Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey

Born: August 12, 1888
Died: October 31, 1938
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for Robert Woolsey...

High Flyers
Title: High Flyers
Character: Pierre Potkin
Released: November 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
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On Again—Off Again
Title: On Again—Off Again
Character: Claude Horton
Released: July 9, 1937
Type: Movie
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!
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Mummy's Boys
Title: Mummy's Boys
Character: Aloysius C. Whittaker
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Roscoe Horne
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Newton
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Kentucky Kernels
Title: Kentucky Kernels
Character: Elmer Dugan
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Title: Cockeyed Cavaliers
Character: Bob
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Title: Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Character: Dr. Dudley
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
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Signing 'em Up
Title: Signing 'em Up
Character: Himself
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Diplomaniacs
Title: Diplomaniacs
Character: Hercules Grub
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
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So This Is Africa
Title: So This Is Africa
Character: Alexander
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Features Chico Marx and W.C. Fields
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Spider Robbins
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Hollywood on Parade
Title: Hollywood on Parade
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A short featuring many stars
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Girl Crazy
Title: Girl Crazy
Character: Slick Foster
Released: March 24, 1932
Type: Movie
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
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Peach-o-Reno
Title: Peach-o-Reno
Character: Julius Swift
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
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Caught Plastered
Title: Caught Plastered
Character: Eggbert G. Higginbothom
Released: August 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
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Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
Title: Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
Character: Julius Caesar
Released: August 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Zander Ulysses Parkhurst
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Robert Woolsey
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Addington Ganzy
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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Half Shot at Sunrise
Title: Half Shot at Sunrise
Character: Gilbert Simpson
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
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Dixiana
Title: Dixiana
Character: Ginger Dandy
Released: July 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
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The Cuckoos
Title: The Cuckoos
Character: Prof. Cunningham
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
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The Voice of Hollywood
Title: The Voice of Hollywood
Character: Himself / host
Released: April 28, 1930
Type: Movie
If you enjoy playing "Spot the Stars", this is the sort of short you'd enjoy. It's full of then-well-known Hollywood players, identified by name, who run through routines. This one, produced by Tiffany, is not particularly good as people run through canned bits, sometimes without much enthusiasm. Robert Woolsey plays a game a solitaire and it's hard to tell whether his bit was written that way or he improvised it to reflect his feelings.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Ned Lovett
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.