Gus Schilling
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August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Known for
Credits
Citizen Kane (1941)
as John
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Attendant (uncredited)
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Wedding Belle (1947)
as Gus Schilling
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
as Goldfish
Macbeth (1948)
as A Porter
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
Pardon My Lamb Chop (1948)
as Gus
Run for Cover (1955)
as Doc Ridgeway
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
as Fernando
Executive Suite (1954)
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
One Big Affair (1952)
as Mr. Rush
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Gus
Hot Water (1946)
as Gus
Bigger Than Life (1956)
as Druggist (uncredited)
Larceny with Music (1943)
as Austin J. Caldwell
Pardon My Terror (1946)
as Gus
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Jafar
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
as Lucky
Training for Trouble (1947)
as Gus Schilling
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
as Orchestra Conductor
Bride for Sale (1949)
as Timothy
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Scotty - Stage Manager
Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)
as Gus Schilling
High Blood Pleasure (1945)
as Gus
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Actor
Two Nuts in a Rut (1948)
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
as Orderly Cleaning Window
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Raven
It's a Pleasure (1945)
as Bill Evans
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
as Ed Gruman
Our Very Own (1950)
as Frank
Broadway (1942)
as Joe
Pop Always Pays (1940)
as City Dump Watchman
See My Lawyer (1945)
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
Flung by a Fling (1949)
as Capt. Gus Schilling
The Return of October (1948)
as Benny
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Rosey Blake
He's in Again (1949)
as Gus
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Eddie Gaskin
Glory (1956)
as Joe Page
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
as Leo Cobb
Stork Bites Man (1947)
as Hubert Butterfield
Gasoline Alley (1951)
as Joe Allen
Ice-Capades (1941)
as Dave
Angel on the Amazon (1948)
as Dean Hartley
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
as Hotel Desk Clark
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
as Bughouse Sweeney
Dangerous Business (1946)
as Alexander Pough
River Gang (1945)
as Dopey Charlie
The Penalty (1941)
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Honeychile (1951)
as Window Washer
Lucky Devils (1941)
as Aloysius Grimshaw
Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)
as Studio Guide
Chatterbox (1943)
as Gillie
Sing a Jingle (1944)
as Bucky