Roscoe Karns

Actor

About

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Birth Place

San Bernardino, California, USA

Born

September 07, 1893

Died

February 06, 1970

Filmography

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Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

Onionhead (1958)

The Inside Story (1948)

Eustace Peabody

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)

Carmody, the cop

Devil's Cargo (1948)

Lieutenant Hardy

Speed to Spare (1948)

Photos & Videos

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Woman Of The Year (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Should We Abolish Baseball?

His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Real Red Menace

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

Onionhead (1958)

The Inside Story (1948)

Eustace Peabody

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)

Carmody, the cop

Devil's Cargo (1948)

Lieutenant Hardy

Speed to Spare (1948)

That's My Man (1947)

Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947)

Avalanche (1946)

I Ring Doorbells (1946)

One Way to Love (1945)

The Navy Way (1944)

Minstrel Man (1944)

[Lee] "Lasses" White

Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944)

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Old Acquaintance (1943)

My Son, the Hero (1943)

Big Time [Percy Morgan]

His Butler's Sister (1943)

Riding High (1943)

Woman of the Year (1942)

A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)

Yokel Boy (1942)

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

The Gay Vagabond (1941)

Arthur Dixon/Jerry Dixon

Petticoat Politics (1941)

Road to Happiness (1941)

His Girl Friday (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

Meet the Missus (1940)

Ladies Must Live (1940)

Double Alibi (1940)

Jermiah Jenkins

Saturday's Children (1940)

King of Chinatown (1939)

Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

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

Everything's on Ice (1939)

Dangerous to Know (1938)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

You and Me (1938)

Scandal Street (1938)

Tip-Off Girls (1938)

Night of Mystery (1937)

Partners in Crime (1937)

Clarence (1937)

Murder Goes to College (1937)

On Such a Night (1937)

Three Cheers for Love (1936)

Doc "Short Circuit" Wilson

Three Married Men (1936)

Border Flight (1936)

Calico Smith, Chief Mechanic

Cain and Mabel (1936)

[Aloysius K.] Reilly

Woman Trap (1936)

Four Hours to Kill! (1935)

Two Fisted (1935)

Wings in the Dark (1935)

Front Page Woman (1935)

Toots [O'Grady]

Red Hot Tires (1935)

Alibi Ike (1935)

Shoot the Works (1934)

Come On Marines! (1934)

[Terence V.] Spud McGurke

Elmer and Elsie (1934)

Twentieth Century (1934)

[Owen] O'Malley

It Happened One Night (1934)

[Oscar] Shapeley

I Sell Anything (1934)

Search for Beauty (1934)

Newspaper reporter

Lawyer Man (1933)

Grand Slam (1933)

Radio announcer

The Women in His Life (1933)

Gambling Ship (1933)

Today We Live (1933)

["Mac"] McGinnis

One Sunday Afternoon (1933)

A Lady's Profession (1933)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Week-end Marriage (1932)

If I Had a Million (1932)

One Way Passage (1932)

Ship's bartender

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)

The Crooked Circle (1932)

Two Against the World (1932)

Night After Night (1932)

Stowaway (1932)

Inspector Redding

Under-Cover Man (1932)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Many a Slip (1931)

Laughing Sinners (1931)

Leftover Ladies (1931)

"Scoop" [O'Connor]

Pleasure (1931)

Dirigible (1931)

The Gorilla (1930)

Safety in Numbers (1930)

Bertram Shapiro

The Little Accident (1930)

Man Trouble (1930)

The Costello Case (1930)

Troopers Three (1930)

New York Nights (1929)

This Thing Called Love (1929)

The Shopworn Angel (1929)

Beggars of Life (1928)

Warming Up (1928)

The Vanishing Pioneer (1928)

The Desert Bride (1928)

Something Always Happens (1928)

Object--Alimony (1928)

Moran of the Marines (1928)

Jazz Mad (1928)

Win That Girl (1928)

Johnny Norton, 2d

Beau Sabreur (1928)

Ten Modern Commandments (1927)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Lt. Walter Cameron

The Overland Limited (1925)

Dollar Down (1925)

Gene Meadows, her son

The Foolish Virgin (1924)

The Midnight Express (1924)

Other Men's Daughters (1923)

Afraid To Fight (1922)

Her Own Money (1922)

Conquering the Woman (1922)

Shorty Thompson

The Trouper (1922)

The Man Tamer (1921)

Bradley P. Caldwell, Jr.

