J. Carrol Naish
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi (1948–1953), which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings. Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. In Paris after World War I, Naish formed his own song and dance act. He was traveling the globe from Europe to Egypt to Asia, when his China-bound ship developed engine problems, leaving him in California in 1926. His uncredited bit role in What Price Glory (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role in the 1943 film Sahara, then for his performance in the 1945 film A Medal for Benny, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture. He notably played Boris Karloff's hunchback assistant in The House of Frankenstein in 1944. He was of Irish descent, but never used his dialect skills to play Irishmen, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me." Instead, he portrayed myriad other ethnic groups on screen: Latino, Native American, East Asian, Polynesian, Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, Eastern European, and Mediterranean. Besides his film roles, he often appeared on television later in his career. He spent many of his later years in San Diego studying philosophy and theology. Naish was married (1929–1973) to actress Gladys Heaney (1907–1987). They had one daughter. For his contributions to television and film, J. Carrol Naish has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.
Known for
Credits
Thunder Trail (1937)
as Rafael Lopez
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Infernal Machine (1933)
as Bryan
British Agent (1934)
as Commissioner of War Trotsky
Special Agent (1935)
as Joe Durell
Rio Grande (1950)
as Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Central Airport (1933)
as Drunk in Wreck (uncredited)
Sahara (1943)
as Giuseppe
Batman (1943)
as Tito Daka
Captain Blood (1935)
as Cahusac
Joan of Arc (1948)
as John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor
Saskatchewan (1954)
as Batouche
Clash by Night (1952)
as Uncle Vince
Front Page Woman (1935)
as Robert Cardoza
Canadian Pacific (1949)
as Dynamite Dawson
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
as Gil Harkness
Undercover Doctor (1939)
as Dr. Bartley Morgan
Force of Impulse (1961)
as Antonio Marino
Hit the Deck (1955)
as Mr. Peroni
Doom of Dracula (1966)
as The Hunchback (archive footage)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
as Daniel
Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)
as Adram
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
as Socrates Houlis
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
as Dr. Duryea alias Frankenstein
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
as Nicky Duvalle
Rage at Dawn (1955)
as Simeon 'Sim' Reno
This Could Be the Night (1957)
as Leon
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Costello
No Living Witness (1932)
as Nick
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
as Looking Glass
The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
as Tony Scapelli
Girl in Danger (1934)
as Russo
Crack-Up (1936)
as Operative #77
It May Happen to You (1937)
as Moxie
The Mad Game (1933)
as Chopper Allen
The Last Command (1955)
as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Blood and Sand (1941)
as Garabato
Crooner (1932)
as Nick Meyer
The Whistler (1944)
as The Killer
New York Confidential (1955)
as Ben Dagajanian
Frisco Jenny (1933)
as Ed Harris (uncredited)
Violent Saturday (1955)
as Chapman, Bank Robber
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
as Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
The Southerner (1945)
as Devers
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
as Grand Vizier
Desert Sands (1955)
as Sgt. Diepel
One Is Guilty (1934)
as Jack Allen
Sitting Bull (1954)
as Sitting Bull
Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
as Charles, the Butler
The Kissing Bandit (1948)
as Chico
Bannerline (1951)
as Frankie Scarbine
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
as Reo Seki
The Beast of the City (1932)
as Pietro Cholo
Two Seconds (1932)
as Tony
The Fugitive (1947)
as A Police Informer
Down Argentine Way (1940)
as Casiano
Dragon Seed (1944)
as Japanese Kitchen Overseer
The Mark of the Renegade (1951)
as Luis
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
as Lorenzo
Dracula in the Movies (1992)
as (archive footage)
Tip-Off Girls (1938)
as Joseph Valkus
Beau Geste (1939)
as Rasinoff
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
as Chief Sitting Bull
The Devil's in Love (1933)
as Salazar
It's Your America (1946)
as French Soldier (uncredited)
Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
as Three Fingered Jack
Gung Ho! (1943)
as Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Daniel (archive footage)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
as Papa Rico Molina
The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
as Daniel (archive footage)
Know For Sure (1941)
as Tony Madroni
Please Believe Me (1950)
as 'Lucky' Reilly
Hell in the Heavens (1934)
as Sgt. Chevalier
Tonight or Never (1931)
as Radio Announcer
Humoresque (1947)
as Rudy Boray
Big City Blues (1932)
as Bootlegger (uncredited)
That Midnight Kiss (1949)
as Papa Donnetti
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
as Frank Barden
Black Hand (1950)
as Louis Lorelli
