Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (21 January 1897 – 24 January 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi, which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings.
Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. In Paris after World War I, Naish formed his own song and dance act. He was traveling the globe from Europe to Egypt to Asia, when his China-bound ship developed engine problems, leaving him in California in 1926.
His uncredited bit role in What Price Glory (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role in the 1943 film, Sahara, then for his performance in the 1945 film, A Medal for Benny, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture.
He was of Irish descent, but he never used his dialect skills to play Irishmen, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me." Instead, he portrayed myriad other ethnic groups on screen: Latino, Native American, African American, East Asian, Polynesian, Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, Eastern European and Mediterranean. Besides his film roles, he often appeared on television later in his career. For his contributions to television and film, J. Carrol Naish has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.
In 1960-1961, Naish played an American Indian in the ABC sitcom Guestward, Ho! with costars Joanne Dru and Mark Miller.
Naish was married to actress Gladys Hearney. He spent many of his later years in San Diego studying philosophy and theology. He died from emphysema in La Jolla, California and was interred in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
Selected filmography
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Tiger Shark (1931)
Two Seconds (1932)
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Front Page Woman (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Ramona (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
Beau Geste (1939)
Down Argentine Way (1940 in film)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Pied Piper (1942)
Sahara (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
Dragon Seed (1944)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
The Southerner (1945)
A Medal for Benny (1945)
Star in the Night (1945)
Bad Bascomb (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
The Fugitive (1947)
Joan of Arc (1948)
That Midnight Kiss (1949)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
Clash by Night (1952)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Sitting Bull (1954)
The Last Command (1955)
Rage at Dawn (1955)
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Awards
Preceded by
Barry Fitzgerald
for Going My Way
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1946
for A Medal for Benny
Succeeded by
Clifton Webb
for The Razor's Edge
Series television roles
Luigi Basco in Life with Luigi (CBS – 1952)
Charlie Chan in The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (Syndicated – 1957)
Hawkeye in Guestward, Ho! (ABC – 1960)
"Sitting Bull,"1954.
Sam Vittorio in Get Smart-1968
External links
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NAME
Naish, J. Carrol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Naish, Joseph Patrick Carrol
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
1897-1-21
PLACE OF BIRTH
New York, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
1973-1-24
PLACE OF DEATH
La Jolla, California, U.S.
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Categories: 1897 births | 1973 deaths | American film actors | American television actors | Deaths from emphysema | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Irish-Americans | People from New York City
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