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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 20, 1884
Died
September 2, 1961
Place of Birth
Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- Fred Kelsy
- F. A. Kelsey
- F.A. Kelsey
- Fred A. Kelsey
- Fred. A. Kelsey
- H. Kelsley
- Frederick Alvin Kelsey
Fred Kelsey
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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
6.2
Townsman (uncredited)
Westbound
1959
7.0
Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
Auntie Mame
1958
5.0
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
5.8
Barfly (uncredited)
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
5.2
Club Patron (uncredited)
The Opposite Sex
1956
5.4
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Serenade
1956
6.4
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Illegal
1955
7.3
Party Guest (uncredited)
To Catch a Thief
1955
5.6
Townsman (uncredited)
Tall Man Riding
1955
0.0
Outlaw's Son
1954
Credits
Westbound
as Townsman (uncredited)
1959
6.2
Auntie Mame
as Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
1958
7.0
The Helen Morgan Story
as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
1957
5.0
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
as Barfly (uncredited)
1957
5.8
The Opposite Sex
as Club Patron (uncredited)
1956
5.2
Serenade
as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
1956
5.4
Illegal
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1955
6.4
To Catch a Thief
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1955
7.3
Tall Man Riding
as Townsman (uncredited)
1955
5.6
Outlaw's Son
1954
0.0
The Silver Chalice
as Silversmith (uncredited)
1954
4.4
🎬
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
as Mr. Watson (uncredited)
1954
0.0
A Star Is Born
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1954
7.1
Lucky Me
as Passerby on Street (uncredited)
1954
6.7
Riding Shotgun
as Townsman (uncredited)
1954
5.8
🎬
So You Think You Can't Sleep
as Sleeping patient in waiting room
1953
5.0
Crime Wave
as Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
1953
7.1
Murder Without Tears
as Sergeant-at-Arms
1953
5.2
🎬
So You Want to Be a Musician
as Restaurant diner
1953
0.0
Hans Christian Andersen
as First Gendarme
1952
6.2
Springfield Rifle
as Barfly (uncredited)
1952
6.3
O. Henry's Full House
as Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
1952
6.7
Carson City
as Townsman (uncredited)
1952
6.1
🎬
So You Want to Enjoy Life
as Boat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)
1952
2.0
My Six Convicts
as Store Detective
1952
6.3
Room for One More
1952
6.5
Strangers on a Train
as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
1951
7.7
Goodbye, My Fancy
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1951
5.9
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Doc Jones (uncredited)
1951
4.5
The Enforcer
1951
7.1
Storm Warning
as Townsman (uncredited)
1951
6.6
Revenue Agent
as Sgt. Wallace
1950
1.0
🎬
So You Want a Raise
1950
6.0
The Flame and the Arrow
as Guard (uncredited)
1950
6.2
🎬
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
as Lamb - Curry's Partner
1950
0.0
The Damned Don't Cry
as Man on Dock (uncredited)
1950
7.0
So You Think You're Not Guilty
as Police Turnkey (uncredited)
1950
5.8
Backfire
as Fight Fan (uncredited)
1950
5.8
The Inspector General
as Villager (uncredited)
1949
6.5
🎬
So You Want to Be an Actor
as Counter Man
1949
0.0
Dancing in the Dark
as Deputy
1949
5.0
🎬
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
as Delivery Man
1949
0.0
The Fountainhead
as Old Watchman (uncredited)
1949
6.8
Colorado Territory
as Train Engineer (uncredited)
1949
7.0
Flamingo Road
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1949
7.0
Homicide
as Officer O'Brien
1949
5.3
Silver River
as Townsman (uncredited)
1948
5.9
The Noose Hangs High
