- Walter Catlett
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name = Walter Catlett
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birthdate =February 4 1889
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deathdate =November 14 1960 (aged 71)
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academyawards =Walter Catlett (
February 4 ,1889 -November 14 ,1960 ) was an American actor.Catlett was born in
San Francisco, California . He made a career out for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out invaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking it out into films in the mid-1920s.Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney
animated film "Pinocchio".Walter made a handful of
silent film appearances but didn't catch on until the advent of talking pictures allowed movie-goers to go and see his full comic repertoire. Three of his most remembered roles were as the stage manager given to distraction byJames Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy " in 1942, the local constable who throws the entire cast in jail and winds up there himself in theHoward Hawks classic screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby " in 1938, and as Morrow, the drunken poet in the restaurant who "knows when [he's] been a skunk" and takes Longfellow Deeds on a "bender" inMr. Deeds Goes to Town .Catlett appeared as hotel resort tycoon 'Timber Applegate' in the musical film "Lady, Let's Dance " (1944) which starred ice skating sensation 'Belita ' and James Ellison.Audiences seemed to enjoy seeing unpleasant things happen to Catlett onscreen. In the drama "
Manpower " (1941), Catlett supplies comedy relief as a hospital patient who has spent months in traction with both arms and both legs broken. On the day of his release, he slips on the hospital steps ... and is once again put in traction, with both arms and both legs broken.Before his death, he began role-playing in such 1950s films like "
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates " in 1956, "Friendly Persuasion" also in 1956, and "Beau James" in 1957.Walter Catlett died in 1960 in
Woodland Hills, California while suffering from a stroke. His interment was located at Holy Cross Cemetery.External links
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DATE OF DEATH=November 14 1960 (aged 71)
PLACE OF DEATH=Los Angeles ,California
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