Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 20, 1896
Died
January 24, 1973
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish
- Joseph Carrol Naish
- J. Carroll Naish
- Carroll Naish
- Carrol Naish
- Carol Naish
- J. Carrol Nash
J. Carrol Naish
0.8 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi (1948–1953), which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings. Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. In Paris after World War I, Naish formed his own song and dance act. He was traveling the globe from Europe to Egypt to Asia, when his China-bound ship developed engine problems, leaving him in California in 1926. His uncredited bit role in What Price Glory (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role in the 1943 film Sahara, then for his performance in the 1945 film A Medal for Benny, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture. He notably played Boris Karloff's hunchback assistant in The House of Frankenstein in 1944. He was of Irish descent, but never used his dialect skills to play Irishmen, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me." Instead, he portrayed myriad other ethnic groups on screen: Latino, Native American, East Asian, Polynesian, Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, Eastern European, and Mediterranean. Besides his film roles, he often appeared on television later in his career. He spent many of his later years in San Diego studying philosophy and theology. Naish was married (1929–1973) to actress Gladys Heaney (1907–1987). They had one daughter. For his contributions to television and film, J. Carrol Naish has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.
Known For
3.5
Daniel (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
10.0
Daniel (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
7.8
Dr. Daka (archive footage)
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989
6.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
7.4
(archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
1974
4.5
Dr. Duryea alias Frankenstein
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
7.5
Froteras
Cutter's Trail
1970
0.0
The Hunchback (archive footage)
Doom of Dracula
1966
7.8
Bilejik
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Credits
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Daniel (archive footage)
2000
3.5
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Daniel (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
as Dr. Daka (archive footage)
1989
7.8
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.4
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
as Dr. Duryea alias Frankenstein
1971
4.5
Cutter's Trail
as Froteras
1970
7.5
Doom of Dracula
as The Hunchback (archive footage)
1966
0.0
I Dream of Jeannie
as Bilejik
1965
7.8
Get Smart
1965
7.9
Green Acres
as Chief Yellow Horse
1965
7.3
The Hanged Man
as Uncle Picaud
1964
4.6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Uncle Giuliano
1964
7.1
Burke's Law
as Mr. Toto
1963
6.0
Force of Impulse
as Antonio Marino
1961
2.5
Route 66
1960
6.3
Guestward, Ho!
as Hawkeye
1960
4.0
The Untouchables
as Joseph H. 'Joe' Bucco
1959
7.8
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
6.5
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
The Texan
as Walt Pierce
1958
5.5
Cimarron City
1958
5.0
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
0.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Miguel Ramierez
1958
6.8
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Iagoo
1958
6.2
Wagon Train
as Old Man Charvanaugh
1957
6.6
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
1957
5.5
The Young Don't Cry
as Plug
1957
6.2
This Could Be the Night
as Leon
1957
5.6
Yaqui Drums
as Yacqi Jack
1956
0.0
Rebel in Town
as Bedloe Mason
1956
7.0
Desert Sands
as Sgt. Diepel
1955
4.2
The Last Command
as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1955
6.4
Man on a Bus
as Mr Stein
1955
4.0
Violent Saturday
as Chapman, Bank Robber
1955
6.7
Rage at Dawn
as Simeon 'Sim' Reno
1955
6.1
Hit the Deck
as Mr. Peroni
1955
4.6
New York Confidential
as Ben Dagajanian
1955
5.9
Climax!
