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
Cracked Nuts · 1931Cracked Nuts
★ 8.01931
MovieComedyRomance
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
So This Is Africa · 1933So This Is Africa
★ 6.21933
MovieComedyAdventure
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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.
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
Hold 'Em Jail · 1932Hold 'Em Jail
★ 6.81932
MovieComedy
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
High Flyers · 1937High Flyers
★ 7.51937
MovieComedy
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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!
Cockeyed Cavaliers · 1934Cockeyed Cavaliers
★ 5.81934
MovieComedyMusic
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Filmography
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Half Shot at Sunrise · 1930Half Shot at Sunrise
★ 6.01930
MovieComedy
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Gilbert Simpson
The Cuckoos · 1930The Cuckoos
★ 8.01930
MovieComedy
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Prof. Cunningham
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












