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Joseph Cawthorn
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Joseph Cawthorn
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1868-03-27,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.

Filmography

Blondie Johnson

6.1

Blondie Johnson
1933-02-25

The Postman Didn't Ring

0

The Postman Didn't Ring
1942-07-03

5

Dixiana
1930-07-22

Love Me Tonight

6.6

Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18

5.902

White Zombie
1932-07-28

The Great Ziegfeld

6.2

The Great Ziegfeld
1936-04-08

5.7

Sweet Adeline
1934-12-29

Naughty Marietta

5.1

Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29

Best of Enemies

0

Best of Enemies
1933-06-22

6

Peach-o-Reno
1931-12-25

4.5

Kiki
1931-03-14

Young and Beautiful

4.5

Young and Beautiful
1934-09-16

0

Silk Legs
1927-12-18

The Last Gentleman

3

The Last Gentleman
1934-04-27

5.7

Sweet Music
1935-02-23

One Rainy Afternoon

4.6

One Rainy Afternoon
1936-05-13

3.5

Harmony Lane
1935-10-22

Brides Are Like That

4.8

Brides Are Like That
1936-04-18

7.6

Housewife
1934-08-11

4

Hot Money
1936-07-18

6

Broken Dreams
1933-10-19

3.8

Dance Hall
1929-12-13

7

The Runaround
1931-08-21

They Call It Sin

5.8

They Call It Sin
1932-11-05

0

Scatterbrain
1940-07-20

6

Hold 'Em Yale
1928-05-14

5

Jazz Heaven
1929-11-03

Twenty Million Sweethearts

6

Twenty Million Sweethearts
1934-05-26

7

Lazy River
1934-03-16

Whistling in the Dark

5.6

Whistling in the Dark
1933-01-21

Page Miss Glory

6.3

Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07

Maybe It's Love

6

Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12

5.8

Street Girl
1929-08-21

0

Smart Girl
1935-07-16

Music in the Air

4.8

Music in the Air
1934-12-13

6

Freshman Love
1936-01-18

Lillian Russell

6.1

Lillian Russell
1940-05-24

Men Are Such Fools

0

Men Are Such Fools
1932-11-18

4.5

Bright Lights
1935-07-27

The Taming of the Shrew

5.2

The Taming of the Shrew
1929-10-26

So Ends Our Night

6

So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27

A Tailor-Made Man

0

A Tailor-Made Man
1931-03-28

Crime Over London

6

Crime Over London
1936-10-21

Very Confidential

0

Very Confidential
1927-11-06

Gold Diggers of 1935

6.4

Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15

5

Speakeasy
1929-03-08

3.7

Grand Slam
1933-02-22

The Princess and the Plumber

0

The Princess and the Plumber
1930-12-21

0

The Human Side
1934-09-01

Two Girls Wanted

0

Two Girls Wanted
1927-09-11

Made on Broadway

6.5

Made on Broadway
1933-05-19