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Fred Kelsey

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Known For: Acting

Born: Sandusky, Ohio, USA, 1884-08-20

Died: 1961-09-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1911	A Left Hook		0
2	1914	Silent Sandy	Silent Sandy	0
3	1914	Arms and the Gringo		0
4	1917	The Honor of an Outlaw	The Deputy	0
5	1918	The Empty Cab	The Detective	0
6	1918	A Society Sensation	JIm Cox	57
7	1918	The Yellow Dog	Max Kummich	0
8	1919	The Light of Victory	Captain Eric von Prohme	0
9	1919	The Silk Lined Burglar	Capt. von Hoffmeier	0
10	1919	The Fire Flingers	Sgt. Powers	0
11	1920	Alias Jimmy Valentine	Bit Part (uncredited)	0
12	1921	Puppets of Fate	Bobs	0
13	1921	The Last Card	Detective (uncredited)	0
14	1921	There Are No Villains	Dugall	0
15	1922	The Song of Life	Police Inspector	50
16	1922	One Clear Call	Starnes	0
17	1922	South of Suva	Karl Swartz	0
18	1922	Don't Shoot	Police Officer	0
19	1922	Manslaughter	Member of the Jury (uncredited)	54
20	1922	Deserted at the Altar	The Other Man	0
21	1922	Captain Fly-by-Night	Gomez	45
22	1923	Lovebound	Detective Hahn	0
23	1923	Souls for Sale	Detective Quinn (uncredited)	62
24	1923	The Eleventh Hour	The Submarine Commander	0
25	1923	Bag and Baggage	Fred	0
26	1923	Lights Out	Decker	0
27	1924	The Night Hawk		0
28	1924	The Yankee Consul	Agent John J. Doyle	0
29	1925	Excuse Me	George Ketchem	0
30	1925	Friendly Enemies		0
31	1925	Paths to Paradise	Confederate	58
32	1925	The Lawful Cheater	Tom Horan	0
33	1925	Little Annie Rooney	Desk Sergeant (uncredited)	69
34	1925	Seven Keys to Baldpate		0
35	1925	Seven Sinners	Policeman	60
36	1925	The Uneasy Three		0
37	1926	Dog Shy	Cop	66
38	1926	That's My Baby	Murphy	0
39	1926	The Mystery Pilot	Skipper Larsen	0
40	1926	Say It with Babies	Policeman	50
41	1926	Crazy Like a Fox	Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)	62
42	1926	Bromo and Juliet	The Detective (uncredited)	56
43	1926	Atta Boy	Detective	0
44	1926	The Third Degree	Assistant Chief of Detectives	0
45	1926	There Ain't No Santa Claus	Store Detective (uncredited)	60
46	1927	Orchids and Ermine	Police Sergeant	45
47	1927	Jewish Prudence	Rent Collector	65
48	1927	Soft Cushions	The Police	0
49	1927	The Thirteenth Hour	Det. Shaw	70
50	1927	The Gorilla	Mulligan	0
51	1927	The 13th Juror	The Detective	0
52	1928	While the City Sleeps	Detective in Shadow Box	59
53	1928	Tenderloin	Detective Simpson	0
54	1928	Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath	Detective	0
55	1928	Harold Teen	Mr. Lovewell	70
56	1928	The Wright Idea	M. T. Flatt	0
57	1928	Plastered in Paris		0
58	1928	On Trial	Clerk	60
59	1928	A Woman of Affairs	Detective (uncredited)	67
60	1928	Naughty Baby	Dugan	45
61	1928	The Last Warning	Inspector	67
62	1929	The Faker	Police Detective	0
63	1929	Wrong Again		66
64	1929	The Donovan Affair	Carney	60
65	1929	Smiling Irish Eyes	County Fair Manager	0
66	1930	The Woman Racket	Police Captain	47
67	1930	Murder on the Roof	Ryan	0
68	1930	Wide Open	Detective	53
69	1930	The Girl Said No	Policeman	55
70	1930	Road to Paradise	Casey	62
71	1930	The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	Chief of Detectives (uncredited)	67
72	1930	Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1	Self - Tour Guide	0
73	1930	Scarlet Pages	Murphy	65
74	1930	Men Without Law	Deputy Sheriff Jeff	0
