Walter Catlett (February 4, 1889 - November 14, 1960) was an American actor.
Catlett was born in San Francisco, California. He made a career out for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking it out into films in the mid-1920s.
Catlett also provided the voice of Foulfellow the Fox in the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio.
Walter made a handful of silent film appearances but didn't catch on until the advent of talking pictures allowed movie-goers to go and 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 in 1942, 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 in 1938, and as Morrow, the drunken poet in the restaurant who "knows when been a skunk" and takes Longfellow Deeds on a "bender" in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Catlett appeared as hotel resort tycoon 'Timber Applegate' in the musical film Lady, Let's Dance (1944) which starred ice skating sensation 'Belita' and James Ellison.
Audiences seemed to enjoy seeing unpleasant things happen to Catlett onscreen. In the drama Manpower (1941), Catlett supplies comedy relief as a hospital patient who has spent months in traction with both arms and both legs broken. On the day of his release, he slips on the hospital steps ... and is once again put in traction, with both arms and both legs broken.
Before his death, he began role-playing in such 1950s films like Davy Crockett and the River Pirates in 1956, Friendly Persuasion also in 1956, and Beau James in 1957.
Walter Catlett died in 1960 in Woodland Hills, California while suffering from a stroke. His interment was located at Holy Cross Cemetery.
External links
Walter Catlett at the Internet Movie Database
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NAME
Catlett, Walter
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Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
February 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH
November 14, 1960 (aged 71)
PLACE OF DEATH
Los Angeles, California
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Categories: American film actors | American voice actors | Vaudeville performers | 1889 births | 1960 deaths | Deaths from stroke
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