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
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Citizen Kane (1941)
as John
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Attendant (uncredited)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
as Goldfish
Macbeth (1948)
as A Porter
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
Run for Cover (1955)
as Doc Ridgeway
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
as Fernando
Angel on the Amazon (1948)
as Dean Hartley
Executive Suite (1954)
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Jafar
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
as Ed Gruman
Bigger Than Life (1956)
as Druggist (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
as Orchestra Conductor
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
as Lucky
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Raven
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
as Leo Cobb
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
as Orderly Cleaning Window
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Actor
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
as Hotel Desk Clark
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Gus
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
The Return of October (1948)
as Benny
It's a Pleasure (1945)
as Bill Evans
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Scotty - Stage Manager
Broadway (1942)
as Joe
The Penalty (1941)
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)
as Gus Schilling
Larceny with Music (1943)
as Austin J. Caldwell
Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)
as Studio Guide
Pardon My Lamb Chop (1948)
as Gus
Wedding Belle (1947)
as Gus Schilling
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Eddie Gaskin
Bride for Sale (1949)
as Timothy
He's in Again (1949)
as Gus
Our Very Own (1950)
as Frank
Ice-Capades (1941)
as Dave
Glory (1956)
as Joe Page
One Big Affair (1952)
as Mr. Rush
Two Nuts in a Rut (1948)
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
Pop Always Pays (1940)
as City Dump Watchman
Flung by a Fling (1949)
as Capt. Gus Schilling
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
as Bughouse Sweeney
Honeychile (1951)
as Window Washer
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Rosey Blake
See My Lawyer (1945)
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
Pardon My Terror (1946)
as Gus
Gasoline Alley (1951)
as Joe Allen
Hot Water (1946)
as Gus
Stork Bites Man (1947)
as Hubert Butterfield
Chatterbox (1943)
as Gillie
Sing a Jingle (1944)
as Bucky
River Gang (1945)
as Dopey Charlie
Lucky Devils (1941)
as Aloysius Grimshaw
Dangerous Business (1946)
as Alexander Pough
Training for Trouble (1947)
as Gus Schilling
High Blood Pleasure (1945)
as Gus