Clarence Kolb
Acting
Born 1874-07-30
Died 1964-11-25
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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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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Filmography
My Little Margie
His Girl Friday
Adam's Rib
Fury
Wells Fargo
Impact
Beware Spooks!
Man of a Thousand Faces
The Kid from Brooklyn
Hellzapoppin'
Carefree
The Toast of New York
Honolulu
The Sky's the Limit
Gold Is Where You Find It
Christmas Eve
Blossoms in the Dust
Nothing but the Truth
Bedtime Story
Merrily We Live
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Bluff
No Time for Comedy
True to Life
Our Leading Citizen
Fun on a Weekend
Five Little Peppers at Home
Road to Alcatraz
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Give Me a Sailor
Portia on Trial
Maid of Salem
Standing Room Only
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Something for the Boys
Good Girls Go to Paris
Caught in the Draft
White Tie and Tails
What a Blonde
3 Is a Family
The Pilgrim Lady
The Night of January 16th
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
True to the Army
I Was a Convict
You're in the Army Now
The Rose Bowl Story
Lost Honeymoon
Blondie in the Dough
Society Lawyer
It Could Happen to You
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
The Falcon in Danger
The Law West of Tombstone
The Fabulous Joe
Two Flaming Youths
A Girl's Best Years
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