Murray Kinnell


Biography

Murray Kinnell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Kinnell kickstarted his acting career in various films such as the George Arliss drama "Old English" (1930), "The Secret Six" (1931) with Wallace Beery and "The Black Camel" (1931). He also appeared in the crime feature "The Public Enemy" (1931) with James Cagney, "Under Eighteen" (1931) and "The Deceiver" (1931). H...

Biography

Murray Kinnell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Kinnell kickstarted his acting career in various films such as the George Arliss drama "Old English" (1930), "The Secret Six" (1931) with Wallace Beery and "The Black Camel" (1931). He also appeared in the crime feature "The Public Enemy" (1931) with James Cagney, "Under Eighteen" (1931) and "The Deceiver" (1931). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like "The Painted Woman" (1932), "The Purchase Price" (1932) and "I Loved a Woman" (1933). He also appeared in "From Headquarters" (1933). In the latter part of his career, he continued to act in the adaptation "Cardinal Richelieu" (1935) with George Arliss, the horror movie "Mad Love" (1935) with Peter Lorre and the drama "Fighting Youth" (1935) with Charles Farrell. He also appeared in the Warner Oland mystery "Charlie Chan in Paris" (1935) and "The Three Musketeers" (1935) with Walter Abel. Kinnell last acted in "Think Fast, Mr. Moto" (1937). Kinnell passed away in August 1954 at the age of 65.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Captains Courageous (1937)
Minister
Outcast (1937)
Four Days' Wonder (1937)
Morris
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Hugo
Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)
Joseph Wilkie
Parnell (1937)
Webster
Make Way for a Lady (1936)
Dr. Barnes
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
Theatre manager
The Witness Chair (1936)
Conrick
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
Fingers
The Big Game (1936)
Dean
Lloyd's of London (1936)
Reverend Nelson
Mary of Scotland (1936)
Judge
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Judean peasant
The Three Musketeers (1935)
Bernajou
Kind Lady (1935)
Doctor
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
Henri Latouche
The Great Impersonation (1935)
Seaman
Mad Love (1935)
Charles
Rendezvous (1935)
de Segroff
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Duke of Lorraine
Fighting Youth (1935)
Dean Churchill
Captain Blood (1935)
Governor Steed's clerk
The Silver Streak (1934)
Dr. Flynn
Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
Jan Paris
Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934)
The judge
Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
Fletcher
Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Mr. Phillips
I Am Suzanne! (1934)
Luigi Malatini
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Phillips
Murder in Trinidad (1934)
Major Bruce Cassell
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
Martin Thorne
The House of Rothschild (1934)
James
From Headquarters (1933)
Horton
Voltaire (1933)
Emile
The Avenger (1933)
Cormak
Ann Vickers (1933)
Dr. Slenk
Damaged Lives (1933)
Dr. Vincent Leonard/Lecturer in U.S. version of supplementary lecture
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Garbosh
I Loved a Woman (1933)
Davenport
Under Eighteen (1932)
Walters
A Successful Calamity (1932)
Curtis
The Mouthpiece (1932)
Jarvis
Are You Listening? (1932)
Carson
The Match King (1932)
Nyberg
The Menace (1932)
Carr
Secrets of the French Police (1932)
Bertillon
The Purchase Price (1932)
[Spike] Forgan
The Painted Woman (1932)
Collins
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The King's aide
Grand Hotel (1932)
Schweimann
Beast of the City (1932)
Judge
The Secret Six (1931)
Metz
Honor of the Family (1931)
Captain Elek
The Public Enemy (1931)
Putty Nose
Reckless Living (1931)
Alf
The Deceiver (1931)
Breckinridge
The Black Camel (1931)
Smith
The Guilty Generation (1931)
Jerry
Old English (1930)
Charles Ventnor
The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
Worthing

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Anne Of Green Gables (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Mean Hateful Boy! Anne Shirley, as the character whose name she took, is the red-headed orphan on her first school day on Prince Edward Island, with teacher (Murray Kinnell), friend Diana (Gertrude Messinger) and meeting Gilbert (Tom Brown), in Lucy Maude Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables, 1934.
Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) So You Don't Wanna Die? Chicago thugs Tom (James Cagney, title character) and Matt (Edward Woods) intercept their former mentor Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who's back in town after leaving them holding the bag years earlier, in William A. Wellman's The Public Enemy, 1931.
Public Enemy, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Grow Up Sometime The first appearance of the adult Tom and Matt (James Cagney, title character, and Edward Woods), now in 1915 Chicago and still reporting to small-time hoodlum Putty Nose (Murray Kinnell), who’s upping the ante, early in William A. Wellman’s Warner Bros.’ sensation The Public Enemy, 1931.
Freaks (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Living Breathing Monstrosities In the sometimes forgotten prologue, the barker (Murray Kinnell) lures spectators, then director Tod Browning introduces Hans and Freida (Harry and Daisy Earles) and the already evil-seeming "Cleopatra" (Olga Balaclova), in the eventually influential box-office flop Freaks, 1932.
Three Musketeers, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Your Harmless Face Queen's maid Constance (Heather Angel) is busy manipulating lustful landlord Bernajou (Murray Kinnell), when she discovers D'Artagnan (Walter Abel) and servant Planchet (John Qualen) in the upstairs flat, in The Three Musketeers,1935, from RKO.

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