Cast
Joseph Cawthorn
Acting
Cast
Joseph Cawthorn
Known for
Acting
Born
1868-03-27
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1949-01-21
Also known as Joseph Bridger Cawthorn, Joseph Cawthorne, Joe Cawthorne
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York β January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
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Love Me Tonight
as Dr. Armand de Fontinac
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Blondie Johnson
as Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
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Peach-o-Reno
as Joe Bruno
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Housewife
as Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
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Naughty Marietta
as Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
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Scatterbrain
as Nicholas Raptis
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Kiki
as Alfred Rapp
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The Runaround
as Lou
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The Great Ziegfeld
as Dr. Ziegfeld
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White Zombie
as Dr. Bruner
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The Secret Studio
as Pa Merton
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The Taming of the Shrew
as Gremio
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Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Herbert Brokman
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So Ends Our Night
as Leopold Potzloch
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Bright Lights
as Oscar Schlemmer
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Gold Diggers of 1935
as August Schultz
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The Postman Didn't Ring
as Silas Harwood
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Best of Enemies
as Gus Schneider
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They Call It Sin
as Mr. Hollister
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Music in the Air
as Hans Uppman
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Smart Girl
as Karl Krausemeyer
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Lazy River
as Mr. Julius Ambrose
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Street Girl
as Keppel - Cafe Owner
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Crime Over London
as Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
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Men Are Such Fools
as Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
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Freshman Love
as Wilson, Sr.
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Page Miss Glory
as Mr. Freischutz
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Two Girls Wanted
as Philip Hancock
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Sweet Adeline
as Oscar Schmidt
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Lillian Russell
as Leopold Damrosch
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Young and Beautiful
as Herman Cline
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Grand Slam
as Alex Alexandrovitch
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Hot Money
as Max Dourfuss
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A Tailor-Made Man
as Huber
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Made on Broadway
as Maxie Schultz
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Maybe It's Love
as Adolph Sr.
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The Human Side
as Fritz Speigal
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Dixiana
as Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father
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5.0
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The Last Gentleman
as Dr. Wilson
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Sweet Music
as Sidney Selzer
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5.0
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Dance Hall
as Bremmer
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One Rainy Afternoon
as Monique's Father
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Jazz Heaven
as Herman Kemple
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Brides Are Like That
as Fred Schultz
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Whistling in the Dark
as Barfuss
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Hold 'Em Yale
as Professor George Bradbury
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The Princess and the Plumber
as Merkl
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Harmony Lane
as Professor Henry Kleber
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Speakeasy
as Yokel
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Broken Dreams
as Pop
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Very Confidential
as Donald Allen
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Silk Legs
as Ezra Fulton
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