Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns

Birthday: 1891-09-06

Deathday: 1970-02-06

Place of birth: San Bernardino, California, USA

Also known as: Roscoe Karnes

imdb_id: nm0439850

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series. From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964. Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Played in movies:

It Happened One Night

Score: 7.8

His Girl Friday

Score: 7.4

One Way Passage

Score: 7.3

Wings

Score: 7.2

His Butler's Sister

Score: 7.1

Beggars of Life

Score: 7.1

One Way to Love

Score: 7.0

Troopers Three

Score: 7.0

Two-Fisted

Score: 7.0

Man's Favorite Sport?

Score: 7.0

Old Acquaintance

Score: 7.0

Woman of the Year

Score: 6.9

They Drive by Night

Score: 6.9

Footsteps in the Dark

Score: 6.9

Twentieth Century

Score: 6.8

If I Had a Million

Score: 6.7

You and Me

Score: 6.6

You'd Be Surprised

Score: 6.5

The Inside Story

Score: 6.5

The Ten Commandments

Score: 6.5

Saturday's Children

Score: 6.4

Wings in the Dark

Score: 6.4

The Flying Fleet

Score: 6.3

One Sunday Afternoon

Score: 6.3

The Trail of '98

Score: 6.2

Dancing Co-Ed

Score: 6.2

Today We Live

Score: 6.2

Night After Night

Score: 6.2

The Jazz Singer

Score: 6.1

Dangerous to Know

Score: 6.1

Cain and Mabel

Score: 6.1

Border Flight

Score: 6.0

Ladies of the Big House

Score: 6.0

That's My Man

Score: 6.0

Tip-Off Girls

Score: 6.0

Ladies Must Live

Score: 6.0

The Woman in Red

Score: 6.0

Week-End Marriage

Score: 6.0

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.0

Stage Door Canteen

Score: 5.9

Lawyer Man

Score: 5.8

They Call It Sin

Score: 5.8

Red Hot Tires

Score: 5.8

King of Chinatown

Score: 5.8

Front Page Woman

Score: 5.8

Alibi Ike

Score: 5.8

The Navy Way

Score: 5.7

Hi, Good Lookin'!

Score: 5.7

That's Right – You're Wrong

Score: 5.7

Dirigible

Score: 5.6

Thanks for the Memory

Score: 5.6

Two Against the World

Score: 5.6

Onionhead

Score: 5.5

Road to Happiness

Score: 5.5

Devil's Cargo

Score: 5.5

Laughing Sinners

Score: 5.4

You Can't Escape Forever

Score: 5.4

Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Score: 5.3

Play Girl

Score: 5.2

Gambling Ship

Score: 5.2

The Life of the Party

Score: 5.2

Come On, Marines!

Score: 5.0

Stowaway

Score: 5.0

Minstrel Man

Score: 5.0

Man Trouble

Score: 5.0

Speed to Spare

Score: 5.0

Shoot the Works

Score: 5.0

My Son, The Hero

Score: 5.0

Safety in Numbers

Score: 5.0

Four Hours to Kill!

Score: 5.0

Everything's on Ice

Score: 4.8

The Crooked Circle

Score: 4.8

New York Nights

Score: 4.8

The Desert Bride

Score: 4.7

Yokel Boy

Score: 4.7

A Tragedy at Midnight

Score: 4.7

Under-Cover Man

Score: 4.5

I Sell Anything

Score: 4.5

Riding High

Score: 4.5

Double Alibi

Score: 4.5

The Roadhouse Murder

Score: 4.3

The Women in His Life

Score: 4.0

Grand Slam

Score: 3.7

Pleasure

Score: 3.5

The Midnight Express

Score: 3.0

Murder Goes to College

Score: 3.0

Vigilantes of Boomtown

Score: 2.5

The Man Tamer

Score: 0.0

The Overland Limited

Score: 0.0

Poor Relations

Score: 0.0

Something Always Happens

Score: 0.0

Mr. Carlson of Arizona

Score: 0.0

From Champion to Tramp

Score: 0.0

A Species of Mexican Man

Score: 0.0

A Western Governor's Humanity

Score: 0.0

Many a Slip

Score: 0.0

The Trouper

Score: 0.0

Scandal Street

Score: 0.0

Beau Sabreur

Score: 0.0

The Costello Case

Score: 0.0

Warming Up

Score: 0.0

Left Over Ladies

Score: 0.0

Meet the Missus

Score: 0.0

Little Accident

Score: 0.0

Half Shot at Sunrise

Score: 0.0

Black Eyes and Blues

Score: 0.0

The Vanishing Pioneer

Score: 0.0

Jazz Mad

Score: 0.0

Clarence

Score: 0.0

Woman Trap

Score: 0.0

The Gay Vagabond

Score: 0.0

I Ring Doorbells

Score: 0.0

The Gorilla

Score: 0.0

Copy

Score: 0.0

The Shopworn Angel

Score: 0.0

Partners in Crime

Score: 0.0

Three Married Men

Score: 0.0

Night of Mystery

Score: 0.0

On Such a Night

Score: 0.0

Avalanche

Score: 0.0

Win That Girl

Score: 0.0

This Thing Called Love

Score: 0.0

Other Men's Daughters

Score: 0.0

A Lady's Profession

Score: 0.0

Ten Modern Commandments

Score: 0.0

Her Own Money

Score: 0.0

Moran of the Marines

Score: 0.0

Petticoat Politics

Score: 0.0

The Family Honor

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Hennesey

Score: 6.0

December Bride

Score: 5.5

December Bride

Score: 5.5

Rocky King, Detective

Score: 0.0

Inside Detective

Score: 0.0