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Bert
The Hanged Man (1964)
as Uncle Picaud
Tiger Shark (1932)
as Tony
A Medal for Benny (1945)
as Charley Martin
Ramona (1936)
as Juan Can
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Golden Gloves (1940)
as Joe Taggerty
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Anti-War Demonstrator (uncredited)
The Hatchet Man (1932)
as Sun Yat Ming
Jungle Woman (1944)
as Dr. Carl Fletcher
Rebel in Town (1956)
as Bedloe Mason
Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
as Richard Lane
Black Fury (1935)
as Steve Croner
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
as Inspector Gregg
King of Chinatown (1939)
as The Professor
The Pied Piper (1942)
as Aristide Rougeron
Birth of the Blues (1941)
as Blackie
The Hell Cat (1934)
as Joe Morgan
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
as Gary Kent
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
as Witness Against Doremus (uncredited)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
as Police Commissario Ovidio Castanio
The Conquerors (1932)
as Agitator
Queen of the Mob (1940)
as George Frost
What Price Glory (1926)
as French Soldier (uncredited)
Confidential (1935)
as 'Lefty' Tate
Gun Smoke (1931)
as Mink Gordon (uncredited)
Two in the Dark (1936)
as Burt Mansfield
Batmania: From Comics to Screen (1989)
as Dr. Daka (archive footage)
Elmer, the Great (1933)
as Jerry (as J. Carroll Naish)
Return of the Terror (1934)
as Steve Scola
Star in the Night (1945)
as Nick Catapoli
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
as Tom Holt
Special Investigator (1936)
as Eddie Selton
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
as Gangster Robbing Pierre's (uncredited)
What's Your Racket (1934)
as Dick Graves
The Defense Rests (1934)
as Monte Ballou
The Monster Maker (1944)
as Dr. Igor Markoff
Arizona to Broadway (1933)
as Tommy Monk
Anthony Adverse (1936)
as Major Doumet
The Man in the Trunk (1942)
as Reginald DeWinters
Cutter's Trail (1970)
as Froteras
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
as Richard Lane (Archive Footage)
Exclusive Story (1936)
as Comos
Hotel Imperial (1939)
as Kuprin
Forced Landing (1941)
as Andros Banshek
Absolute Quiet (1936)
as Pedro
Captured! (1933)
as Cpl. Guarand
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
as Nick Trotti
Illegal Traffic (1938)
as Lewis Zomar
Behind the Green Lights (1935)
as Sam Dover
Typhoon (1940)
as Mekaike
That Night in Rio (1941)
as Machado
Homicide Squad (1931)
as Hugo
Moonlight Murder (1936)
as André Bejac
Prison Farm (1938)
as Noel Haskins
Persons in Hiding (1939)
as Freddie 'Gunner' Martin
A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
as Gigi
Ann Vickers (1933)
as Dr. Sorelle
The Kid from Spain (1932)
as Pedro
King of Alcatraz (1938)
as Steve Murkil
Her Jungle Love (1938)
as Kuasa
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
as Claude Wright
Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
as Ganimard
The Young Don't Cry (1957)
as Plug
Island of Lost Men (1939)
as Gregory Prin
Mr. Dynamite (1941)
as 'The Professor'
Dr. Broadway (1942)
as Jack Venner
Voice in the Wind (1944)
as Luigi
Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
as Noel
The World Gone Mad (1933)
as Ramon Salvadore
Upperworld (1934)
as Lou Colima
Bad Bascomb (1946)
as Bart Yancy
Jackass Mail (1942)
as Signor Michel O'Sullivan
Yaqui Drums (1956)
as Yacqi Jack
The Last Trail (1933)
as John Ross
The Royal Bed (1931)
as Laker
Sleepers East (1934)
as Carl Izzard
Sunday Punch (1942)
as Matt Bassler
Waterfront (1944)
as Dr. Karl Decker
Ride the Man Down (1952)
as Sheriff Joe Kneen
The Finger Points (1931)
as "The Finger is on You" Phone Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Scotland Yard (1930)
as Dr. Remur
Hunted Men (1938)
as Henry Rice
Good Intentions (1930)
as Charlie Hattrick
Man on a Bus (1955)
as Mr Stein
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
as Mikhail Valdin
Marie Galante (1934)
as French Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
We're in the Movies, Now! (1939)
as Himself
Night Club Scandal (1937)
as Jack Reed - Gangster
Woman of the North Country (1952)
as John Mulholland
Good Morning, Judge (1943)
as Andre Bouchard
The Mouthpiece (1932)
as Tony Rocco
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
as Irenov
Fighter Attack (1953)
as Bruno
Strange Confession (1945)
as Roger Graham
Song of the City (1937)
as Mario
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as Joe Charney
Border Cafe (1937)
as Rocky Alton
Hideaway (1937)
as Mike Clarke
The Avenger (1933)
as Hanley
Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Dyke's Lookout
A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
as Steve Kalkus
Accent on Love (1941)
as Manuel Lombroso
Murder in Trinidad (1934)
as Duval
The Grand Bounce (1937)
as Hoodlum (uncredited)
Havana Widows (1933)
as First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
The Whirlwind (1933)
as Injun
No Other Woman (1933)
as Bonelli
Sea Racketeers (1937)
as Harry Durant
Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
as Tito
Two-Man Submarine (1944)
as Dr. Augustus Hadley
Silent Men (1933)
as Jack Wilder
The Mystery Squadron (1933)
as Collins
Surrender (1931)
as French Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Harrigan's Kid (1943)
as Jed Jerrett