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
Wings
as Lieutenant Cameron
It Happened One Night
as Oscar Shapeley
His Girl Friday
as McCue
Grand Slam
as Contest Radio Announcer
Troopers Three
as Bugs
Woman of the Year
as Phil Whittaker
The Jazz Singer
as Agent (uncredited)
The Trouper
Scandal Street
as Austin Brown
Petticoat Politics
as Joe Higgins
Dirigible
as Sock McGuire
Beggars of Life
as Lame Hoppy
Half Shot at Sunrise
as Henry Warren
Elmer and Elsie
as Rocky Cott
Alice in Wonderland
as Tweedledee
Lawyer Man
as Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
You and Me
as Cuffy
Gambling Ship
as Blooey
They Drive by Night
as Irish McGurn
Man's Favorite Sport?
as Major Phipps
Twentieth Century
as Owen O'Malley
The Ten Commandments
as The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
If I Had a Million
as Private O'Brien
Onionhead
as 'Windy' Woods
Old Acquaintance
as Charlie Archer
High Pressure
as Telephone Salesman (uncredited)
Laughing Sinners
as Fred Geer
Dangerous to Know
as Duncan
Road to Happiness
as Charley Grady
Stage Door Canteen
as Roscoe Karns
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Officer Carmody
The Navy Way
as Frankie Gimble
Play Girl
as Gambler (uncredited)
They Call It Sin
as Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
Today We Live
as McGinnis
Dancing Co-Ed
as Joe Drews
Yokel Boy
as Al Devers
I Sell Anything
as Monk
Left Over Ladies
as 'Scoop'
Night of Mystery
as Sergeant Heath
The Women in His Life
as Aloysius Lester
One Way Passage
as S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
Cain and Mabel
as Reilly
Ladies of the Big House
as Frank - Twenty Questions player (uncredited)
Thanks for the Memory
as George Kent
Alibi Ike
as Carey
Saturday's Children
as Willie Sands
Minstrel Man
as Lasses White
Front Page Woman
as Toots O'Grady
That's My Man
as Toby Gleeton
Something Always Happens
as George
Riding High
as Shorty
Wings in the Dark
as Nick Williams
The Woman in Red
as Man in court room (uncredited)
The Inside Story
as Eustace Peabody
You'd Be Surprised
as Party Guest (uncredited)
King of Chinatown
as Rip Harrigan
You Can't Escape Forever
as 'Mac' McTurk
Man Trouble
as Scott
Shoot the Works
as Sailor Burke
The Flying Fleet
as Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited)
On Such a Night
as Joe Flynn
Double Alibi
as Jeremiah Jenkins
The Shopworn Angel
as Dance Director
Red Hot Tires
as Bud Keene
Three Married Men
as Peter Cary
The Trail of '98
as Man on Ship (uncredited)
Copy
as City Editor John Mack
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Mal Stamp
Night After Night
as Leo
The Vanishing Pioneer
as Ray Hearn
This Thing Called Love
as Harry Bertrand
Jazz Mad
as Sol Levy
Come On, Marines!
as Spud McGurke
His Butler's Sister
as Fields
Ladies Must Live
as Pete Larrabee
One Sunday Afternoon
as Snappy Downer
The Crooked Circle
as Harry Carter
Dollar Down
as Gene Meadows
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Cassidy
Murder Goes to College
as Sim Perkins
Footsteps in the Dark
as Monahan
The Midnight Express
as Switch Hogan
Poor Relations
as Henry
One Way to Love
as Hobie Simmons
Under-Cover Man
as Dannie
Beau Sabreur
as Buddy
Win That Girl
as Johnny Norton II
Border Flight
as Calico Smith
Four Hours to Kill!
as Johnson
Devil's Cargo
as Lt. Hardy
Object: Alimony
as Al Bryant
The Overland Limited
as Patrick Henry Madden
The Desert Bride
as Pvt. Terry
Woman Trap
as Mopsy
Stowaway
as Insp. Redding
Her Own Money
as Jerry Woodward
The Gorilla
as Simmons
Moran of the Marines
as Swatty
The Roadhouse Murder
as Dale
Week-End Marriage
as Jim Davis
A Species of Mexican Man
Everything's on Ice
as Felix Miller
My Son, The Hero
as Big-Time Morgan
Meet the Missus
as Joe Higgins
The Family Honor
as Dal Tucker
Conquering the Woman
as Shorty Thompson
Warming Up
as Hippo
The Costello Case
as Blair
Two Against the World
as Segall, reporter
Vigilantes of Boomtown
as Bill Delaney
Other Men's Daughters
as Hubert
Ritzy
as Smith's Valet
Avalanche
as Red Kelly
Little Accident
as Gilbert
Black Eyes and Blues
as Alfred Harmon
The Gay Vagabond
as Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon
Two-Fisted
as Chick Moran
New York Nights
as Johnny Dolan
Partners in Crime
as Sim Perkins
Clarence
as Clarence Smith
The Life of the Party
as Sam Perkins
Many a Slip
as Stan Price
A Lady's Profession
as Tony
The Foolish Virgin
as Chuck Brady
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Archie
Pleasure
as Arnie
From Champion to Tramp
as The Girl's Father
Ten Modern Commandments
as Benny Burnaway
Tip-Off Girls
as Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan
The Man Tamer
as Bradley P. Caldwell Jr
Speed to Spare
as Kangaroo
I Ring Doorbells
as Stubby
Bluff
as Jack Hallowell
Safety in Numbers
as Bertram Shapiro
A Western Governor's Humanity
as The Sheriff