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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 20, 1908
Died
June 16, 1957
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- August Schilling
- August "Gus" Schilling
Gus Schilling
0.3 Popularity
Biography
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Known For
7.8
Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Touch of Evil
1958
7.2
Druggist (uncredited)
Bigger Than Life
1956
5.0
Joe Page
Glory
1956
7.5
Attendant (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
6.7
Doc Ridgeway
Run for Cover
1955
7.0
Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
Executive Suite
1954
5.6
Ed Gruman
She Couldn't Say No
1954
6.0
Mr. Rush
One Big Affair
1952
6.6
Lucky
On Dangerous Ground
1951
6.0
Window Washer
Honeychile
1951
Credits
Touch of Evil
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
1958
7.8
Bigger Than Life
as Druggist (uncredited)
1956
7.2
Glory
as Joe Page
1956
5.0
Rebel Without a Cause
as Attendant (uncredited)
1955
7.5
Run for Cover
as Doc Ridgeway
1955
6.7
Executive Suite
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
1954
7.0
She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Gruman
1954
5.6
One Big Affair
as Mr. Rush
1952
6.0
On Dangerous Ground
as Lucky
1951
6.6
Honeychile
as Window Washer
1951
6.0
Gasoline Alley
as Joe Allen
1951
5.5
Hit Parade of 1951
as Studio Guide
1950
6.0
Our Very Own
as Frank
1950
5.4
Bride for Sale
as Timothy
1949
6.0
🎬
Flung by a Fling
as Capt. Gus Schilling
1949
0.0
🎬
He's in Again
as Gus
1949
0.0
Angel on the Amazon
as Dean Hartley
1948
4.8
The Return of October
as Benny
1948
5.8
Macbeth
as A Porter
1948
7.2
🎬
Pardon My Lamb Chop
as Gus
1948
0.0
🎬
Two Nuts in a Rut
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
1948
0.0
The Lady from Shanghai
as Goldfish
1947
7.3
🎬
Wedding Belle
as Gus Schilling
1947
0.0
🎬
Training for Trouble
as Gus Schilling
1947
0.0
Stork Bites Man
as Hubert Butterfield
1947
0.0
Calendar Girl
as Eddie Gaskin
1947
5.4
Pardon My Terror
as Gus
1946
0.0
🎬
Hot Water
as Gus
1946
0.0
Dangerous Business
as Alexander Pough
1946
0.0
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
as Gus Schilling
1946
0.0
🎬
High Blood Pleasure
as Gus
1945
0.0
River Gang
as Dopey Charlie
1945
0.0
A Thousand and One Nights
as Jafar
1945
5.8
See My Lawyer
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
1945
6.0
It's a Pleasure
as Bill Evans
1945
4.7
Sing a Jingle
as Bucky
1944
0.0
Larceny with Music
as Austin J. Caldwell
1943
4.0
Hers to Hold
as Rosey Blake
1943
6.9
Presenting Lily Mars
as Scotty - Stage Manager
1943
6.3
Chatterbox
as Gillie
1943
0.0
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.7
Lady Bodyguard
as Bughouse Sweeney
1943
4.0
You Were Never Lovelier
as Fernando
1942
7.0
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
1942
7.3
There's One Born Every Minute
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
1942
7.2
Broadway
as Joe
1942
5.5
Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Leo Cobb
1942
5.8
Hellzapoppin'
as Orchestra Conductor
1941
7.2
Appointment for Love
as Gus
1941
5.4
It Started with Eve
as Raven
1941
7.2
Ice-Capades
as Dave
1941
5.5
Citizen Kane
as John
1941
8.0
The Penalty
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
1941
6.0
Lucky Devils
as Aloysius Grimshaw
1941
1.0
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Orderly Cleaning Window
1940
6.0
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Hotel Desk Clark
1940
4.6
Pop Always Pays
as City Dump Watchman
1940
0.0