Gus Schilling

Gus Schilling

Acting 1908-06-20 New York City, New York, USA

August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.

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1958 Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
1956 Druggist (uncredited)
1956 Joe Page
1955 Attendant (uncredited)
1955 Doc Ridgeway
1954 Ed Gruman
1954 Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
1952 Mr. Rush
1951 Lucky
1951 Joe Allen
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1951 Window Washer
1950 Studio Guide
1950 Frank
1949 Capt. Gus Schilling
1949 Gus
1949 Timothy
1948 Gus
1948 Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
1948 Dean Hartley
1948 A Porter
1948 Benny
1947 Goldfish
1947 Eddie Gaskin
1947 Gus Schilling
1947 Hubert Butterfield
1947 Gus Schilling
1946 Gus
1946 Gus Schilling
1946 Alexander Pough
1946 Gus
1945 Bill Evans
1945 Jafar
1945 J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
1945 Dopey Charlie
1945 Gus
1944 Bucky
1943 Austin J. Caldwell
1943 Gillie
1943 Rosey Blake
1943 Bughouse Sweeney
1943 Scotty - Stage Manager
1942 Fernando
1942 Joe
1942 Professor Asa Quisenberry
1942 Drug Clerk (uncredited)
1942 Leo Cobb
1941 John
1941 Raven
1941 Gus
1941 Aloysius Grimshaw
1941 Dave
1941 Orchestra Conductor
1941 Bank Teller (uncredited)
1940 Orderly Cleaning Window
1940 City Dump Watchman
1940 Hotel Desk Clark