Franklin Pangborn

Actor

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Also Known As

Franklyn Pangborn

Birth Place

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Born

January 23, 1889

Died

July 20, 1958

Biography

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Franklin Pangborn was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Pangborn's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as the comedy "Exit Smiling" (1926) with Beatrice Lillie, "The Girl in the Pullman" (1927) and "Finger Prints" (1927). He also appeared in "Lady of the Pavements" (1929), "Her Man" (1930) with Helen Twelvetrees and "A Woman of Experience" (1...

Filmography

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Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)

Steamship clerk

The Story of Mankind (1957)

Marquis de Varennes

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

Sourpuss manager

Down Memory Lane (1949)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Rio hotel clerk

Calendar Girl (1947)

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Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sin Throughout The Ages

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California

Biography

Franklin Pangborn was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Pangborn's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as the comedy "Exit Smiling" (1926) with Beatrice Lillie, "The Girl in the Pullman" (1927) and "Finger Prints" (1927). He also appeared in "Lady of the Pavements" (1929), "Her Man" (1930) with Helen Twelvetrees and "A Woman of Experience" (1931). His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects like "Swing High, Swing Low" (1937), "It Happened in Hollywood" (1937) and "She's Dangerous" (1937). He also appeared in the comedy "Easy Living" (1937) with Jean Arthur. In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in "The Bank Dick" (1940) with W C Fields, "Call Out the Marines" (1941) and the Marlene Dietrich romance "The Flame of New Orleans" (1941). He also appeared in the comedy "Week-End For Three" (1941) with Dennis O'Keefe and the W C Fields comedy "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" (1941). Pangborn was most recently credited in "Careful" (1993) with Kyle McCullough. Pangborn passed away in July 1958 at the age of 69.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)

Steamship clerk

The Story of Mankind (1957)

Marquis de Varennes

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

Sourpuss manager

Down Memory Lane (1949)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Rio hotel clerk

Calendar Girl (1947)

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Formfit Franklin

I'll Be Yours (1947)

Lover Come Back (1946)

Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)

Theatre manager

The Sailor Takes a Wife (1946)

You Came Along (1945)

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

See My Lawyer (1945)

B. J. Wagenhorn

Tell It to a Star (1945)

Horace Lovelace

Hollywood and Vine (1945)

The Great Moment (1944)

My Best Gal (1944)

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Chairman of reception committee

Reckless Age (1944)

Allergic to Love (1944)

Stewart Ives III

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Holy Matrimony (1943)

Never a Dull Moment (1943)

Honeymoon Lodge (1943)

Two Weeks to Live (1943)

Crazy House (1943)

Reveille with Beverly (1943)

George Washington Slept Here (1942)

What's Cookin'? (1942)

Now, Voyager (1942)

Strictly in the Groove (1942)

Call Out the Marines (1942)

Moonlight Masquerade (1942)

Aubrey Fairchild

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

Professor Gibney

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Tillie the Toiler (1941)

The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Bachelor Daddy (1941)

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

The producer [Franklin Pangborn]

Week-End for Three (1941)

Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941)

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)

Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941)

Spring Parade (1940)

The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

Turnabout (1940)

Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)

Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1 (1940)

Christmas in July (1940)

Radio announcer

The Bank Dick (1940)

J. Pinkerton Snoopington

Broadway Serenade (1939)

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Topper Takes a Trip (1939)

Hotel manager [Louis]

Doctor Rhythm (1938)

Mr. Stanchfield

Three Blind Mice (1938)

Four's a Crowd (1938)

Vivacious Lady (1938)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Assistant hotel manager

Just Around the Corner (1938)

Carefree (1938)

Thrill of a Lifetime (1938)

Mr. [Sam] Wattle

Joy of Living (1938)

Orchestra leader

Girls' School (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Hamilton Montmarcy

The Girl Downstairs (1938)

Always Goodbye (1938)

Bicycle salesman

Hotel Haywire (1937)

Fuller Brush salesman

The Lady Escapes (1937)

It's All Yours (1937)

She Had to Eat (1937)

Mr. Phoecian-Wylie

Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)

Turn Off the Moon (1937)

The Life of the Party (1937)

Dangerous Holiday (1937)

They Wanted to Marry (1937)

Apartment manager

Stage Door (1937)

She's Dangerous (1937)

Love on Toast (1937)

Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

She Married an Artist (1937)

Easy Living (1937)

Living on Love (1937)

Ogilvie O. Oglethorpe

All over Town (1937)

High Hat (1937)

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

When Love Is Young (1937)

I'll Take Romance (1937)

A Star Is Born (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

We Have Our Moments (1937)

Rich Relations (1937)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

To Mary--With Love (1936)

Don't Gamble with Love (1936)

Doughnuts and Society (1936)

The Mandarin Mystery (1936)

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Master of ceremonies

The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936)

Hats Off (1936)

$1,000 a Minute (1935)

Eight Bells (1935)

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

The Headline Woman (1935)

She Married Her Boss (1935)

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

Unknown Blonde (1934)

Male co-respondent

Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)

Young and Beautiful (1934)

The radio announcer

College Rhythm (1934)

King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934)

[T. Ashmore] Brockton

Manhattan Love Song (1934)

Garrett Wetherby

Tomorrow's Youth (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Many Happy Returns (1934)

[Allen's] secretary

Flirtation (1934)

That's Gratitude (1934)

