Actor
Walter Connolly
Biography

The name may have been forgotten, especially today (seven decades later), but the portly, apoplectic, exasperated figure on the 1930s screen wasn't. While his film career, save a couple of silents, lasted a paltry seven years (1932-1939), character actor Walter Connolly certainly ran the distance. While some film historians complain that a number of his performances were annoying or overbaked, he was for the most part applauded for his zesty contributions to a number of comedy classics. Frank Ca ...

Known For
Acting
1975 -- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen | Self (archive footage)
1939 -- The Great Victor Herbert | Victor Herbert
1939 -- Fifth Avenue Girl | Mr. Borden
1939 -- Those High Grey Walls | Dr. MacAuley
1939 -- Coast Guard | Tobias Bliss
1939 -- Good Girls Go to Paris | Olaf Brand
1939 -- Bridal Suite | Dr. Theodore Grauer
1939 -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | The 'King'
1938 -- Breakdowns of 1938 | Carter Hibbard (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938 -- The Girl Downstairs | Mr. Brown
1938 -- Too Hot to Handle | Gabby MacArthur
1938 -- Four's a Crowd | John P. Dillingwell
1938 -- Start Cheering | Sam Lewis
1938 -- Penitentiary | Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews
1937 -- First Lady | Carter Hibbard
1937 -- Nothing Sacred | Oliver Stone
1937 -- The Good Earth | Uncle
1937 -- The League of Frightened Men | Nero Wolfe
1937 -- Let's Get Married | Joe Quinn
1937 -- Nancy Steele Is Missing! | Michael Steele
1936 -- Libeled Lady | James B. Allenbury
1936 -- The King Steps Out | Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria
1936 -- The Music Goes 'Round | Hector Courtney
1936 -- Soak the Rich | Humphrey Craig
1935 -- White Lies | John Mitchell
1935 -- So Red the Rose | Malcolm Bedford
1935 -- One Way Ticket | Captain Bourne
1935 -- She Couldn't Take It | Daniel Van Dyke
1934 -- Father Brown, Detective | Father Brown
1934 -- Broadway Bill | J.L. Higgins
1934 -- The Captain Hates the Sea | Captain Helquist
1934 -- Lady by Choice | Judge Daly
1934 -- Servants' Entrance | Viktor Nilsson
1934 -- Whom the Gods Destroy | John Forrester aka Eric Jann aka Peter Korotoff
1934 -- Twentieth Century | Oliver Webb
1934 -- Once to Every Woman | Dr. Walter Selby
1934 -- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 |
1934 -- It Happened One Night | Alexander Andrews
1934 -- Eight Girls in a Boat | Storm
1933 -- Master of Men | Sam Parker
1933 -- East of Fifth Avenue | John Lawton
1933 -- Man's Castle | Ira
1933 -- Lady for a Day | Count Romero
1933 -- Paddy the Next Best Thing | Major Adair
1932 -- The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Jones
1932 -- No More Orchids | Bill Holt
1932 -- Man Against Woman | Mossie Ennis
1932 -- Washington Merry-Go-Round | Senator Wylie
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