Joseph Cawthorn

1868-03-27 New York City, New York, USA

Biografia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.

Películas

	The Postman Didn't Ring	Silas Harwood	1942-07-03
	So Ends Our Night	Leopold Potzloch	1941-02-27
	Lillian Russell	Leopold Damrosch	1940-05-24
	Scatterbrain	Nicholas Raptis	1940-07-20
	One Rainy Afternoon	Monique's Father	1936-05-13
	Hot Money	Max Dourfuss	1936-07-18
	The Great Ziegfeld	Dr. Ziegfeld	1936-04-08
	Freshman Love	Wilson, Sr.	1936-01-18
	Brides Are Like That	Fred Schultz	1936-04-18
	Crime Over London	Mr. Sherwood / Reilly	1936-10-21
	Maybe It's Love	Adolph Sr.	1935-01-12
	Page Miss Glory	Mr. Freischutz	1935-09-07
	Smart Girl	Karl Krausemeyer	1935-07-16
	Harmony Lane	Professor Henry Kleber	1935-10-22
	Sweet Music	Sidney Selzer	1935-02-23
	Gold Diggers of 1935	August Schultz	1935-03-15
	Naughty Marietta	Herr 'Schumie' Schuman	1935-03-29
	Bright Lights	Oscar Schlemmer	1935-07-27
	The Human Side	Fritz Speigal	1934-09-01
	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Herbert Brokman	1934-05-26
	Music in the Air	Hans Uppman	1934-12-13
	Lazy River	Mr. Julius Ambrose	1934-03-16
	Housewife	Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)	1934-08-11
	The Last Gentleman	Dr. Wilson	1934-04-27
	Young and Beautiful	Herman Cline	1934-09-16
	Sweet Adeline	Oscar Schmidt	1934-12-29
	Broken Dreams	Pop	1933-10-19
	Grand Slam	Alex Alexandrovitch	1933-02-22
	Blondie Johnson	Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)	1933-02-25
	Whistling in the Dark	Barfuss	1933-01-21
	Best of Enemies	Gus Schneider	1933-06-22
	They Call It Sin	Mr. Hollister	1932-11-05
	White Zombie	Dr. Bruner	1932-07-28
	Love Me Tonight	Dr. Armand de Fontinac	1932-08-18
	Men Are Such Fools	Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)	1932-11-18
	A Tailor-Made Man	Huber	1931-03-28
	Peach-o-Reno	Joe Bruno	1931-12-25
	Kiki	Alfred Rapp	1931-03-14
	The Runaround	Lou	1931-08-21
	Dixiana	Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father	1930-07-22
	The Princess and the Plumber	Merkl	1930-12-21
	Jazz Heaven	Herman Kemple	1929-11-03
	Dance Hall	Bremmer	1929-12-13
	Street Girl	Keppel - Cafe Owner	1929-08-21
	Speakeasy	Yokel	1929-03-08
	The Taming of the Shrew	Gremio	1929-10-26
	Hold 'Em Yale	Professor George Bradbury	1928-05-14
	Very Confidential	Donald Allen	1927-11-06
	Two Girls Wanted	Philip Hancock	1927-09-11
	Silk Legs		1927-12-18