Oliver Blake
Acting
Biography
Character actor with a wildly distinctive face. Used real name Oliver Prickett for stage work, especially at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he was a longtime fixture and teacher and where his brother was managing director. Used stage name Oliver Blake for scores of small film and television roles. Brother-in-law of actress Maudie Prickett. He died on 12 February 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Born: April 4, 1905
Place of Birth: Centralia, Illinois, USA
Known For
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Out of the Past
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an illness. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.
Nightmare Alley
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
Filmography
as Ludwig Smiley (uncredited)
as Mortimer Hopelaw (uncredited)
as Dr. Gregory Jessup
as Cafe Proprietor
as Jake - Bartender (uncredited)
as Leading Citizen (uncredited)
as Brimmer
as Man Dressed as Santa Claus
as Curly
as Geoduck
as Hotel Clerk
as Minister (uncredited)
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Motel Manager (uncredited)
as Amadeo (uncredited)
as Geoduck
as Mr. Judlow
as Apartment Manager
as Citizen of Rome
as Man Checking His Watch (uncredited)
as Innkeeper
as Deacon
as Geoduck
as Clem Smith
as Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
as Geoduck
as Spectator (uncredited)
as Mr. Tatum (uncredited)
as Theater Manager (uncredited)
as Al - Bartender at Blue Pencil(uncredited)
as Zeb Allen
as Cadaver Jones (uncredited)
as Traeger
as Geoduck
as Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)
as Man in Bowler Hat (uncredited)
as Mr. Andrews
as Engagement Party Guest (uncredited)
as Wells Fargo Agent (uncredited)
as Mr. Pierson (Uncredited)
as Advertising Photographer
as Juror
as Ed Conlon
as Mr. Masselli
as Official (uncredited)
as Ray Belden's Landlord (Uncredited)
as Scorekeeper (uncredited)
as Arno
as Slenka
as Indian
as Tillotson (uncredited)
as Mr. Purdie (uncredited)
as Hobo (uncredited)
as Jake, the janitor
as City Treasurer Joseph Nash
as Mr. Agrippa
as Herman
as Pat Tenny
as Dave (uncredited)
as Pawnbroker #1 (uncredited)
as Photographer in Heaven (uncredited)
as Pantera Pepster Club Member (uncredited)
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Hotel porter
as Author
as Lieutenant
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
as Draft Board Official (uncredited)
as Cook
as Heckler (uncredited)
as Waiter at the Blue Parrot (uncredited)
as Hypolite (uncredited)
as Music Judge
as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
as The Hotel Manager
as Ellsmere, the Artist (uncredited)
as Realtor (uncredited)
as Lawyer Fenster
as Bender