Joseph Cawthorn
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- 27 de marzo de 1868 · New York City, New York, USA
- 21 de enero de 1949
Biografía
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – 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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Filmografía
- The Postman Didn't Ring · Silas Harwood
- Así acaba nuestra noche · Leopold Potzloch
- Scatterbrain · Nicholas Raptis
- La reina de la canción · Leopold Damrosch
- Crime Over London · Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
- Hot Money · Max Dourfuss
- One Rainy Afternoon · Monique's Father
- Brides Are Like That · Fred Schultz
- El gran Ziegfeld · Dr. Ziegfeld
- Freshman Love · Wilson, Sr.
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Harmony Lane · Professor Henry Kleber
- Page Miss Glory · Mr. Freischutz
- Bright Lights · Oscar Schlemmer
- Smart Girl · Karl Krausemeyer
- Marietta, la traviesa · Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
- Vampiresas de 1935 · August Schultz
- Sweet Music · Sidney Selzer
- Maybe It's Love · Adolph Sr.
- Bella Adelina · Oscar Schmidt
- Music in the Air · Hans Uppman
- Young and Beautiful · Herman Cline
- The Human Side · Fritz Speigal
- Una mujer de su casa · Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
- Twenty Million Sweethearts · Herbert Brokman
- The Last Gentleman · Dr. Wilson
- Lazy River · Mr. Julius Ambrose
- Broken Dreams · Pop
- Best of Enemies · Gus Schneider
- Made on Broadway · Maxie Schultz
- Blondie Johnson · Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
- Grand Slam · Alex Alexandrovitch
- Whistling in the Dark · Barfuss
- Men Are Such Fools · Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
- They Call It Sin · Mr. Hollister
- Ámame esta noche · Dr. Armand de Fontinac
- La legión de los hombres sin alma · Dr. Bruner
- ¿Nos divorciamos? · Joe Bruno
- The Runaround · Lou
- Con el frac de otro · Huber
- Kiki · Alfred Rapp
- Y la princesa se enamora · Merkl
- Dixiana · Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father
- Dance Hall · Bremmer
- Jazz Heaven · Herman Kemple
- La fierecilla domada · Gremio
- Street Girl · Keppel - Cafe Owner
- Speakeasy · Yokel
- Hold 'Em Yale · Professor George Bradbury
- Silk Legs · Ezra Fulton
- Very Confidential · Donald Allen
- Two Girls Wanted · Philip Hancock
- The Secret Studio · Pa Merton