Acting

Franklin Pangborn

Born January 23, 1889 · Newark, New Jersey, USA

Died July 20, 1958 · aged 69

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor famous for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. He appeared in scores of feature films playing essentially the same character: prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous, prone to becoming flustered but esse…

Known For

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

MovieComedyDrama

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels · 1941

Sullivan's Travels

MovieComedyRomance

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Lighthouse Love

Lighthouse Love · 1932

Lighthouse Love

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey · 1936

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Stage Door

Stage Door · 1937

MovieComedyDrama

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · 1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

MovieDramaFamily

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Filmography

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

MovieComedyDrama

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

The Tailor (uncredited)

Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels · 1941

Sullivan's Travels

MovieComedyRomance

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Mr. Casalsis

Lighthouse Love

Lighthouse Love · 1932

Lighthouse Love

Two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

Pvt. Jerry Stone

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey · 1936

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

Guthrie (uncredited)

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Billy Moon (uncredited)

Stage Door

Stage Door · 1937

MovieComedyDrama

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Harcourt

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · 1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

MovieDramaFamily

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.

Hamilton Montmarcy

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Mr. Thompson

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas · 1948

Romance on the High Seas

MovieComedyRomance

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Rio Hotel Clerk

Vivacious Lady

Vivacious Lady · 1938

MovieComedyRomance

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

Apartment Manager

Her Man

Her Man · 1930

MovieDramaRomance

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Sport

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen · 1943

Stage Door Canteen

MovieComedyRomance

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.

Franklin Pangborn

Easy Living

Easy Living · 1937

MovieComedyRomance

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

Van Buren

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life · 1934

Imitation of Life

MovieDramaRomance

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Mr. Carven (uncredited)

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans · 1941

The Flame of New Orleans

MovieComedyRomance

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Bellows

The Palm Beach Story

The Palm Beach Story · 1942

The Palm Beach Story

MovieComedyRomance

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

Manager

Design for Living

Design for Living · 1933

Design for Living

MovieComedyRomance

Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.

Mr. Douglas

Unknown Blonde

Unknown Blonde · 1934

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.

Male Co-Respondent

Professional Sweetheart

Professional Sweetheart · 1933

Professional Sweetheart

MovieComedyRomance

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

Herbert

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio · 1933

Flying Down to Rio

MovieComedyRomance

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and their only pre-Code film.

Hammerstein (uncredited)

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Cockeyed Cavaliers · 1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

MovieComedyMusic

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Town Crier

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Bluebeard's 8th Wife · 1938

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

MovieComedyRomance

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

Assistant Hotel Manager

The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind · 1957

The Story of Mankind

MovieDramaFantasy

The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

Marquis de Varennes

Living on Love

Living on Love · 1937

MovieComedyRomance

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts.

Ogilvie O. Oglethorpe

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet · 1952

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

SeriesComedyFamily

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".

Mr. Canfield (uncredited)

Revlon Mirror Theatre

Revlon Mirror Theatre · 1953

Revlon Mirror Theatre

Also known as 'Mirror Theater', this was an American anthology drama television series.