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Robert Woolsey

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

Also known as

Robert Rolla Woolsey · Robert Raleigh Woolsey

Biography

Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Known for

So This Is Africa

Mummy's Boys

Hook, Line and Sinker

Half Shot at Sunrise

Kentucky Kernels

The Nitwits

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

High Flyers

Filmography

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1986

Classic Comedy Teams

Acting (Self (archive footage))

1937

High Flyers

Acting (Pierre Potkin)

On Again—Off Again

Acting (Claude Horton)

1936

Mummy's Boys

Acting (Aloysius C. Whittaker)

Silly Billies

Acting (Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington)

1935

The Rainmakers

Acting (Roscoe Horne)

The Nitwits

Acting (Newton)

1934

Kentucky Kernels

Acting (Elmer Dugan)

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Acting (Bob)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

Acting (Self)

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Acting (Dr. Dudley)

1933

Signing 'em Up

Acting (Himself)

Hollywood on Parade No. A-12

Acting (Self)

Diplomaniacs

Acting (Hercules Grub)

So This Is Africa

Acting (Alexander)

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Acting (Self)

Hold 'Em Jail

Acting (Spider Robbins)

Hollywood on Parade

Acting (Self)

Acting (Slick Foster)

1931

Peach-o-Reno

Acting (Julius Swift)

Caught Plastered

Acting (Eggbert G. Higginbothom)

Oh! Oh! Cleopatra

Acting (Julius Caesar)

Everything’s Rosie

Acting (Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop)

Cracked Nuts

Acting (Zander Ulysses Parkhurst)

The Stolen Jools

Acting (Robert Woolsey)

1930

Hook, Line and Sinker

Acting (Addington Ganzy)

Half Shot at Sunrise

Acting (Gilbert Simpson)

Acting (Ginger Dandy)

The Cuckoos

Acting (Prof. Cunningham)

The Voice of Hollywood

Acting (Himself / host)

1929

Acting (Ned Lovett)