Headline Shooter (1933)

Mr. [Adolphus G.] Crocker

Sweepings (1933)

International House (1933)

The Important Witness (1933)

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Herbert [Childress]

Bed of Roses (1933)

Design for Living (1933)

Flying Down to Rio (1933)

Only Yesterday (1933)

Stepping Sisters (1932)

A Fool's Advice (1932)

The Half Naked Truth (1932)

A Woman of Experience (1931)

Cheer Up and Smile (1930)

A Lady Surrenders (1930)

Not So Dumb (1930)

Lady of the Pavements (1929)

M'sieu Dubrey, dance master

On Trial (1928)

A Blonde for a Night (1928)

Finger Prints (1927)

The Bandoline Kid

Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)

My Friend From India (1927)

William Valentine

The Girl in the Pullman (1927)

The Cradle Snatchers (1927)

The Night Bride (1927)

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1927)

Exit Smiling (1926)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Cast (Special)

Svengali and the Blonde (1955)

Theater Manager

Cast (Short)

Swing Banditry (1936)

My Grandfather's Clock (1934)

What Price Taxi (1932)

The Loud Mouth (1932)

Over the Counter (1932)

Poor Aubrey (1930)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Living on Love - Scene Stills

Here are a number of scene stills from RKO's Living on Love (1937), directed by Lew Landers and starring James Dunn and Whitney Bourne.

Videos

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sin Throughout The Ages Entertaining the big-shot out-of-town investor (William Holden), Dulcy (Marion Davies) turns the floor over to her new supposed screenwriter friend Leach (Franklin Pangborn), dramatizing his next feature, Van Dyke (Donald Ogden Stewart) on piano, Elliott Nugent her worried husband, in Not So Dumb, 1930.

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California Opening with Marion Davies (as nutty Dulcy, the title role in the original George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play) and fiancè Gordon (Elliott Nugent) in the rain, awaiting potential investor Forbes (the other actor William Holden, 1862-1932), wife and daughter (Sally Starr, Julia Faye), with King Vidor directing, in Not So Dumb, 1930.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) -- (Movie Clip) It's The Same Ocean! With French Riviera hotel staff (Franklin Pangborn accompanied by Armand Cortes) offering new rooms, Gary Cooper as the still not-named American millionaire who’s having trouble sleeping, the surprise appearance of Edward Everett Horton as the Marquis, in Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 1938, also starring Claudette Colbert.

Living On Love (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Another Applicant Struggling to pay her rent, Mary (Whitney Bourne) arrives for a job interview, impressing the boss (Franklin Pangborn), then arrives home where her landlord (Solly Ward) has given away her apartment, but has a plan, in RKO’s Living On Love, 1937, restored by TCM.

Bank Dick, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) New Old Lompoc House Now on the job, Sousè (W.C. Fields, also screenwriter) observes son-in-law-to-be "Og" (Grady Sutton) executing the embezzlement scheme he proposed, until the bank examiner (Franklin Pangborn) appears, in The Bank Dick, 1940.

Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) -- (Movie Clip) He Could Be President Woodrow (Eddie Bracken), overwhelmed and intending to confess that he never served in the Marine Corps, can’t stop the judge (Jimmy Conlin) and Doc Bissell (Harry Hayden), who have nominated him for mayor on his homecoming, in Preston Sturges’ Hail The Conquering Hero, 1944.

Hail The Conquering Hero (1944) -- (Movie Clip) A Single Sour Note Franklin Pangborn (the band leader), the mother (Georgia Caine) and ex-sweetheart Libby (Ella Raines) among the revelers awaiting the local war hero, unaware that he hasn't told them he was forced to accept a medical discharge and never served, early in Preston Sturges' Hail The Conquering Hero, 1944.

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Your Power Of Attorney Reporter Babe (Jean Arthur) is introduced as editor MacWade (George Bancroft) berates his staff, while the title character (Gary Cooper), adjusting to his inheritance, frustrates crooked lawyer Cedar (Douglas Dumbrille), who aims to formalize his status, in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, 1936.

Flying Down To Rio (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Music Makes Me Franklin Pangborne can’t wait to fire bandleader Gene Raymond from his Miami gig when he shows up just in time, with accordion player Fred Astaire, for Ginger Rogers’ number by Vincent Youmans, Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu, Dolores del Rio in the house, early in Flying Down To Rio, 1933.

George Washington Slept Here (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Roomy Drawers Jack Benny (as "Bill Fuller") arrives home not knowing wife Connie (Ann Sheridan) has, sort of on purpose, gotten them evicted from their Manhattan apartment by landlord Gibney (Franklin Pangborn), early in George Washington Slept Here, 1942, from the Kaufman and Hart play.

Now, Voyager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) He Wishes He Understood Me Psych patient Charlotte (Bette Davis), using her pseudonym, seen here for the first time since being sent on a cruise by Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains), gets paired with fellow passenger Jerry (Paul Henreid, his first appearance) by the cruise director (Franklin Pangborn), in Now, Voyager, 1942.

Now, Voyager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Met A Doctor In Rio Sister-in-law Lisa (Ilka Chase) and her daughter June (Bonita Granville) are thrilled with the made-over Charlotte (Bette Davis), mobbed by well-wishers (Bill Kennedy, James Rennie, Lee Patrick, Franklin Pangborn) on her return from the cruise prescribed by her shrink, in Now, Voyager, 1942.

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