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...
Keeper of the Flame
1943
as Orion Peabody
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
George Washington Slept Here
1942
as Mr. Kimber
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsy...
Soak the Rich
1936
as Everett, 2nd Detective
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
White Woman
1933
as Jakey
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel,...