Phil Tead
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Phil Tead was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Tead began his acting career appearing in various films, such as "Lightnin'" (1930), "Guilty Generation" (1931) and the Mary Pickford adaptation "Kiki" (1931). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like "The Front Page" (1931) with Adolphe Menjou, "Broadway Bad" (1933) and "The Big Bluff" (1933...
Biography
Phil Tead was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Tead began his acting career appearing in various films, such as "Lightnin'" (1930), "Guilty Generation" (1931) and the Mary Pickford adaptation "Kiki" (1931). His film career continued throughout the thirties in productions like "The Front Page" (1931) with Adolphe Menjou, "Broadway Bad" (1933) and "The Big Bluff" (1933). Toward the end of his career, he tackled roles in "The Princess Comes Across" (1936), "Music in My Heart" (1940) with Tony Martin and "Act of Violence" (1948). Tead last acted in the comedy "Confidentially Connie" (1953) with Van Johnson. Tead passed away in June 1974 at the age of 81.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Rockabilly Baby
(1957)
Coach Stone
The Hard Man
(1957)
Bartender
The Tender Trap
(1955)
Wendell-like voice
Wiretapper
(1955)
Mailman
Loophole
(1954)
Bank manager
Fangs of the Wild
(1954)
Mac
The Lawless Breed
(1953)
Reporter
So Big
(1953)
Buyer
Confidentially Connie
(1953)
Professor McKeever
Those Redheads from Seattle
(1953)
Man at reception desk
Fangs of the Arctic
(1953)
MacGregor
Kansas City Confidential
(1952)
Collins
Bonzo Goes to College
(1952)
Judge
Arctic Flight
(1952)
Squid Tucker
Glory Alley
(1952)
New York writer
The Law and the Lady
(1951)
Assistant manager
Callaway Went Thataway
(1951)
Salesman
Jim Thorpe--All-American
(1951)
Board member
The Unknown Man
(1951)
Attendant
Goodbye, My Fancy
(1951)
Reporter
Pride of Maryland
(1951)
Spectator
Act of Violence
(1949)
Clerk
The Big Punch
(1948)
Peters, editor
California
(1947)
Eddie, cashier
Colonel Effingham's Raid
(1946)
Advertising manager
Deadline for Murder
(1946)
Man in restaurant
State Fair
(1945)
Barker for fire eater
Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe
(1945)
Waiter
The Dolly Sisters
(1945)
Casanova Brown
(1944)
License clerk
Rings on Her Fingers
(1942)
Ticket agent
Pacific Rendezvous
(1942)
Taxi driver
This Gun for Hire
(1942)
Machinist
Right to the Heart
(1942)
McAllister
You're Telling Me
(1942)
Chauffeur
You Can't Escape Forever
(1942)
Reporter
Las Vegas Nights--"The Last Frontier Town"
(1941)
Club Nevada croupier
Buy Me That Town
(1941)
Mr. Ramsey, owner of drugstore
The Westerner
(1940)
Prisoner
Music in My Heart
(1940)
Marshall
Pier 13
(1940)
Photographer
Johnny Apollo
(1940)
Reporter
Tell No Tales
(1939)
Marty
I Stole a Million
(1939)
Charlie
Stronger Than Desire
(1939)
Reporter
The Hardys Ride High
(1939)
Driver
6,000 Enemies
(1939)
Reporter
The Great Ziegfeld
(1936)
Press agent
Hollywood Boulevard
(1936)
Master of ceremonies
Anything Goes
(1936)
First cameraman
Women Are Trouble
(1936)
Granger
Murder with Pictures
(1936)
Reporter
The Milky Way
(1936)
Radio announcer
Absolute Quiet
(1936)
Operator
Princess Comes Across
(1936)
Jones, American newsreel man
The Gay Deception
(1935)
Auctioneer
Carnival
(1935)
Barker
Wings in the Dark
(1935)
Second reporter
Lady Tubbs
(1935)
Here Comes the Band
(1935)
Soldier
The Woman in Red
(1935)
Reporter
Men Without Names
(1935)
First reporter
It Happened in New York
(1935)
Radio announcer
Gold Diggers of 1935
(1935)
Head bellhop
Woman Wanted
(1935)
Juror
Orchids to You
(1935)
Process server
The Daring Young Man
(1935)
Star reporter
Charlie Chan in Shanghai
(1935)
Reporter
The Affair of Susan
(1935)
Spieler
Navy Wife
(1935)
Motorcycle attendant
Mary Burns, Fugitive
(1935)
Reporter
The Gilded Lily
(1935)
Rollercoaster attendant
Show Them No Mercy!
(1935)
Ticket clerk
Straight from the Heart
(1935)
Wardrobe heeler
The Cat's-Paw
(1934)
Reporter
The Thin Man
(1934)
Reporter
George White's Scandals
(1934)
Publicity man
Behold My Wife!
(1934)
First chauffeur
The Cat and the Fiddle
(1934)
Reporter
Stand Up and Cheer!
(1934)
Vaudevillian
Six of a Kind
(1934)
Clerk in newspaper office
Glamour
(1934)
Jimmy
Let's Talk It Over
(1934)
Golf professional
This Side of Heaven
(1934)
Radio announcer
Evelyn Prentice
(1934)
Reporter
One Hour Late
(1934)
Wally
Sing and Like It
(1934)
Ticket agent
Broadway Bad
(1933)
Joe Flynn
Sailor's Luck
(1933)
Nugent Busby
Central Airport
(1933)
Duke
The Big Bluff
(1933)
What Price Hollywood?
(1932)
Drunk/Assistant director
The Final Edition
(1932)
Dan Cameron
The Vice Squad
(1931)
Tony Morrison
The Guilty Generation
(1931)
Skid
Kiki
(1931)
Eddie
The Front Page
(1931)
Wilson
Lightnin'
(1930)
Monte Winslow
The Fighting Blade
(1923)
Lord Trevor
She Loves and Lies
(1920)
Bob Brummell
Whispers
(1920)
Wesley Mace
The Lost Paradise
(1914)
Billy Hopkins
Cast (Short)
Violets in Spring
(1936)
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