Joseph Cawthorn
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
Known for
Credits
Housewife (1934)
as Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
as Dr. Armand de Fontinac
Kiki (1931)
as Alfred Rapp
Blondie Johnson (1933)
as Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
Peach-o-Reno (1931)
as Joe Bruno
Scatterbrain (1940)
as Nicholas Raptis
White Zombie (1932)
as Dr. Bruner
The Runaround (1931)
as Lou
Naughty Marietta (1935)
as Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
as Dr. Ziegfeld
Men Are Such Fools (1932)
as Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
Music in the Air (1934)
as Hans Uppman
Street Girl (1929)
as Keppel - Cafe Owner
The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
as Gremio
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
as Monique's Father
Bright Lights (1935)
as Oscar Schlemmer
Very Confidential (1927)
as Donald Allen
Lillian Russell (1940)
as Leopold Damrosch
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
as Herbert Brokman
Grand Slam (1933)
as Alex Alexandrovitch
Two Girls Wanted (1927)
as Philip Hancock
Harmony Lane (1935)
as Professor Henry Kleber
Smart Girl (1935)
as Karl Krausemeyer
The Secret Studio (1927)
as Pa Merton
The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
as Silas Harwood
They Call It Sin (1932)
as Mr. Hollister
Young and Beautiful (1934)
as Herman Cline
Freshman Love (1936)
as Wilson, Sr.
Page Miss Glory (1935)
as Mr. Freischutz
The Human Side (1934)
as Fritz Speigal
Dixiana (1930)
as Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father
Crime Over London (1936)
as Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
Speakeasy (1929)
as Yokel
The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
as Merkl
Maybe It's Love (1935)
as Adolph Sr.
Brides Are Like That (1936)
as Fred Schultz
Hot Money (1936)
as Max Dourfuss
The Last Gentleman (1934)
as Dr. Wilson
So Ends Our Night (1941)
as Leopold Potzloch
A Tailor-Made Man (1931)
as Huber
Best of Enemies (1933)
as Gus Schneider
Made on Broadway (1933)
as Maxie Schultz
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
as August Schultz
Sweet Adeline (1934)
as Oscar Schmidt
Lazy River (1934)
as Mr. Julius Ambrose
Whistling in the Dark (1933)
as Barfuss
Jazz Heaven (1929)
as Herman Kemple
Sweet Music (1935)
as Sidney Selzer
Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
as Professor George Bradbury
Dance Hall (1929)
as Bremmer
Broken Dreams (1933)
as Pop
Beautiful Dreamer (1935)
Actor
Silk Legs (1927)
as Ezra Fulton