Gus Schilling
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.
Películas (57)
Touch of Evil
1958 · Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Bigger Than Life
1956 · Druggist (uncredited)
Glory
1956 · Joe Page
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Attendant (uncredited)
Run for Cover
1955 · Doc Ridgeway
Executive Suite
1954 · Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
She Couldn't Say No
1954 · Ed Gruman
One Big Affair
1952 · Mr. Rush
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Lucky
Honeychile
1951 · Window Washer
Gasoline Alley
1951 · Joe Allen
Hit Parade of 1951
1950 · Studio Guide
Our Very Own
1950 · Frank
Bride for Sale
1949 · Timothy
Flung by a Fling
1949 · Capt. Gus Schilling
He's in Again
1949 · Gus
Angel on the Amazon
1948 · Dean Hartley
The Return of October
1948 · Benny
Macbeth
1948 · A Porter
Pardon My Lamb Chop
1948 · Gus
Two Nuts in a Rut
1948 · Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Goldfish
Wedding Belle
1947 · Gus Schilling
Training for Trouble
1947 · Gus Schilling
Stork Bites Man
1947 · Hubert Butterfield
Calendar Girl
1947 · Eddie Gaskin
Pardon My Terror
1946 · Gus
Hot Water
1946 · Gus
Dangerous Business
1946 · Alexander Pough
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
1946 · Gus Schilling
High Blood Pleasure
1945 · Gus
River Gang
1945 · Dopey Charlie
A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · Jafar
See My Lawyer
1945 · J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
It's a Pleasure
1945 · Bill Evans
Sing a Jingle
1944 · Bucky
Larceny with Music
1943 · Austin J. Caldwell
Hers to Hold
1943 · Rosey Blake
Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · Scotty - Stage Manager
Chatterbox
1943 · Gillie
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Lady Bodyguard
1943 · Bughouse Sweeney
You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · Fernando
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Drug Clerk (uncredited)
There's One Born Every Minute
1942 · Professor Asa Quisenberry
Broadway
1942 · Joe
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942 · Leo Cobb
Hellzapoppin'
1941 · Orchestra Conductor
Appointment for Love
1941 · Gus
It Started with Eve
1941 · Raven
Ice-Capades
1941 · Dave
Citizen Kane
1941 · John
The Penalty
1941 · Bank Teller (uncredited)
Lucky Devils
1941 · Aloysius Grimshaw
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940 · Orderly Cleaning Window
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940 · Hotel Desk Clark
Pop Always Pays
1940 · City Dump Watchman
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