Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 – November 14, 1960) was an American actor.
Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He made a career by playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking into films in the mid-1920s.
Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio.
Catlett made a handful of silen...
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Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 – November 14, 1960) was an American actor.
Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He made a career by playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking into films in the mid-1920s.
Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio.
Catlett made a handful of silent film appearances but his film career did not catch on until the advent of talking pictures allowed movie-goers see his full comic repertoire. Three of his most remembered roles were as the stage manager given to distraction by James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy, the local constable who throws the entire cast in jail and winds up there himself in the Howard Hawks classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, and as Morrow, the drunken poet in the restaurant who "knows when [he's] been a skunk" and takes Longfellow Deeds on a "bender" in Mr....
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