J. Carrol Naish

Actor

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Also Known As

Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish, J. Carroll Naish, Carrol Naish

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

January 21, 1896

Died

January 24, 1973

Cause of Death

Emphysema

Biography

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J. Carrol Naish was a character actor who launched his prolific film career on the cusp of the transition from silent films to talkies (between 1926 and 1930), eventually appearing in nearly 200 films total. The Irish-descended New Yorker became legendary for mastering a potpourri of foreign accents, yet he ironicaly played virtually every ethnicity except Irish over the course of his ca...

Filmography

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The Three Stooges Follies (1974)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Dr. Frankenstein [also known as Dr. Duryea]

An Evening With Batman and Robin (1965)

Force of Impulse (1961)

The Young Don't Cry (1957)

This Could Be the Night (1957)

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Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If We Must Be Prosaic

Black Fury (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Shut Up About The Union!

Biography

J. Carrol Naish was a character actor who launched his prolific film career on the cusp of the transition from silent films to talkies (between 1926 and 1930), eventually appearing in nearly 200 films total. The Irish-descended New Yorker became legendary for mastering a potpourri of foreign accents, yet he ironicaly played virtually every ethnicity except Irish over the course of his career. After making scores of appearances--including roles as numerous villains and gangsters, among other types--throughout the '30s and early '40s, Naish first earned critical acclaim in 1943, playing Giuseppe, the Italian prisoner in the Humphrey Bogart war drama "Sahara," for which Naish received a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination. He followed up that accolade in 1945 with another Oscar nomination (and a Golden Globe win) for his key, non-ethnic supporting role in "A Medal for Benny," a drama which starred Dorothy Lamour. In the '50s, Naish went from straight western roles, such as a Union lieutenant general in the John Ford classic "Rio Grande" (starring John Wayne) to playing the title character in "Sitting Bull," a role which was more vintage Naish. Meanwhile, he gained greater fame that same decade on television, where he first appeared in 1952 as the star of the two-episode comedy "Life with Luigi," and later, in his highest profile TV role, playing the title character of the syndicated mystery "The New Adventures of Charlie Chan," where he appeared for 39-episodes in 1957. Naish passed away from emphysema at the age of 77.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Three Stooges Follies (1974)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Dr. Frankenstein [also known as Dr. Duryea]

An Evening With Batman and Robin (1965)

Force of Impulse (1961)

The Young Don't Cry (1957)

This Could Be the Night (1957)

Yaqui Drums (1956)

Rebel in Town (1956)

The Last Command (1955)

Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna

Rage at Dawn (1955)

Violent Saturday (1955)

Hit the Deck (1955)

New York Confidential (1955)

Desert Sands (1955)

Sitting Bull (1954)

Saskatchewan (1954)

Batoche [Batouche]

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Socrates "Soak" Houlis

Ride the Man Down (1953)

Fighter Attack (1953)

Clash by Night (1952)

Denver & Rio Grande (1952)

Woman of the North Country (1952)

John Mulholland

Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

The Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Bannerline (1951)

Frankie Scarbine

Rio Grande (1950)

Please Believe Me (1950)

Black Hand (1950)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Chief Sitting Bull

The Toast of New Orleans (1950)

That Midnight Kiss (1949)

The Kissing Bandit (1949)

Canadian Pacific (1949)

Dynamite Dawson

Joan of Arc (1948)

John, Count of Luxembourg, her captor

Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)

The Fugitive (1947)

A police informer

Humoresque (1947)

The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

Ovidio Castanio

Bad Bascomb (1946)

A Medal for Benny (1945)

The Southerner (1945)

Strange Confession (1945)

Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)

Charles, the butler

House of Frankenstein (1945)

Dragon Seed (1944)

Jap kitchen overseer

Waterfront (1944)

Dr. Carl Decker

The Whistler (1944)

The Monster Maker (1944)

Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)

Two-Man Submarine (1944)

Dr. Augustus Hadley

Jungle Woman (1944)

Dr. [Carl] Fletcher

Voice in the Wind (1944)

Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Inspector Gregg

Harrigan's Kid (1943)

Good Morning, Judge (1943)

Gung Ho! (1943)

Lt. C. J. Cristoforos

Behind the Rising Sun (1943)

Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)

Dr. Broadway (1942)

The Man in the Trunk (1942)

Reginald DeWinters

The Pied Piper (1942)

Aristide Rougeron

Sunday Punch (1942)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

A Gentleman at Heart (1942)

Jackass Mail (1942)

Signor O'Sullivan

Blood and Sand (1941)

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Mr. Dynamite (1941)

Forced Landing (1941)

Accent on Love (1941)

Manuel Lombroso

The Corsican Brothers (1941)

That Night in Rio (1941)

Queen of the Mob (1940)

Down Argentine Way (1940)

Golden Gloves (1940)

A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)

Beau Geste (1939)

Island of Lost Men (1939)

King of Chinatown (1939)

Undercover Doctor (1939)

Dr. Bartley Morgan

Persons in Hiding (1939)

Freddie "Gunner" Martin

Hotel Imperial (1939)

Kuprin, alias Von Alting

Daughter of Shanghai (1938)

Tip-Off Girls (1938)

Illegal Traffic (1938)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Richard Lane, [later known as Charles Mega]

Prison Farm (1938)

Hunted Men (1938)

Her Jungle Love (1938)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

Night Club Scandal (1937)

We Who Are About to Die (1937)

Border Cafe (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Thunder Trail (1937)

Sea Racketeers (1937)

Song of the City (1937)

Hideaway (1937)

Mike Clark, also known as John Knox

Crack-Up (1937)

Two in the Dark (1936)

Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

Moonlight Murder (1936)

Special Investigator (1936)

Edward J. Selton

Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)

Three Fingered Jack

The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

Subahdar-Major Puran Singh

Exclusive Story (1936)

The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Absolute Quiet (1936)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Black Fury (1935)

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Confidential (1935)

Captain Blood (1935)

The Crusades (1935)

Arab slave-seller

Special Agent (1935)

Little Big Shot (1935)

Front Page Woman (1935)

Robert [Cardoza]

Behind the Green Lights (1935)

Marie Galante (1934)

Bachelor of Arts (1934)

Hell in the Heavens (1934)

Sergeant Chevalier

Sleepers East (1934)

The Hell Cat (1934)

Murder in Trinidad (1934)

One Is Guilty (1934)

Girl in Danger (1934)

The Defense Rests (1934)

British Agent (1934)

Commissioner for War [Trotsky]

Return of the Terror (1934)

Upper World (1934)

Arizona to Broadway (1933)

The Devil's in Love (1933)

No Other Woman (1933)

Notorious but Nice (1933)

The World Gone Mad (1933)

Ramon Salvadore

The Avenger (1933)

The Mad Game (1933)

The Last Trail (1933)

What's Your Racket (1933)

Silent Men (1933)

The Whirlwind (1933)

Captured! (1933)

Ann Vickers (1933)

Elmer the Great (1933)

Frisco Jenny (1933)

Central Airport (1933)

Infernal Machine (1933)

The Big Chance (1933)

Afraid to Talk (1932)

The Kid from Spain (1932)

No Living Witness (1932)

Beast of the City (1932)

The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

Week-end Marriage (1932)

The Mouthpiece (1932)

Two Seconds (1932)

Tiger Shark (1932)

The Hatchet Man (1932)

It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)

Lieutenant Blake

Gun Smoke (1931)

The Royal Bed (1931)

The Homicide Squad (1931)

Scotland Yard (1930)

Good Intentions (1930)

Charlie Hatrick

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Under the Pampas Moon (1935)

Stand-in for Warner Baxter

Cast (Special)

The Hanged Man (1964)

Cast (Short)

Star in the Night (1945)

The Grand Bounce (1937)

It May Happen to You (1937)

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Kissing Bandit - Lobby Cards

Here are a few Lobby Cards from The Kissing Bandit (1949), starring Frank Sinatra. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Daughter Of Shanghai (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If We Must Be Prosaic In San Francisco’s Chinatown we meet Cecil Cunningham as Mrs. Hunt, patron of merchant Quan Lin (Ching Wah Lee) and daughter Lan Ying (top-billed Anna May Wong), J . Carrol Naish and Buster Crabbe the intruding slave-racketeers, and Ernest Whitman the muscle Sam, in Daughter Of Shanghai, 1937.

