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.
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Citizen Kane
as John
★7.5
MOVIE1955
Rebel Without a Cause
as Attendant (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1958
Touch of Evil
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1947
Wedding Belle
as Gus Schilling
★7.3
MOVIE1947
The Lady from Shanghai
as Goldfish
★7.3
MOVIE1948
Macbeth
as A Porter
★7.3
MOVIE1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Pardon My Lamb Chop
as Gus
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Run for Cover
as Doc Ridgeway
★7.1
MOVIE1942
You Were Never Lovelier
as Fernando
★7.1
MOVIE1954
Executive Suite
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1952
One Big Affair
as Mr. Rush
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Appointment for Love
as Gus
★9.0
MOVIE1946
Hot Water
as Gus
★7.2
MOVIE1956
Bigger Than Life
as Druggist (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1943
Larceny with Music
as Austin J. Caldwell
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Pardon My Terror
as Gus
★6.1
MOVIE1945
A Thousand and One Nights
as Jafar
★6.6
MOVIE1951
On Dangerous Ground
as Lucky
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Training for Trouble
as Gus Schilling
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Hellzapoppin'
as Orchestra Conductor
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Bride for Sale
as Timothy
★6.4
MOVIE1943
Presenting Lily Mars
as Scotty - Stage Manager
★7.0
MOVIE1946
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
as Gus Schilling
★9.0
MOVIE1945
High Blood Pleasure
as Gus
★6.7
MOVIE1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
★10.0
MOVIE1948
Two Nuts in a Rut
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Orderly Cleaning Window
★7.9
MOVIE1942
There's One Born Every Minute
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
★7.2
MOVIE1941
It Started with Eve
as Raven
★5.2
MOVIE1945
It's a Pleasure
as Bill Evans
★5.7
MOVIE1954
She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Gruman
★5.9
MOVIE1950
Our Very Own
as Frank
★6.4
MOVIE1942
Broadway
as Joe
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Pop Always Pays
as City Dump Watchman
★7.3
MOVIE1945
See My Lawyer
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Flung by a Fling
as Capt. Gus Schilling
★6.4
MOVIE1948
The Return of October
as Benny
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Hers to Hold
as Rosey Blake
★8.0
MOVIE1949
He's in Again
as Gus
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Calendar Girl
as Eddie Gaskin
★5.7
MOVIE1956
Glory
as Joe Page
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Leo Cobb
★10.0
MOVIE1947
Stork Bites Man
as Hubert Butterfield
★5.8
MOVIE1951
Gasoline Alley
as Joe Allen
★5.9
MOVIE1941
Ice-Capades
as Dave
★5.5
MOVIE1948
Angel on the Amazon
as Dean Hartley
★5.0
MOVIE1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Hotel Desk Clark
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Lady Bodyguard
as Bughouse Sweeney
★9.0
MOVIE1946
Dangerous Business
as Alexander Pough
★9.0
MOVIE1945
River Gang
as Dopey Charlie
★7.4
MOVIE1941
The Penalty
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1951
Honeychile
as Window Washer
★4.0
MOVIE1941
Lucky Devils
as Aloysius Grimshaw
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Hit Parade of 1951
as Studio Guide
★10.0
MOVIE1943
Chatterbox
as Gillie
★7.0
MOVIE1944
Sing a Jingle
as Bucky