as Cop (uncredited)
1948
6.8
🎬
So You Want an Apartment
as Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)
1948
5.0
The Unfaithful
as Courtroom Spectator
1947
5.8
Nora Prentiss
as Turnkey (uncredited)
1947
6.1
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
as Fred
1946
6.0
The Man I Love
as Mac the Doorman (uncredited)
1946
6.1
🎬
Andy Plays Hookey
as Policeman
1946
0.0
Never Say Goodbye
as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
6.2
🎬
So You Want to Play the Horses
as Detective (uncredited)
1946
6.0
Night and Day
as First-Nighter (uncredited)
1946
5.9
A Stolen Life
as Bartender (uncredited)
1946
6.3
Hiss and Yell
as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
3.7
Three Strangers
as Man on the Street / Man in Pub (uncredited)
1946
6.4
Detour to Danger
as Det. Kelsey
1946
0.0
How DOooo You Do
as Detective
1945
0.0
Frontier Days
as Mayor Stone (uncredited)
1945
4.0
Saratoga Trunk
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1945
5.7
Mildred Pierce
as Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
1945
7.6
Come Out Fighting
as Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)
1945
7.0
If a Body Meets a Body
as Detective
1945
5.3
Christmas in Connecticut
as Harper (uncredited)
1945
7.0
Snooper Service
1945
0.0
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as Lefert
1945
5.1
Crime by Night
as Dad Martin (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Make Your Own Bed
as Turnkey
1944
5.8
Trial by Trigger
as Jerry (uncredited)
1944
2.0
Mr. Skeffington
as Cop in Raid (uncredited)
1944
6.7
Shine on Harvest Moon
as Policeman in patrol car (uncredited)
1944
6.0
Roaring Guns
1944
0.0
A Gem of a Jam
as Police Chief
1943
7.3
True to Life
as Cop (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Old Acquaintance
as Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
1943
7.0
Food and Magic
1943
5.0
Northern Pursuit
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Murder on the Waterfront
as Capt. Beal
1943
5.0
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
as Policeman
1943
0.0
Action in the North Atlantic
as Joe (uncredited)
1943
7.1
One Dangerous Night
as Detective Dickens
1943
4.4
Gentleman Jim
as Sutro (uncredited)
1942
7.1
X Marks the Spot
as Police Officer Martin
1942
3.9
🎬
Dear! Deer!
as Policeman
1942
0.0
Counter-Espionage
as Dickens
1942
6.2
🎬
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
as Policeman (uncredited)
1942
0.0
Spy Ship
as Night Watchman
1942
6.0
In This Our Life
as Jailer (uncredited)
1942
6.8
Larceny, Inc.
as Bronson
1942
7.0
Murder in the Big House
as "Screw"
1942
6.5
I Was Framed
as Drunk
1942
4.0
My Favorite Blonde
as Sam - Policeman
1942
6.4
Lady Gangster
as Policeman (uncredited)
1942
5.5
Bullet Scars
as Police Chief Hansen
1942
6.2
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Jailer
1942
4.7
Pacific Blackout
as Cop
1941
6.3
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Detective (uncredited)
1941
6.9
They Died with Their Boots On
as Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
1941
6.6
At the Stroke of Twelve
as Police Sergeant
1941
5.0
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
as Wesley Dickens
1941
6.3
One Foot in Heaven
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1941
6.6
Invisible Ghost
as Detective Ryan
1941
5.3
Mr. District Attorney
as Officer McCloskey
1941
5.4
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
as Detective Dickens
1941
6.0
Misbehaving Husbands
as Sgt. Murphy
1940
4.8
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
as Dickens
1940
5.9
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Jim - Detective
1940
4.6
The Green Archer
as Capt. Thompson
1940
5.9
The Golden Fleecing
as Cop (uncredited)
1940
5.3
Deadwood Dick
as Bottles
1940
6.0
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
as Dickens
1940
6.3
🎬
Mutiny in the County
as Policeman
1940
0.0
