Moroni Olsen


Actor
Moroni Olsen

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Mr. Tewitt
Sign of the Pagan (1954)
Pope Leo I
Marry Me Again (1953)
Courtney
So This Is Love (1953)
Arnold Reuben
At Sword's Point (1952)
Old Porthos
Washington Story (1952)
Speaker [of the House]
Lone Star (1952)
Sam Houston
Payment on Demand (1951)
Arnold Barton
No Questions Asked (1951)
Henry Manston
Submarine Command (1951)
Rear Adm. Joshua Rice
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Herbert Dunstan
Samson and Delilah (1950)
Targil
Father of the Bride (1950)
Herbert Dunstan
Task Force (1949)
Admiral Ames
The Fountainhead (1949)
Chairman
Command Decision (1949)
Congressman Stone
Up in Central Park (1948)
Big Jim Fitts
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Chairman of Parole Board
High Wall (1948)
Dr. Philip Dunlap
That Hagen Girl (1947)
Trenton Gateley
Life with Father (1947)
Dr. Humphries
Possessed (1947)
Dr. Ames
Black Gold (1947)
Dan Toland
The Long Night (1947)
Chief of police [Bob McManus]
The Beginning or the End (1947)
Dr. Arthur H. Compton
A Night in Paradise (1946)
High Priest
Boys' Ranch (1946)
Judge Henderson
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
Bishop Martin
The Strange Woman (1946)
Reverent Thatcher
Notorious (1946)
Walter Beardsley
From This Day Forward (1946)
Tim Bagley
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Inspector Peterson
Behind City Lights (1945)
Curtis Holbrook
Don't Fence Me In (1945)
Henry Bennett
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Captain Burroughs
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
House detective Blake
The Song of Bernadette (1945)
Chaplain
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Richard Kane
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Riley
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
Caliph
Cobra Woman (1944)
MacDonald
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Senator Frederici
Madame Curie (1944)
President of businessmen's board
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Commandant
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Colonel Faymonville
Air Force (1943)
Commanding officer
Nazi Agent (1942)
Brenner
The Glass Key (1942)
Ralph Henry
My Favorite Spy (1942)
Major Allen
Reunion in France (1942)
Paul Grebeau
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Dr. [Henry] Olcott
Sundown Jim (1942)
Andrew Barr
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Inspector Davis
Dive Bomber (1941)
Senior surgeon at San Diego
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Dr. John Romer
Life with Henry (1941)
Sylvanus Q. Sattherwaite
Three Sons O'Guns (1941)
Philip Talbot
Dangerously They Live (1941)
Mr. Goodwin
Brigham Young--Frontiersman (1940)
Doc Richards
Virginia City (1940)
Cameron
If I Had My Way (1940)
Mr. [John] Blair
East of the River (1940)
Judge Davis
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Robert E. Lee
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Major Terry
Off the Record (1939)
Judge
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Defense attorney [Slim Jones]
Invisible Stripes (1939)
The warden
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Calhoun
That's Right--You're Wrong (1939)
J. . Forbes
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Supt. Andrew Standing
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Buck Russell
Homicide Bureau (1939)
Captain Haines
Code of the Secret Service (1939)
The friar [Parker]
Barricade (1939)
Managing editor
The Three Musketeers (1939)
Bailiff
Kentucky (1938)
John Dillon, 1938
Kidnapped (1938)
Douglas
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Senator Herst
There Goes My Heart (1938)
Fisherman
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Captain Wilson
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)
Rand Husk
The Last Gangster (1937)
Shea
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
Jonathan
Mary of Scotland (1936)
John Knox
The Witness Chair (1936)
Lieutenant Poole
M'liss (1936)
Jake
Two in Revolt (1936)
Cyrus Benton
Mummy's Boys (1936)
Dr. Edward Sterling
The Farmer in the Dell (1936)
Chester Hart
Grand Jury (1936)
Davis
Yellow Dust (1936)
"Missouri"
We're Only Human (1935)
Inspector R. J. Curran
The Three Musketeers (1935)
Porthos
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Jim Cargan
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

Movie Clip

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.

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