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Name
Fred Kelsey

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1884-08-20

Deathday
1961-09-02 (77 years old)

Place of Birth
Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1930 She Got What She Wanted
1942 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Policeman (uncredited)
1950 Revenue Agent as Sgt. Wallace
1937 Love Is News as Cop (uncredited)
1926 That's My Baby as Murphy
1934 Twentieth Century as Train Detective (uncredited)
1927 Soft Cushions as The Police
1924 The Yankee Consul as Agent John J. Doyle
1949 Flamingo Road as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1931 Subway Express as Detective Kearney
1929 The Donovan Affair as Carney
1923 Lights Out as Decker
1935 One Frightened Night as Sheriff Jenks
1939 Moving Vanities as Police Officer (uncredited)
1920 Alias Jimmy Valentine as Bit Part (uncredited)
1918 The Empty Cab as The Detective
1925 Friendly Enemies
1932 The Iceman's Ball as Police Sergeant
1945 Frontier Days as Mayor Stone (uncredited)
1922 Deserted at the Altar as The Other Man
1952 Hans Christian Andersen as First Gendarme
1922 One Clear Call as Starnes
1923 Lovebound as Detective Hahn
1927 Jewish Prudence as Rent Collector
1934 The Crime Doctor as Bloodgood
1942 Counter-Espionage as Dickens
1950 So You Want a Raise
1944 Roaring Guns
1944 Trial by Trigger as Jerry (uncredited)
1951 Storm Warning as Townsman (uncredited)
1946 Hiss and Yell as Policeman (uncredited)
1941 The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Detective Dickens
1955 Tall Man Riding as Townsman (uncredited)
1943 Northern Pursuit as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1952 Springfield Rifle as Barfly (uncredited)
1954 The Silver Chalice as Silversmith (uncredited)
1945 Saratoga Trunk as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1922 Manslaughter as Member of the Jury (uncredited)
1949 Colorado Territory as Train Engineer (uncredited)
1921 The Last Card as Detective (uncredited)
1917 The Honor of an Outlaw as The Deputy
1950 So You Think You're Not Guilty as Police Turnkey (uncredited)
1945 If a Body Meets a Body as Detective
1932 If I Had a Million as Prison Jailer (uncredited)
1932 Discarded Lovers as Delaney
1942 Murder in the Big House as "Screw"
1941 Secrets of the Lone Wolf as Wesley Dickens
1925 Seven Keys to Baldpate
1937 Super-Sleuth as Jailer
1937 That I May Live as Abner Jenkins
1935 Danger Ahead as Detective O'Brien
1930 Scarlet Pages as Murphy
1934 The Moth as Detective Blake
1934 Lightning Strikes Twice as Dugan
1914 Arms and the Gringo
1943 Murder on the Waterfront as Capt. Beal
1955 To Catch a Thief as Party Guest (uncredited)
1954 Lucky Me as Passerby on Street (uncredited)
1945 Christmas in Connecticut as Harper (uncredited)
1936 The Little Red Schoolhouse as First Detective
1926 Say It with Babies as Policeman
1928 The Wright Idea as M. T. Flatt
1950 Backfire as Fight Fan (uncredited)
1955 Illegal as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1931 Side Show as Sheriff Hornsby
1933 The Crime of the Century as Police Guard (uncredited)
1932 Love in High Gear as Detective Duffy
1935 Atlantic Adventure as Police Officer Riley
1934 Strictly Fresh Yeggs as Policeman
1928 Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Detective
1930 The Woman Racket as Police Captain
1942 My Favorite Blonde as Sam - Policeman
1935 A Notorious Gentleman as Detective
1943 A Gem of a Jam as Police Chief
1930 Wide Open as Detective
1930 Road to Paradise as Casey
1930 The Girl Said No as Policeman
1932 Guilty as Hell as Detective Duffy
1922 Don't Shoot as Police Officer
1959 Westbound as Townsman (uncredited)
1914 Silent Sandy as Silent Sandy
1935 Death Flies East as Police Lieutenant O'Brien
1946 Andy Plays Hookey as Policeman
1942 Lady Gangster as Policeman (uncredited)
1939 Tiny Troubles as Judge
1919 The Silk Lined Burglar as Capt. von Hoffmeier
1942 Larceny, Inc. as Bronson
1921 There Are No Villains as Dugall
1918 The Yellow Dog as Max Kummich
1942 Bullet Scars as Police Chief Hansen
1929 The Faker as Police Detective
1928 Tenderloin as Detective Simpson
1935 Hot Money as Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
1928 Harold Teen as Mr. Lovewell
1942 X Marks the Spot as Police Officer Martin
1936 At Sea Ashore as Cop (uncredited)
1923 Souls for Sale as Detective Quinn (uncredited)
1932 Red Haired Alibi as Corcoran
1946 Detour to Danger as Det. Kelsey
1952 Room for One More
1924 The Night Hawk
1934 I'll Be Suing You as Insurance Adjustor
1937 Love and Hisses as Officer
1938 Josette as Hotel Detective
1938 Night Spot as Police Band Leader
1934 I'll Tell the World as Sergeant at Border
1928 While the City Sleeps as Detective in Shadow Box
1939 Tell No Tales as Policeman at School (uncredited)