75	1930	She Got What She Wanted		0
76	1930	Only Saps Work	Murphy (uncredited)	55
77	1930	Going Wild	The Conductor	60
78	1931	The Naughty Flirt	Policeman (uncredited)	57
79	1931	Scandal Sheet	Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy	0
80	1931	Subway Express	Detective Kearney	0
81	1931	Young Donovan's Kid	Collins	0
82	1931	Side Show	Sheriff Hornsby	50
83	1932	Discarded Lovers	Delaney	43
84	1932	Shopping with Wifie	Det. Dugan	10
85	1932	Love in High Gear	Detective Duffy	0
86	1932	Huddle	Policeman (uncredited)	66
87	1932	Guilty as Hell	Detective Duffy	58
88	1932	The Iceman's Ball	Police Sergeant	10
89	1932	Speak Easily	Process Server	58
90	1932	Yoo-Hoo	Detective	0
91	1932	Red Haired Alibi	Corcoran	47
92	1932	If I Had a Million	Prison Jailer (uncredited)	67
93	1932	Boys Will Be Boys	Doorman	0
94	1933	The Crime of the Century	Police Guard (uncredited)	63
95	1933	King of the Jungle	Cop (uncredited)	50
96	1933	Sailor's Luck	Cop	50
97	1933	Quiet Please!	Train Conductor	20
98	1934	The Moth	Detective Blake	0
99	1934	Beloved	Mulvaney	0
100	1934	The Crime Doctor	Bloodgood	35
101	1934	School for Girls	Detective	60
102	1934	Strictly Fresh Yeggs	Policeman	0
103	1934	I'll Tell the World	Sergeant at Border	0
104	1934	Rough Necking	Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.	100
105	1934	Twentieth Century	Train Detective (uncredited)	68
106	1934	I'll Be Suing You	Insurance Adjustor	0
107	1934	Among the Missing	Police Sgt. Murphy	63
108	1934	Lightning Strikes Twice	Dugan	47
109	1935	Horses' Collars	Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)	60
110	1935	A Notorious Gentleman		60
111	1935	Carnival	Bit Part	0
112	1935	Death Flies East	Police Lieutenant O'Brien	50
113	1935	One Frightened Night	Sheriff Jenks	53
114	1935	Danger Ahead	Detective O'Brien	42
115	1935	Atlantic Adventure	Police Officer Riley	55
116	1935	Diamond Jim	Horsley's Secretary	60
117	1935	The Public Menace	Mike - Cop	50
118	1935	Hot Money	Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)	0
119	1935	The Sagebrush Troubadour	Hank Polk	55
120	1936	The Garden Murder Case	Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)	55
121	1936	The Little Red Schoolhouse	First Detective	55
122	1936	At Sea Ashore	Cop (uncredited)	0
123	1936	The Witness Chair	Detective Costigan	62
124	1936	Private Number	Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)	65
125	1936	High Tension	Desk Sergeant	54
126	1937	Time Out for Romance	Policeman	56
127	1937	Love Is News	Cop (uncredited)	60
128	1937	Angel's Holiday	Conductor	55
129	1937	Slave Ship	Seaman at Auction	48
130	1937	Big Business	Oil Man at Well	50
131	1937	She Had to Eat	Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)	50
132	1937	Super-Sleuth	Jailer	50
133	1937	Wild and Woolly	Policeman (uncredited)	0
134	1937	The Lady Escapes	Man on telephone (uncredited)	0
135	1937	One Mile from Heaven	Smitty - Policeman	67
136	1937	That I May Live	Abner Jenkins	65
137	1937	Borrowing Trouble	Policeman	60
138	1937	Love and Hisses	Officer	0
139	1938	Everybody's Doing It	Police Sergeant	50
140	1938	Night Spot	Police Band Leader	47
141	1938	Berth Quakes	Train Conductor	0
142	1938	Safety in Numbers	Cop	0
143	1938	Josette	Hotel Detective	65
144	1938	Many Sappy Returns	Finnegan	48
145	1938	Straight, Place and Show	Cop at Racetrack	60
146	1938	Down on the Farm	Bit Role	0
