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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 21, 1886
Died
April 27, 1950
Place of Birth
Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Also Known As
- Hobart Cavanagh
Hobart Cavanaugh
0.3 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage. He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California. He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 1919 musical Irene and the long-running 1948 musical As the Girls Go. He made his film debut in San Francisco Nights (1928). Over the next few years he established himself as a supporting actor, and although many of his roles were small and received no film credit, he played more substantial roles in films such as I Cover the Waterfront (1933) and Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933). By the mid-1930s, he was appearing in more prestigious productions, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Captain Blood (1935), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He continued playing small, often comical roles until the end of his life, mostly as downtrodden or henpecked little men. His last performance was in Stella (1950); he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through. By the end of his life, he had appeared in more than 180 films. He died following an operation at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Florence and a daughter.
Known For
6.1
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
0.0
Tim Gross
Stella
1950
7.2
Mr. Manleigh
A Letter to Three Wives
1949
6.3
Mayor Oakley
Up in Central Park
1948
6.7
Amos
Best Man Wins
1948
6.5
Mr. Mason
The Inside Story
1948
0.0
Sigmund
My Girl Tisa
1948
6.1
Judge Beckett
Driftwood
1947
0.0
Higgins
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
🎬
0.0
Mayor
Doctor Jim
1947
Credits
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Stella
as Tim Gross
1950
0.0
A Letter to Three Wives
as Mr. Manleigh
1949
7.2
Up in Central Park
as Mayor Oakley
1948
6.3
Best Man Wins
as Amos
1948
6.7
The Inside Story
as Mr. Mason
1948
6.5
My Girl Tisa
as Sigmund
1948
0.0
Driftwood
as Judge Beckett
1947
6.1
Easy Come, Easy Go
as Higgins
1947
0.0
🎬
Doctor Jim
as Mayor
1947
0.0
Little Iodine
as Mr. Tremble
1946
3.0
Margie
as Mr. Angus MacDuff
1946
6.9
Faithful in My Fashion
as Mr. Wilson
1946
6.3
Black Angel
as Jake
1946
6.0
Night and Day
as Man in Hospital Hall (uncredited)
1946
5.9
The Hoodlum Saint
as Antique Clock Dealer (uncredited)
1946
5.2
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
as Bill Stapleton
1946
6.5
Cinderella Jones
as George
1946
2.8
Don Juan Quilligan
as Mr. Rostigaff
1945
6.0
I'll Remember April
as Joe Billings
1945
3.7
Roughly Speaking
as The Teacher (uncredited)
1945
6.8
Guest in the House
as Mr. Blossom
1944
4.4
Kismet
as Moolah
1944
5.2
San Diego I Love You
as Mr. McGregor (uncredited)
1944
6.2
Louisiana Hayride
as Malcolm Cartwright
1944
6.0
The Immortal Blacksmith
as Oliver Davenport
1944
0.0
What a Woman
as Mailman (uncredited)
1943
5.6
Gildersleeve on Broadway
as Homer
1943
5.8
A Scream in the Dark
as Leo Stark
1943
3.0
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Clark
1943
6.0
Dangerous Blondes
as Pop
1943
6.0
The Kansan
as Josh Hudkins
1943
5.4
The Man from Down Under
as Boots
1943
6.5
Pilot #5
as Boat Owner
1943
5.8
Taxi, Mister
as Police Fingerprint Man
1943
3.6
The Human Comedy
as Drunk at Bar (uncredited)
1943
6.2
Stand by for Action
as Carpenter's Mate 'Chips'
1942
6.8
Whistling in Dixie
as Mr. Panky
1942
5.0
Her Cardboard Lover
as Arresting Plainclothesman (uncredited)
1942
4.4
Jackass Mail
as Gospel Jones
1942
7.0
The Magnificent Dope
as Albert Gowdy
1942
7.2
Lady in a Jam
as Reporter (uncredited)
1942
5.3
My Favorite Spy
as Jules
1942
5.2
Land of the Open Range
as Pinky Gardner
1942
0.0
The Remarkable Andrew
as Teller / Witness
1942
6.8
A Tragedy at Midnight
as Charles Miller
1942
4.7
🎬
Railroadin'
as George
1941
0.0
Our Wife
as Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)
1941
5.7
Down in San Diego
as Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
1941
5.5
Thieves Fall Out
as David Tipton
1941
5.5
Reaching for the Sun
as Front Office Man
1941
6.0
Horror Island
as Professor Jasper Quinley
1941
5.8
I Wanted Wings
as Mickey
1941
5.4
Santa Fe Trail
as Barber Doyle
1940
5.7
The Great Plane Robbery
as Homer Pringle
1940
0.0
Charter Pilot
as Horace Sturgeon
1940
6.0
🎬
Street of Memories
as Mr. Foster
1940
0.0
Hired Wife
as William
1940
6.8
Public Deb No. 1
as Mr. Schlitz
1940
4.4
Stage to Chino
as J. Horatio Boggs
1940
5.4
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
as Gimpy Darnell
1940
0.0
