Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

Birthday: 1884-08-20

Deathday: 1961-09-02

Place of birth: Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Also known as: Fred Kelsy, F. A. Kelsey , F.A. Kelsey , Fred A. Kelsey , Fred. A. Kelsey , H. Kelsley, Frederick Alvin Kelsey

imdb_id: nm0447043

Biography:

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Played in movies:

Rough Necking

Score: 10.0

Strangers on a Train

Score: 7.7

Mildred Pierce

Score: 7.6

A Gem of a Jam

Score: 7.3

To Catch a Thief

Score: 7.3

Gentleman Jim

Score: 7.2

The Enforcer

Score: 7.2

A Star Is Born

Score: 7.1

Action in the North Atlantic

Score: 7.1

The Damned Don't Cry

Score: 7.1

Crime Wave

Score: 7.1

Come Out Fighting

Score: 7.0

The Thirteenth Hour

Score: 7.0

Auntie Mame

Score: 7.0

Harold Teen

Score: 7.0

Flamingo Road

Score: 7.0

Old Acquaintance

Score: 7.0

Colorado Territory

Score: 7.0

Little Annie Rooney

Score: 6.9

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Score: 6.9

Larceny, Inc.

Score: 6.9

Christmas in Connecticut

Score: 6.9

The Fountainhead

Score: 6.8

In This Our Life

Score: 6.8

Twentieth Century

Score: 6.8

The Noose Hangs High

Score: 6.8

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

Score: 6.7

A Woman of Affairs

Score: 6.7

The Last Warning

Score: 6.7

One Mile from Heaven

Score: 6.7

Lucky Me

Score: 6.7

If I Had a Million

Score: 6.7

Mr. Skeffington

Score: 6.6

Storm Warning

Score: 6.6

They Died with Their Boots On

Score: 6.6

One Foot in Heaven

Score: 6.6

Dog Shy

Score: 6.6

Huddle

Score: 6.6

Wrong Again

Score: 6.6

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Score: 6.6

O. Henry's Full House

Score: 6.5

Private Number

Score: 6.5

The Inspector General

Score: 6.5

Josette

Score: 6.5

Scarlet Pages

Score: 6.5

That I May Live

Score: 6.5

Murder in the Big House

Score: 6.5

Jewish Prudence

Score: 6.5

Illegal

Score: 6.4

A Stolen Life

Score: 6.4

Three Strangers

Score: 6.4

Room for One More

Score: 6.4

My Favorite Blonde

Score: 6.4

Among the Missing

Score: 6.3

My Six Convicts

Score: 6.3

Pacific Blackout

Score: 6.3

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

Score: 6.3

The Lone Wolf Strikes

Score: 6.3

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Score: 6.3

The Crime of the Century

Score: 6.3

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Score: 6.3

Hans Christian Andersen

Score: 6.2

Westbound

Score: 6.2

The Man I Love

Score: 6.2

The Flame and the Arrow

Score: 6.2

Crazy Like a Fox

Score: 6.2

The Witness Chair

Score: 6.2

Charlie Chan in Reno

Score: 6.2

Bullet Scars

Score: 6.2

Road to Paradise

Score: 6.2

Counter-Espionage

Score: 6.2

Souls for Sale

Score: 6.2

Never Say Goodbye

Score: 6.2

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Score: 6.1

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

Score: 6.1

Carson City

Score: 6.1

Nora Prentiss

Score: 6.1

Springfield Rifle

Score: 6.1

Horses' Collars

Score: 6.1

The Unfaithful

Score: 6.1

Shine on Harvest Moon

Score: 6.0

There Ain't No Santa Claus

Score: 6.0

School for Girls

Score: 6.0

So You Want to Play the Horses

Score: 6.0

True to Life

Score: 6.0

Borrowing Trouble

Score: 6.0

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

Score: 6.0

Spy Ship

Score: 6.0

Straight, Place and Show

Score: 6.0

On Trial

Score: 6.0

Seven Sinners

Score: 6.0

Diamond Jim

Score: 6.0

Deadwood Dick

Score: 6.0

Going Wild

Score: 6.0

Tiny Troubles

Score: 6.0

A Notorious Gentleman

Score: 6.0

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

Score: 6.0

So You Want a Raise

Score: 6.0

The Donovan Affair

Score: 6.0

Love Is News

Score: 6.0

Riding Shotgun

Score: 6.0

Northern Pursuit

Score: 5.9

Backfire

Score: 5.9

Goodbye, My Fancy

Score: 5.9

The Green Archer

Score: 5.9

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

Score: 5.9

While the City Sleeps

Score: 5.9

Speak Easily

Score: 5.8

Make Your Own Bed

Score: 5.8

Paths to Paradise

Score: 5.8

Crime by Night

Score: 5.8

Guilty as Hell

Score: 5.8

A Society Sensation

Score: 5.8

Captain Fly-by-Night

Score: 5.8

Night and Day

Score: 5.7

The Naughty Flirt

Score: 5.7

So You Think You're Not Guilty

Score: 5.7

Saratoga Trunk

Score: 5.7

Bromo and Juliet

Score: 5.6

Time Out for Romance

Score: 5.6

Tall Man Riding

Score: 5.6

The Sagebrush Troubadour

Score: 5.5

The Garden Murder Case

Score: 5.5

Serenade

Score: 5.5

High School

Score: 5.5

Angel's Holiday

Score: 5.5

Only Saps Work

Score: 5.5

Lady Gangster

Score: 5.5

The Girl Said No

Score: 5.5

Atlantic Adventure

Score: 5.5

The Little Red Schoolhouse