Too Much Married (1921)

The Family Honor (1920)

The Life of the Party (1920)

Poor Relations (1919)

Cast (Short)

Life Events

Photo Collections

You and Me - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

You and Me - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Videos

Woman Of The Year (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Should We Abolish Baseball? Opening scene, sports writer Sam (Spencer Tracy) joins pals (Roscoe Karns, William Tannen) and barkeep (William Bendix), as they hear high-brow columnist Tess (Katharine Hepburn) on the radio, in Woman Of The Year, 1942, original screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.

His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Real Red Menace In the press room at the courthouse, Howard Hawks directs the guys from Ben Hecht’s original play (Roscoe Karns as McCue, Porter Hall as Murphy, Ernest Truex as Roy, Cliff Edwards as Endicott, Frank Jenks as Wilson), and Roz Russell convincing as the title character, their pal Hildy, informing them she’s done, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) That Fella In The Movies, Ralph Bellamy Reporter Hildy (Rosalind Russell) tells ex-husband and almost-ex boss editor Walter (Cary Grant) of another scoop, he sends vamp Vangie (Marion Martin) and hood Louie (Abner Biberman) to scam her waiting fiancè Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), Howard Hawks directing the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur dialogue sprint, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

Twentieth Century -- (Movie Clip) Go on Hit Me! Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) plays the martyr, not fooling his protege Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), leading to a chilling moment in Howard Hawks' comedy Twentieth Century, 1934.

Saturday's Children (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Garden Of Eden Apartments Though the Maxwell Anderson play isn’t set in New York, the Warner Bros. version begins there, Claude Rains and Elizabeth Risdon as the parents, Anne Shirley as daughter Bobby, and Roscoe Karns the live-in brother-in-law, Vincent Sherman directing, in Saturday’s Children, 1940, starring John Garfield.

Woman Of The Year (1942) -- (Movie Clip) No Women In The Press Box Famous scene, executing their enforced truce, sports writer Sam (Spencer Tracy) brings baseball-illiterate columnist Tess (Katharine Hepburn) to Yankee Stadium, his pals (Roscoe Karns, William Tannen) sniping, in George Stevens' Woman Of The Year, 1942.

Woman Of The Year (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Here's Your Hat Sportswriter Sam (Spencer Tracy), having gallantly left the apartment of columnist Tess (Katharine Hepburn), despite her vulnerable state and his growing attraction, at work the next morning receives the hat he forgot, and attitudes from colleagues, in George Stevens’ Woman Of The Year, 1942.

Front Page Woman (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Time For The Slow Music Early scenes established the upcoming execution of a society diva murderess, and George Brent as top reporter Devlin, at the prison we meet the press corps and Bette Davis, as junior journo Ellen Garfield, scheduled to witness the event, Michael Curtiz directing, in Front Page Woman, 1935.

Front Page Woman (1935) -- (Movie Clip) She Makes Me Feel Effeminate After getting them both in trouble for filing the same story for both of their newspapers when she passed out at an execution, Devlin (George Brent) and sidekick Toots (Roscoe Karns) join discouraged Ellen (Bette Davis), commenting on Nell (Grace Hayle) before events overtake, in Front Page Woman, 1935.

One Sunday Afternoon (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Leave Your Husbands Alone Nifty opening shot from director Stephen Roberts, in the first movie version of the play that became The Strawberry Blonde (1941) and a 1948 musical re-make, Gary Cooper is small-town dentist Biff, Roscoe Karnes his pal “Snappy Downer,” in Paramount’s One Sunday Afternoon, 1933.

Wings (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Youse Powder Puff Guys With decent schtick from the drill sergeant (Gunboat Smith) and "Unconscious" Walter (Roscoe Karns), Jack (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) bonds with wealthier David (Richard Arlen) over boxing, setting aside their romantic rivalry as they train to become WWI aviators, in William A. Wellman's Wings, 1927.

They Drive By Night -- (Movie Clip) Stewed Pinballs With Irish (Roscoe Karns) in tow, trucker Joe (George Raft) joins ex-partner now-dependent one-armed brother Paul and wife (Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page) and girlfriend Cassie (Ann Sheridan) for dinner in They Drive By Night, 1940.

Woman of the Year - (Original Trailer) Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter in Woman of the Year (1942), the first film to team Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn, directed by George Cukor.

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