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person_profile-Joseph Cawthorn

Joseph Cawthorn Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Mar 27, 1868

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 21, 1949

Biography of

Joseph Cawthorn

    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.

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Filmography of

Joseph Cawthorn

Found 49 Movies in total

The Postman Didn't Ring

Silas Harwood ( Actor )

... 1942

So Ends Our Night

Leopold Potzloch ( Actor )

... 1941

Scatterbrain

Nicholas Raptis ( Actor )

... 1940

Lillian Russell

Leopold Damrosch ( Actor )

... 1940

Crime Over London

Mr. Sherwood / Reilly ( Actor )

... 1936

Hot Money

Max Dourfuss ( Actor )

... 1936

One Rainy Afternoon

Monique's Father ( Actor )

... 1936

Brides Are Like That

Fred Schultz ( Actor )

... 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

Dr. Ziegfeld ( Actor )

... 1936

Freshman Love

Wilson, Sr. ( Actor )

... 1936

Harmony Lane

Professor Henry Kleber ( Actor )

... 1935

Page Miss Glory

Mr. Freischutz ( Actor )

... 1935

Bright Lights

Oscar Schlemmer ( Actor )

... 1935

Smart Girl

Karl Krausemeyer ( Actor )

... 1935

Naughty Marietta

Herr 'Schumie' Schuman ( Actor )

... 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

August Schultz ( Actor )

... 1935

Sweet Music

Sidney Selzer ( Actor )

... 1935

Maybe It's Love

Adolph Sr. ( Actor )

... 1935

Sweet Adeline

Oscar Schmidt ( Actor )

... 1934

Music in the Air

Hans Uppman ( Actor )

... 1934

Young and Beautiful

Herman Cline ( Actor )

... 1934

The Human Side

Fritz Speigal ( Actor )

... 1934

Housewife

Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne) ( Actor )

... 1934

Twenty Million Sweethearts

Herbert Brokman ( Actor )

... 1934

The Last Gentleman

Dr. Wilson ( Actor )

... 1934

Lazy River

Mr. Julius Ambrose ( Actor )

... 1934

Broken Dreams

Pop ( Actor )

... 1933

Best of Enemies

Gus Schneider ( Actor )

... 1933

Blondie Johnson

Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn) ( Actor )

... 1933

Grand Slam

Alex Alexandrovitch ( Actor )

... 1933

Whistling in the Dark

Barfuss ( Actor )

... 1933

Men Are Such Fools

Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne) ( Actor )

... 1932

They Call It Sin

Mr. Hollister ( Actor )

... 1932

Love Me Tonight

Dr. Armand de Fontinac ( Actor )

... 1932

White Zombie

Dr. Bruner ( Actor )

... 1932

Peach-o-Reno

Joe Bruno ( Actor )

... 1931

The Runaround

Lou ( Actor )

... 1931

A Tailor-Made Man

Huber ( Actor )

... 1931

Kiki

Alfred Rapp ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1930

Dixiana

Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father ( Actor )

... 1930

Dance Hall

Bremmer ( Actor )

... 1929

Jazz Heaven

Herman Kemple ( Actor )

... 1929

The Taming of the Shrew

Gremio ( Actor )

... 1929

Street Girl

Keppel - Cafe Owner ( Actor )

... 1929

Speakeasy

Yokel ( Actor )

... 1929

Hold 'Em Yale

Professor George Bradbury ( Actor )

... 1928

Very Confidential

Donald Allen ( Actor )

... 1927

Two Girls Wanted

Philip Hancock ( Actor )

... 1927