1938 Everybody's Doing It as Police Sergeant
1951 The Enforcer
1931 Scandal Sheet as Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy
1930 Going Wild as The Conductor
1922 Captain Fly-by-Night as Gomez
1927 The Gorilla as Mulligan
1954 A Star Is Born as Audience Member (uncredited)
1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case as Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
1930 Only Saps Work as Murphy (uncredited)
1933 King of the Jungle as Cop (uncredited)
1923 The Eleventh Hour as The Submarine Commander
1939 Rough Riders' Round-up as Agitator
1939 Charlie Chan in Reno as Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1937 The Lady Escapes as Man on telephone (uncredited)
1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as Pete - Railroad Detective
1939 Charlie Chan at Treasure Island as Detective - in Cab and at Theatre
1939 Chicken Wagon Family as Policeman
1933 Quiet Please! as Train Conductor
1925 The Uneasy Three
1952 O. Henry's Full House as Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
1946 A Stolen Life as Bartender (uncredited)
1940 The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Dickens
1940 The Lone Wolf Strikes as Dickens
1940 The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady as Dickens
1940 Mutiny in the County as Policeman
1954 Outlaw's Son
1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Bailiff
1953 Crime Wave as Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
1945 Mildred Pierce as Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
1943 Here Comes Mr. Zerk as Policeman
1925 Little Annie Rooney as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1945 Snooper Service
1944 Crime by Night as Dad Martin (uncredited)
1933 Sailor's Luck as Cop
1936 High Tension as Desk Sergeant
1937 Time Out for Romance as Policeman
1934 Rough Necking as Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.
1926 Atta Boy as Detective
1929 Wrong Again
1940 Deadwood Dick as Bottles
1958 Auntie Mame as Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
1932 Huddle as Policeman (uncredited)
1940 Misbehaving Husbands as Sgt. Murphy
1935 Horses' Collars as Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)
1937 One Mile from Heaven as Smitty - Policeman
1942 Gentleman Jim as Sutro (uncredited)
1940 The Golden Fleecing as Cop (uncredited)
1944 Mr. Skeffington as Cop in Raid (uncredited)
1940 The Green Archer as Capt. Thompson
1941 At the Stroke of Twelve as Police Sergeant
1950 So You Want to Hold Your Husband as Lamb - Curry's Partner
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars as Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
1932 Yoo-Hoo as Detective
1925 Paths to Paradise as Confederate
1950 The Damned Don't Cry as Man on Dock (uncredited)
1946 Never Say Goodbye as Policeman (uncredited)
1937 Big Business as Oil Man at Well
1935 Diamond Jim as Horsley's Secretary
1936 The Witness Chair as Detective Costigan
1925 Seven Sinners as Policeman
1941 Invisible Ghost as Detective Ryan
1926 Bromo and Juliet as The Detective (uncredited)
1935 Carnival as Bit Part
1926 Crazy Like a Fox as Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)
1942 Wild Bill Hickok Rides as Jailer
1941 They Died with Their Boots On as Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
1928 On Trial as Clerk
1928 Naughty Baby as Dugan
1945 How DOooo You Do as Detective
1943 Food and Magic
1937 Slave Ship as Seaman at Auction
1938 Straight, Place and Show as Cop at Racetrack
1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West as Jim - Detective
1937 Angel's Holiday as Conductor
1939 Clock Wise as Landlord
1941 Mr. District Attorney as Officer McCloskey
1941 Pacific Blackout as Cop
1940 High School as Junk Man
1942 Spy Ship as Night Watchman
1942 I Was Framed as Drunk
1928 The Last Warning as Inspector
1931 Young Donovan's Kid as Collins
1938 Berth Quakes as Train Conductor
1942 Dear! Deer! as Policeman
1943 One Dangerous Night as Detective Dickens
1943 Action in the North Atlantic as Joe (uncredited)
1946 So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck as Fred
1928 A Woman of Affairs as Detective (uncredited)
1937 Borrowing Trouble as Policeman
1938 Safety in Numbers as Cop
1938 Down on the Farm as Bit Role
1939 Too Busy to Work as Hank Fidler
1943 True to Life as Cop (uncredited)
1943 Old Acquaintance as Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
1947 The Unfaithful as Courtroom Spectator
1946 Three Strangers as Man on the Street / Man in Pub (uncredited)
1956 The Opposite Sex as Club Patron (uncredited)
1932 Boys Will Be Boys as Doorman
1918 A Society Sensation as JIm Cox
1949 The Inspector General as Villager (uncredited)
1946 So You Want to Play the Horses as Detective (uncredited)
1934 Among the Missing as Police Sgt. Murphy
