Gus Schilling
Acting
Народився 20 червня 1908, New York City, New York, USA
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Фільмографія
- 1958Відбиток зла — Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
- 1956Bigger Than Life — Druggist (uncredited)
- 1956Glory — Joe Page
- 1955Run for Cover — Doc Ridgeway
- 1955Бунтівник без причини — Attendant (uncredited)
- 1954Executive Suite — Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
- 1954She Couldn't Say No — Ed Gruman
- 1952One Big Affair — Mr. Rush
- 1951Gasoline Alley — Joe Allen
- 1951Honeychile — Window Washer
- 1951On Dangerous Ground — Lucky
- 1950Hit Parade of 1951 — Studio Guide
- 1950Our Very Own — Frank
- 1949Bride for Sale — Timothy
- 1949Flung by a Fling — Capt. Gus Schilling
- 1949He's in Again — Gus
- 1948Angel on the Amazon — Dean Hartley
- 1948Macbeth — A Porter
- 1948Pardon My Lamb Chop — Gus
- 1948The Return of October — Benny
- 1948Two Nuts in a Rut — Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
- 1947Calendar Girl — Eddie Gaskin
- 1947Stork Bites Man — Hubert Butterfield
- 1947Training for Trouble — Gus Schilling
- 1947Wedding Belle — Gus Schilling
- 1947Леді з Шанхаю — Goldfish
- 1946Ain't Love Cuckoo? — Gus Schilling
- 1946Dangerous Business — Alexander Pough
- 1946Hot Water — Gus
- 1946Pardon My Terror — Gus
- 1945A Thousand and One Nights — Jafar
- 1945High Blood Pleasure — Gus
- 1945It's a Pleasure — Bill Evans
- 1945River Gang — Dopey Charlie
- 1945See My Lawyer — J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
- 1944Sing a Jingle — Bucky
- 1943Chatterbox — Gillie
- 1943Hers to Hold — Rosey Blake
- 1943Lady Bodyguard — Bughouse Sweeney
- 1943Larceny with Music — Austin J. Caldwell
- 1943Presenting Lily Mars — Scotty - Stage Manager
- 1943The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- 1942Broadway — Joe
- 1942Dr. Kildare's Victory — Leo Cobb
- 1942There's One Born Every Minute — Professor Asa Quisenberry
- 1942You Were Never Lovelier — Fernando
- 1942Величні Емберсони — Drug Clerk (uncredited)
- 1941Appointment for Love — Gus
- 1941Hellzapoppin' — Orchestra Conductor
- 1941Ice-Capades — Dave
- 1941It Started with Eve — Raven
- 1941Lucky Devils — Aloysius Grimshaw
- 1941The Penalty — Bank Teller (uncredited)
- 1941Громадянин Кейн — John
- 1940Dr. Kildare's Crisis — Orderly Cleaning Window
- 1940Mexican Spitfire Out West — Hotel Desk Clark
- 1940Pop Always Pays — City Dump Watchman