Cast
Roscoe Karns
Acting
Cast
Roscoe Karns
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-09-06
From
San Bernardino, California, USA
Died
1970-02-06
Also known as Roscoe Karnes
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series. From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964. Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Dollar Down
as Gene Meadows
★5.5
MOVIE1958
Onionhead
as 'Windy' Woods
★5.5
MOVIE1931
Dirigible
as Sock McGuire
★7.8
MOVIE1934
It Happened One Night
as Oscar Shapeley
★7.2
MOVIE1927
Wings
as Lieutenant Cameron
★7.1
MOVIE1928
Beggars of Life
as Lame Hoppy
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Warming Up
as Hippo
★5.9
MOVIE1935
Front Page Woman
as Toots O'Grady
★7.4
MOVIE1940
His Girl Friday
as McCue
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Woman Trap
as Mopsy
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
★7.0
MOVIE1933
A Lady's Profession
as Tony
★6.5
MOVIE1932
Stowaway
as Insp. Redding
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Ladies Must Live
as Pete Larrabee
★5.8
MOVIE1942
Yokel Boy
as Al Devers
★10.0
MOVIE1922
Her Own Money
as Jerry Woodward
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Object: Alimony
as Al Bryant
★6.6
MOVIE1923
The Ten Commandments
as The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1927
The Jazz Singer
as Agent (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1926
You'd Be Surprised
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Petticoat Politics
as Joe Higgins
★7.0
MOVIE1964
Man's Favorite Sport?
as Major Phipps
★6.5
MOVIE1929
Copy
as City Editor John Mack
★6.9
MOVIE1942
Woman of the Year
as Phil Whittaker
★5.6
MOVIE1939
King of Chinatown
as Rip Harrigan
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Shopworn Angel
as Dance Director
★6.9
MOVIE1940
They Drive by Night
as Irish McGurn
★7.0
MOVIE1946
One Way to Love
as Hobie Simmons
★6.1
MOVIE1933
Alice in Wonderland
as Tweedledee
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Woman in Red
as Man in court room (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1924
Bluff
as Jack Hallowell
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Night of Mystery
as Sergeant Heath
★6.5
MOVIE1932
If I Had a Million
as Private O'Brien
★10.0
MOVIE1941
Half Shot at Sunrise
as Henry Warren
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Elmer and Elsie
as Rocky Cott
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Alibi Ike
as Carey
MOVIE1915
Mr. Carlson of Arizona
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Footsteps in the Dark
as Monahan
★9.0
MOVIE1941
The Gay Vagabond
as Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon
★10.0
MOVIE1928
Something Always Happens
as George
★5.6
MOVIE1920
The Life of the Party
as Sam Perkins
★6.1
MOVIE1932
Lawyer Man
as Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Saturday's Children
as Willie Sands
★7.0
MOVIE1943
My Son, The Hero
as Big-Time Morgan
★6.8
MOVIE1934
Twentieth Century
as Owen O'Malley
★6.3
MOVIE1943
Stage Door Canteen
as Roscoe Karns
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Night After Night
as Leo
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Today We Live
as McGinnis
★5.0
MOVIE1932
The Roadhouse Murder
as Dale
★7.2
MOVIE1943
His Butler's Sister
as Fields
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Tip-Off Girls
as Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan
★6.6
MOVIE1938
You and Me
as Cuffy
★6.7
MOVIE1947
That's My Man
as Toby Gleeton
★7.1
MOVIE1943
Old Acquaintance
as Charlie Archer
★6.4
MOVIE1935
Wings in the Dark
as Nick Williams
★6.7
MOVIE1934
Shoot the Works
as Sailor Burke
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Jazz Mad
as Sol Levy
★5.3
MOVIE1931
Laughing Sinners
as Fred Geer
★5.7
MOVIE1941
Road to Happiness
as Charley Grady
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Dancing Co-Ed
as Joe Drews
★5.6
MOVIE1943
Riding High
as Shorty
★6.0
MOVIE1931
Ladies of the Big House
as Frank - Twenty Questions player (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1932
They Call It Sin
as Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1938
Dangerous to Know
as Duncan
★6.9
MOVIE1929
The Flying Fleet
as Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Beau Sabreur
as Buddy
★7.4
MOVIE1932
One Way Passage
as S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1924
The Midnight Express
as Switch Hogan
★5.8
MOVIE1932
High Pressure
as Telephone Salesman (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Two Against the World
as Segall, reporter
★5.7
MOVIE1935
Four Hours to Kill!
