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    Roscoe Karns

    1891-09-06 (133 years old) in San Bernardino, California, USA

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series. From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale. His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964. Karns was born in San Bernardino, California, and died in Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roscoe Karns, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

    Movies

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    Man's Favorite Sport?
    69.44 %|Jan 31, 1964
    Comedy, Romance
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    Onionhead
    55 %|Oct 25, 1958
    Drama, Comedy
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    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
    60 %|Jul 16, 1948
    Comedy
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    Speed to Spare
    50 %|May 14, 1948
    Drama
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    Devil's Cargo
    54 %|Apr 1, 1948
    Mystery
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    The Inside Story
    65 %|Mar 14, 1948
    Comedy, Drama, Romance
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    That's My Man
    60 %|Jun 1, 1947
    Drama, Romance
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    Vigilantes of Boomtown
    0 %|Feb 15, 1947
    Western
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    Avalanche
    0 %|Jun 30, 1946
    Action, Crime, Drama
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    I Ring Doorbells
    0 %|Feb 28, 1946
    Mystery
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    One Way to Love
    70 %|Jan 8, 1946
    Comedy
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    Hi, Good Lookin'!
    57 %|Mar 22, 1944
    Comedy, Music
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    The Navy Way
    57 %|Feb 26, 1944
    Action, Drama, War
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    Minstrel Man
    50 %|Jan 2, 1944
    Music
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    Old Acquaintance
    69 %|Nov 27, 1943
    Drama
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    His Butler's Sister
    71 %|Nov 26, 1943
    Comedy, Music, Romance
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    Riding High
    40 %|Nov 11, 1943
    Western, Comedy, Music
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    Stage Door Canteen
    61 %|Jun 24, 1943
    Comedy, Music, Romance, War
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    My Son, The Hero
    0 %|Apr 5, 1943
    Comedy
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    You Can't Escape Forever
    54 %|Oct 10, 1942
    Thriller
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    Yokel Boy
    47 %|Mar 13, 1942
    Comedy, Romance, Crime
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    Woman of the Year
    69 %|Feb 5, 1942
    Comedy, Romance, Drama
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    A Tragedy at Midnight
    40 %|Feb 2, 1942
    Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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    Road to Happiness
    55 %|Dec 19, 1941
    Drama, Music, Romance
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    Half Shot at Sunrise
    0 %|Sep 4, 1941
    Comedy
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    The Gay Vagabond
    0 %|May 12, 1941
    Comedy
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    Black Eyes and Blues
    0 %|Apr 18, 1941
    Comedy
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    Footsteps in the Dark
    69 %|Mar 8, 1941
    Comedy, Mystery, Crime
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    Petticoat Politics
    0 %|Jan 31, 1941
    Comedy
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    Meet the Missus
    0 %|Nov 29, 1940
    Comedy
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    Ladies Must Live
    60 %|Jul 27, 1940
    Comedy
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    They Drive by Night
    69 %|Jul 26, 1940
    Drama, Crime, Thriller
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    Saturday's Children
    64 %|May 4, 1940
    Drama, Romance
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    Double Alibi
    45 %|Mar 1, 1940
    Adventure, Crime, Mystery
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    His Girl Friday
    74 %|Jan 18, 1940
    Comedy, Romance
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    That's Right – You're Wrong
    57 %|Nov 24, 1939
    Music, Comedy
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    Everything's on Ice
    48 %|Oct 5, 1939
    Music
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    Dancing Co-Ed
    62 %|Sep 29, 1939
    Comedy, Romance
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    King of Chinatown
    59 %|Mar 17, 1939
    Action, Crime, Drama
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    Thanks for the Memory
    57 %|Nov 11, 1938
    Comedy, Music, Romance
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    You and Me
    67 %|Jun 1, 1938
    Crime, Romance, Comedy
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    Tip-Off Girls
    60 %|Apr 1, 1938
    Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
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    Dangerous to Know
    65 %|Mar 11, 1938
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
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    Scandal Street
    0 %|Feb 11, 1938
    Drama
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    Partners in Crime
    0 %|Oct 8, 1937
    Comedy, Adventure
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    On Such a Night
    0 %|Aug 27, 1937
    Crime, Drama
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    Night of Mystery
    0 %|May 21, 1937
    Mystery
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    Murder Goes to College
    30 %|Feb 24, 1937
    Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
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    Clarence
    0 %|Feb 12, 1937
    Romance, Comedy, Family
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    Cain and Mabel
    63 %|Sep 26, 1936
    Comedy, Romance
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    Three Married Men
    0 %|Sep 24, 1936
    Comedy, Romance
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    Border Flight
    60 %|May 29, 1936
    Drama
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    Woman Trap
    0 %|Mar 6, 1936
    Drama, Crime
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    Two-Fisted
    70 %|Oct 3, 1935
    Comedy
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    Front Page Woman
    58 %|Jul 11, 1935
    Comedy, Romance
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    Alibi Ike
    58 %|Jun 15, 1935
    Comedy, Romance
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    Four Hours to Kill!
    50 %|Apr 11, 1935
    Drama, Crime
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    The Woman in Red
    61 %|Feb 16, 1935
    Drama
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    Red Hot Tires
    58 %|Feb 2, 1935
    Drama, Crime, Romance
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    Wings in the Dark
    64 %|Feb 1, 1935
    Adventure, Romance
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    I Sell Anything
    45 %|Oct 20, 1934
    Comedy, Drama
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    Shoot the Works