147	1939	Tiny Troubles	Judge	60
148	1939	Rough Riders' Round-up	Agitator	40
149	1939	Clock Wise	Landlord	0
150	1939	Moving Vanities	Police Officer (uncredited)	0
151	1939	Tell No Tales	Policeman at School (uncredited)	53
152	1939	Charlie Chan in Reno	Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)	62
153	1939	Chicken Wagon Family	Policeman	0
154	1939	Charlie Chan at Treasure Island	Detective - in Cab and at Theatre	66
155	1939	Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence	Pete - Railroad Detective	63
156	1939	Too Busy to Work	Hank Fidler	0
157	1940	The Man Who Wouldn't Talk	Bailiff	40
158	1940	The Lone Wolf Strikes	Dickens	63
159	1940	High School	Junk Man	55
160	1940	Mutiny in the County	Policeman	0
161	1940	The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady	Dickens	63
162	1940	Deadwood Dick	Bottles	60
163	1940	The Golden Fleecing	Cop (uncredited)	53
164	1940	The Green Archer	Capt. Thompson	59
165	1940	Mexican Spitfire Out West	Jim - Detective	46
166	1940	The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date	Dickens	59
167	1940	Misbehaving Husbands	Sgt. Murphy	50
168	1941	The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance	Detective Dickens	60
169	1941	Mr. District Attorney	Officer McCloskey	54
170	1941	Invisible Ghost	Detective Ryan	51
171	1941	One Foot in Heaven	Train Conductor (uncredited)	66
172	1941	Secrets of the Lone Wolf	Wesley Dickens	63
173	1941	At the Stroke of Twelve	Police Sergeant	50
174	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)	66
175	1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Detective (uncredited)	69
176	1941	Pacific Blackout	Cop	63
177	1942	Wild Bill Hickok Rides	Jailer	47
178	1942	Bullet Scars	Police Chief Hansen	62
179	1942	Lady Gangster	Policeman (uncredited)	55
180	1942	My Favorite Blonde	Sam - Policeman	64
181	1942	I Was Framed	Drunk	40
182	1942	Murder in the Big House	"Screw"	65
183	1942	Larceny, Inc.	Bronson	69
184	1942	In This Our Life	Jailer (uncredited)	68
185	1942	Spy Ship	Night Watchman	60
186	1942	The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady	Policeman (uncredited)	0
187	1942	Counter-Espionage	Dickens	62
188	1942	Dear! Deer!	Policeman	0
189	1942	X Marks the Spot	Police Officer Martin	39
190	1942	Gentleman Jim	Sutro (uncredited)	72
191	1943	One Dangerous Night	Detective Dickens	50
192	1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Joe (uncredited)	71
193	1943	Here Comes Mr. Zerk	Policeman	0
194	1943	Murder on the Waterfront	Capt. Beal	50
195	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)	61
196	1943	Northern Pursuit	Train Conductor (uncredited)	59
197	1943	Food and Magic		50
198	1943	Old Acquaintance	Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)	69
199	1943	True to Life	Cop (uncredited)	60
200	1943	A Gem of a Jam	Police Chief	73
201	1944	Roaring Guns		0
202	1944	Mr. Skeffington	Cop in Raid (uncredited)	66
203	1944	Trial by Trigger	Jerry (uncredited)	20
204	1944	Make Your Own Bed	Turnkey	58
205	1944	Crime by Night	Dad Martin (uncredited)	58
206	1945	The Strange Mr. Gregory	Lefert	51
207	1945	Snooper Service		0
208	1945	Christmas in Connecticut	Harper (uncredited)	69
209	1945	If a Body Meets a Body	Detective	53
210	1945	Come Out Fighting	Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)	70
