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Fred Kelsey

Born 1884-08-20

Died 1961-09-02

📍 Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Filmography 261

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)

The Helen Morgan Story

as Night Club Patron (uncredited)

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

as Barfly (uncredited)

The Opposite Sex

as Club Patron (uncredited)

as Opera Attendee (uncredited)

as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

To Catch a Thief

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Tall Man Riding

as Townsman (uncredited)

The Silver Chalice

as Silversmith (uncredited)

as Audience Member (uncredited)

as Passerby on Street (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

as Crowd Spectator (uncredited)

as Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)

Murder Without Tears

as Sergeant-at-Arms

Hans Christian Andersen

as First Gendarme

Springfield Rifle

as Barfly (uncredited)

O. Henry's Full House

as Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

as Townsman (uncredited)

My Six Convicts

as Store Detective

Room for One More

Strangers on a Train

as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)

Goodbye, My Fancy

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as Doc Jones (uncredited)

as Townsman (uncredited)

as Sgt. Wallace

The Flame and the Arrow

as Guard (uncredited)

The Damned Don't Cry

as Man on Dock (uncredited)

So You Think You're Not Guilty

as Police Turnkey (uncredited)

as Fight Fan (uncredited)

The Inspector General

as Villager (uncredited)

Dancing in the Dark

The Fountainhead

as Old Watchman (uncredited)

Colorado Territory

as Train Engineer (uncredited)

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

as Officer O'Brien

as Townsman (uncredited)

The Noose Hangs High

as Cop (uncredited)

as Courtroom Spectator

as Turnkey (uncredited)

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

as Mac the Doorman (uncredited)

Never Say Goodbye

as Policeman (uncredited)

as First-Nighter (uncredited)

Monkey Businessmen

as Smiling Sam McGann (uncredited)

as Bartender (uncredited)

as Policeman (uncredited)

Three Strangers

as Man on the Street / Man in Pub (uncredited)

Detour to Danger

How DOooo You Do

as Mayor Stone (uncredited)

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

as Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)

Come Out Fighting

as Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)

If a Body Meets a Body

Christmas in Connecticut

as Harper (uncredited)

Snooper Service

The Strange Mr. Gregory

as Dad Martin (uncredited)

Make Your Own Bed

Trial by Trigger

as Jerry (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

as Cop in Raid (uncredited)

Shine on Harvest Moon

as Policeman in patrol car (uncredited)

as Police Chief

as Cop (uncredited)

Old Acquaintance

as Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)

Northern Pursuit

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

Thank Your Lucky Stars

as Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)

Murder on the Waterfront

Here Comes Mr. Zerk

Action in the North Atlantic

as Joe (uncredited)

One Dangerous Night

as Detective Dickens

as Sutro (uncredited)

X Marks the Spot

as Police Officer Martin

Counter-Espionage

as Night Watchman

In This Our Life

as Jailer (uncredited)

Murder in the Big House

My Favorite Blonde

as Sam - Policeman

as Policeman (uncredited)

as Police Chief Hansen

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Pacific Blackout

The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Detective (uncredited)

They Died with Their Boots On

as Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)

At the Stroke of Twelve

as Police Sergeant

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

as Wesley Dickens

One Foot in Heaven

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

Invisible Ghost

as Detective Ryan

Mr. District Attorney

as Officer McCloskey

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

as Detective Dickens

Misbehaving Husbands

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

Mexican Spitfire Out West

as Jim - Detective

The Green Archer

as Capt. Thompson

The Golden Fleecing

as Cop (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

The Lone Wolf Strikes

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Too Busy to Work

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

as Pete - Railroad Detective

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

as Detective - in Cab and at Theatre

Chicken Wagon Family

Charlie Chan in Reno

as Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

as Policeman at School (uncredited)

Moving Vanities

as Police Officer (uncredited)

