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Acteur dans 83 films

Né(e) le 04 juillet 1902

Lieu de naissance
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Mort le 10 août 1977 (à 75 ans)

Vince Barnett

Acteur dans

1974

  • Summer School Teachers

1965

  • Les tontons farceurs

1959

  • The Rookie

1958

  • Girl on the Run

1952

  • Les Conquérants De Carson City

1951

  • Kentucky Jubilee

1950

  • Mule Train

1949

  • Deputy Marshal

1948

  • Big Town Scandal

1947

  • High Wall
  • Big Town After Dark
  • Les Démons de la liberté
  • The Trespasser
  • Shoot to Kill
  • I Cover Big Town

1946

  • Les Tueurs
  • Bowery Bombshell
  • Le Traître du Far-West
  • The Falcon's Alibi
  • The Lady or the Tiger?
  • Pas de congé, pas d'amour

1945

  • Sensation Hunters
  • High Powered
  • The Big Show-Off

1944

  • Leave It to the Irish
  • Jungle Woman
  • Sweethearts of the U.S.A.

1943

  • Danger! Women at Work
  • Tornado
  • Petticoat Larceny
  • Captive Wild Woman

1942

  • Queen of Broadway
  • Le monstre de minuit
  • Foreign Agent
  • My Favorite Spy
  • Stardust on the Sage
  • Klondike Fury
  • Girls' Town

1941

  • Blonde Comet
  • Paper Bullets

1940

  • Heroes of the Saddle
  • La maison des sept péchés
  • Boys of the City
  • East Side Kids

1939

  • Overland Mail
  • Ride 'em, Cowgirl

1938

  • Sunset Murder Case
  • The Singing Cowgirl

1937

  • Bank Alarm

1936

  • We're in the Legion Now
  • Captain Calamity
  • Yellow Cargo
  • I Cover Chinatown
  • Down to the Sea
  • Dancing Feet
  • The Brain Busters

1935

  • Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
  • I Live My Life
  • Just Another Murder
  • Don't Bet On Blondes
  • Black Fury

1934

  • Kansas City Princess
  • Crimson Romance
  • Super Stupid
  • The Affairs of Cellini
  • Now I'll Tell
  • Princesse par intérim
  • Registered Nurse
  • Madame Spy
  • The Ninth Guest

1933

  • The Prizefighter and the Lady
  • The Big Cage
  • Fast Workers
  • Je suis un vagabond

1932

  • Flesh
  • Heritage of the Desert
  • Le harpon rouge
  • Plumes de cheval
  • Scarface

1931

  • Side Show
  • Scandal Sheet

1930

  • À l'ouest, rien de nouveau
  • Wide Open
Former vaudevillian, who acquired a solid reputation as a practical joker and master of insult, second only to the great Groucho Marx. Celebrity hosts would often hire Vince to perform gags and put-on jokes at their lavish parties, where he would insult the guests and create mayhem in his wake. He often posed as heavily-accented journalists with names like 'Timothy Glutzspiegel'. Among the many victims of his pranks were such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. Clark Gable nearly punched him out during a party given by Joan Crawford. Vince greeted Greta Garbo with "Good Morning, Miss Hepburn", and, as 'sound expert' Dr. Hoffman, instructed star Richard Barthelmess to take voice lessons from Texas Guinan or quit acting. During a trip to New York, he even cornered Mae West, posing as a member of the vice squad and threatening to close down her show ('Diamond Lil') unless she cut some of her bawdy dialogue. When the star acquiesced, the phoney inspector ordered her to burn the whole play and take the next train out of town. Not even Jack L. Warner was immune, being told by 'foreign producer' Barnett to learn the basics of film-making. Roly-poly, moustachioed, bald-pated Barnett followed in the footsteps of his father Luke, who had made a name for himself for playing similar pranks on people for thirty years in his home town of Pittsburgh. After studying at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Vince, who was an avid amateur pilot, flew mail planes for a couple of years before making his stage debut with "Earl Carroll's Vanities" in 1926. The following year, he acted on Broadway in "George White's Scandals". Movie roles soon followed. From 1930, Vince appeared, usually as comedy relief, in films and on television in a career spanning 45 years. Among his best-regarded early roles were Scarface (1932),as a dumb gangster; The Big Cage (1933), Thirty Day Princess (1934) and, in a perfectly-suited Runyonesque part, Princess O'Hara (1935). In later years, Vince often relinquished his comedy image and was seen in innumerable small roles, often as careworn little men, undertakers, janitors, bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir like The Killers (1946), to westerns such as Springfield Rifle (1952). In one of his last public appearances, Vince showcased his unique brand of humour with a monologue, delivered at Madison Square Garden in the vaudeville revue 'The Big Show of 1936'. It was to his ever-lasting regret that he never got the chance to match wits (and insults) with his illustrious Irish contemporary George Bernard Shaw.





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