Jack Norton

Actor

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Also Known As

Mortimer J Naughton

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

September 02, 1889

Died

October 15, 1958

Biography

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Unforgettable comedy character actor, in many films and invariably as the well-dressed but almost completely incoherent drunk. Mustachioed, his features rumpled (and usually his clothes too), Norton added hilarity to many films, though in later years some questioned the treatment of alcoholism as a subject for comedy....

Filmography

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Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)

Variety Time (1948)

Jack Drinkwater

Alias a Gentleman (1948)

Down to Earth (1947)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Variety Girl (1947)

Busboy, Brown Derby

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Alibi Ike - (Original Trailer)

Arsene Lupin Returns (1938) -- (Movie Clip) The Gentleman With The Gun

Family & Companions

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Lucille Norton

Wife

Actor.

Biography

Unforgettable comedy character actor, in many films and invariably as the well-dressed but almost completely incoherent drunk. Mustachioed, his features rumpled (and usually his clothes too), Norton added hilarity to many films, though in later years some questioned the treatment of alcoholism as a subject for comedy.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)

Variety Time (1948)

Jack Drinkwater

Alias a Gentleman (1948)

Down to Earth (1947)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Variety Girl (1947)

Busboy, Brown Derby

Linda, Be Good (1947)

Nocturne (1946)

Lady Luck (1946)

Blue Skies (1946)

The Strange Mr. Gregory (1946)

Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)

Bringing Up Father (1946)

No Leave, No Love (1946)

The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

Lady on a Train (1945)

Wonder Man (1945)

Strange Confession (1945)

Man Alive (1945)

Willie the Wino

The Naughty Nineties (1945)

Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)

Fashion Model (1945)

Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)

The Scarlet Clue (1945)

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Hold That Blonde (1945)

A Guy, a Gal, and a Pal (1945)

Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

Ghost Catchers (1944)

Wilbur Duffington

And the Angels Sing (1944)

Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Man opening champagne

Cover Girl (1944)

The Chinese Cat (1944)

Dancing in Manhattan (1944)

The Big Noise (1944)

Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)

Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Regular band leader

Here Come the Waves (1944)

Waiter, Cabana Club

Make Your Own Bed (1944)

Going My Way (1944)

Once Upon a Time (1944)

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Passenger in companionway

Crazy House (1943)

Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)

How's About It? (1943)

So's Your Uncle (1943)

Taxi, Mister (1943)

Reginald Van Nostrum

Prairie Chickens (1943)

Henry Lewis-Clark

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Lady Bodyguard (1943)

The Kansan (1943)

Cowboy in bar fight

Assignment in Brittany (1943)

It Ain't Hay (1943)

The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

Tennessee Johnson (1942)

Ice-Capades Revue (1942)

Dr. Broadway (1942)

My Favorite Spy (1942)

Roxie Hart (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Second member Ale and Quail Club

The Spoilers (1942)

The Fleet's In (1942)

Brooklyn Orchid (1942)

Jonathan McFeeder

Moonlight in Havana (1942)

George [Plummer]

Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)

Moonlight Masquerade (1942)

Pacific Blackout (1941)

Drunk in bomb shelter

Footlight Fever (1941)

She Knew All the Answers (1941)

Louisiana Purchase (1941)

Passage from HongKong (1941)

The Feminine Touch (1941)

Road Show (1941)

Down in San Diego (1941)

Let's Make Music (1941)

Private Nurse (1941)

You Belong to Me (1941)

Ride on Vaquero (1941)

The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Opened by Mistake (1940)

The Farmer's Daughter (1940)

A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

The Bank Dick (1940)

City of Chance (1940)

So You Won't Talk (1940)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

Grand Jury Secrets (1939)

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)

Laugh It Off (1939)

Society Smugglers (1939)

It's a Wonderful World (1939)

News Is Made at Night (1939)

Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

Paradise for Three (1938)

Drunk at drinking fountain

Meet the Girls (1938)

[Karl] Fletcher

Hold That Kiss (1938)

Man-Proof (1938)

Strange Faces (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

Love Is a Headache (1938)

Five of a Kind (1938)

The Storm (1938)

Time Out for Romance (1937)

Pick a Star (1937)

Marked Woman (1937)

Meet the Missus (1937)

