Joseph Cawthorn

Joseph Cawthorn

Acting 1868-03-27 New York City, New York, USA

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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1942 Silas Harwood
1941 Leopold Potzloch
1940 Nicholas Raptis
1940 Leopold Damrosch
1936 Dr. Ziegfeld
1936 Monique's Father
1936 Fred Schultz
1936 Max Dourfuss
1936 Wilson, Sr.
1936 Mr. Sherwood / Reilly
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1935 Herr 'Schumie' Schuman
1935 Sidney Selzer
1935 Professor Henry Kleber
1935 Mr. Freischutz
1935 Adolph Sr.
1935 Karl Krausemeyer
1935 Oscar Schlemmer
1935 August Schultz
1934 Oscar Schmidt
1934 Herman Cline
1934 Dr. Wilson
1934 Krueger (as Joe Cawthorne)
1934 Herbert Brokman
1934 Mr. Julius Ambrose
1934 Hans Uppman
1934 Fritz Speigal
1933 Jewelry Store Manager (as Joe Cawthorn)
1933 Gus Schneider
1933 Pop
1933 Barfuss
1933 Alex Alexandrovitch
1933 Maxie Schultz
1932 Dr. Armand de Fontinac
1932 Dr. Bruner
1932 Mr. Hollister
1932 Werner (as Joseph Cawthorne)
1931 Joe Bruno
1931 Alfred Rapp
1931 Lou
1931 Huber
1930 Cornelius Van Horn, Carl's Father
1929 Bremmer
1929 Herman Kemple
1929 Keppel - Cafe Owner
1929 Gremio
1929 Yokel
1928 Professor George Bradbury
1927 Ezra Fulton
1927 Donald Allen
1927 Philip Hancock
1927 Pa Merton