Stuart Erwin

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Squaw Valley, California, USA

Born

February 14, 1903

Died

December 21, 1967

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)

Police Captain Loomis

Son of Flubber (1963)

When Comedy Was King (1960)

Main Street to Broadway (1953)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Heading for Heaven (1948)

Photos & Videos

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Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Be A Pal!

Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Tell A Banker From A Bum

Family & Companions

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June Collyer

Wife

Actor. Married 36 years; survived him.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)

Police Captain Loomis

Son of Flubber (1963)

When Comedy Was King (1960)

Main Street to Broadway (1953)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Heading for Heaven (1948)

Strike It Rich (1948)

Killer Dill (1947)

Johnny "Killer" Dill

Heaven Only Knows (1947)

Sheriff Matt Bodine

Pillow to Post (1945)

Captain Jack Ross

The Great Mike (1944)

He Hired the Boss (1943)

Blondie for Victory (1942)

Drums of the Congo (1942)

The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)

Cracked Nuts (1941)

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Our Town (1940)

When the Daltons Rode (1940)

A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)

Sandy Gets Her Man (1940)

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

The Honeymoon's Over (1939)

It Could Happen to You (1939)

MacKinley Winslow

Back Door to Heaven (1939)

Checkers (1938)

Passport Husband (1938)

Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938)

Three Blind Mice (1938)

Small Town Boy (1937)

Henry Armstrong

Dance Charlie Dance (1937)

Second Honeymoon (1937)

I'll Take Romance (1937)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

Women Are Trouble (1936)

All American Chump (1936)

Exclusive Story (1936)

Absolute Quiet (1936)

[Oscar] "Chubby" Rudd

Ceiling Zero (1936)

The All-American Chump (1936)

After Office Hours (1935)

The Band Plays On (1934)

[Clarence] Stuffy [Wilson]

Viva Villa (1934)

Bachelor Bait (1934)

The Party's Over (1934)

Bruce [Blakely]

Have a Heart (1934)

Day of Reckoning (1933)

Under the Tonto Rim (1933)

Before Dawn (1933)

Hold Your Man (1933)

International House (1933)

The Crime of the Century (1933)

Face in the Sky (1933)

Going Hollywood (1933)

Ernest P. Baker

The Stranger's Return (1933)

Two Kinds of Women (1932)

Make Me a Star (1932)

The Big Broadcast (1932)

Leslie McWhinney

He Learned About Women (1932)

Peter Potter Kendall II

The Misleading Lady (1932)

Strangers in Love (1932)

Working Girls (1931)

Up Pops the Devil (1931)

The Magnificent Lie (1931)

No Limit (1931)

Dude Ranch (1931)

Men Without Women (1930)

Along Came Youth (1930)

Young Eagles (1930)

"Pudge" Higgins

Happy Days (1930)

Playboy of Paris (1930)

Love Among the Millionaires (1930)

Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)

Only Saps Work (1930)

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Dangerous Curves (1929)

New Year's Eve (1929)

The Cock-Eyed World (1929)

This Thing Called Love (1929)

Speakeasy (1929)

The Exalted Flapper (1929)

Thru Different Eyes (1929)

Mother Knows Best (1928)

Cast (Short)

Hollywood Handicap (1938)

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

Life Events

1924

Stage acting debut

1928

First film as actor

Videos

Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Be A Pal! Following shortly upon the opening, tight comedy with Clark Gable as hustler Eddie caught running a street scam, diving into the apartment where Jean Harlow bathes, gamely providing cover when his mark and a cop (Henry B. Walthall, Jack Cheatham) arrive in pursuit, in MGM's Hold Your Man, 1933.

Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Can't Tell A Banker From A Bum Clever opening bit with Clark Gable in hustler mode, encountering venerable Henry B. Walthall on an MGM city street, then Garry Owen at a pawn shop, Sam Wood directing from an original screenplay by Howard Emmett Rogers and Anita Loos, in Hold Your Man, 1933, also starring Jean Harlow.

Hold Your Man (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Cutest Suburbs Jean Harlow as party girl Ruby brings Stuart Erwin as her devoted semi-sugar daddy beau to a night club, where she has subterfuge in mind, and we find out she’s been visiting in hopes of meeting con-man Clark Gable, who’s a regular, and who finally turns up, in MGM”s Hold Your Man, 1933, Louise Beavers the washroom lady.

Pillow To Post (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Watcha Say? (Louis Armstrong) Ida Lupino as sales-gal Jean is juggling William Prince as soldier Don, posing as her husband so she could get military housing, and Johnny Mitchell as client Slim, who wanted a dinner date, while Louis Armstrong leads his band with Dorothy Dandridge singing a tune by Burton Lane and Ted Koehler, in Pillow To Post, 1945.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Fiction Woven Out Of Truth Commanding prologue and screenplay by Ben Hecht, directed by either ultimately-dismissed Howard Hawks or credited Jack Conway, with Phillip Cooper as the young title character and Frank Puglia his dad, from MGM’s hit Viva Villa!, 1934, starring Wallace Beery.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) For The Gringo Paper? Taking a town as his notoriety grows, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa browses females (C.B. DeMille's part-Italian adopted daughter Katherine as Rosita, in one of her earliest roles) then, with sidekick Sierra (Leo Carrillo), meets nervous American journalist Sykes (Stuart Erwin), in Viva Villa!, 1934.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Pancho Villa Sent For Me Some scale as the revolution gathers pace, Wallace Beery (title character) rallies volunteers, visits sympathetic aristocrat Teresa (Fay Wray) and reporter Sykes (Stuart Erwin), then a montage, with writer Ben Hecht more successful than the rear-screen process shots, David Durand the bugle boy, inViva Villa! , 1934.

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Get Drunk In Three Days? Pacey opening, Robert Z. Leonard directing from Herman J. Mankiewicz’s screenplay, introducing Connie (Constance) Bennett as columnist Sharon, entering a New York newsroom where we meet Stuart Erwin and Henry Travers, reporting to Clark Gable as editor Branch, the year after his reporter-turn in It Happened One Night, 1934, in After Office Hours, 1935.

After Office Hours (1935) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Scroop! Put out because she was fired from her new job as music critic earlier that day, socialite Sharon (Constance Bennett) returns from the theater to find her mother (Billie Burke) being charmed by her editor Branch (Clark Gable), who also was there, and who now wants to hire her back for her society connections, in After Office Hours, 1935.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Stop For Melons? Judy Garland’s first scene in her first feature, collegians Johnny Downs and Betty Grable on a failed recruiting trip with the coach’s wife (Patsy Kelly) when they discover Judy and her redneck melon-heaving brother Stu Erwin, in Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pigskin Parade 1936.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) We Want The Balboa The football team dance, Dixie Dunbar with Stu Erwin, all the Yacht Club Boys, Betty Grable and Johnny Downs, Patsy Kelly and Jack Haley, and finally Judy Garland, loaned from MGM to Fox, for her first song in her first feature, by Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell, in Pigskin Parade, 1936.

Pigskin Parade (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Texas Tornado Sending the Texas State team off for the game with Yale, with Jack Haley — later the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz — as the preening coach, and Judy Garland as the hillbilly quarterback’s little sister, with her second song in the feature, in Pigskin Parade, 1936.

Companions

June Collyer

Wife

Actor. Married 36 years; survived him.

Bibliography

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