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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 27, 1868
Died
January 21, 1949
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Joseph Bridger Cawthorn
- Joseph Cawthorne
- Joe Cawthorne
- Joe Cawthorn
- Джозеф Которн
Joseph Cawthorn
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
Known For
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Silas Harwood
The Postman Didn't Ring
1942
6.2
Leopold Potzloch
So Ends Our Night
1941
5.0
Nicholas Raptis
Scatterbrain
1940
6.1
Leopold Damrosch
Lillian Russell
1940
6.0
Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
Crime Over London
1936
4.0
Max Dourfuss
Hot Money
1936
4.8
Monique's Father
One Rainy Afternoon
1936
4.8
Fred Schultz
Brides Are Like That
1936
6.3
Dr. Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld
1936
6.0
Wilson, Sr.
Freshman Love
1936
Credits
The Postman Didn't Ring
as Silas Harwood
1942
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So Ends Our Night
as Leopold Potzloch
1941
6.2
Scatterbrain
as Nicholas Raptis
1940
5.0
Lillian Russell
as Leopold Damrosch
1940
6.1
Crime Over London
as Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
1936
6.0
Hot Money
as Max Dourfuss
1936
4.0
One Rainy Afternoon
as Monique's Father
1936
4.8
Brides Are Like That
as Fred Schultz
1936
4.8
The Great Ziegfeld
as Dr. Ziegfeld
1936
6.3
Freshman Love
as Wilson, Sr.
1936
6.0
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Beautiful Dreamer
1935
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Harmony Lane
as Professor Henry Kleber
1935
3.4
Page Miss Glory
as Mr. Freischutz
1935
6.3
Bright Lights
as Oscar Schlemmer
1935
4.2
Smart Girl
as Karl Krausemeyer
1935
5.0
Naughty Marietta
as Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
1935
5.4
Gold Diggers of 1935
as August Schultz
1935
6.4
Sweet Music
as Sidney Selzer
1935
5.7
Maybe It's Love
as Adolph Sr.
1935
6.0
Sweet Adeline
as Oscar Schmidt
1934
5.7
Music in the Air
as Hans Uppman
1934
4.8
Young and Beautiful
as Herman Cline
1934
4.0
The Human Side
as Fritz Speigal
1934
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Housewife
as Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
1934
7.7
Twenty Million Sweethearts
as Herbert Brokman
1934
6.0
The Last Gentleman
as Dr. Wilson
1934
3.0
Lazy River
as Mr. Julius Ambrose
1934
6.0
Broken Dreams
as Pop
1933
6.0
Best of Enemies
as Gus Schneider
1933
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Made on Broadway
as Maxie Schultz
1933
6.5
Blondie Johnson
as Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
1933
5.8
Grand Slam
as Alex Alexandrovitch
1933
4.0
Whistling in the Dark
as Barfuss
1933
5.6
Men Are Such Fools
as Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
1932
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They Call It Sin
as Mr. Hollister
1932
5.8
Love Me Tonight
as Dr. Armand de Fontinac
1932
6.5
White Zombie
as Dr. Bruner
1932
6.0
Peach-o-Reno
as Joe Bruno
1931
6.0
The Runaround
as Lou
1931
7.0
A Tailor-Made Man
as Huber
1931
0.0
Kiki
as Alfred Rapp
1931
4.5
The Princess and the Plumber
as Merkl
1930
0.0
Dixiana
as Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father
1930
4.7
Dance Hall
as Bremmer
1929
3.8
Jazz Heaven
as Herman Kemple
1929
5.0
The Taming of the Shrew
as Gremio
1929
5.4
Street Girl
as Keppel - Cafe Owner
1929
5.8
Speakeasy
as Yokel
1929
5.0
Hold 'Em Yale
as Professor George Bradbury
1928
6.0
Silk Legs
as Ezra Fulton
1927
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Very Confidential
as Donald Allen
1927
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Two Girls Wanted
as Philip Hancock
1927
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