Roscoe Karns
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1891-09-06
- Fallecimiento:
- 1970-02-06
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- San Bernardino, California, USA
Biografía
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series. From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964. Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Su juego favorito
The Lucy Show
Hennesey
Onionhead
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
December Bride
Rocky King, Detective
Inside Detective
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Speed to Spare
Devil's Cargo
The Inside Story
Ése es mi hombre
Vigilantes of Boomtown
Avalanche
I Ring Doorbells
One Way to Love
Hi, Good Lookin'!
The Navy Way
Minstrel Man
Vieja amistad
La hermanita del mayordomo
En la cumbre de la felicidad
Tres días de amor y fe
My Son, The Hero
You Can't Escape Forever
Yokel Boy
La mujer del año
A Tragedy at Midnight
Road to Happiness
Half Shot at Sunrise
The Gay Vagabond
Black Eyes and Blues
Pasos en la oscuridad
Petticoat Politics
Meet the Missus
Ladies Must Live
La pasión ciega
Saturday's Children
Double Alibi
Luna nueva
That's Right – You're Wrong
Everything's on Ice
Dancing Co-Ed
King of Chinatown
Thanks for the Memory
You and Me
Tip-Off Girls
Dangerous to Know
Scandal Street
Partners in Crime
On Such a Night
Night of Mystery
Murder Goes to College
Clarence
Cain and Mabel
Three Married Men
Three Cheers for Love
Border Flight
Woman Trap
Two-Fisted
La que apostó su amor
Alibi Ike
Four Hours to Kill!
The Woman in Red
Red Hot Tires
Alas en la noche
I Sell Anything
Elmer and Elsie
Shoot the Works
La comedia de la vida
Come On, Marines!
Sucedió una noche
Alicia en el país de las Maravillas
The Women in His Life
La mujer preferida
Casino del mar
A Lady's Profession
Vivamos hoy
Grand Slam
Hombre de leyes
Under-Cover Man
Si yo tuviera un millón
They Call It Sin
Noche tras noche
Viaje de ida
The Crooked Circle
Two Against the World
Week-End Marriage
The Roadhouse Murder
Play Girl
Stowaway
High Pressure
Ladies of the Big House
Left Over Ladies
Pleasure
Salvada
Many a Slip
Dirigible
The Gorilla
The Costello Case
Man Trouble
Little Accident
Safety in Numbers
Troopers Three
Noches de Nueva York
This Thing Called Love
Copy
The Flying Fleet
The Shopworn Angel
Object: Alimony
Jazz Mad
Moran of the Marines
Los mendigos de la vida
Win That Girl
Warming Up
The Vanishing Pioneer
Something Always Happens
The Desert Bride
La senda del 98
Beau Sabreur
El cantor de Jazz
Alas
Ten Modern Commandments
Ritzy
You'd Be Surprised
Dollar Down
The Overland Limited
The Foolish Virgin
The Midnight Express
Bluff
Los diez mandamientos
Other Men's Daughters
Conquering the Woman
The Trouper
Her Own Money
The Man Tamer
The Life of the Party
The Family Honor
Poor Relations
A Western Governor's Humanity
A Species of Mexican Man
From Champion to Tramp
Mr. Carlson of Arizona