Acting

Edward Brophy

Born February 26, 1895 · New York City, New York, USA

Died May 27, 1960 · aged 65

Edward Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic. He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo. His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes…

Known For

Dumbo

MovieAnimationFamily

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Freaks

MovieDramaHorror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

The Thin Man

The Thin Man · 1934

MovieComedyMystery

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Cover Girl

Cover Girl · 1944

MovieMusicComedy

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah · 1958

The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

Air Force

Air Force · 1943

MovieActionDrama

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night · 1942

All Through the Night

MovieComedyAction

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

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Dumbo

MovieAnimationFamily

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Timothy Q. Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Freaks

MovieDramaHorror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Rollo Brother

The Thin Man

The Thin Man · 1934

MovieComedyMystery

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Joe Morelli

The Cameraman

The Cameraman · 1928

MovieComedyRomance

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Man in Bathhouse Stall with Buster (uncredited)

Cover Girl

Cover Girl · 1944

MovieMusicComedy

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Joe, bartender (uncredited)

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah · 1958

The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

Ditto Boland

Air Force

Air Force · 1943

MovieActionDrama

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Marine Sgt. J.J. Callahan

All Through the Night

All Through the Night · 1942

All Through the Night

MovieComedyAction

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Joe Denning

China Seas

China Seas · 1935

MovieAdventureAction

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

Wilbur Timmons

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue · 1947

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

MovieComedyRomance

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton

The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman · 1940

The Invisible Woman

MovieComedyHorror

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Bill

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance · 1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

MovieDramaComedy

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Dwarfie

The Thin Man Goes Home

The Thin Man Goes Home · 1944

The Thin Man Goes Home

MovieComedyMystery

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Brogan

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta · 1935

Naughty Marietta

MovieMusicRomance

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Zeke

Evelyn Prentice

Evelyn Prentice · 1934

Evelyn Prentice

MovieDramaMystery

A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.

Eddie Delaney

The Last Gangster

The Last Gangster · 1937

The Last Gangster

MovieCrimeDrama

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and make him disclose the location of the loot he hid before going to the slammer.

Fats Garvey

Mad Love

Mad Love · 1935

MovieHorrorRomance

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

Rollo

A Slight Case of Murder

A Slight Case of Murder · 1938

A Slight Case of Murder

MovieComedyCrime

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Lefty

The Bride Came C.O.D.

The Bride Came C.O.D. · 1941

The Bride Came C.O.D.

MovieComedyRomance

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

Hinkle

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow · 1944

It Happened Tomorrow

MovieFantasyComedy

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Jake Shomberg

Passport Husband

Passport Husband · 1938

Passport Husband

At the Club Habana, Henry Cabot, a bumbling busboy, is infatuated with the club's dancer, Conchita Montez. As Tiger Martin, the leader of a gang of thieves, gives Conchita a diamond bracelet, he is arrested. After Tiger is deported, Duke Selton, of Tiger's gang, pays a visit to Conchita and tells her he believes that Blackie Bennet, the leader of a rival gang, is responsible for tipping off the police about Tiger's citizenship.

Spike

The Gay Falcon

The Gay Falcon · 1941

Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.

Detective Bates

Hideaway Girl

Hideaway Girl · 1936

An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.

Bugs Murphy

Wonder Man

Wonder Man · 1945

MovieComedyFantasy

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

Torso

The Millionaire

The Millionaire · 1955

The Millionaire

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

Preliminary Feeney

Mr. & Mrs. North

Mr. & Mrs. North · 1952

Mr. & Mrs. North

SeriesComedyCrime

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.