Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Acting
Biography
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher was an American stage, screen, and television actor.
Born: July 27, 1891
Place of Birth: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Known For
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.
Possessed
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Espionage
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
The Meanest Gal in Town
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Close Harmony
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together an unusual jazz band, and uses her influence to get him a place on one of the programs. Max Mindel, the house manager, has a yen for Marjorie and, discovering that she is in love with Al, gives the band notice and hires harmony singers Barney & Bey as a replacement. Marjorie makes up to both men and soon breaks up the team. Al learns of her scheme, however, and makes her confess to the singers. Barney and Bey make up, and Max gives Al and his band one more chance. Al is a sensation, and Max offers him a contract for $1,000 a week.
Zis Boom Bah
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
The Racket
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The Night Club Lady
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.
Merrily We Go to Hell
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Riptide
Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow closer over the years. Then, a trip to the Italian Riviera unexpectedly reunites Mary with her former beau, Tommie. After some vicious gossip makes Rexford distrust her, he begins work on a divorce. Mary must now choose between the man she has married and the man she once loved.
Filmography
as Gus Weller
as Tommy Goodweek
as Professor Warren
as 'Don' Navadel
as Finney Fish
as Jimmy Brown
as Buzz Morton
as Haywood
as Perry Barnes
as Ronnie Van Zandt
as Wally Richards
as Bramwell Van Dusen
as Erskine
as Anthony Desmond
as The Reporter--Miller (as 'Skeets' Gallagher)
as Jack Hayden
as Rabbit
as Spunk Hobbs
as Johnny Dixon
as Joe Burke
as Ben Pratt
as Pete Brown
as Benson
as Dizzy
as Eddie Mack
as Tony
as Chester
as Buck
as Self
as Graham McNally
as Wally Stuart
as Hoppie
as Barney Hatfield
as Reporter
as Ambrose Peale
as Bob Talmadge
as Jerry, King of the Island
as Boots McGee
as Chick Hathaway
as Himself / Master of Ceremonies
as Charles Dangerfield
as Dash Nixon
as Johnny Bay
as Miller
as Tom Greene
as Soldier Who Pursues Blondy
as Coxey Pendleton
as Buck
as Red Miller
as College boy (as Skeets Gallagher)