Moroni Olsen

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Moroni Olson

Birth Place

Ogden, Utah, USA

Born

June 27, 1889

Died

November 22, 1954

Filmography

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The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

Sign of the Pagan (1954)

Marry Me Again (1953)

So This Is Love (1953)

At Sword's Point (1952)

Washington Story (1952)

Speaker [of the House]

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Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Want You To Meet My Daughter

High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Youre Not Getting Out

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

Sign of the Pagan (1954)

Marry Me Again (1953)

So This Is Love (1953)

At Sword's Point (1952)

Washington Story (1952)

Speaker [of the House]

Lone Star (1952)

Payment on Demand (1951)

No Questions Asked (1951)

Submarine Command (1951)

Rear Adm. Joshua Rice

Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Herbert Dunstan

Samson and Delilah (1950)

Father of the Bride (1950)

Herbert Dunstan

Task Force (1949)

The Fountainhead (1949)

Command Decision (1949)

Congressman Stone

Up in Central Park (1948)

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Chairman of Parole Board

High Wall (1948)

Dr. Philip Dunlap

That Hagen Girl (1947)

Trenton Gateley

Life with Father (1947)

Possessed (1947)

Black Gold (1947)

The Long Night (1947)

Chief of police [Bob McManus]

The Beginning or the End (1947)

Dr. Arthur H. Compton

A Night in Paradise (1946)

Boys' Ranch (1946)

Judge Henderson

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

The Strange Woman (1946)

Reverent Thatcher

Notorious (1946)

Walter Beardsley

From This Day Forward (1946)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Inspector Peterson

Behind City Lights (1945)

Curtis Holbrook

Don't Fence Me In (1945)

Pride of the Marines (1945)

Captain Burroughs

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

House detective Blake

The Song of Bernadette (1945)

The Valley of Decision (1945)

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)

Cobra Woman (1944)

Buffalo Bill (1944)

Senator Frederici

Madame Curie (1944)

President of businessmen's board

We've Never Been Licked (1943)

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Colonel Faymonville

Air Force (1943)

Commanding officer

Nazi Agent (1942)

The Glass Key (1942)

My Favorite Spy (1942)

Reunion in France (1942)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)

Dr. [Henry] Olcott

Sundown Jim (1942)

Ship Ahoy (1942)

Inspector Davis

Dive Bomber (1941)

Senior surgeon at San Diego

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Life with Henry (1941)

Sylvanus Q. Sattherwaite

Three Sons O'Guns (1941)

Dangerously They Live (1941)

Brigham Young--Frontiersman (1940)

Virginia City (1940)

If I Had My Way (1940)

Mr. [John] Blair

East of the River (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

Off the Record (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Defense attorney [Slim Jones]

Invisible Stripes (1939)

Allegheny Uprising (1939)

That's Right--You're Wrong (1939)

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

Supt. Andrew Standing

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Homicide Bureau (1939)

Code of the Secret Service (1939)

The friar [Parker]

Barricade (1939)

Managing editor

The Three Musketeers (1939)

Kentucky (1938)

John Dillon, 1938

Kidnapped (1938)

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

There Goes My Heart (1938)

Submarine Patrol (1938)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

Bearded man, leader of the people

The Plough and the Stars (1937)

Irish leader [General Connolly]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Voice of the Magic Mirror

Adventure's End (1937)

The Last Gangster (1937)

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)

Mary of Scotland (1936)

The Witness Chair (1936)

Lieutenant Poole

Two in Revolt (1936)

Mummy's Boys (1936)

Dr. Edward Sterling

The Farmer in the Dell (1936)

Grand Jury (1936)

Yellow Dust (1936)

We're Only Human (1935)

Inspector R. J. Curran

The Three Musketeers (1935)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)

Annie Oakley (1935)

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody

Cast (Short)

Respect the Law (1941)

The Bill of Rights (1939)

"What Do You Think?" Tupapaoo (1938)

Life Events

Videos

Susannah Of The Mounties (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Want You To Meet My Daughter Randolph Scott as officer Monty, having rescued the star (Shirley Temple) following an Indian massacre, is eager to report to his C-O (Moroni Olsen), not realizing he'd meet knockout Margaret Lockwood, then berating his orderly Mac (J. Farrell MacDonald), early in Susannah Of The Mounties, 1939.

