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| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Elmer and Elsie | Rocky Cott | 1934-08-04 | A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife…. |
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Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn’t really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O’Malley in Howard Hawks’ Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series.
From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale.
His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man’s Favorite Sport?, in 1964.
Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
| Name | Roscoe Karns |
| Also Know | Roscoe Karnes |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | San Bernardino, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1891-09-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 1970-02-06 |
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Murder Goes to College | Sim Perkins | 1937-02-24 | Whodunit in a college setting…. |
| Copy | City Editor John Mack | 1929-10-11 | On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line…. |
| The Gay Vagabond | Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon | 1941-05-12 | Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business…. |
| Clarence | Clarence Smith | 1937-02-12 | The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Cl… |
| Black Eyes and Blues | Alfred Harmon | 1941-04-18 | Roscoe’s wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno…. |
| Half Shot at Sunrise | Henry Warren | 1941-09-04 | After his wife walks out on him, obnoxious Roscoe takes his son to the movies and creates havoc in the theater…. |
| Meet the Missus | Joe Higgins | 1940-11-29 | Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow…. |
| Avalanche | Red Kelly | 1946-06-30 | Two T-men track a tax evader and his money to an Idaho ski resort, where a raven tends bar…. |
| My Son, The Hero | Big-Time Morgan | 1943-04-05 | Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a weal… |
| Two-Fisted | Chick Moran | 1935-10-03 | A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is… |
| Night of Mystery | Sergeant Heath | 1937-05-21 | One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance… |
| Partners in Crime | 1937-10-08 | Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor…. | |
| Devil’s Cargo | Lt. Hardy | 1948-04-01 | John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series…. |
| Wings in the Dark | Nick Williams | 1935-02-01 | In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely “fly blind” during adverse conditions. aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally … |
| Front Page Woman | Toots O’Grady | 1935-07-11 | Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are “bum newspapermen”. When a murder investigat… |
| A Tragedy at Midnight | Cassidy | 1942-02-02 | The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom…. |
| Three Married Men | Peter Cary | 1936-09-24 | Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have … |
| Troopers Three | Bugs | 1930-02-24 | Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as ‘Bugs & Sunny’, and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville the… |
| Tip-Off Girls | Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan | 1938-04-01 | A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers…. |
| Come On, Marines! | Spud McGurke | 1934-01-01 | “Lucky” Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle wher… |
| That’s My Man | Toby Gleeton | 1947-06-01 | A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight… |
| Red Hot Tires | Bud Keene | 1935-02-02 | An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion…. |
| The Life of the Party | Sam Perkins | 1920-11-21 | An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman…. |
| Everything’s on Ice | Felix Miller | 1939-10-05 | Comedy about a little girl who’s uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money…. |
| I Ring Doorbells | Stubby | 1946-02-28 | Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown … |
| Woman Trap | Mopsy | 1936-03-06 | A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the m… |
| Costello Case | Blair | 1930-10-14 | An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter…. |
| Scandal Street | Austin Brown | 1938-02-11 | Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the sma… |
| Moran of the Marines | Swatty | 1928-10-13 | Adventures of a marine in China…. |
| On Such a Night | Joe Flynn | 1937-08-27 | When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence…. |
| It Happened One Night | Oscar Shapeley | 1934-02-22 | A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at … |
| Twentieth Century | Owen O’Malley | 1934-05-11 | A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him…. |
| The Navy Way | Frankie Gimble | 1944-02-26 | The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp…. |
| You Can’t Escape Forever | ‘Mac’ McTurk | 1942-10-10 | A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin…. |
| Double Alibi | Jeremiah Jenkins | 1940-03-01 | A man’s ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect…. |
| Alibi Ike | Carey | 1935-06-15 | Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis “Ike” Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting…. |