Score: 5.5

Mr. District Attorney

Score: 5.4

High Tension

Score: 5.4

Manslaughter

Score: 5.4

Homicide

Score: 5.3

The Golden Fleecing

Score: 5.3

Tell No Tales

Score: 5.3

Wide Open

Score: 5.3

If a Body Meets a Body

Score: 5.3

One Frightened Night

Score: 5.3

Murder Without Tears

Score: 5.2

The Opposite Sex

Score: 5.2

Orchids and Ermine

Score: 5.1

The Strange Mr. Gregory

Score: 5.1

Invisible Ghost

Score: 5.1

So You Think You Can't Sleep

Score: 5.0

The Public Menace

Score: 5.0

So You Want an Apartment

Score: 5.0

She Had to Eat

Score: 5.0

The Song of Life

Score: 5.0

Dancing in the Dark

Score: 5.0

One Dangerous Night

Score: 5.0

Food and Magic

Score: 5.0

Big Business

Score: 5.0

At the Stroke of Twelve

Score: 5.0

Misbehaving Husbands

Score: 5.0

Sailor's Luck

Score: 5.0

King of the Jungle

Score: 5.0

Everybody's Doing It

Score: 5.0

Death Flies East

Score: 5.0

Side Show

Score: 5.0

Say It with Babies

Score: 5.0

Murder on the Waterfront

Score: 5.0

Super-Sleuth

Score: 5.0

Many Sappy Returns

Score: 4.8

Slave Ship

Score: 4.8

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Score: 4.7

Night Spot

Score: 4.7

Red Haired Alibi

Score: 4.7

The Woman Racket

Score: 4.7

Lightning Strikes Twice

Score: 4.7

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Score: 4.6

Naughty Baby

Score: 4.5

The Silver Chalice

Score: 4.4

Discarded Lovers

Score: 4.3

Danger Ahead

Score: 4.2

I Was Framed

Score: 4.0

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Score: 4.0

Rough Riders' Round-up

Score: 4.0

Frontier Days

Score: 4.0

X Marks the Spot

Score: 3.9

Hiss and Yell

Score: 3.7

The Crime Doctor

Score: 3.5

So You Want to Enjoy Life

Score: 2.0

Quiet Please!

Score: 2.0

Trial by Trigger

Score: 2.0

Shopping with Wifie

Score: 1.0

The Iceman's Ball

Score: 1.0

Revenue Agent

Score: 1.0

Held by the Law

Score: 0.0

Youth and Adventure

Score: 0.0

Plastered in Paris

Score: 0.0

South of Suva

Score: 0.0

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

Score: 0.0

So You Want to Be a Musician

Score: 0.0

So You Want to Be an Actor

Score: 0.0

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

Score: 0.0

Smiling Irish Eyes

Score: 0.0

Bag and Baggage

Score: 0.0

The Mystery Pilot

Score: 0.0

Murder on the Roof

Score: 0.0

The Fire Flingers

Score: 0.0

The Lawful Cheater

Score: 0.0

A Left Hook

Score: 0.0

Beloved

Score: 0.0

Excuse Me

Score: 0.0

Men Without Law

Score: 0.0

Wild and Woolly

Score: 0.0

The Light of Victory

Score: 0.0

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

Score: 0.0

Puppets of Fate

Score: 0.0

The 13th Juror

Score: 0.0

The Third Degree

Score: 0.0

Boys Will Be Boys

Score: 0.0

Too Busy to Work

Score: 0.0

Down on the Farm

Score: 0.0

Safety in Numbers

Score: 0.0

Dear! Deer!

Score: 0.0

Berth Quakes

Score: 0.0

Young Donovan's Kid

Score: 0.0

Clock Wise

Score: 0.0

How DOooo You Do

Score: 0.0

Carnival

Score: 0.0

Yoo-Hoo

Score: 0.0

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

Score: 0.0

Atta Boy

Score: 0.0

Snooper Service

Score: 0.0

Here Comes Mr. Zerk

Score: 0.0

Outlaw's Son

Score: 0.0

Mutiny in the County

Score: 0.0

The Uneasy Three

Score: 0.0

Chicken Wagon Family

Score: 0.0

The Lady Escapes

Score: 0.0

The Eleventh Hour

Score: 0.0

The Gorilla

Score: 0.0

Scandal Sheet

Score: 0.0

I'll Tell the World

Score: 0.0

Love and Hisses

Score: 0.0

I'll Be Suing You

Score: 0.0

The Night Hawk

Score: 0.0

Detour to Danger

Score: 0.0

At Sea Ashore

Score: 0.0

Hot Money

Score: 0.0

Tenderloin

Score: 0.0

The Faker

Score: 0.0

The Yellow Dog

Score: 0.0

There Are No Villains

Score: 0.0

The Silk Lined Burglar

Score: 0.0

Andy Plays Hookey

Score: 0.0

Silent Sandy

Score: 0.0

Don't Shoot

Score: 0.0

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

Score: 0.0

Strictly Fresh Yeggs

Score: 0.0

Love in High Gear

Score: 0.0

The Wright Idea

Score: 0.0

Arms and the Gringo

Score: 0.0

The Moth

Score: 0.0

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Score: 0.0

The Honor of an Outlaw

Score: 0.0

The Last Card

Score: 0.0

Roaring Guns

Score: 0.0

Lovebound

Score: 0.0

One Clear Call

Score: 0.0

Deserted at the Altar

Score: 0.0

Friendly Enemies

Score: 0.0

The Empty Cab

Score: 0.0

Alias Jimmy Valentine

Score: 0.0

Moving Vanities

Score: 0.0

Lights Out

Score: 0.0

Subway Express

Score: 0.0

The Yankee Consul

Score: 0.0

Soft Cushions

Score: 0.0

That's My Baby

Score: 0.0

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

Score: 0.0

She Got What She Wanted

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Score: 4.5