Acting

Joseph Cawthorn

Born March 27, 1868 · New York City, New York, USA

Died January 21, 1949 · aged 80

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German d…

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The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

White Zombie

White Zombie · 1932

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

Music in the Air

Music in the Air · 1934

Music in the Air

MovieComedyRomance

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight · 1932

Love Me Tonight

MovieComedyRomance

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

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.

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night · 1941

So Ends Our Night

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Sweet Music

Sweet Music · 1935

MovieMusicRomance

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

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The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld · 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

MovieMusicDrama

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows

Dr. Ziegfeld

White Zombie

White Zombie · 1932

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

Dr. Bruner

Music in the Air

Music in the Air · 1934

Music in the Air

MovieComedyRomance

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Hans Uppman

Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight · 1932

Love Me Tonight

MovieComedyRomance

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Dr. Armand de Fontinac

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.

Herr 'Schumie' Schuman

Blondie Johnson

Blondie Johnson · 1933

Blondie Johnson

MovieCrimeDrama

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night · 1941

So Ends Our Night

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Leopold Potzloch

Sweet Music

Sweet Music · 1935

MovieMusicRomance

A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

Sidney Selzer

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 · 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

August Schultz

Housewife

Housewife · 1934

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own advertising agency and helps him land his first client. Bill's former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and heats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.

Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)

Bright Lights

Bright Lights · 1935

MovieComedyMusic

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Oscar Schlemmer

Scatterbrain

Scatterbrain · 1940

MovieComedyMusic

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Nicholas Raptis

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell · 1940

Lillian Russell

MovieDramaMusic

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Leopold Damrosch

Freshman Love

Freshman Love · 1936

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Wilson, Sr.

Kiki

A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.

Alfred Rapp

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew · 1929

The Taming of the Shrew

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.

Gremio

Men Are Such Fools

Men Are Such Fools · 1932

Men Are Such Fools

An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.

Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)

The Postman Didn't Ring

The Postman Didn't Ring · 1942

The Postman Didn't Ring

MovieRomanceComedy

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.

Silas Harwood

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark · 1933

Whistling in the Dark

MovieComedyCrime

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Barfuss

They Call It Sin

They Call It Sin · 1932

They Call It Sin

A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.

Mr. Hollister

Lazy River

Lazy River · 1934

MovieDramaRomance

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Mr. Julius Ambrose

Maybe It's Love

Maybe It's Love · 1935

Maybe It's Love

MovieRomanceComedy

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Adolph Sr.

Peach-o-Reno

Peach-o-Reno · 1931

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.

Joe Bruno

Brides Are Like That

Brides Are Like That · 1936

Brides Are Like That

MovieComedyRomance

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.

Fred Schultz