Roscoe Karns

🎂 Data nașterii: 1891-09-06 (San Bernardino, California, USA)

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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Roscoe Karns

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His Girl Friday

The Family Honor

Woman of the Year

Twentieth Century

The Ten Commandments

Petticoat Politics

Alice in Wonderland

You Can't Escape Forever

Moran of the Marines

Footsteps in the Dark

You and Me

They Drive by Night

Man's Favorite Sport?

Devil's Cargo

Her Own Money

Night After Night

Ten Modern Commandments

Aripi în întuneric

Double Alibi

A Lady's Profession

Laughing Sinners

Four Hours to Kill!

Other Men's Daughters

De-as avea un milion

Today We Live

This Thing Called Love

Alibi Ike

One Sunday Afternoon

Saturday's Children

Front Page Woman

New York Nights

Week-End Marriage

Win That Girl

A Tragedy at Midnight

Avalanche

That's Right – You're Wrong

The Inside Story

Cain and Mabel

Two Against the World

Safety in Numbers

My Son, The Hero

Thanks for the Memory

Pleasure

Shoot the Works

Speed to Spare

Riding High

Two-Fisted

The Woman in Red

On Such a Night

Night of Mystery

Ladies Must Live

Three Married Men

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Tip-Off Girls

I Sell Anything

Partners in Crime

Troopers Three

Lawyer Man

The Crooked Circle

The Shopworn Angel

That's My Man

Murder Goes to College

King of Chinatown

Dangerous to Know

One Way to Love

Man Trouble

The Women in His Life

One Way Passage

Vigilantes of Boomtown

Copy

Hi, Good Lookin'!

Red Hot Tires

The Flying Fleet

The Gorilla

The Life of the Party

Old Acquaintance

Dancing Co-Ed