1944 Make Your Own Bed as Turnkey
1926 The Third Degree as Assistant Chief of Detectives
1949 Dancing in the Dark as Deputy
1927 The Thirteenth Hour as Det. Shaw
1949 Homicide as Officer O'Brien
1949 The Fountainhead as Old Watchman (uncredited)
1922 The Song of Life as Police Inspector
1952 My Six Convicts as Store Detective
1931 The Naughty Flirt as Policeman (uncredited)
1937 She Had to Eat as Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)
1948 The Noose Hangs High as Cop (uncredited)
1927 The 13th Juror as The Detective
1941 The Man Who Came to Dinner as Detective (uncredited)
1956 Serenade as Opera Attendee (uncredited)
1921 Puppets of Fate as Bobs
1954 So You Want to Know Your Relatives as Mr. Watson (uncredited)
1934 School for Girls as Detective
1919 The Light of Victory as Captain Eric von Prohme
1951 Goodbye, My Fancy as Party Guest (Uncredited)
1942 In This Our Life as Jailer (uncredited)
1950 The Flame and the Arrow as Guard (uncredited)
1932 Shopping with Wifie as Det. Dugan
1952 So You Want to Enjoy Life as Boat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)
1936 Private Number as Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)
1937 Wild and Woolly as Policeman (uncredited)
1948 So You Want an Apartment as Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)
1945 Come Out Fighting as Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)
1936 The Garden Murder Case as Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)
1930 Men Without Law as Deputy Sheriff Jeff
1925 Excuse Me as George Ketchem
1934 Beloved as Mulvaney
1911 A Left Hook
1925 The Lawful Cheater as Tom Horan
1935 The Sagebrush Troubadour as Hank Polk
1935 The Public Menace as Mike - Cop
1945 The Strange Mr. Gregory as Lefert
1938 Many Sappy Returns as Finnegan
1941 One Foot in Heaven as Train Conductor (uncredited)
1926 Dog Shy as Cop
1919 The Fire Flingers as Sgt. Powers
1930 Murder on the Roof as Ryan
1926 The Mystery Pilot as Skipper Larsen
1923 Bag and Baggage as Fred
1929 Smiling Irish Eyes as County Fair Manager
1926 There Ain't No Santa Claus as Store Detective (uncredited)
1947 Nora Prentiss as Turnkey (uncredited)
1946 Night and Day as First-Nighter (uncredited)
1949 So You Want to Be a Muscle Man as Delivery Man
1953 Murder Without Tears as Sergeant-at-Arms
1949 So You Want to Be an Actor as Counter Man
1946 The Man I Love as Mac the Doorman (uncredited)
1953 So You Think You Can't Sleep as Sleeping patient in waiting room
1953 So You Want to Be a Musician as Restaurant diner
1951 Strangers on a Train as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
1932 Speak Easily as Process Server
1927 Orchids and Ermine as Police Sergeant
1930 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self - Tour Guide
1922 South of Suva as Karl Swartz
1928 Plastered in Paris
1944 Shine on Harvest Moon as Policeman in patrol car (uncredited)
1925 Youth and Adventure as Red Mullin
1952 Carson City as Townsman (uncredited)
1957 Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend as Barfly (uncredited)
1954 Riding Shotgun as Townsman (uncredited)
1927 Held by the Law as Detective
1948 Silver River as Townsman (uncredited)
1933 The Bowery as Detective Kelsey (uncredited)
1957 The Helen Morgan Story as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
1921 The Off-Shore Pirate as Sailor
1921 The Match-Breaker as Detective
1932 The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Cop (uncredited)
1946 The People's Choice
1933 Shadows of Sing Sing as Murphy
1920 The Third Generation as Brody
1954 Phantom of the Rue Morgue as Crowd Spectator (uncredited)
1954 Racing Blood as Smithy
1926 The Social Highwayman as Chief of Police
1924 Traffic in Hearts as Tim Tracy
1925 Smooth as Satin as Kersey
1928 A Midnight Adventure as Cassidy
1933 Gold Diggers of 1933 as Detective Jones (uncredited)
1946 Monkey Businessmen as Smiling Sam McGann (uncredited)
1952 Strop, Look and Listen as Pierpont Alloy

1951 The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ( 1 episode ) as Doc Jones (uncredited)

Name
Fred Kelsey

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1884-08-20

Deathday
1961-09-02 (77 years old)

Place of Birth
Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography

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Name Fred Kelsey

Known For Acting

Birthday 1884-08-20

Deathday 1961-09-02 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography

Known For

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6.808

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6.367

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5.8

7.146

5.333

Name
Fred Kelsey

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1884-08-20

Deathday
1961-09-02 (77 years old)

Place of Birth
Sandusky, Ohio, USA