| Saturday’s Children | Willie Sands | 1940-05-04 | An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet…. |
| One Sunday Afternoon | Snappy Downer | 1933-09-01 | Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed hi… |
| Cain and Mabel | Reilly | 1936-09-26 | A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt…. |
| Speed to Spare | Kangaroo | 1948-05-14 | Stunt driver Cliff Jordan takes a job with his old pal Jerry McGee, branch manager of an express trucking firm. Jerry is married to Mary, Cliff’s form… |
| Ladies Must Live | Pete Larrabee | 1940-07-27 | A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she’s only interested in his money…. |
| I Sell Anything | Monk | 1934-10-19 | Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?… |
| The Shopworn Angel | Dance Director | 1928-12-29 | Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends… |
| Vigilantes of Boomtown | Bill Delaney | 1947-02-15 | The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for “Gentleman Jim” Corbett (Geor… |
| Under-Cover Man | Dannie | 1932-12-02 | When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring … |
| Minstrel Man | Lasses White | 1944-01-02 | Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is … |
| Jazz Mad | Sol Levy | 1928-11-18 | A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope… |
| Border Flight | Calico Smith | 1936-05-29 | Frances Farmer’s second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936–up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Wither… |
| This Thing Called Love | Harry Bertrand | 1929-12-13 | A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister’s household, and has no illusions about marrie… |
| Win That Girl | Johnny Norton II | 1928-09-16 | A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated… |
| Man Trouble | Scott | 1930-08-24 | A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel … |
| You and Me | Cuffy | 1938-06-01 | Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am… |
| A Lady’s Profession | Tony | 1933-03-03 | A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse…. |
| Today We Live | McGinnis | 1933-03-03 | Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they “didn’t wait.”… |
| Safety in Numbers | Bertram Shapiro | 1930-05-30 | Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the “underside” of big-city life…. |
| Shoot the Works | Sailor Burke | 1934-07-18 | Jack Oakie stars as seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn’t even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lil… |
| The Women in His Life | Aloysius Lester | 1933-12-08 | An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him…. |
| Hi, Good Lookin’! | Archie | 1944-03-22 | An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer…. |
| Dirigible | Sock McGuire | 1931-04-04 | Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot ‘Frisky’ Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the … |
| Yokel Boy | Al Devers | 1942-03-13 | A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well…. |
| Road to Happiness | Charley Grady | 1941-12-19 | A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child’s super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy…. |
| Gambling Ship | Blooey | 1933-06-23 | Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin ‘retires’ from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new n… |
| Stowaway | Insp. Redding | 1932-03-01 | On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and bei… |
| Beau Sabreur | Buddy | 1928-01-22 | The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arab… |
| The Desert Bride | Pvt. Terry | 1928-03-26 | Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane… |
| The Trouper | 1922-07-23 | Working as a wardrobe girl in a cheap traveling stock company, Mamie Judd secretly loves Jenks, the leading man, who scarcely notices the young girl. … | |
| Week-End Marriage | Jim Davis | 1932-06-18 | In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner…. |
| Man’s Favorite Sport? | Major Phipps | 1964-01-31 | Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr… |
| Night After Night | Leo | 1932-10-30 | A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl…. |
| New York Nights | Johnny Dolan | 1929-12-28 | Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being … |
| That’s Right – You’re Wrong | Mal Stamp | 1939-11-24 | J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program … |
| Pleasure | Arnie | 1931-09-01 | A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman…. |
| The Vanishing Pioneer | Ray Hearn | 1928-06-23 | The Vanishing Pioneers is a 1928 silent western film directed by John Waters and starring Jack Holt. Holt’s son, Tim makes his screen debut in this fi… |
| Left Over Ladies | ‘Scoop’ | 1931-09-30 | Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn’t car… |
| Little Accident | Gilbert | 1930-08-03 | On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby…. |
| Warming Up | Hippo | 1928-08-04 | Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the e… |
| Many a Slip | Stan Price | 1931-03-02 | Comedy centering on the question of whether a man’s wife is or isn’t pregnant…. |
| Ten Modern Commandments | Benny Burnaway | 1927-07-27 | A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer…. |