as Mr. Combie
1954
3.3
Sitting Bull
as Sitting Bull
1954
5.2
Saskatchewan
as Batouche
1954
5.9
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
as Socrates Houlis
1953
5.9
Fighter Attack
as Bruno
1953
4.5
General Electric Theater
1953
6.4
Ride the Man Down
as Sheriff Joe Kneen
1952
6.5
Woman of the North Country
as John Mulholland
1952
4.0
Clash by Night
as Uncle Vince
1952
6.6
Denver and Rio Grande
as Gil Harkness
1952
5.5
Bannerline
as Frankie Scarbine
1951
6.0
Across the Wide Missouri
as Looking Glass
1951
5.9
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Ridley
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mr. Gallup
1951
7.2
The Mark of the Renegade
as Luis
1951
5.2
Rio Grande
as Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan
1950
6.8
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Onorio
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Charlie
1950
6.3
The Toast of New Orleans
as Nicky Duvalle
1950
4.9
Annie Get Your Gun
as Chief Sitting Bull
1950
6.7
Please Believe Me
as 'Lucky' Reilly
1950
4.8
Black Hand
as Louis Lorelli
1950
6.1
That Midnight Kiss
as Papa Donnetti
1949
5.0
Canadian Pacific
as Dynamite Dawson
1949
5.0
Joan of Arc
as John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor
1948
6.1
The Kissing Bandit
as Chico
1948
3.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
The Fugitive
as A Police Informer
1947
5.9
Carnival in Costa Rica
as Papa Rico Molina
1947
6.0
The Beast with Five Fingers
as Police Commissario Ovidio Castanio
1947
6.3
Humoresque
as Rudy Boray
1947
7.0
It's Your America
as French Soldier (uncredited)
1946
6.5
Bad Bascomb
as Bart Yancy
1946
6.2
Getting Gertie's Garter
as Charles, the Butler
1945
3.0
Star in the Night
as Nick Catapoli
1945
7.4
Strange Confession
as Roger Graham
1945
6.8
The Southerner
as Devers
1945
6.5
A Medal for Benny
as Charley Martin
1945
4.5
House of Frankenstein
as Daniel
1944
6.0
Enter Arsène Lupin
as Ganimard
1944
6.0
Dragon Seed
as Japanese Kitchen Overseer
1944
6.5
Waterfront
as Dr. Karl Decker
1944
4.6
Jungle Woman
as Dr. Carl Fletcher
1944
4.9
The Monster Maker
as Dr. Igor Markoff
1944
5.1
The Whistler
as The Killer
1944
6.1
Two-Man Submarine
as Dr. Augustus Hadley
1944
6.0
Voice in the Wind
as Luigi
1944
5.2
Gung Ho!
as Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos
1943
5.4
Calling Dr. Death
as Inspector Gregg
1943
6.4
Sahara
as Giuseppe
1943
7.2
Behind the Rising Sun
as Reo Seki
1943
5.7
Batman
as Tito Daka
1943
6.4
Good Morning, Judge
as Andre Bouchard
1943
0.0
Harrigan's Kid
as Jed Jerrett
1943
0.0
Dr. Renault's Secret
as Noel
1942
5.3
The Man in the Trunk
as Reginald DeWinters
1942
0.0
The Pied Piper
as Aristide Rougeron
1942
6.8
Tales of Manhattan
as Costello
1942
6.2
Jackass Mail
as Signor Michel O'Sullivan
1942
7.0
Dr. Broadway
as Jack Venner
1942
5.6
Sunday Punch
as Matt Bassler
1942
5.0
A Gentleman at Heart
as Gigi
1942
6.0
The Corsican Brothers
as Lorenzo
1941
6.9
Birth of the Blues
as Blackie
1941
6.0
Forced Landing
as Andros Banshek
1941
4.0
Accent on Love
as Manuel Lombroso
1941
6.0
Blood and Sand
as Garabato
1941
6.5
That Night in Rio
as Machado
1941
6.2
Mr. Dynamite
as 'The Professor'
1941
0.0
Know For Sure
as Tony Madroni
1941
3.8
A Night at Earl Carroll's
as Steve Kalkus
1940
3.4
Down Argentine Way
as Casiano
1940
6.2
Golden Gloves
as Joe Taggerty
1940
5.0
Queen of the Mob
as George Frost
1940
5.0
Typhoon
as Mekaike
1940
5.0
Island of Lost Men
as Gregory Prin
1939
5.7
Beau Geste
as Rasinoff
1939
6.9
Undercover Doctor
as Dr. Bartley Morgan
1939
5.5
Hotel Imperial
as Kuprin
1939
6.0
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
as Richard Lane (Archive Footage)
1939
6.1
🎬
We're in the Movies, Now!
