Buddy Messinger
Acting
Biography
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
Born: October 26, 1907
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Known For
Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
Wild Boys of the Road
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
The Shining Hour
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Hold That Kiss
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
Love Thy Neighbor
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
Filmography
as Barfly (uncredited)
as Bellboy (uncredited)
as Butcher Boy (uncredited)
as Bellhop with Flowers
as Reporter
as Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)
as Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
as Elevator Boy
as Basketball Ticket Boy
as Third Page
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
as Elevator Boy (uncredited)
as Reporter
as First Elevator Boy (uncredited)
as Hospital Clerk
as Rance
as Clerk (uncredited)
as Messenger
as Usher
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)
as Theatre Usher
as Messenger
as Boy
as Dancer
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
as Elevator Operator
as Bellhop
as Cigar Counterman (uncredited)
as Boy (uncredited)
as Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)
as Donald
as Tuffy
as Hank
as Bob Lowden
as The Office Boy
as Rodney Bitts
as Jimmy Hunt
as Buddy Sangster
as Tommy
as Hedrick Madison
as Coleridge Twin
as 'Mr. Bad Boy'
as Jim at 10
as Freddie Littlefield
as Freddie Littlefield
as Freddie Littlefield
as Freddie Littlefield
as Freddy Littlefield
as Freddy Littlefield
as Freddy Littlefield
as Freddy Littlefield
as Freddy Littlefield
as Orphan
as Dish Lowry
as Kasim Baba
as Head Collector
as Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit