Acting
Robert Woolsey
Born August 12, 1888 · Oakland, California, USA
Died October 31, 1938 · aged 50
Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.
Known For
Cockeyed Cavaliers · 1934Cockeyed Cavaliers
★ 5.81934
MovieComedyMusic
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
So This Is Africa · 1933So This Is Africa
★ 6.31933
MovieComedyAdventure
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Diplomaniacs · 1933Diplomaniacs
★ 7.51933
MovieComedy
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
Caught Plastered · 1931Caught Plastered
★ 6.21931
MovieComedy
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
The Stolen Jools · 1931The Stolen Jools
★ 5.61931
MovieComedy
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Peach-o-Reno · 1931Peach-o-Reno
★ 6.51931
MovieComedyRomance
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
On Again—Off Again · 1937On Again—Off Again
★ 8.01937
MovieComedy
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
The Rainmakers · 1935The Rainmakers
★ 7.01935
MovieComedyRomance
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Caught Plastered · 1931Caught Plastered
★ 6.21931
MovieComedy
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
Eggbert G. Higginbothom
Everything’s Rosie · 1931Everything’s Rosie
★ 6.01931
MovieComedy
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop
The Cuckoos · 1930The Cuckoos
★ 8.01930
MovieComedy
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Prof. Cunningham













