Cast
Gus Schilling
Acting
Cast
Gus Schilling
Known for
Acting
Born
1908-06-20
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1957-06-16
Also known as August Schilling, August "Gus" Schilling
Biography
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Citizen Kane
as John
Touch of Evil
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
as Attendant (uncredited)
Executive Suite
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin'
as Orchestra Conductor
Appointment for Love
as Gus
Dangerous Business
as Alexander Pough
The Lady from Shanghai
as Goldfish
Macbeth
as A Porter
Gasoline Alley
as Joe Allen
Bigger Than Life
as Druggist (uncredited)
Run for Cover
as Doc Ridgeway
Glory
as Joe Page
You Were Never Lovelier
as Fernando
On Dangerous Ground
as Lucky
River Gang
as Dopey Charlie
Chatterbox
as Gillie
A Thousand and One Nights
as Jafar
Lucky Devils
as Aloysius Grimshaw
The Penalty
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
It Started with Eve
as Raven
Honeychile
as Window Washer
One Big Affair
as Mr. Rush
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Hotel Desk Clark
Broadway
as Joe
Calendar Girl
as Eddie Gaskin
Hers to Hold
as Rosey Blake
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Larceny with Music
as Austin J. Caldwell
Pardon My Terror
as Gus
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Orderly Cleaning Window
Stork Bites Man
as Hubert Butterfield
There's One Born Every Minute
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
Pop Always Pays
as City Dump Watchman
Presenting Lily Mars
as Scotty - Stage Manager
Angel on the Amazon
as Dean Hartley
The Return of October
as Benny
Our Very Own
as Frank
See My Lawyer
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
Ice-Capades
as Dave
Bride for Sale
as Timothy
Sing a Jingle
as Bucky
Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Leo Cobb
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
as Gus Schilling
She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Gruman
Two Nuts in a Rut
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
It's a Pleasure
as Bill Evans
Pardon My Lamb Chop
as Gus
Hit Parade of 1951
as Studio Guide
Lady Bodyguard
as Bughouse Sweeney
Wedding Belle
as Gus Schilling
Flung by a Fling
as Capt. Gus Schilling
He's in Again
as Gus
Hot Water
as Gus
Training for Trouble
as Gus Schilling
High Blood Pleasure
as Gus