211	1945	Mildred Pierce	Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)	76
212	1945	Saratoga Trunk	Train Conductor (uncredited)	57
213	1945	Frontier Days	Mayor Stone (uncredited)	40
214	1945	How DOooo You Do	Detective	0
215	1946	Detour to Danger	Det. Kelsey	0
216	1946	Three Strangers	Man on the Street / Man in Pub	64
217	1946	Hiss and Yell	Policeman (uncredited)	30
218	1946	A Stolen Life	Bartender (uncredited)	64
219	1946	Night and Day	First-Nighter (uncredited)	57
220	1946	So You Want to Play the Horses	Detective (uncredited)	60
221	1946	Never Say Goodbye	Policeman (uncredited)	63
222	1946	Andy Plays Hookey	Policeman	0
223	1946	The Man I Love	Mac the Doorman (uncredited)	62
224	1946	So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck	Fred	60
225	1947	Nora Prentiss	Turnkey (uncredited)	61
226	1947	The Unfaithful	Courtroom Spectator	60
227	1948	So You Want an Apartment	Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)	50
228	1948	The Noose Hangs High	Cop (uncredited)	68
229	1949	Homicide	Officer O'Brien	53
230	1949	Flamingo Road	Train Conductor (uncredited)	70
231	1949	Colorado Territory	Train Engineer (uncredited)	70
232	1949	The Fountainhead	Old Watchman (uncredited)	69
233	1949	So You Want to Be a Muscle Man	Delivery Man	0
234	1949	Dancing in the Dark	Deputy	50
235	1949	So You Want to Be an Actor	Counter Man	0
236	1949	The Inspector General	Villager (uncredited)	65
237	1950	Backfire	Fight Fan (uncredited)	59
238	1950	So You Think You're Not Guilty	Police Turnkey (uncredited)	57
239	1950	The Damned Don't Cry	Man on Dock (uncredited)	71
240	1950	So You Want to Hold Your Husband	Lamb - Curry's Partner	0
241	1950	The Flame and the Arrow	Guard (uncredited)	62
242	1950	So You Want a Raise		60
243	1950	Revenue Agent	Sgt. Wallace	10
244	1951	Storm Warning	Townsman (uncredited)	66
245	1951	The Enforcer		71
246	1951	Goodbye, My Fancy	Party Guest (Uncredited)	59
247	1951	Strangers on a Train	Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)	77
248	1952	Room for One More		63
249	1952	My Six Convicts	Store Detective	63
250	1952	So You Want to Enjoy Life	Boat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)	20
251	1952	O. Henry's Full House	Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")	65
252	1952	Springfield Rifle	Barfly (uncredited)	61
253	1952	Hans Christian Andersen	First Gendarme	63
254	1953	So You Want to Be a Musician	Restaurant diner	0
255	1953	Murder Without Tears	Sergeant-at-Arms	52
256	1953	Crime Wave	Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)	71
257	1953	So You Think You Can't Sleep	Sleeping patient in waiting room	50
258	1954	Lucky Me	Passerby on Street (uncredited)	67
259	1954	A Star Is Born	Audience Member (uncredited)	71
260	1954	So You Want to Know Your Relatives	Mr. Watson (uncredited)	0
261	1954	The Silver Chalice	Silversmith (uncredited)	44
262	1954	Outlaw's Son		0
263	1955	Tall Man Riding	Townsman (uncredited)	56
264	1955	To Catch a Thief	Party Guest (uncredited)	73
265	1955	Illegal	Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)	64
266	1956	Serenade	Opera Attendee (uncredited)	55
267	1956	The Opposite Sex	Club Patron (uncredited)	52
268	1958	Auntie Mame	Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)	70
269	1959	Westbound	Townsman (uncredited)	61

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok	Doc Jones (uncredited)	45