Jack Oakie
Acting
Biography
Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
Born: November 12, 1903
Place of Birth: Sedalia, Missouri, USA
Known For
Hit the Deck
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Radio City Revels
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Bonanza
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Sitting Pretty
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
Thieves' Highway
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
From Hell to Heaven
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
Breaking Point
Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Filmography
as Napaloni - Dictator of Bactera (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Benzini Napaloni (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Joe Kelsey
as Otis Cobb
as J. Paxton Miller
as Ham Tucker
as Mac
as Travis Hyle
as Thaddeus Cade
as SS Henrietta Captain
as Self
as Sol Beckworth
as Sgt. Dominick
as Slob
as Bozo Evans
as Frank Rey
as Mike Kirby
as Jerry Marlowe
as Michael Sullivan
as Steve 'Slim' Gogarty
as Michael O'Rourke
as Popsy
as Pete Monahan
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Uncle Oscar Smith
as Skip Hutton
as Dan Daley
as Larry Martin
as Self
as Slip Riggs
as Rusty Smith
as Boley Bolenciecwcz
as 'Cake' O'Hara
as Chuck Hadley
as William "Willie" Deming
as Harry Calhoun
as Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria
as Joe Ballantine
as Bates
as Lanny Morgan
as Lanny Morgan
as Harry
as Corny Davis
as "Honest Ham" Hamilton
as Luke
as Bill Martin
as Happy Gallagher
as Whammo Lonsdale
as Henry B. 'Wahoo' Jones
as Bangs Tucker
as Joe Cork
as Jerry Craig
as Joe Cooney
as Spud Miller
as 'Shorty' Hoolihan
as Francis J. Finnegan
as Nicky Nelson
as Jack Ellery
as Casey
as Tweedledum
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Chick Parker
as Benny Day
as Barney Shirrel
as Mike 'Slug' Richards
as Kelsey Jones
as Charlie Bayne
as Eddie Doyle
as Private Mulligan
as Eddie Burke
as George Lewis
as Self
as Migg Tweeny
as Jack Oakie (uncredited)
as Alec Dugan
as Duke Taylor
as Babe Barton
as Jennifer
as Jack Oakie
as Frederick Martin Stevens
as Charlie Case
as Searchlight Doyle
as Voltaire McGinnis
as Littleton Looney
as Marco Perkins
as Himself / Master of Ceremonies / Fu Manchu's Victim (Murder Will Out) / Girls Gym Instructor (In a Girls' Gym)
as Bilge
as Tap-Tap Thompson
as Joe Spring
as Marty Martin
as Lew Layton
as Ben Barney
as Al
as James "Jimmy" Williams, the reporter
as Dopey Hart
as Michael Casey
as Searchlight Doyle
as Sam
as B. B. Brown
as Minor Role (uncredited)