as Johnson
★5.6
MOVIE1934
Come On, Marines!
as Spud McGurke
★10.0
MOVIE1927
Ten Modern Commandments
as Benny Burnaway
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Navy Way
as Frankie Gimble
★5.8
MOVIE1933
Gambling Ship
as Blooey
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Everything's on Ice
as Felix Miller
★9.0
MOVIE1930
Little Accident
as Gilbert
★8.0
MOVIE1922
Conquering the Woman
as Shorty Thompson
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Border Flight
as Calico Smith
★5.2
MOVIE1932
The Crooked Circle
as Harry Carter
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Partners in Crime
as Sim Perkins
★8.0
MOVIE1930
The Costello Case
as Blair
★6.4
MOVIE1936
Cain and Mabel
as Reilly
★5.8
MOVIE1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Officer Carmody
★5.0
MOVIE1937
Murder Goes to College
as Sim Perkins
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Week-End Marriage
as Jim Davis
★5.2
MOVIE1942
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Cassidy
★5.3
MOVIE1940
Double Alibi
as Jeremiah Jenkins
★6.3
MOVIE1939
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Mal Stamp
★4.3
MOVIE1947
Vigilantes of Boomtown
as Bill Delaney
★6.1
MOVIE1928
The Trail of '98
as Man on Ship (uncredited)
★4.3
MOVIE1933
The Women in His Life
as Aloysius Lester
★4.6
MOVIE1933
Grand Slam
as Contest Radio Announcer
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Vanishing Pioneer
as Ray Hearn
★6.6
MOVIE1948
The Inside Story
as Eustace Peabody
★5.5
MOVIE1930
Safety in Numbers
as Bertram Shapiro
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Three Married Men
as Peter Cary
★8.0
MOVIE1919
Poor Relations
as Henry
★5.0
MOVIE1932
Play Girl
as Gambler (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1933
One Sunday Afternoon
as Snappy Downer
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Thanks for the Memory
as George Kent
★6.0
MOVIE1942
You Can't Escape Forever
as 'Mac' McTurk
★8.0
MOVIE1920
The Family Honor
as Dal Tucker
★6.5
MOVIE1944
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Archie
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Speed to Spare
as Kangaroo
★5.5
MOVIE1944
Minstrel Man
as Lasses White
★10.0
MOVIE1925
The Overland Limited
as Patrick Henry Madden
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Troopers Three
as Bugs
★7.0
MOVIE1928
Moran of the Marines
as Swatty
★5.5
MOVIE1929
New York Nights
as Johnny Dolan
★6.3
MOVIE1932
Under-Cover Man
as Dannie
★9.0
MOVIE1946
Avalanche
as Red Kelly
★10.0
MOVIE1931
Many a Slip
as Stan Price
★5.9
MOVIE1948
Devil's Cargo
as Lt. Hardy
★10.0
MOVIE1928
Win That Girl
as Johnny Norton II
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Meet the Missus
as Joe Higgins
★8.5
MOVIE1935
Two-Fisted
as Chick Moran
★7.0
MOVIE1915
A Western Governor's Humanity
as The Sheriff
★7.0
MOVIE1946
I Ring Doorbells
as Stubby
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Red Hot Tires
as Bud Keene
★10.0
MOVIE1924
The Foolish Virgin
as Chuck Brady
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Left Over Ladies
as 'Scoop'
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Scandal Street
as Austin Brown
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Black Eyes and Blues
as Alfred Harmon
★7.0
MOVIE1937
On Such a Night
as Joe Flynn
★9.0
MOVIE1915
From Champion to Tramp
as The Girl's Father
★5.5
MOVIE1928
The Desert Bride
as Pvt. Terry
★9.0
MOVIE1929
This Thing Called Love
as Harry Bertrand
★5.0
MOVIE1934
I Sell Anything
as Monk
★9.0
MOVIE1930
The Gorilla
as Simmons
★4.2
MOVIE1931
Pleasure
as Arnie
★8.0
MOVIE1915
A Species of Mexican Man
★8.0
MOVIE1922
The Trouper
★7.5
MOVIE1930
Man Trouble
as Scott
★10.0
MOVIE1921
The Man Tamer
as Bradley P. Caldwell Jr
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Other Men's Daughters
as Hubert
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Ritzy
as Smith's Valet