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

Television

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