Buddy Messinger
- Acting
- October 26, 1907 · San Francisco, California, USA
- October 25, 1965
Biography
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
Known for
Filmography
- Devil's Doorway · Barfly (uncredited)
- Crime by Night · Bellboy (uncredited)
- The Affairs of Martha · Butcher Boy (uncredited)
- Brooklyn Orchid · Bellhop with Flowers
- The Mexican Spitfire's Baby · Reporter
- Hold Back the Dawn · Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Citizen Kane · Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
- Keeping Company · Basketball Ticket Boy
- Love Thy Neighbor · Elevator Boy
- Hullabaloo · Third Page
- Andy Hardy Meets Debutante · Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- Turnabout · Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- The Housekeeper's Daughter · Reporter
- Fast and Furious · First Elevator Boy (uncredited)
- Sergeant Madden · Hospital Clerk
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again · Rance
- Fast and Loose · Clerk (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White · Messenger
- Idiot's Delight · Usher
- The Shining Hour · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Too Hot to Handle · Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss · Theatre Usher
- Midnight Madonna · Messenger
- Wings Over Honolulu · Boy
- College Holiday · Dancer
- Libeled Lady · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- The Devil Is a Sissy · Elevator Operator
- Three of a Kind · Bellhop
- Modern Times · Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
- An All American Toothache · (uncredited)
- Wild Boys of the Road · Boy (uncredited)
- Stage Mother · Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)
- Keyhole Katie
- Cheer Up and Smile · Donald
- Hot Stuff · Tuffy
- A Lady of Chance · Hank
- Undressed · Bobby Arnold
- Two Arabian Sights
- Dumb-Belles
- A Sorority Mixup
- Monkeys Prefer Blondes
- What an Eye · Buddy - the Office Boy
- Young Ideas · Bob Lowden
- The Racing Kid · Buddy
- The Whispered Name · The Office Boy
- Penrod and Sam · Rodney Bitts
- Trifling with Honor · Jimmy Hunt
- Abysmal Brute · Buddy Sangster
- A Howling Success
- A Front Page Story · Tommy
- The Flirt · Hedrick Madison
- When Love Comes · Coleridge Twin
- Shadows · 'Mr. Bad Boy'
- The Old Nest · Jim at 10
- Edgar, the Detective · Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar's Feast Day
- Edgar's Country Cousin · Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar's Little Saw · Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar Camps Out · Freddie Littlefield
- Edgar Takes the Cake · Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Jonah Day · Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Hamlet · Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar's Sunday Courtship · Freddy Littlefield
- Edgar and the Teacher's Pet · Freddy Littlefield
- Jinx · Orphan
- The Hoodlum · Dish Lowry
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves · Kasim Baba
- Fan Fan · Head Collector
- The Babes in the Woods
- Treasure Island · Captain Smolett
- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp · Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit
- Jack and the Beanstalk