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Potts
1940
4.5
An Angel from Texas
as Mr. Robelink
1940
4.8
Shooting High
as Clem Perkle
1940
8.0
The Ghost Comes Home
as Ambrose Bundy
1940
5.0
Home Movies
as Party Guest Wearing Bowtie (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Four Wives
as Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
1939
5.3
See Your Doctor
as Brother-in-Law
1939
5.8
A Child Is Born
as Mr. Herbert West
1939
6.5
Reno
as Abe Compass
1939
6.0
That's Right – You're Wrong
as Dwight Cook
1939
5.7
The Covered Trailer
as E. L. Beamish
1939
0.0
Chicken Wagon Family
as Henri Fippany
1939
0.0
I Stole a Million
as Jenkins's Assistant
1939
6.0
Career
as Jim Bronson
1939
0.0
The House of Fear
as Minor Role
1939
6.5
Daughters Courageous
as Tourist (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Naughty But Nice
as Clark's Piano Tuner (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Tell No Tales
as Charlie Daggett
1939
4.6
Rose of Washington Square
as Whitey Boone
1939
5.8
Zenobia
as Mr. Dover
1939
4.6
The Adventures of Jane Arden
as "Killer"
1939
5.7
Never Say Die
as Druggist
1939
6.8
How to Sub-Let
as Mr. Mustavas
1939
3.5
Idiot's Delight
as Frueheim
1939
6.1
Cowboy from Brooklyn
as Mr. "Pops" Jordan
1938
4.0
🎬
Carnival Queen
as Profesor Silva
1937
0.0
Reported Missing
as 'Ab' Steele
1937
0.0
🎬
Love in a Bungalow
as Mr. Kester
1937
0.0
Night Key
as Petty Louie
1937
6.2
The Great O'Malley
as Reporter Pinky Holden
1937
6.7
Girl Overboard
as Joseph L. 'Joe' Gray
1937
0.0
The Mighty Treve
as Mr. Davis
1937
6.0
Mysterious Crossing
as Ned J. Stebbins
1936
0.0
Sing Me a Love Song
as Mr. Barton (uncredited)
1936
0.0
Three Smart Girls
as Wilbur Lamb
1936
6.4
Love Letters of a Star
as Chester Blodgett
1936
0.0
Here Comes Carter
as Mel Winter
1936
5.0
Cain and Mabel
as Milo
1936
6.1
Stage Struck
as Wayne
1936
4.0
Love Begins at Twenty
as Jacob 'Jake' Buckley
1936
6.0
Two Against the World
as Tippy Mantus
1936
5.8
The Golden Arrow
as DeWolfe
1936
6.1
Colleen
as Noggin
1936
5.3
Wife vs. Secretary
as Joe Farnsworth
1936
6.7
The Lady Consents
as Mr. Yardley
1936
5.8
A Dream Comes True
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Captain Blood
as Dr. Bronson
1935
7.2
Dr. Socrates
as Stevens
1935
6.4
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Philostrate
1935
6.3
I Live for Love
as Townsend
1935
4.8
Page Miss Glory
as Joe Bonner
1935
6.3
We're in the Money
as Max
1935
5.5
Broadway Gondolier
as Music Critic Gilmore
1935
5.4
Don't Bet on Blondes
as Philbert O. Slemp
1935
5.0
While the Patient Slept
as Eustace Federie
1935
6.4
Wings in the Dark
as Mac
1935
6.4
Bordertown
as Harry
1935
5.9
I Am a Thief
as Daudet
1934
6.0
The St. Louis Kid
as Richardson
1934
5.8
The Firebird
as Emile, Brandt's Valet
1934
5.5
I Sell Anything
as Stooge
1934
4.5
Madame du Barry
as Professor de la Vauguyon
1934
4.2
A Lost Lady
as Robert
1934
5.6
Kansas City Princess
as Alderman Sam Warren
1934
4.3
Housewife
as George Wilson
1934
7.7
The Key
as Homer, Tennant's Aide
1934
4.6
Now I'll Tell
as Freddie Stanton
1934
4.3
A Modern Hero
as Henry Mueller
1934
7.0
Merry Wives of Reno
as Derwent
1934
4.0
A Very Honorable Guy
as Benny
1934
2.0
Harold Teen
as Pop
1934
6.0
Wonder Bar
as Drunk (uncredited)
1934
5.9
Jimmy the Gent
as Fake Worthingham
1934
6.3
I've Got Your Number
as Happy Dooley
1934
6.0
Fashions of 1934
as Inventor on Ship (uncredited)
1934
6.4
Mandalay
as Purser (uncredited)
1934
5.6
Dark Hazard
as George Mayhew
1934
5.4
Hi, Nellie!
as Fullerton
1934
6.5
Easy to Love
as Hotel desk clerk
1934
4.6
Moulin Rouge
as Drunk
1934
7.0
Convention City
as Wendell Orchard
1933
3.0
Havana Widows
as Mr. Otis, Invincible Insurance
1933
5.8
From Headquarters
as Muggs Manton
1933
5.7
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
as Peanuts Dinwiddie
1933
5.7
My Woman
as Mr. Miller
1933
3.6
Too Much Harmony
as Piano Tuner
1933
5.0
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Mr. Harris (uncredited)
1933
5.6
Goodbye Again
as Mr. Clayton
1933
4.6
The Devil's Mate
as Parkhurst
1933
0.0
No Marriage Ties
as Smith
1933
4.2
Headline Shooter
as Happy
1933
6.2
Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Alf Simmons
1933
5.9
The Mayor of Hell
as Mr. Gorman
1933
7.1
Private Detective 62
as Harcourt S. Burns
1933
5.9
I Cover the Waterfront
as One Punch McCoy
1933
4.8
Picture Snatcher
as James Peters - Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
1933
6.8
State Fair
as Professor Fred Coin (Uncredited)
1933
6.2
The Wall Street Mystery
as Martin Hill
1931
6.0
The Poor Fish
as Harry
1930
0.0
Sympathy
as William Maxwell
1929
1.0
San Francisco Nights
as Tommie
1928
0.0