Black Fury (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Shut Up About The Union! Early events, inside the coal mine Warner Bros. built at the ranch in Calabsas, Ca., John Qualen as honest Mike gets in a spat with newcomer Kroner (J. Carrol Naish) about their union, which gets the attention of popular Joe (Paul Muni), who’s more excited about his wedding, in Black Fury. 1935.

Black Fury (1935) -- (Movie Clip) It's My Coal! Miners’ union men Tommy (Tully Marshall) and Mike (John Qualen) are checking membership at the gate, the morning after their popular pal Joe (Paul Muni) got drunk after his girl dumped him, and accidentally joined a crooked anti-union uprising, led by agitator Kroner (J. Carrol Naish), in Warner Bros.’ Black Fury, 1935.

Bad Bascomb (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Elder Because You're Younger? Title character Wallace Beery in Wyoming learning to shoot right-handed because the lawmen know he’s a lefty, J. Carrol Naish his sidekick Yancey, Marshall Thompson his literate conscript Jimmy, and Frank Darien the unlucky Mormon traveler, early in MGM’s Bad Bascomb, 1946, also starring Margaret O’Brien.

Bad Bascomb (1946) -- (Movie Clip) When We Get To Utah Bandit Wallace Beery (title character), hiding out in a Mormon wagon train, has just learned that male converts are required to work, and he’s been drafted by Marjorie Main as Abbey, whose granddaughter Emmy (Margaret O’Brien) he’s already met, his pal Yancey (J. Carrol Naish) making out better, in MGM’s Bad Bascomb,1946.

Hatchet Man, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Tong War Flag Archaic graphic language but impressive events in the opening of William A. Wellman's San Francisco Tong War drama The Hatchet Man, 1932, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and J. Carroll Naish.

Kissing Bandit, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Son Of A Bandit? In Spanish colonial California, J. Carrol Naish as under-boss Chico reassures his band that the son of their captured chief will arrive from Boston to lead them, and star Frank Sinatra making his comic entrance, in MGM’s The Kissing Bandit, 1948, co-starring Kathryn Grayson.

Southerner, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) What It Cost Me New share-cropping neighbor Sam (Zachary Scott) visits Devers (J. Carrol Naish) seeking a favor, their complex first meeting in director Jean Renoir's The Southerner, 1945, from a novel by George Sessions Perry.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Wasn't A Dream Introduction of second brother, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. again, as Mario, in Paris pursuing Isabella (Ruth Warrick), tangling with De Raveneau (Henry Brandon), twin Lucien in Corsica with sympathetic pain, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Proud And Noble Name Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as both bandit Lucien and citified Mario, surgically separated at birth, meeting with their guardians Lorenzo (J. Carrol Naish) and Dr. Paoli (H.B. Warner) revealing their history, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941, from the Alexandre Dumas story.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) They Were Born To Be One Dr. Paoli (H.B. Warner) has just separated the Siamese-twin Franchi sons and learned, with the DuPre's (Walter Kingsford, Nana Bryant), from Lorenzo (J. Carrol Naish) that their family has been slaughtered, whereby Lucien (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is introduced, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941.

Canadian Pacific (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It Got Too Tame Railroad surveyor Tom (Randolph Scott) rides into the construction camp east of the Rockies, meeting Branagan, (Walter Sande), buddy Dynamite (J. Carrol Naish) and villain Cagle (Don Haggerty), the new lady doctor Edith Cabot (Jane Wyatt) intervening, early in Canadian Pacific, 1949.

Rebel In Town - (Textless Trailer) A man hunts down the bank robber who accidentally killed his son in Rebel in Town (1956) starring John Payne and Ruth Roman.

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