Roscoe Karns
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: September 6, 1891
Day of Death: February 6, 1970 (78 years old)
Place of Birth: 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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Actor Leo
Night After Night
Actor Private O'Brien
If I Had a Million
Actor Jim Davis
Week-End Marriage
Actor Segall, reporter
Two Against the World
Actor Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
Lawyer Man
Actor Harry Carter
The Crooked Circle
Actor S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
One Way Passage
Actor Dannie
Under-Cover Man
Actor Dale
The Roadhouse Murder
Actor Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
They Call It Sin
Actor Insp. Redding
Stowaway
Actor Gambler (uncredited)
Play Girl
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Actor Swatty
Moran of the Marines
Actor Johnny Norton II
Win That Girl
Actor Dance Director
The Shopworn Angel
Actor Man on Ship (uncredited)
The Trail of '98
Actor Sol Levy
Jazz Mad
Actor Ray Hearn
The Vanishing Pioneer
Actor Hippo
Warming Up
Actor Buddy
Beau Sabreur
Actor Pvt. Terry
The Desert Bride
Actor Lame Hoppy
Beggars of Life