as Himself
1939
4.0
King of Chinatown
as The Professor
1939
5.8
Persons in Hiding
as Freddie 'Gunner' Martin
1939
2.7
Illegal Traffic
as Lewis Zomar
1938
6.5
King of Alcatraz
as Steve Murkil
1938
5.7
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as Richard Lane
1938
5.5
Prison Farm
as Noel Haskins
1938
5.7
Hunted Men
as Henry Rice
1938
6.0
Her Jungle Love
as Kuasa
1938
6.2
Tip-Off Girls
as Joseph Valkus
1938
6.0
Daughter of Shanghai
as Frank Barden
1937
5.1
Night Club Scandal
as Jack Reed - Gangster
1937
3.8
Thunder Trail
as Rafael Lopez
1937
6.0
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Mikhail Valdin
1937
6.1
🎬
Sea Racketeers
as Harry Durant
1937
1.0
Hideaway
as Mike Clarke
1937
4.0
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
as Adram
1937
6.1
It May Happen to You
as Moxie
1937
5.2
Border Cafe
as Rocky Alton
1937
6.3
The Grand Bounce
as Hoodlum (uncredited)
1937
6.5
Song of the City
as Mario
1937
6.0
We Who Are About to Die
as Nick Trotti
1937
6.8
Crack-Up
as Operative #77
1936
5.5
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
1936
6.5
Ramona
as Juan Can
1936
5.1
Anthony Adverse
as Major Doumet
1936
5.7
Special Investigator
as Eddie Selton
1936
5.2
Absolute Quiet
as Pedro
1936
5.5
Moonlight Murder
as André Bejac
1936
4.2
Charlie Chan at the Circus
as Tom Holt
1936
6.2
Robin Hood of El Dorado
as Three Fingered Jack
1936
4.2
The Leathernecks Have Landed
as Irenov
1936
5.0
Exclusive Story
as Comos
1936
6.5
Two in the Dark
as Burt Mansfield
1936
5.9
Captain Blood
as Cahusac
1935
7.2
Confidential
as 'Lefty' Tate
1935
5.8
Special Agent
as Joe Durell
1935
6.2
Little Big Shot
as Bert
1935
6.0
Front Page Woman
as Robert Cardoza
1935
5.8
Under the Pampas Moon
as Tito
1935
5.0
Black Fury
as Steve Croner
1935
6.3
Behind the Green Lights
as Sam Dover
1935
6.0
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Grand Vizier
1935
6.6
Hell in the Heavens
as Sgt. Chevalier
1934
3.8
The President Vanishes
as Anti-War Demonstrator (uncredited)
1934
5.8
Marie Galante
as French Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
1934
4.6
British Agent
as Commissioner of War Trotsky
1934
5.6
Girl in Danger
as Russo
1934
6.0
The Defense Rests
as Monte Ballou
1934
7.0
Return of the Terror
as Steve Scola
1934
6.0
The Hell Cat
as Joe Morgan
1934
6.0
Murder in Trinidad
as Duval
1934
0.0
One Is Guilty
as Jack Allen
1934
2.7
Upperworld
as Lou Colima
1934
6.3
Sleepers East
as Carl Izzard
1934
0.0
The Mystery Squadron
as Collins
1933
6.0
Havana Widows
as First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1933
5.8
The Mad Game
as Chopper Allen
1933
0.0
Ann Vickers
as Dr. Sorelle
1933
5.5
The Last Trail
as John Ross
1933
0.0
Captured!
as Cpl. Guarand
1933
5.2
The Avenger
as Hanley
1933
6.0
Notorious But Nice
as Joe Charney
1933
5.5
Arizona to Broadway
as Tommy Monk
1933
7.0
The Devil's in Love
as Salazar
1933
5.0
Elmer, the Great
as Jerry (as J. Carroll Naish)
1933
4.9
Central Airport
as Drunk in Wreck (uncredited)
1933
6.1
The World Gone Mad
as Ramon Salvadore
1933
4.3
The Whirlwind
as Injun
1933
0.0
Infernal Machine
as Bryan
1933
0.0
Silent Men
as Jack Wilder
1933
0.0
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Gary Kent
1933
0.0
Frisco Jenny
as Ed Harris (uncredited)
1933
6.3
No Other Woman
as Bonelli
1933
4.5
The Conquerors
as Agitator
1932
4.8
The Kid from Spain
as Pedro
1932
6.6
Tiger Shark
as Tony
1932
6.3
Big City Blues
as Bootlegger (uncredited)
1932
5.3
No Living Witness
as Nick
1932
0.0
Crooner
as Nick Meyer
1932
5.0
Two Seconds
as Tony
1932
6.0
The Famous Ferguson Case
as Claude Wright
1932
6.2
The Mouthpiece
as Tony Rocco
1932
5.9
The Beast of the City
as Pietro Cholo
1932
5.8
The Hatchet Man
as Sun Yat Ming
1932
4.7
Ladies of the Big House
as Witness Against Doremus (uncredited)
1931
6.0
Surrender
as French Prisoner of War (uncredited)
1931
5.0
Homicide Squad
as Hugo
1931
0.0
The Finger Points
as "The Finger is on You" Phone Voice (voice) (uncredited)
1931
5.8
Gun Smoke
as Mink Gordon (uncredited)
1931
5.5
The Royal Bed
as Laker
1931
3.8
Tonight or Never
as Radio Announcer
1931
5.9
Scotland Yard
as Dr. Remur
1930
5.0
Good Intentions
as Charlie Hattrick
1930
0.0
Cheer Up and Smile
as Gangster Robbing Pierre's (uncredited)
1930
0.0
Double Cross Roads
as Dyke's Lookout
1930
0.0
What Price Glory
as French Soldier (uncredited)
1926
6.0