Rudy Vallee
- Schauspiel
- 28. Juli 1901 · Island Pond, Vermont, USA
- 6. Juli 1986
Biografie
Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated by his cast and crew due to his explosive ego-driven personality). In the early 1930's he was ranked with the likes of Bing Crosby and the tragic Russ Columbo in the Hit Parade. A huge hit on radio in 1933 with his program, initially known as 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour,' Vallee was considered a slave driver by his staff. He was known to instigate fist fights with virtually anyone who got on his nerves. During the run of his show he slugged photographers, threw sheet music in the faces of pianists' heads and if provoked, would sock hecklers in the nose. While audiences loved him, he was hated by most of his staff. As a very popular star in night clubs and on records, as well as in movies, he helped other singers like Alice Faye - who was for a while his band singer - and Frances Langford to start their careers. In his early movies he often played the romantic lead, but he switched later to stuffy and comic parts. He also appeared on Broadway. The mid-60's Broadway hit "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was filmed in 1967 with him in his original Broadway role.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do · Selbst
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons · Selbst
- The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood · Selbst
- Going Hollywood: The '30s · (archive footage)
- The Perfect Woman · Tock
- Men Who Rate a 10 · Selbst
- CHiPs · Arthur Forbinger
- Won Ton Ton, der Hund der Hollywood rettete · Autograph Hound
- Ellery Queen · Alvin Winer
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? · Selbst
- Slashed Dreams · Proprietor
- Chicago, Teddybär & Co.
- Alias Smith und Jones
- Night Gallery · Dr. Francis Deeking
- The Phynx · Rudy Vallee
- Die Nacht, als Minsky aufflog · Opening Narrator (Stimme)
- Liebling, lass das Lügen · Louis Penlow
- Here's Lucy · Rudy Vallee
- The Name of the Game · Myron Lesser
- Wie man Erfolg hat, ohne sich besonders anzustrengen · J. B. Biggley
- Batman · Lord Marmaduke Ffogg
- Petticoat Junction
- The Merv Griffin Show · Selbst
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Selbst
- The Mike Douglas Show · Selbst
- Hansel and Gretel · Father
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour · Rudy Vallee
- Ein Leben im Rausch · Selbst
- Das goldene Zeitalter des Jazz · Selbst
- So liebt man in Paris · Rudy Vallee
- Ricochet Romance · Worthington Higgenmacher
- December Bride
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · Selbst
- Unser Admiral ist eine Lady · Peter Pedigrew
- The Golden Twenties · Selbst
- Your Show of Shows
- What's My Line? · Selbst
- Father Was a Fullback · Mr. Jessup
- The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend · Charles Hingleman
- Mother Is a Freshman · John Heaslip
- Die Ungetreue · August Henshler
- My Dear Secretary · Charles Harris
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Selbst
- So This Is New York · Herbert Daley
- Geheimnis einer Mutter · Dr. Johnson
- So einfach ist die Liebe nicht · Tommy
- Ehebruch · Lyricist
- Kraft Television Theatre · Bromley
- Verrückter Mittwoch · Lynn Sargent
- The Fabulous Suzanne · Hendrick Courtney Jr.
- People Are Funny · Ormsby Jamison
- Man Alive · Gordon Tolliver
- It's in the Bag! · Rudy Vallee
- 11th. Naval District "United States Coast Guard Band" · Selbst
- Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform · Selbst
- Happy Go Lucky · Alfred Monroe
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
- Atemlos nach Florida · John D. Hackensacker III
- Too Many Blondes · Dick Kerrigan
- Time Out for Rhythm · Daniel 'Danny' Collins
- Rodeo Dough · Rudy Vallee
- Second Fiddle · Roger Maxwell
- Breakdowns of 1938 · Rudy (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Gold Diggers in Paris · Terry Moore
- Things You Never See on the Screen · Selbst
- Sweet Music · Skip Houston
- A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio · Selbst
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 · Selbst
- George White's Scandals · Jimmy Martin
- International House · Selbst
- The Musical Doctor · Dr. Vallee
- Rudy Vallee Melodies · Selbst
- Kitty from Kansas City · Singer with Handlebar Moustache
- Betty Co-ed · Selbst
- Campus Sweethearts
- Glorifying the American Girl · Selbst
- The Vagabond Lover · Rudy Bronson, Songs
- Radio Rhythm · Rudy Vallee
- Lydia · Barker