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So Ends Our Night

as Leopold Potzloch

1941
Scatterbrain

as Nicholas Raptis

1940
The Great Ziegfeld

as Dr. Ziegfeld

1936
Brides Are Like That

as Fred Schultz

1936
Gold Diggers of 1935

as August Schultz

1935
Naughty Marietta

as Herr 'Schumie' Schuman

1935
Maybe It's Love

as Adolph Sr.

1935
Sweet Adeline

as Oscar Schmidt

1934
Music in the Air

as Hans Uppman

2011
Twenty Million Sweethearts

as Herbert Brokman

1934
Young and Beautiful

as Herman Cline

1934
The Last Gentleman

as Dr. Wilson

1934
Lazy River

as Mr. Julius Ambrose

1934
Blondie Johnson

as Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)

1933
Broken Dreams

as Pop

1933
White Zombie

as Dr. Bruner

1932
Love Me Tonight

as Dr. Armand de Fontinac

1932
Peach-o-Reno

as Joe Bruno

1931
Kiki

as Alfred Rapp

1931
Dixiana

as Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father

1930
Street Girl

as Keppel - Cafe Owner

1929
Joseph Cawthorn Joseph Cawthorn

Birthday

1868-03-29

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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 dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
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