| They Drive by Night | Irish McGurn | 1940-07-26 | Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri… |
| Laughing Sinners | Fred Geer | 1931-05-30 | Ivy Stevens (Joan Crawford) is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman (Neil Hamilton) who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she… |
| Four Hours to Kill! | Johnson | 1935-04-11 | A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a… |
| Two Against The World | Segall, reporter | 1932-09-03 | A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend…. |
| The Crooked Circle | Harry Carter | 1932-09-25 | A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists…. |
| The Gorilla | Simmons | 1930-11-02 | A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)… |
| Old Acquaintance | Charlie Archer | 1943-11-27 | Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives…. |
| Dancing Co-Ed | Joe Drews | 1939-09-29 | After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can’t perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dan… |
| Grand Slam | Contest Radio Announcer | 1933-02-22 | A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a “system” for winning at contract bridge…. |
| Her Own Money | Jerry Woodward | 1922-01-01 | After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhere in the real estate business. Mildred, however, … |
| Dangerous to Know | Duncan | 1938-03-11 | Racketeer Steve Recka (Akim Tamiroff), art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying (Anna May Wong), his beautiful Orienta… |
| Thanks for the Memory | George Kent | 1938-11-11 | Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publish… |
| Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | Officer Carmody | 1948-07-16 | Eddie Tayloe’s grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and … |
| You’d Be Surprised | Party Guest | 1926-09-24 | A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table a… |
| Beggars of Life | Lame Hoppy | 1928-09-22 | After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, qu… |
| King of Chinatown | Rep Harrigan | 1939-03-17 | A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city’s Chinatown…. |
| Woman of the Year | Phil Whittaker | 1942-02-05 | Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle…. |
| Footsteps in the Dark | Monahan | 1941-03-08 | A high-society gent has a secret life – he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of… |
| The Inside Story | Eustace Peabody | 1948-03-14 | A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hote… |
| Riding High | Shorty | 1943-11-11 | No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and… |
| One Way to Love | Hobie Simmons | 1946-01-08 | A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be’s father, and the other must write commercial jingles…. |
| The Flying Fleet | Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited) | 1929-01-19 | Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sic… |
| The Roadhouse Murder | Dale | 1932-04-28 | After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Lin… |
| Wings | Lieutenant Cameron | 1927-08-12 | Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces du… |
| Onionhead | ‘Windy’ Woods | 1958-10-25 | Follow-up to Andy Griffith’s big hit in “No Time for Sergeants” moves the action to the Coast Guard and WW II…. |
| The Midnight Express | Switch Hogan | 1924-06-01 | Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack’s father becomes frustrated with his son’s wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard… |
| His Girl Friday | McCue | 1940-01-18 | Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried t… |
| If I Had a Million | Private O’Brien | 1932-12-02 | An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory…. |
| His Butler’s Sister | Fields | 1943-11-26 | Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway…. |
| Lawyer Man | Merritt – Reporter (uncredited) | 1932-12-24 | Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam’s sudden renown att… |
| The Jazz Singer | Agent (uncredited) | 1927-10-06 | A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first… |
| Play Girl | Gambler (uncredited) | 1932-03-12 | A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler…. |
| They Call It Sin | Brad – Rehearsal Director (uncredited) | 1932-11-05 | An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a cr… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Tweedledee | 1933-12-18 | In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters…. |
| One Way Passage | S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited) | 1932-10-04 | A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other’s se… |
| The Trail of ’98 | Man on Ship (uncredited) | 1928-03-20 | Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey…. |
| Ladies of the Big House | Frank – Twenty Questions player (uncredited) | 1931-12-26 | A woman (Sylvia Sidney) tries to save her husband (Gene Raymond) from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn’t commit… |
| The Ten Commandments | The Boy in the Rain (uncredited) | 1923-11-23 | The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden cal… |
| Stage Door Canteen | Roscoe Karns | 1943-06-24 | A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati… |
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