Chester Clute
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Chester Clute | |
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 Clute in Navy Blues (1937) | |
| Born | Chester Lamont Clute February 18, 1891 Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 2, 1956 (aged 65) |
| Resting place | Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1930–1953 |
Chester Lamont Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films.
Biography
[edit]Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey, Clute died of a heart attack in Woodland Hills, California, aged 65.[1] He is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.[2]
Career
[edit]Clute's Broadway credits included Ceiling Zero (1935), Page Miss Glory (1934), Triplets (1932), Oh, Promise Me (1930), The New Yorkers (1927), and She Couldn't Say No (1926).[3]
Selected filmography
[edit]- The Dentist (1932)
- Crash Donovan (1936) - Mr. Horner (uncredited)
- Navy Blues (1937) - Uncle Andrew
- There Goes My Girl (1937) - Stu Parker - Whelan's Idea Man
- Dance, Charlie, Dance (1937) - Alvin Gussett
- Exclusive (1937) - Garner
- She Asked for It (1937) - Photographer (uncredited)
- The Wrong Road (1937) - Dan O'Fearna
- The Great Garrick (1937) - M. Moreau
- Live, Love and Learn (1937) - Fake Art Critic Henderson (uncredited)
- Living on Love (1937) - Jessup
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) - Man with Toupee (uncredited)
- 45 Fathers (1937) - Timid Juror (uncredited)
- Big Town Girl (1937) - Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- True Confession (1937) - Juror (uncredited)
- Change of Heart (1938) - Tom Jones (uncredited)
- Love Is a Headache (1938) - Pants Salesman (uncredited)
- The Jury's Secret (1938) - Secretary (uncredited)
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) - Reporter (uncredited)
- Reckless Living (1938) - Sucker (uncredited)
- He Couldn't Say No (1938) - Musgrave
- Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938) - Ticket Theft Victim (uncredited)
- Go Chase Yourself (1938) - Pushy Little Man in Bank (uncredited)
- Rascals (1938) - Mr. Roger Adams
- Letter of Introduction (1938) - Guest at Cocktail Party (uncredited)
- Mr. Chump (1938) - Ed Mason
- Keep Smiling (1938) - Auctioneer (uncredited)
- Sing You Sinners (1938) - Race Tout at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
- You Can't Take It with You (1938) - Hammond (uncredited)
- Personal Secretary (1938) - Levering (uncredited)
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938) - Salesman
- Touchdown, Army (1938) - Mr. Rawlings (uncredited)
- Service de Luxe (1938) - Chester Bainbridge
- Hard to Get (1938) - Mr. Pinkey (uncredited)
- Annabel Takes a Tour (1938) - Pitcarin, Rodney-Marlborough Hotel Manager
- Comet Over Broadway (1938) - Willis
- Artists and Models Abroad (1938) - Simpson
- Pardon Our Nerve (1939) - Mr. Flemingwell
- I Was a Convict (1939) - Evans
- Dodge City (1939) - Coggins (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven (1939) - Phil (uncredited)
- Bachelor Mother (1939) - Oliver - Man in Park (uncredited)
- The Spellbinder (1939) - Dr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
- Miracles for Sale (1939) - Waiter with Sugar (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny (1939) - Movie Theatre Manager (uncredited)
- Dancing Co-Ed (1939) - Braddock
- Television Spy (1939) - Harry Payne
- Too Busy to Work (1939) - Springer
- Laugh It Off (1939) - Eliot Rigby
- The Honeymoon's Over (1939) - Higginsby (uncredited)
- Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939) - Waiter (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes (1939)
- Remember the Night (1940) - Jewelry Salesman (uncredited)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940) - Pompous Man (uncredited)
- Blondie on a Budget (1940) - Ticket Agent (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) - Johnson
- My Favorite Wife (1940) - Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
- Turnabout (1940) - Briggs (uncredited)
- Millionaires in Prison (1940) - Sidney Keats
- Wildcat Bus (1940) - Man Reading Repossession Notice (uncredited)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) - Bailey #2
- Hired Wife (1940) - Martin Peabody - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Public Deb No. 1 (1940) - Car Payment Man (uncredited)
- Too Many Girls (1940) - Lister
- A Little Bit of Heaven (1940) - Mr. Dixon
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940) - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Say No (1940) - Ezra Pine
- Love Thy Neighbor (1940) - Judge
- This Thing Called Love (1940) - Bit Part (uncredited)
- Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) - Floorwalker (uncredited)
- Footlight Fever (1941) - Mr. Holly - Parker's Secretary (uncredited)
- They Met in Argentina (1941) - B.A. Jackson, Hastings' Secretary (uncredited)
- She Knew All the Answers (1941) - Butter and Egg Man
- Hurry, Charlie, Hurry (1941) - Cardwell, Daniel's Secretary (uncredited)
- Manpower (1941) - Drug Store Clerk (uncredited)
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941) - Process Server
- Scattergood Meets Broadway (1941) - Quentin Van Deusen
- Unfinished Business (1941) - Mr. Beck (uncredited)
- The Smiling Ghost (1941) - Homely Woman's Husband (uncredited)
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941) - Man in Climax Bar (uncredited)
- Niagara Falls (1941) - Potter
- Three Girls About Town (1941) - Frank - Magician (uncredited)
- New York Town (1941) - Mr. Cobbler (uncredited)
- Look Who's Laughing (1941) - Mr. Blaize (scenes deleted)
- The Perfect Snob (1941) - Nibsie Nicholson
- Bedtime Story (1941) - Second Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
- All Through the Night (1942) - Westmore Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Fleet's In (1942) - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- A Tragedy at Midnight (1942) - Pierre (uncredited)
- Valley of the Sun (1942) - Wilbur (uncredited)
- The Lady Is Willing (1942) - Income Tax Man (uncredited)
- The Remarkable Andrew (1942) - Sam Marbery (uncredited)
- Larceny, Inc. (1942) - Mr. Buchanan
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) - Adolphe Bietjelboer
- The Spoilers (1942) - Mr. Montrose - Clerk (uncredited)
- This Gun for Hire (1942) - Rooming House Manager
- Meet the Stewarts (1942) - Mr. Hamilton, Club Manager (uncredited)
- My Favorite Spy (1942) - Higgenbotham
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Harold Goff
- Joan of Ozark (1942) - Salesman (uncredited)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942) - Mr. Langehanke (Fields sequence) (uncredited)
- Pardon My Sarong (1942) - Bus Company Checker (uncredited)
- Just Off Broadway (1942) - Sperty
- Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942) - Drug Store Clerk
- Get Hep to Love (1942) - Mr. Tolly (uncredited)
- The Forest Rangers (1942) - Judge (uncredited)
- George Washington Slept Here (1942) - Apartment Hunter (uncredited)
- Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) - Air-Raid Warden - Bob Hope Skit (uncredited)
- No Place for a Lady (1943) - Yvonne
- The Meanest Man in the World (1943) - Lawyer (uncredited)
- Sagebrush Law (1943) - Cowhand with Whiskey Jug (uncredited)
- Chatterbox (1943) - Wilfred Peckinpaugh
- The More the Merrier (1943) - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Three Hearts for Julia (1943) - Man with Binoculars (uncredited)
- The Desperadoes (1943) - Rollo (uncredited)
- False Faces (1943) - Apartment Manager
- Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) - Dr. Pullit (uncredited)
- Crime Doctor (1943) - Headwaiter (uncredited)
- The Good Fellows (1943) - Abner Merritt (uncredited)
- Someone to Remember (1943) - Mr. Roseby
- The West Side Kid (1943) - Gwylim
- So's Your Uncle (1943) - Dinwiddle
- I Dood It (1943) - Hotel Manager With Flowers (uncredited)
- Crazy House (1943) - Fud
- Princess O'Rourke (1943) - Mr. Mookle (uncredited)
- Swing Fever (1943) - Mr. Milbane, Manager of Telephone Company (uncredited)
- Here Comes Elmer (1943) - Postelwaite
- What a Woman (1943) - Dormitory Clerk (uncredited)
- Sing a Jingle (1944) - Hendricks (uncredited)
- Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout (1944) - Mr. Pollup (uncredited)
- Hat Check Honey (1944) - Uniformed Officer
- Rationing (1944) - Roberts
- Bermuda Mystery (1944) - Angela's Father (uncredited)
- 3 Men in White (1944) - Mr. Burns (uncredited)
- Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More (1944) - Mr. Collins
- Reckless Age (1944) - Jerkins
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Dr. Gilchrist
- Ever Since Venus (1944) - Milquetoast Customer (uncredited)
- San Diego, I Love You (1944) - Percy Caldwell
- My Gal Loves Music (1944) - Doctor (uncredited)
- Nothing but Trouble (1944) - Clerk in 1944 (uncredited)
- The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- The Town Went Wild (1944) - Mr. Kurtz (uncredited)
- Lake Placid Serenade (1944) - Haines (uncredited)
- Nothing But the Truth (1944)
- She Gets Her Man (1945) - Charlie, in Play
- Roughly Speaking (1945) - The Proprietor (uncredited)
- The Man Who Walked Alone (1945) - Mr. Monroe
- The Clock (1945) - Michael Henry, Judge's Clerk (uncredited)
- Earl Carroll Vanities (1945) - Mr. Weems
- Two O'Clock Courage (1945) - Mr. Daniels (uncredited)