The Lone Wolf Strikes
as Dickens
1940
6.3
High School
as Junk Man
1940
5.5
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
as Bailiff
1940
4.0
Too Busy to Work
as Hank Fidler
1939
0.0
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
as Pete - Railroad Detective
1939
6.3
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
as Detective - in Cab and at Theatre
1939
6.6
Chicken Wagon Family
as Policeman
1939
0.0
Charlie Chan in Reno
as Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1939
6.3
Tell No Tales
as Policeman at School (uncredited)
1939
4.6
Moving Vanities
as Police Officer (uncredited)
1939
0.0
Clock Wise
as Landlord
1939
0.0
Rough Riders' Round-up
as Agitator
1939
4.0
Tiny Troubles
as Judge
1939
6.0
Down on the Farm
as Bit Role
1938
0.0
Straight, Place and Show
as Cop at Racetrack
1938
6.0
Many Sappy Returns
as Finnegan
1938
4.8
Josette
as Hotel Detective
1938
6.5
Safety in Numbers
as Cop
1938
0.0
🎬
Berth Quakes
as Train Conductor
1938
0.0
Night Spot
as Police Band Leader
1938
3.8
Everybody's Doing It
as Police Sergeant
1938
5.0
Love and Hisses
as Officer
1937
0.0
Borrowing Trouble
as Policeman
1937
6.0
That I May Live
as Abner Jenkins
1937
6.5
One Mile from Heaven
as Smitty - Policeman
1937
6.7
The Lady Escapes
as Man on telephone (uncredited)
1937
0.0
Wild and Woolly
as Policeman (uncredited)
1937
0.0
Super-Sleuth
as Jailer
1937
5.0
She Had to Eat
as Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)
1937
5.0
Big Business
as Oil Man at Well
1937
5.0
Slave Ship
as Seaman at Auction
1937
4.5
Angel's Holiday
as Conductor
1937
5.5
Love Is News
as Cop (uncredited)
1937
6.0
Time Out for Romance
as Policeman
1937
5.6
High Tension
as Desk Sergeant
1936
5.4
Private Number
as Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)
1936
6.6
The Witness Chair
as Detective Costigan
1936
6.2
At Sea Ashore
as Cop (uncredited)
1936
0.0
The Little Red Schoolhouse
as First Detective
1936
5.5
The Garden Murder Case
as Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)
1936
5.4
The Sagebrush Troubadour
as Hank Polk
1935
5.5
🎬
Hot Money
as Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
1935
0.0
The Public Menace
as Mike - Cop
1935
5.0
Diamond Jim
as Horsley's Secretary
1935
6.0
Atlantic Adventure
as Police Officer Riley
1935
5.5
Danger Ahead
as Detective O'Brien
1935
4.2
One Frightened Night
as Sheriff Jenks
1935
5.3
Death Flies East
as Police Lieutenant O'Brien
1935
5.0
Carnival
as Bit Part
1935
0.0
A Notorious Gentleman
as Detective
1935
6.0
Horses' Collars
as Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)
1935
6.1
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Dugan
1934
4.7
Among the Missing
as Police Sgt. Murphy
1934
6.3
🎬
I'll Be Suing You
as Insurance Adjustor
1934
0.0
Twentieth Century
as Train Detective (uncredited)
1934
6.8
Rough Necking
as Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.
1934
10.0
I'll Tell the World
as Sergeant at Border
1934
0.0
🎬
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
as Policeman
1934
0.0
School for Girls
as Detective
1934
6.0
The Crime Doctor
as Bloodgood
1934
2.7
Beloved
as Mulvaney
1934
0.0
The Moth
as Detective Blake
1934
0.0
The Bowery
as Detective Kelsey (uncredited)
1933
5.0
🎬
Quiet Please!
as Train Conductor
1933
2.0
Sailor's Luck
as Cop
1933
5.0
King of the Jungle
as Cop (uncredited)
1933
5.0
The Crime of the Century
as Police Guard (uncredited)
1933
6.4
🎬
Boys Will Be Boys
as Doorman
1932
0.0
If I Had a Million
as Prison Jailer (uncredited)
1932
6.6
Red Haired Alibi
as Corcoran
1932
4.4
🎬
Yoo-Hoo
as Detective
1932
0.0
Speak Easily
as Process Server
1932
5.6
🎬
The Iceman's Ball
as Police Sergeant
1932
1.0
Guilty as Hell
as Detective Duffy
1932
5.8
Huddle
as Policeman (uncredited)
1932
6.6
Love in High Gear
as Detective Duffy
1932
5.0
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Cop (uncredited)
1932
0.0
🎬
Shopping with Wifie