    50 %|Jul 18, 1934
    Comedy
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    Twentieth Century
    68 %|May 11, 1934
    Comedy, Romance
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    Come On, Marines!
    50 %|Mar 23, 1934
    Drama
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    It Happened One Night
    78.21 %|Feb 22, 1934
    Comedy, Romance
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    Alice in Wonderland
    61 %|Dec 18, 1933
    Family, Fantasy, Comedy
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    The Women in His Life
    40 %|Dec 8, 1933
    Crime, Romance, Drama
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    One Sunday Afternoon
    63 %|Sep 1, 1933
    Romance, Comedy
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    Gambling Ship
    52 %|Jun 23, 1933
    Drama
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    A Lady's Profession
    0 %|Mar 3, 1933
    Comedy
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    Today We Live
    65 %|Mar 3, 1933
    Drama, Romance, War
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    Grand Slam
    37 %|Feb 22, 1933
    Comedy
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    Lawyer Man
    58 %|Dec 24, 1932
    Drama, Romance
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    Under-Cover Man
    45 %|Dec 2, 1932
    Drama, Crime
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    If I Had a Million
    66 %|Nov 18, 1932
    Drama, Comedy
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    They Call It Sin
    58 %|Nov 5, 1932
    Drama
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    Night After Night
    62 %|Oct 29, 1932
    Comedy, Drama
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    One Way Passage
    73.3 %|Oct 4, 1932
    Romance, Drama
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    The Crooked Circle
    48 %|Sep 25, 1932
    Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Horror
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    Two Against the World
    56 %|Sep 3, 1932
    Drama
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    Week-End Marriage
    60 %|Jun 18, 1932
    Comedy
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    The Roadhouse Murder
    33 %|Apr 28, 1932
    Thriller
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    Play Girl
    52 %|Mar 12, 1932
    Drama
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    Stowaway
    50 %|Mar 1, 1932
    Drama, Romance
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    Ladies of the Big House
    60 %|Dec 26, 1931
    Drama
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    Left Over Ladies
    0 %|Sep 30, 1931
    Drama, Romance
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    Pleasure
    35 %|Sep 1, 1931
    Drama
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    Laughing Sinners
    54 %|May 30, 1931
    Drama, Romance
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    Many a Slip
    0 %|Mar 2, 1931
    Comedy
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    Dirigible
    52 %|Feb 1, 1931
    Adventure, Drama, War
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    The Gorilla
    0 %|Nov 2, 1930
    Mystery, Comedy, Horror
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    The Costello Case
    0 %|Oct 14, 1930
    Crime, Drama
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    Man Trouble
    50 %|Aug 24, 1930
    Romance, Crime, Drama, Music
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    Little Accident
    0 %|Aug 3, 1930
    Comedy
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    Safety in Numbers
    50 %|May 30, 1930
    Romance, Comedy, Music
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    Troopers Three
    70 %|Feb 23, 1930
    Action, Adventure, Drama
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    New York Nights
    48 %|Dec 28, 1929
    Crime, Drama
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    This Thing Called Love
    0 %|Dec 13, 1929
    Comedy, Romance
    actor
    Copy
    0 %|Oct 11, 1929
    Comedy, Drama
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    The Flying Fleet
    63 %|Jan 19, 1929
    Adventure, Drama, Romance
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    The Shopworn Angel
    0 %|Dec 29, 1928
    Romance, War
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    Jazz Mad
    0 %|Nov 18, 1928
    Drama
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    Moran of the Marines
    0 %|Oct 13, 1928
    Romance
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    Beggars of Life
    71 %|Sep 22, 1928
    Adventure, Drama, Crime
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    Win That Girl
    0 %|Sep 16, 1928
    Comedy
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    Warming Up
    0 %|Aug 4, 1928
    Comedy, Romance
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    The Vanishing Pioneer
    0 %|Jun 23, 1928
    Western
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    The Desert Bride
    50 %|Mar 26, 1928
    Drama, Action, Romance
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    The Trail of '98
    62 %|Mar 20, 1928
    Adventure, Action
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    Beau Sabreur
    0 %|Jan 22, 1928
    Adventure, Romance
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    The Jazz Singer
    61 %|Oct 6, 1927
    Drama, Music
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    Wings
    72 %|Aug 12, 1927
    Drama, Action, War, Romance
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    Ten Modern Commandments
    0 %|Jul 27, 1927
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    You'd Be Surprised
    63 %|Sep 24, 1926
    Comedy, Mystery
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    The Midnight Express
    30 %|Jun 1, 1924
    Action, Adventure
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    The Ten Commandments
    65.66 %|Nov 23, 1923
    Drama, Fantasy
    actor
    Other Men's Daughters
    0 %|Oct 15, 1923
    Drama
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    The Trouper
    0 %|Jul 23, 1922
    Comedy, Drama
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    Her Own Money
    0 %|Jan 1, 1922
    Drama
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    The Life of the Party
    52 %|Nov 21, 1920
    Drama, Comedy
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    The Family Honor
    0 %|Mar 15, 1920
    Drama
    actor
    A Western Governor's Humanity
    0 %|Nov 3, 1915
    Western
    actor
    A Species of Mexican Man
    0 %|Aug 25, 1915
    Drama
    actor
    From Champion to Tramp
    0 %|Jun 17, 1915
    Drama
    actor
    Mr. Carlson of Arizona
    0 %|Apr 8, 1915
    Drama

    Series

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    The Lucy Show
    70.88 %|Oct 1, 1962
    Comedy
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    Hennesey
    60 %|Sep 28, 1959
    Drama, Comedy
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    Richard Diamond, Private Detective
    62 %|Jul 1, 1957
    Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
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    December Bride
    55 %|Oct 4, 1954
    Comedy
    actor
    Inside Detective
    0 %|Invalid Date
    poster
    December Bride
    55 %|Oct 4, 1954
    Comedy
    actor
    Rocky King, Detective
    0 %|Jan 14, 1950
    Crime, Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure