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A brief, funny clip of veteran character actor William Catlett, as the outraged stage manager in the 1942 classic "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (available now on DVD...
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Walter Catlett carved out a career for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards, and few actors did it better. A San Francisco native, he started out in vaudeville - with a detour for a while in opera - before breaking into films in the mid-1920s.
But Catlett is best known to moviegoers as the confused, fussy, spectacled character actor in many of Hollywood’s top films. His career was a long one, from 1924’s silent Second Youth to 1957’s Beau James in which he played New York governor Al Smith.
Oct 14, 2008 · What might "Bringing Up Baby," and Katharine Hepburn's career, have been like without Walter Catlett? Thankfully we'll never have to know. Let's close with a bizarre and rare treat: Catlett, alongside Arthur Treacher, Sterling Holloway, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, and my personal favorite Veronica Lake, performing "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peek-a-Boo Bang" from 1942's "Star Spangled ...
Walter Catlett's most important works include A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Front Page (1931), Bringing Up Baby (1938), and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Walter began his artistic career in vaudeville in 1906 and broke into the world of films in the mid-twenties. He participated in 3 silent films, then he started acting in lots of talkies.
Was Walter Catlett married? Yes, to Ruth Verney. He was married to Kathleen Martyn from 1932 to November 14, 1960 and Zanetta Watrous from 1908 to November 25, 1930.
Walter Catlett was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Catlett's career in acting began with his roles in various films like the J Harold Murray adaptation "Married in Hollywood" (1929), "The Golden Calf" (1930) and "Let's Go Places" (1930).