- Swing Out, Sister (1945) - Mr. Gaston (uncredited)
- Blonde Ransom (1945) - Clerk
- Dangerous Partners (1945) - The Diner (uncredited)
- Wonder Man (1945) - Man on Bus (uncredited)
- Blonde from Brooklyn (1945) - Mr. Weams (uncredited)
- On Stage Everybody (1945) - Tupper (uncredited)
- Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Iturbi's Assistant
- Guest Wife (1945) - Urban Nichols
- Lady on a Train (1945) - Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Arson Squad (1945) - Sam Purdy
- Mildred Pierce (1945) - Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) - Mr. Burvis (uncredited)
- She Went to the Races (1945) - Wallace Mason
- Sing Your Way Home (1945) - Heathcliffe (uncredited)
- Saratoga Trunk (1945) - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) - Lone Diner (uncredited)
- The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946) - Quackenbush (uncredited)
- Cinderella Jones (1946) - Krencher
- To Each His Own (1946) - Clarence Ingham (uncredited)
- Two Sisters from Boston (1946) - George - Opera Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- One Exciting Week (1946) - Mayor Clarence Teeple
- Inside Job (1946) - Husband (uncredited)
- Night and Day (1946) - Music Publisher (uncredited)
- Canyon Passage (1946) - Portland Storekeeper (uncredited)
- Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) - Manicure Customer - Mr. Carruthers (uncredited)
- Down Missouri Way (1946) - Prof. Shaw
- Spook Busters (1946) - Brown
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946) - Kramer (uncredited)
- No Leave, No Love (1946) - Mr. Tansey (uncredited)
- That Brennan Girl (1946) - Man in Night Club with Quarter (uncredited)
- The Secret Heart (1946) - Old Man (uncredited)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946) - Jeff's Apartment Manager (uncredited)
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1947) - Waiter (uncredited)
- Suddenly It's Spring (1947) - Workman (uncredited)
- Hit Parade of 1947 (1947) - Radio Station Assistant (uncredited)
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) - Phillips (uncredited)
- A Likely Story (1947) - Doctor Brown (uncredited)
- Copacabana (1947) - Hotel Night Clerk (uncredited)
- Web of Danger (1947) - Cornflakes Eater
- Living in a Big Way (1947) - Union Leader (uncredited)
- The Crimson Key (1947) - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- The Perils of Pauline (1947) - Willie Millick (uncredited)
- Something in the Wind (1947) - Albert Beamis (uncredited)
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947) - Hotel Clerk
- Always Together (1947) - Furrier (uncredited)
- Mary Lou (1948) - Cheever Chesney
- On Our Merry Way (1948) - Bank Teller (uncredited)
- On an Island with You (1948) - Tommy (uncredited)
- Best Man Wins (1948) - Villager (uncredited)
- Blondie's Reward (1948) - Leroy J. Blodgett
- Train to Alcatraz (1948) - Train Conductor Yelvington
- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948) - Doniger
- Singin' Spurs (1948) - Mr. Totter
- The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948) - Fred Marlow
- Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) - Worker
- Blondie's Big Deal (1949) - Mayor A.K. Ramsey
- My Dream Is Yours (1949) - Party Guest (uncredited)
- Ringside (1949) - Timid Man
- The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) - Collection Agent (uncredited)
- Mighty Joe Young (1949) - Doctor (uncredited)
- In the Good Old Summertime (1949) - Sheet Music Customer (uncredited)
- Mary Ryan, Detective (1950) - Chester Wiggin (uncredited)
- Square Dance Jubilee (1949) - Yes-Man
- Bride for Sale (1949) - Mr. Baker (uncredited)
- Master Minds (1949) - Mike Barton
- The Great Lover (1949) - Passenger Drinking in Cabin (uncredited)
- Bodyhold (1949) - Little Spectator in Crowd (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man (1950) - Meek Man (uncredited)
- Kill the Umpire (1950) - Man Talking to Wife on Phone (uncredited)
- Lucky Losers (1950) - Conventioneer from Paducah
- Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950) - Upperbottom
- Hit Parade of 1951 (1950) - Haberdashery Clerk (uncredited)
- Belle Le Grand (1951) - Secretary (uncredited)
- Stop That Cab (1951) - Lucy's Father
- Kentucky Jubilee (1951) - Mayor Horace Tilbury
- All That I Have (1951) - Juror Meek
- Colorado Sundown (1952) - Lawyer Davis
- Scared Stiff (1953) - Man with Spaghetti on Head (uncredited) (final film role)
References
[edit]- ^ Hans J. Wollstein. "Chester Clute". AllMovie. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
- ^ "Chester Clute". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
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