Walter Catlett

b. 4 Feb 1889, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, d. 14 November 1960, Woodland Hillsides, California, USA. After employed in vaudeville for quite some time being a comedian, Catlett made an appearance on Broadway, notably in Sally (1921), which starred Marilyn Miller. In the first 20s he started a long profession being a comic professional in movies, adapting easily to talkies. Among many 30s film performances, many of them in musicals, he produced The Floradora Young lady (A TALE Of The Homosexual Nineties) (1930, starring Marion Davies), Platinum Blonde (1931, with Jean Harlow), Big Town Blues (1932, with Joan Blondell), Mr. Deeds WOULD GO TO City (1936, with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur), FOR THE Avenue (1937, with Madeleine Carroll, Dick Powell, Alice Faye, and several Irving Berlin tracks), MENTIONING Baby (1938, with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Offer), and Zaza (1939, with Claudette Colbert). Two 1942 movies had been musical biopics, My Gal Sal, about songwriter Paul Dresser, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, the storyplot of George M. Cohan; and another biopic was 1949’s SEARCH FOR The Silver Coating, the storyplot of Marilyn Miller. Also in the 40s, Catlett is at two Danny Kaye automobiles, Up In Hands (1944) as well as the Inspector General (1949). He is at the frothy musicals Dance AT NIGHT (1949, with William Powell and Betsy Drake), and Right here Comes The Bridegroom (1951, with Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman). Afterwards in the 50s Catlett is at Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Beau Adam (1957). Furthermore to showing up on-screen, he also supplied the tone of voice for J. Worthingtom Foulfellow in Walt Disney’s cartoon feature, Pinocchio (1940). To almost most of his movies, Catlett brought his perfected display persona of the absent-minded blunderer.