Roscoe Karns

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

134

Movies

137

Born: September 6, 1891 – February 6, 1970
From: San Bernardino, California, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series. From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964. Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Works

137 films

It Happened One Night

19347.8

His Girl Friday

19407.4

Wings

19277.2

The Jazz Singer

19276.1

Front Page Woman

19355.9

Alice in Wonderland

19336.1

Dollar Down

19257.0

Man's Favorite Sport?

19647.0

The Ten Commandments

19236.5

Woman of the Year

19426.9

Object: Alimony

19287.0

Ladies Must Live

19407.0

They Drive by Night

19406.9

A Lady's Profession

19337.0

Onionhead

19585.5

The Woman in Red

19356.0

Beggars of Life

19287.1

Woman Trap

19368.0

You and Me

19386.6

If I Had a Million

19326.5

Clarence

19379.0

Night of Mystery

193710.0

Twentieth Century

19346.8

Dangerous to Know

19386.6

Warming Up

19289.0

Stowaway

19326.5

Yokel Boy

19425.8

You'd Be Surprised

19267.0

Petticoat Politics

19419.0

Her Own Money

192210.0

Copy

19296.5

Stage Door Canteen

19436.3

Something Always Happens

192810.0

Conquering the Woman

19228.0

The Life of the Party

19205.6

Dirigible

19315.5

You Can't Escape Forever

19426.0

The Gay Vagabond

19419.0

Cain and Mabel

19366.4

Gambling Ship

19335.8

The Navy Way

19446.3

Old Acquaintance

19437.1

Border Flight

19366.5

Night After Night

19326.3

Two Against the World

19325.5

One Way Passage

19327.3

That's My Man

19476.7

Come On, Marines!

19345.6

Shoot the Works

19346.7

His Butler's Sister

19437.2

That's Right – You're Wrong

19396.3

The Shopworn Angel

19289.0

King of Chinatown

19395.6

Bluff

192410.0

Tip-Off Girls

19387.5

A Tragedy at Midnight

19425.2

Today We Live

19336.3

The Midnight Express

19244.7

High Pressure

19325.8

Riding High

19435.6

Lawyer Man

19326.1

Thanks for the Memory

19385.8

One Way to Love

19467.0

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

19485.8

Footsteps in the Dark

19417.0

I Sell Anything

19345.0

Laughing Sinners

19315.3

Minstrel Man

19445.5

Grand Slam

19334.6

Elmer and Elsie

193410.0

Scandal Street

19388.0

The Family Honor

19208.0

My Son, The Hero

19437.0

The Roadhouse Murder

19325.0

The Women in His Life

19334.3

The Inside Story

19486.6

Safety in Numbers

19305.5

Vigilantes of Boomtown

19474.3

Beau Sabreur

19289.0

Dancing Co-Ed

19396.6

They Call It Sin

19326.0

Troopers Three

19307.0

Red Hot Tires

19356.0

Black Eyes and Blues

19419.0

The Crooked Circle

19325.2

One Sunday Afternoon

19336.6

Everything's on Ice

19395.3

The Trail of '98

19286.1

Ladies of the Big House

19316.0

The Vanishing Pioneer

19289.0

The Gorilla

19309.0

Play Girl

19325.0

Half Shot at Sunrise

194110.0

Alibi Ike

19356.2

Meet the Missus

19407.0

The Foolish Virgin

192410.0

Moran of the Marines

19287.0

The Trouper

19228.0

Wings in the Dark

19356.4

Partners in Crime

19378.0

Double Alibi

19405.3

The Flying Fleet

19296.9

Devil's Cargo

19485.9

Other Men's Daughters

19238.0

Road to Happiness

19415.7

The Desert Bride

19285.5

Win That Girl

192810.0

Many a Slip

193110.0

This Thing Called Love

19299.0

Week-End Marriage

19325.5

Saturday's Children

19406.9

Three Married Men

19368.0

Mr. Carlson of Arizona

1915

Man Trouble

19307.5

Murder Goes to College

19375.0

The Costello Case

19308.0

Under-Cover Man

19326.3

Four Hours to Kill!

19355.7

Hi, Good Lookin'!

19446.5

Jazz Mad

19288.0

Two-Fisted

19358.5

Avalanche

19469.0

Pleasure

19314.2

On Such a Night

19377.0

New York Nights

19295.5

Speed to Spare

19486.7

The Man Tamer

192110.0

The Overland Limited

192510.0

Poor Relations

19198.0

Left Over Ladies

19317.0

I Ring Doorbells

19467.0

Little Accident

19309.0

Ritzy

19278.0

Ten Modern Commandments

192710.0

A Species of Mexican Man

19158.0

From Champion to Tramp

19159.0

A Western Governor's Humanity

19157.0