Name
Clarence Kolb
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1874-07-30
Deathday
1964-11-25 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clarence William Kolb (July 31, 1874 – November 25, 1964) was an American vaudeville performer and actor.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of second generation Austrian parents who owned a local meat company.
Kolb started out as one half of a vaudeville comedy team, Kolb and Dill, with Max Dill. They styled their act on the famous team of Weber and Fields. In addition to their stage work, they appeared in a series of short films and a feature length movie in 1917. Afterwards, Kolb made a return to vaudeville, and he only returned to the movies in the late 1930s.
He became famous for portraying the same type of character in many films, namely a politician or businessman. He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live (1938), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday (1940), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie (1952). Kolb played himself in his last movie appearance, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), opposite Danny Beck (who played the late Max Dill).
Clarence Kolb died at age 90 of a stroke at the Orchard Gables Sanitarium in Hollywood. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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- 1940 His Girl Friday as Mayor
- 1947 Blondie in the Dough as J.T. Thorp
- 1949 Impact as Darcy
- 1949 Adam's Rib as Judge Reiser
- 1927 Two Flaming Youths as Kolb - as Kolb and Dill
- 1938 Carefree as Judge Travers
- 1916 Bluff as Louie
- 1943 The Falcon in Danger as Stanley Harris Palmer
- 1947 Christmas Eve as Judge Alston
- 1941 Nothing but the Truth as Mr. Van Dusen
- 1941 The Night of January 16th as Tilton
- 1941 Caught in the Draft as Col. Peter Fairbanks
- 1946 The Kid from Brooklyn as Mr. Austin
- 1938 Merrily We Live as Henry Kilbourne
- 1945 Road to Alcatraz as Philip Angreet
- 1937 Wells Fargo as John Butterfield
- 1940 No Time for Comedy as Richard Benson
- 1938 The Law West of Tombstone as Samuel 'Sam' Kent
- 1939 It Could Happen to You as Alfred Wiman
- 1938 Give Me a Sailor as Captain Tallant
- 1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams as Captain McGovern
- 1939 Society Lawyer as Mr. Leonard
- 1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again as J.B. Armstrong
- 1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling as Leo Betz
- 1944 Standing Room Only as Glen Ritchie
- 1939 Beware Spooks! as Lester Lewis
- 1939 Five Little Peppers And How They Grew as J.H. King
- 1940 Five Little Peppers at Home as J.H. King
- 1943 True to Life as Mr. Huggins
- 1939 Honolulu as Mr. Horace Grayson
- 1940 Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Hiram P. Brighton
- 1947 Lost Honeymoon as Mr. Evans
- 1943 The Sky's the Limit as Harvey J. Sloan (uncredited)
- 1944 Something for the Boys as Colonel Grubbs (uncredited)
- 1945 What a Blonde as Charles DaFoe
- 1947 The Pilgrim Lady as Prof. Rankin
- 1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much as E.A. Smith
- 1939 Good Girls Go to Paris as Ted Dayton Sr.
- 1956 Shake, Rattle and Rock! as Judge McCombs
- 1937 Portia on Trial as John Condon
- 1936 Fury as Durkin's Friend (uncredited)
- 1941 Bedtime Story as Collins
- 1944 3 Is a Family as Mr. Steele
- 1937 The Toast of New York as Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 1939 I Was a Convict as John B. Harrison
- 1952 The Rose Bowl Story as Gramps Burke
- 1938 Gold Is Where You Find It as Senator Walsh
- 1941 You're in the Army Now as General Winthrop
- 1939 Our Leading Citizen as Jim Hanna
- 1941 Blossoms in the Dust as Senator
- 1941 Hellzapoppin' as Andrew Rand
- 1942 True to the Army as Gen. Marlowe
- 1936 A Girl's Best Years as Doctor (uncredited)
- 1947 Fun on a Weekend as Quigley Quackenbush
- 1937 Maid of Salem as Town Crier (Uncredited)
- 1957 Man of a Thousand Faces as Clarence Kolb
- 1946 White Tie and Tails as Mr. Arkwright
- 1947 The Fabulous Joe as Cornelius Belmont, II
- 1952 My Little Margie ( 5 episodes )
- 1952 My Little Margie ( 39 episodes ) as Mr. Honeywell