My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

First drunk at inn

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)

Man with monocle

Married Before Breakfast (1937)

The Great Garrick (1937)

Drunken gentleman

Women Men Marry (1937)

Wilhelm Pebbles, vacuum cleaner repair man

Anything Goes (1936)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

The First Baby (1936)

Rose of the Rancho (1936)

Forgotten Faces (1936)

Too Many Parents (1936)

After the Thin Man (1936)

The Moon's Our Home (1936)

The Gilded Lily (1935)

Dr. Socrates (1935)

Dante's Inferno (1935)

Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)

Ship Cafe (1935)

Going Highbrow (1935)

Calling All Cars (1935)

"Duke" Costello

Alibi Ike (1935)

She Gets Her Man (1935)

Stolen Harmony (1935)

His Night Out (1935)

Dr. Emanuel Q. Singer

One More Spring (1935)

Broadway Gondolier (1935)

$10 Raise (1935)

Front Page Woman (1935)

The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)

King's physician

Now I'll Tell (1934)

One Hour Late (1934)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

PARENT TRAP, THE (1998)

Air Force One (1997)

Cast (Short)

The Stupor-Visor (1938)

Swing Fever (1937)

Life Events

Videos

Arsene Lupin Returns (1938) -- (Movie Clip) The Gentleman With The Gun Hot-shot New York federal lawman Steve Emerson (Warren William), who just quit because he was getting too much publicity, attends to his first private client, Jack Norton the hotel manager, Virginia Bruce, Monty Woolley and John Halliday the bound crime victims, in Arsene Lupin Returns, 1938, starring Melvyn Douglas in the title role.

Bank Dick, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Motion Picture History Lush Egbert Sousè (screenwriter and star W.C. Fields) has bluffed his way into substitute-directing a movie shooting in his hometown, Reed Hadley his star, his young daughter (Evelyn Del Rio) blowing it, in The Bank Dick, 1940.

Spoilers, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Could Show Me Around Cherry (Marlene Dietrich), an enterprising saloon owner in Nome, Alaska, 1900, drops in on the town clerk (Chester Clute) to check some mine claims and is surprised to meet the eager new gold commissioner McNamara (Randolph Scott), early in The Spoilers, 1942, also starring John Wayne.

Alibi Ike - (Original Trailer) A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl in Alibi Ike (1935), starring Joe E. Brown.

Love Is A Headache - (Original Trailer) A freak accident gives a fading actress (Gladys George) a huge publicity push in Love Is A Headache (1938).

Great Garrick, The - (Original Trailer) Director James Whale (The Bride Of Frankenstein) brings his quirky view to this portrait of 18th Century Britain's most famous actor.

Going Highbrow - (Original Trailer) Guy Kibbee and ZaSu Pitts try to break into high society in Going Highbrow (1935).

Girl From Tenth Avenue, The - (Original Trailer) A working girl (Bette Davis) reforms an alcoholic lawyer (Ian Hunter) who was recently dumped. Now on track, his ex wants him back in The Girl From Tenth Avenue (1935).

Broadway Gondolier - (Original Trailer) Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou cut up with Frank McHugh in the trailer for the "radio romance" Broadway Gondolier (1935).

Barbary Coast Gent - (Original Trailer) Wallace Beery plays a bandit from the gold fields who moves to San Francisco and tries to go straight in Barbary Coast Gent (1944).

Alias a Gentleman - (Original Trailer) Wallace Beery plays an aging convict who tries to keep his daughter from following in his footsteps in Alias a Gentleman (1948).

After the Thin Man - (Original Trailer) Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora's cousin of a murder charge in After the Thin Man (1936).

Going My Way - (Original Trailer) Eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor went to Going My Way (1944) the story of a young singing priest (Bing Crosby) in a new parish.

Ghost Breakers, The - (Original Trailer) Bob Hope has to turn ghostbust...er, ghostbreaker to clear Paulette Goddard's castle in the horror-comedy The Ghost Breakers (1940).

Man-Proof - (Original Trailer) Myrna Loy may be crying in the chapel, but she refuses to give up her man, even after his marriage to Rosalind Russell in Man-Proof (1938).

Companions

Lucille Norton

Wife

Actor.

Bibliography

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