Stuart Erwin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stuart Erwin (14 February 1903, Squaw Valley, California — 21 December 1967, Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor. Erwin began acting in college in the 1920s, first appearing on the stage, then breaking into films in 1928 in Mother Knows Best. He was cast as amiable oafs in several films such as The Sophomore, The Big Broadcast, Hollywood Cavalcade, Our Town, International House and Viva Villa!. In 1934 he was cast as Joe Palooka in the film Palooka, and in 1935 he had a supporting role in After Office Hours (starring Clark Gable). He co-starred in the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). In 1936, he was cast in Pigskin Parade, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In Walt Disney's Bambi, he did the voice of a tree squirrel. In 1950, Erwin made the transition to television, where he starred in Trouble with Father, which was eventually retitled The Stu Erwin Show. He co-starred with his wife, actress June Collyer. He later appeared in the Disney films Son of Flubber and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. He also appeared with Jack Palance in the ABC series The Greatest Show on Earth during the 1963-1964 television season. Erwin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. He is buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Erwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Squaw Valley, California, USA, 1903-02-14

Died: 1967-12-21

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1928	Mother Knows Best	Ben	0
2	1929	A Pair of Tights	Marion's Boyfriend	76
3	1929	New Year's Eve	Landlady's Son	0
4	1929	Speakeasy	Cy Williams	50
5	1929	Dangerous Curves	Rotarian	50
6	1929	The Sophomore	Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited)	45
7	1929	Happy Days	Jig	60
8	1929	The Cock-Eyed World	Buckley	43
9	1929	Sweetie	Axel Bronstrup	58
10	1929	The Trespasser	Reporter (uncredited)	67
11	1929	This Thing Called Love	Fred	0
12	1930	Men Without Women	Jenkins	63
13	1930	Young Eagles	Pudge Higgins	60
14	1930	Paramount on Parade	Marine (The Montmartre Girl)	61
15	1930	Dangerous Nan McGrew	Eustace Macy	20
16	1930	Love Among the Millionaires	Clicker Watson	60
17	1930	Playboy of Paris	Paul Michel	70
18	1930	Only Saps Work	Oscar	55
19	1930	Along Came Youth	Ambrose	70
20	1931	No Limit	Ole Olson	60
21	1931	The Stolen Jools	Reporter	56
22	1931	Dude Ranch	Chester Carr	45
23	1931	Up Pops the Devil	Stranger	42
24	1931	The Magnificent Lie	Elmer Graham	0
25	1931	Working Girls	Pat Kelly	68
26	1932	Two Kinds of Women	Hauser	50
27	1932	Strangers in Love	Stan Kenney	51
28	1932	The Misleading Lady	Boney	0
29	1932	Hollywood on Parade	Self	30
30	1932	Make Me a Star	Merton Gill	55
31	1932	70,000 Witnesses	Man Talking to Connors (uncredited)	48
32	1932	Hollywood on Parade No. A-2	Self - Host	10
33	1932	The Big Broadcast	Leslie McWhinney	71
34	1933	Face in the Sky	Lucky	45
35	1933	The Crime of the Century	Dan McKee	63
36	1933	He Learned About Women	Peter Potter Kendall II	0
37	1933	Under the Tonto Rim	Tonto	0
38	1933	International House	Tommy Nash	53
39	1933	Hold Your Man	Al Simpson	61
40	1933	The Stranger's Return	Simon Bates	62
41	1933	Before Dawn	Dwight Wilson	56
42	1933	Day of Reckoning	Jerry	50
43	1933	Going Hollywood	Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer	55
44	1934	Palooka	Joe Palooka	29
45	1934	Viva Villa!	Jonny Sykes	63
46	1934	Bachelor Bait	William Watts	57
47	1934	The Party's Over	Bruce Blakely	30
48	1934	Chained	John L. 'Johnnie' Smith	68
49	1934	Have a Heart	Gus Anderson	70
50	1934	The Hollywood Gad-About	Self (uncredited)	40
51	1934	The Bands Plays On	Stuffy Wilson	85
52	1935	After Office Hours	Hank Parr	64
53	1936	Ceiling Zero	Texas Clarke	56
54	1936	Exclusive Story	Timothy Aloysius Higgins	65
55	1936	Absolute Quiet	Oscar "Chubby" Rudd	55
56	1936	Women Are Trouble	Matt Casey	60
57	1936	All American Chump	Elmer Lamb	58
58	1936	Pigskin Parade	Amos Dodd	60
59	1937	Slim	Stumpy	63
60	1937	Dance Charlie Dance	Andy Tucker	60
61	1937	Small Town Boy	Henry Armstrong	0
62	1937	Second Honeymoon	Leo MacTavish	58
63	1937	I'll Take Romance	'Pancho' Brown	50
64	1937	Checkers	Edgar Connell	0
65	1938	Mr. Boggs Steps Out	Oliver Boggs	55
66	1938	Hollywood Handicap	Himself	45
67	1938	Three Blind Mice	Mike Brophy	60
68	1938	Passport Husband	Henry Cabot	60
69	1939	Back Door to Heaven	Jud Mason	50
70	1939	It Could Happen to You	Mackinley Winslow	15
71	1939	Hollywood Cavalcade	Pete Tinney	51
72	1940	Our Town	Howie Newsome	58
73	1940	When the Daltons Rode	Ben Dalton	60
74	1940	A Little Bit of Heaven	Cotton	10
75	1940	Sandy Gets Her Man	Bill Kerry	40
76	1941	Cracked Nuts	Lawrence Trent	0
77	1941	The Bride Came C.O.D.	Tommy Keenan	71
78	1942	The Adventures of Martin Eden	Joe Dawson	60
79	1942	Drums of the Congo	Congo Jack	0
80	1942	Blondie for Victory	Pvt. Herschel Smith	73
81	1943	He Hired the Boss	Hubert Theodore Wilkins	30
82	1944	The Great Mike	Jay Spencer	0
83	1945	Pillow to Post	Captain Jack Ross	55
84	1947	Doctor Jim	Doctor James Gateros	0
85	1947	Killer Dill	Johnny 'Killer' Dill	50
86	1947	Heaven Only Knows	Sheriff Matt Bodine	60
87	1947	Heading for Heaven	Henry Elkins	51
88	1948	Strike It Rich	Delbart Lane	0
89	1950	Father Is a Bachelor	Constable Pudge Barnham	74
90	1953	Main Street to Broadway	Self (uncredited)	65
91	1959	Moochie of the Little League	Lou Rosson	60
92	1960	For the Love of Mike	Dr. Mills	50
93	1963	Son of Flubber	Coach Wilson	59
94	1964	The Misadventures of Merlin Jones	Police Captain Loomis	65
95	1968	Shadow Over Elveron	Merle	83
96	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
97	2014	Bing Crosby: Rediscovered	Self (archive footage)	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Stu Erwin Show	Stu Erwin	60
2	1953	General Electric Theater	George Parsons	60
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Doc Brown	66
4	1957	Perry Mason	Clem P. 'Sandy' Sandover	77
5	1957	Perry Mason	Austin Durrant	77
6	1957	Perry Mason	Everett Stanton	77
7	1957	Perry Mason	Henry Simmons	77
8	1958	The Donna Reed Show		63
9	1960	Thriller	Uncle Florian	64
10	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Tom Silby	76
11	1960	Peter Loves Mary		50
12	1961	The Defenders	Joseph Green	62
13	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dave Lesser	54
14	1961	Straightaway		0
15	1962	The Virginian	Williams	64
16	1965	Green Acres	Mr. Johnson	73
17	1965	The Big Valley	Charlie Carter	61