as Det. Dugan
1932
1.0
Discarded Lovers
as Delaney
1932
4.3
Side Show
as Sheriff Hornsby
1931
5.0
Young Donovan's Kid
as Collins
1931
0.0
Subway Express
as Detective Kearney
1931
0.0
Scandal Sheet
as Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy
1931
0.0
The Naughty Flirt
as Policeman (uncredited)
1931
5.7
Going Wild
as The Conductor
1930
6.0
Only Saps Work
as Murphy (uncredited)
1930
5.5
🎬
She Got What She Wanted
1930
0.0
Men Without Law
as Deputy Sheriff Jeff
1930
0.0
Scarlet Pages
as Murphy
1930
6.5
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
as Self - Tour Guide
1930
0.0
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
as Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
1930
6.7
Road to Paradise
as Casey
1930
6.2
The Girl Said No
as Policeman
1930
5.5
Wide Open
as Detective
1930
5.3
Murder on the Roof
as Ryan
1930
0.0
The Woman Racket
as Police Captain
1930
4.7
Smiling Irish Eyes
as County Fair Manager
1929
0.0
The Donovan Affair
as Carney
1929
6.0
Wrong Again
1929
6.7
The Faker
as Police Detective
1929
0.0
The Last Warning
as Inspector
1928
6.7
Naughty Baby
as Dugan
1928
4.0
A Woman of Affairs
as Detective (uncredited)
1928
6.4
On Trial
as Clerk
1928
6.0
🎬
Plastered in Paris
1928
0.0
The Wright Idea
as M. T. Flatt
1928
0.0
Harold Teen
as Mr. Lovewell
1928
7.0
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
as Detective
1928
0.0
Tenderloin
as Detective Simpson
1928
0.0
While the City Sleeps
as Detective in Shadow Box
1928
5.9
The Gorilla
as Mulligan
1927
0.0
The 13th Juror
as The Detective
1927
0.0
The Thirteenth Hour
as Det. Shaw
1927
7.0
Soft Cushions
as The Police
1927
0.0
Jewish Prudence
as Rent Collector
1927
6.6
Held by the Law
as Detective
1927
0.0
Orchids and Ermine
as Police Sergeant
1927
5.1
There Ain't No Santa Claus
as Store Detective (uncredited)
1926
6.0
The Third Degree
as Assistant Chief of Detectives
1926
0.0
Atta Boy
as Detective
1926
0.0
Bromo and Juliet
as The Detective (uncredited)
1926
5.6
Crazy Like a Fox
as Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)
1926
6.2
Say It with Babies
as Policeman
1926
5.0
🎬
The Mystery Pilot
as Skipper Larsen
1926
0.0
🎬
That's My Baby
as Murphy
1926
0.0
Dog Shy
as Cop
1926
6.6
The Uneasy Three
1925
0.0
Seven Sinners
as Policeman
1925
6.0
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925
0.0
Little Annie Rooney
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1925
6.9
The Lawful Cheater
as Tom Horan
1925
0.0
Paths to Paradise
as Confederate
1925
5.8
Friendly Enemies
1925
0.0
Excuse Me
as George Ketchem
1925
0.0
Youth and Adventure
as Red Mullin
1925
0.0
The Yankee Consul
as Agent John J. Doyle
1924
0.0
The Night Hawk
1924
0.0
Lights Out
as Decker
1923
0.0
Bag and Baggage
as Fred
1923
0.0
The Eleventh Hour
as The Submarine Commander
1923
0.0
Souls for Sale
as Detective Quinn (uncredited)
1923
6.2
Lovebound
as Detective Hahn
1923
0.0
Captain Fly-by-Night
as Gomez
1922
5.8
Deserted at the Altar
as The Other Man
1922
0.0
Manslaughter
as Member of the Jury (uncredited)
1922
5.2
Don't Shoot
as Police Officer
1922
0.0
South of Suva
as Karl Swartz
1922
0.0
One Clear Call
as Starnes
1922
0.0
The Song of Life
as Police Inspector
1922
5.0
There Are No Villains
as Dugall
1921
0.0
The Match-Breaker
as Detective
1921
0.0
The Last Card
as Detective (uncredited)
1921
0.0
🎬
Puppets of Fate
as Bobs
1921
0.0
The Off-Shore Pirate
as Sailor
1921
0.0
Alias Jimmy Valentine
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1920
0.0
The Fire Flingers
as Sgt. Powers
1919
0.0
The Silk Lined Burglar
as Capt. von Hoffmeier
1919
0.0
The Light of Victory
as Captain Eric von Prohme
1919
0.0
The Yellow Dog
as Max Kummich
1918
0.0
A Society Sensation
as JIm Cox
1918
5.8
The Empty Cab
as The Detective
1918
0.0
🎬
The Honor of an Outlaw
as The Deputy
1917
0.0
Arms and the Gringo
1914
0.0
🎬
Silent Sandy
as Silent Sandy
1914
0.0
🎬
A Left Hook
1911
0.0