Stuart Erwin (14 February 1903, Squaw Valley, California — 21 December 1967, Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor. Erwin began acting in college in the 1920s, first appearing on the stage, then breaking into films in 1928 in Mother Knows Best. He was cast as amiable oafs in several films such as The Sophomore, The Big Broadcast, Hollywood Cavalcade, Our Town, International House and Viva Villa!. In 1934 he was cast as Joe Palooka in the film Palooka, and in 1935 he had a supporting role in After Office Hours (starring Clark Gable). He co-starred in the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). In 1936, he was cast in Pigskin Parade, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In Walt Disney's Bambi, he did the voice of a tree squirrel. In 1950, Erwin made the transition to television, where he starred in Trouble with Father, which was eventually retitled The Stu Erwin Show. He co-starred with his wife, actress June Collyer. He later appeared in the Disney films Son of Flubber and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. He also appeared with Jack Palance in the ABC series The Greatest Show on Earth during the 1963-1964 television season. Erwin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6240 Hollywood Blvd. He is buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stuart Erwin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Bing Crosby: Rediscovered | Self (archive footage) | 2014-12-02 |
Movie | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
Movie | Shadow Over Elveron | Merle | 1968-03-05 |
Series | Green Acres | Unknown | 1965-09-15 |
Series | The Big Valley | Unknown | 1965-09-15 |
Movie | The Misadventures of Merlin Jones | Police Captain Loomis | 1964-03-25 |
Movie | Son of Flubber | Coach Wilson | 1963-01-16 |
Series | The Greatest Show on Earth | 1963-09-17 | |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Series | Straightaway | Unknown | 1961-10-06 |
Movie | For the Love of Mike | Dr. Mills | 1960-08-28 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Series | Peter Loves Mary | Unknown | 1960-10-12 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Series | The Donna Reed Show | Unknown | 1958-09-24 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Main Street to Broadway | Self (uncredited) | 1953-10-12 |
Series | This Is Your Life | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | Father Is a Bachelor | Constable Pudge Barnham | 1950-02-22 |
Series | The Stu Erwin Show | Stu Erwin | 1950-10-21 |
Movie | Strike It Rich | Delbart Lane | 1948-12-01 |
Movie | Heaven Only Knows | Sheriff Matt Bodine | 1947-09-12 |
Movie | Killer Dill | Johnny 'Killer' Dill | 1947-08-02 |
Movie | Heading For Heaven | Henry Elkins | 1947-12-06 |
Movie | Pillow to Post | Captain Jack Ross | 1945-06-09 |
Movie | The Great Mike | Jay Spencer | 1944-11-15 |
Movie | He Hired the Boss | Hubert Theodore Wilkins | 1943-04-02 |
Movie | Drums of the Congo | Congo Jack | 1942-07-17 |
Movie | The Adventures of Martin Eden | Joe Dawson | 1942-02-26 |
Movie | Blondie for Victory | Pvt. Herschel Smith | 1942-08-06 |
Movie | Cracked Nuts | Lawrence Trent | 1941-07-02 |
Movie | The Bride Came C.O.D. | Tommy Keenan | 1941-07-12 |
Movie | Our Town | Howie Newsome | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | When the Daltons Rode | Ben Dalton | 1940-08-23 |
Movie | Sandy Gets Her Man | Bill Kerry | 1940-11-08 |
Movie | A Little Bit of Heaven | Cotton | 1940-10-10 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Jud Mason | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | It Could Happen to You | Mackinley Winslow | 1939-06-08 |
Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Pete Tinney | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | Mr. Boggs Steps Out | Oliver Boggs | 1938-02-18 |
Movie | Hollywood Handicap | Himself | 1938-05-28 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mike Brophy | 1938-06-18 |
Movie | Passport Husband | Henry Cabot | 1938-07-15 |
Movie | Dance Charlie Dance | Andy Tucker | 1937-07-06 |
Movie | Slim | Stumpy | 1937-06-24 |
Movie | Small Town Boy | Henry Armstrong | 1937-09-24 |
Movie | I'll Take Romance | 'Pancho' Brown | 1937-11-17 |
Movie | Second Honeymoon | Leo MacTavish | 1937-11-13 |
Movie | Checkers | Edgar Connell | 1937-12-08 |
Movie | Exclusive Story | Timothy Aloysius Higgins | 1936-01-17 |
Movie | Ceiling Zero | Texas Clarke | 1936-01-16 |
Movie | Absolute Quiet | Oscar "Chubby" Rudd | 1936-04-24 |
Movie | Pigskin Parade | Amos Dodd | 1936-10-23 |
Movie | All American Chump | Elmer Lamb | 1936-10-16 |
Movie | Women Are Trouble | Matt Casey | 1936-07-31 |
Movie | After Office Hours | Hank Parr | 1935-02-22 |
Movie | Viva Villa! | Jonny Sykes | 1934-04-27 |
Movie | Palooka | Joe Palooka | 1934-01-26 |
Movie | Bachelor Bait | William Watts | 1934-07-27 |
Movie | The Party's Over | Bruce Blakely | 1934-08-30 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 |
Movie | Have a Heart | Gus Anderson | 1934-09-07 |
Movie | The Bands Plays On | Stuffy Wilson | 1934-12-21 |
Movie | Chained | John L. 'Johnnie' Smith | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Under the Tonto Rim | Tonto | 1933-04-07 |
Movie | He Learned About Women | Peter Potter Kendall II | 1933-03-02 |
Movie | Face in the Sky | Lucky | 1933-01-15 |
Movie | International House | Tommy Nash | 1933-05-27 |
Movie | The Crime of the Century | Dan McKee | 1933-02-18 |
Movie | Going Hollywood | Ernest Pratt Baker, Picture Producer | 1933-12-22 |
Movie | Hold Your Man | Al Simpson | 1933-06-30 |
Movie | Before Dawn | Dwight Wilson | 1933-08-04 |
Movie | Day of Reckoning | Jerry | 1933-10-26 |
Movie | The Stranger's Return | Simon Bates | 1933-07-28 |
Movie | The Misleading Lady | Boney | 1932-04-15 |
Movie | Two Kinds of Women | Hauser | 1932-01-16 |
Movie | Strangers in Love | Stan Kenney | 1932-03-05 |
Movie | Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 |
Movie | Make Me a Star | Merton Gill | 1932-07-01 |
Movie | The Big Broadcast | Leslie McWhinney | 1932-10-14 |
Movie | 70,000 Witnesses | Man Talking to Connors (uncredited) | 1932-09-09 |
Movie | No Limit | Ole Olson | 1931-01-15 |
Movie | The Stolen Jools | Reporter | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | Dude Ranch | Chester Carr | 1931-05-15 |
Movie | Working Girls | Pat Kelly | 1931-12-12 |
Movie | The Magnificent Lie | Elmer Graham | 1931-07-25 |
Movie | Up Pops the Devil | Stranger | 1931-05-19 |
Movie | Paramount on Parade | Marine (The Montmartre Girl) | 1930-04-22 |
Movie | Men Without Women | Jenkins | 1930-02-08 |
Movie | Dangerous Nan McGrew | Eustace Macy | 1930-06-22 |
Movie | Young Eagles | Pudge Higgins | 1930-03-20 |
Movie | Love Among the Millionaires | Clicker Watson | 1930-07-05 |
Movie | Along Came Youth | Ambrose | 1930-12-20 |
Movie | Only Saps Work | Oscar | 1930-12-05 |
Movie | Playboy of Paris | Paul Michel | 1930-10-18 |
Movie | Dangerous Curves | Rotarian | 1929-07-12 |
Movie | A Pair of Tights | Marion's Boyfriend | 1929-02-03 |
Movie | The Sophomore | Radio Broadcast Technician (uncredited) | 1929-08-24 |
Movie | Speakeasy | Cy Williams | 1929-03-08 |
Movie | The Cock-Eyed World | Buckley | 1929-10-19 |
Movie | The Trespasser | Reporter (uncredited) | 1929-11-11 |
Movie | Sweetie | Axel Bronstrup | 1929-10-25 |
Movie | Happy Days | Jig | 1929-09-16 |