High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Youre Not Getting Out After successful brain surgery which he long resisted, war vet and father Kenet (Robert Taylor), still believing he killed his wife, seeks release, doctors Lorrison (Audrey Totter), Poward (Warner Anderson) and especially Dunlap (Moroni Olsen) evaluating, in High Wall, 1947.

Fountainhead, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Set My Own Standards Several suits (Moroni Olsen as "the Chairman") are shocked when architect Roark (Gary Cooper) rejects their commission, with evil critic Toohey (Robert Douglas) observing, in King Vidor's The Fountainhead, 1949, from the Ayn Rand novel.

Invisible Stripes (1940) -- (Movie Clip) See You In Church From the opening scene in which new convicts enter Sing Sing, we meet showering George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, as inmates Taylor and Martin, on the way out, but maybe on different paths, as we see in their visits with the warden (Moroni Olsen), in Warner Bros.’ Invisible Stripes, 1940.

Air Force (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Hickam Radio The crew on the "Mary Ann" (John Garfield, Harry Carey, George Tobias, Ward Wood, John Ridgely et al) is headed for Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor when the radio signal is interrupted, in Howard Hawks' Air Force, 1943.

Mary of Scotland (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Another Sovereign Queen Mary of Scotland (Katharine Hepburn) hits a road block with firebrand John Knox (Moroni Olsen) but finds common cause with patriot Bothwell (Fredric March) in Mary of Scotland, 1936, from the play by Maxwell Anderson, directed by John Ford.

Mary of Scotland (1936) -- (Movie Clip) So Long as I Live! Queen Mary of Scotland (Katharine Hepburn) rejects the accusations of John Knox (Moroni Olsen) and the demands of the Earl of Moray (Ian Keith) in director John Ford's Mary of Scotland, 1936.

Mildred Pierce (1945) -- (Movie Clip) -- We Don't Need You Title character (Joan Crawford) at the police station after her husband's murder by an unknown subject, where she meets pal Ida (Eve Arden), business rival Wally (Jack Carson), her ex Bert (Bruce Bennett) and cop Peterson (Moroni Olsen), early in Mildred Pierce, 1945.

Allegheny Uprising (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You Ain't Bad To Look At Serenaded by Chill Wills, top-billed Claire Trevor as Janie spars with dad (Wilfrid Lawson), Jim (John Wayne) and "Professor" (John F. Hamilton), just home from war, when Calhoun (Moroni Olsen) brings news of Indians, in Allegheny Uprising, 1939, released eight months after Stagecoach.

Allegheny Uprising (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Shoot Over Their Heads Angry at fellow colonists trading with Indians, Pennsylvanian Jim (John Wayne), with Mac (Wilfrid Lawson) et al (Moroni Olsen, Chill Wills, John Hamilton) hatches a plan, Janie (Claire Trevor) joining, as they engage incognito with evil Callendar (Brian Donlevy), in Allegheny Uprising, 1939.

High Wall (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Me About Those Headaches Brain-injured combat vet Kenet (Robert Taylor) taken to his cell, convinced he must have killed his wife, while doctors (Morris Ankrum, Moroni Olsen, Warner Anderson and Audrey Totter as Ann Lorrison) stick to prodecure, early in director Curtis Bernhardt's High Wall, 1947.

Three Musketeers, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Best Blade In The Land Aspiring Musketeer D'Artagnan (Walter Abel) is making his case to the captain de Treville (Lumsden Hare) when rowdy Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen) and Aramis (Onslow Stevens) cause a ruckus, early in RKO's 1935 version of The Three Musketeers.

Mildred Pierce -- (Original Trailer) A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society in Mildred Pierce (1945) starring Joan Crawford in an Oscar-winning role.

Father of the Bride (1950) - (Original Trailer) A doting father (Spencer Tracy) faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter (Elizabeth Taylor) marries in Father of the Bride (1950), directed by Vincente Minnelli.

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