Arthur “Dooley” Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, Casablanca; in the film, he also performed its theme song, “As Time Goes By”.
Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films.
Dooley Wilson Biography / Wiki
Name | Dooley Wilson |
Also Know | Arthur Wilson |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Tyler, Texas, USA |
Date of Birth | April 03, 1894 |
Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 59 |
Deathday | 1953-05-30 |
Dooley Wilson Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Racing Luck | Abe | 1948-11-18 | Brother and sister “Boots” Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when i… |
Seven Days Ashore | Jason | 1944-04-25 | Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends…. |
Night in New Orleans | Shadrach Jones | 1942-07-01 | A policeman’s family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation…. |
Free For All | Aristotle | 1949-11-01 | The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor…. |
Two Tickets to London | Accordionist | 1943-06-14 | Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors…. |
Come to the Stable | Anthony James | 1949-01-01 | Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children’s hospita… |
Keep Punching | Baron Skinner (as Arthur ‘Dooley’ Wilson) | 1939-01-02 | Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion, who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, desp… |
Cairo | Hector | 1942-08-17 | Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes…. |
Stormy Weather | Gabe Tucker | 1943-07-21 | Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer … |
Passage West | Rainbow | 1951-10-01 | In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed … |
Casablanca | Sam | 1942-11-26 | In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications…. |
Take a Letter, Darling | Moses | 1942-05-06 | A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end… |
Higher and Higher | Oscar | 1943-12-31 | A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss’s fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante…. |
My Favorite Blonde | Porter | 1942-04-02 | Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded… |
No Man of Her Own | Waiter on Train (uncredited) | 1950-02-21 | A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash…. |
Tell It to the Judge | Pullman Porter (uncredited) | 1949-11-18 | Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a ‘Good-Government’ group that thinks her … |
Father Is a Bachelor | Blue (uncredited) | 1950-02-22 | Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living wit… |
Knock on Any Door | Piano Player (uncredited) | 1949-01-01 | An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court…. |
Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 | Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a… |
Credit: TMDB
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