Acting

Hobart Cavanaugh

Born September 21, 1886 · Virginia City, Nevada, USA

Died April 27, 1950 · aged 63

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage. He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California. He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 191…

Known For

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 · 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

MovieComedyDrama

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives · 1949

A Letter to Three Wives

MovieRomanceDrama

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one.

Night and Day

Night and Day · 1946

MovieDramaMusic

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail · 1940

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent · 1934

MovieDramaComedy

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

The Devil's Mate

The Devil's Mate · 1933

The Devil's Mate

MovieDramaMystery

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail · 1942

MovieRomanceWestern

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Filmography

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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 · 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

MovieComedyDrama

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Dog Salesman (uncredited)

Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Dr. Bronson

A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives · 1949

A Letter to Three Wives

MovieRomanceDrama

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one.

Mr. Manleigh

Night and Day

Night and Day · 1946

MovieDramaMusic

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.

Man in Hospital Hall (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail · 1940

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Barber Doyle

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent · 1934

MovieDramaComedy

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Fake Worthingham

The Devil's Mate

The Devil's Mate · 1933

The Devil's Mate

MovieDramaMystery

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.

Parkhurst

Jackass Mail

Jackass Mail · 1942

MovieRomanceWestern

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Gospel Jones

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1935

A Midsummer Night's Dream

MovieFantasyRomance

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Philostrate

Zenobia

Zenobia · 1939

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Mr. Dover

Our Wife

Our Wife · 1941

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

Shipboard Passenger (uncredited)

Lady in a Jam

Lady in a Jam · 1942

MovieComedyRomance

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

Reporter (uncredited)

Bureau of Missing Persons

Bureau of Missing Persons · 1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

MovieCrimeComedy

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she is the primary suspect - tough cop Butch Saunders comes up with a scheme to crack the case.

Mr. Harris (uncredited)

Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight · 1939

Idiot's Delight

MovieComedyDrama

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Frueheim

Black Angel

Black Angel · 1946

MovieMysteryCrime

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

Jake

Stand by for Action

Stand by for Action · 1942

Stand by for Action

MovieActionDrama

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.

Carpenter's Mate 'Chips'

I Stole a Million

I Stole a Million · 1939

I Stole a Million

MovieCrimeDrama

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Jenkins's Assistant

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell · 1933

The Mayor of Hell

MovieCrimeDrama

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Mr. Gorman

Guest in the House

Guest in the House · 1944

Guest in the House

MovieDramaThriller

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

Mr. Blossom

A Scream in the Dark

A Scream in the Dark · 1943

A Scream in the Dark

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

Leo Stark

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary · 1936

Wife vs. Secretary

MovieDramaComedy

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.

Joe Farnsworth

Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales · 1939

MovieCrimeMystery

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Charlie Daggett

Driftwood

Driftwood · 1947

MovieDramaFamily

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Judge Beckett

Rose of Washington Square

Rose of Washington Square · 1939

Rose of Washington Square

MovieDramaMusic

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Whitey Boone