Rough Riders' Round-up

Down on the Farm

Straight, Place and Show

as Cop at Racetrack

Many Sappy Returns

as Hotel Detective

Safety in Numbers

as Police Band Leader

Everybody's Doing It

as Police Sergeant

Love and Hisses

Borrowing Trouble

That I May Live

as Abner Jenkins

One Mile from Heaven

as Smitty - Policeman

The Lady Escapes

as Man on telephone (uncredited)

Wild and Woolly

as Policeman (uncredited)

as Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)

as Oil Man at Well

as Seaman at Auction

Angel's Holiday

as Cop (uncredited)

Time Out for Romance

as Desk Sergeant

as Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)

The Witness Chair

as Detective Costigan

as Cop (uncredited)

The Little Red Schoolhouse

as First Detective

The Garden Murder Case

as Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)

The Sagebrush Troubadour

as Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)

The Public Menace

as Horsley's Secretary

Atlantic Adventure

as Police Officer Riley

as Detective O'Brien

One Frightened Night

as Sheriff Jenks

Death Flies East

as Police Lieutenant O'Brien

A Notorious Gentleman

Horses' Collars

as Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)

Lightning Strikes Twice

Among the Missing

as Police Sgt. Murphy

Twentieth Century

as Train Detective (uncredited)

as Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.

I'll Tell the World

as Sergeant at Border

School for Girls

The Crime Doctor

as Detective Blake

Shadows of Sing Sing

as Detective Kelsey (uncredited)

Gold Diggers of 1933

as Detective Jones (uncredited)

King of the Jungle

as Cop (uncredited)

The Crime of the Century

as Police Guard (uncredited)

If I Had a Million

as Prison Jailer (uncredited)

Red Haired Alibi

as Process Server

as Detective Duffy

as Policeman (uncredited)

Love in High Gear

as Detective Duffy

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Cop (uncredited)

Discarded Lovers

as Sheriff Hornsby

Young Donovan's Kid

as Detective Kearney

as Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy

The Naughty Flirt

as Policeman (uncredited)

as The Conductor

as Murphy (uncredited)

Men Without Law

as Deputy Sheriff Jeff

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

as Self - Tour Guide

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

as Chief of Detectives (uncredited)

Road to Paradise

The Girl Said No

Murder on the Roof

The Woman Racket

as Police Captain

Smiling Irish Eyes

as County Fair Manager

The Donovan Affair

as Police Detective

The Last Warning

A Woman of Affairs

as Detective (uncredited)

The Wright Idea

as Mr. Lovewell

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

as Detective Simpson

While the City Sleeps

as Detective in Shadow Box

as The Detective

The Thirteenth Hour

Jewish Prudence

as Rent Collector

Held by the Law

Orchids and Ermine

as Police Sergeant

There Ain't No Santa Claus

as Store Detective (uncredited)

The Third Degree

as Assistant Chief of Detectives

Bromo and Juliet

as The Detective (uncredited)

Crazy Like a Fox

as Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)

Say It with Babies

The Social Highwayman

as Chief of Police

The Uneasy Three

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Little Annie Rooney

as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

The Lawful Cheater

Paths to Paradise

Smooth as Satin

Friendly Enemies

as George Ketchem

Youth and Adventure

The Yankee Consul

as Agent John J. Doyle

Bag and Baggage

The Eleventh Hour

as The Submarine Commander

as Detective Quinn (uncredited)

as Detective Hahn

Captain Fly-by-Night

Deserted at the Altar

as The Other Man

as Member of the Jury (uncredited)

as Police Officer

The Song of Life

as Police Inspector

There Are No Villains

The Match-Breaker

as Detective (uncredited)

The Off-Shore Pirate

Alias Jimmy Valentine

as Bit Part (uncredited)

The Third Generation

The Fire Flingers

The Silk Lined Burglar

as Capt. von Hoffmeier

The Light of Victory

as Captain Eric von Prohme

A Society Sensation

as The Detective

Arms and the Gringo