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DeWitt Jennings

Born 1871-06-21

Died 1937-03-01

📍 Cameron, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.

Filmography 116

Thru Different Eyes

That I May Live

as Chief of Police

Fifty Roads to Town

as Captain Galloway

This Is My Affair

as Bradley Wallace

We Who Are About to Die

as Mike Brannigan

The Accusing Finger

as Prison Warden

Kelly the Second

Sing, Baby, Sing

as Mr. Lee, the Landlord

Exclusive Story

as Captain (uncredited)

I Dream Too Much

as Man Yelling for Food (uncredited)

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Daring Young Man

as Mayor's Committee Official

Front Page Woman

as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

as Sheriff Ramsey

A Dog of Flanders

Murder on a Honeymoon

as Captain Beegle

Secret of the Chateau

as Louis Bardou

The President Vanishes

Death on the Diamond

as Police Commissioner

Charlie Chan's Courage

as Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings)

as Chief Jordan

Little Man, What Now?

as Emil Kleninholz

The Fighting Rookie

as Police Commissioner

as Sheriff Jennings

The Meanest Gal in Town

as Police Chief (uncredited)

as Captain T. J. Hart

I Loved a Woman

as Banker (uncredited)

as Sheriff (uncredited)

as Deputy Russell

Made on Broadway

Strictly Personal

as Captain Reardon

as Capt. Balfour

A Lady's Profession

as Mr. Stephens

Mystery of the Wax Museum

as Police Captain, 12th Precinct

Ladies They Talk About

as Detective Tracy (uncredited)

as Joshua Perkins

as Bodensky (uncredited)

as George, the Mine Foreman

as Police Desk Sergeant Monahan (uncredited)

Midnight Morals

as Dan McKennan

as City Editor (uncredited)

as Court Policeman (uncredited)

Dancers in the Dark

as Police Sergeant McGroody

as B.W. Tozer (uncredited)

as Police Chief

A Dangerous Affair

Caught Plastered

as Police Chief H.A. Morton

as Sheriff Bud Hardy

as Chief of Police Donlin

The Primrose Path

The Criminal Code

as Yard Captain Gleason

The Bat Whispers

as Police Captain

as Boat Captain Hollister (uncredited)

Those Who Dance

as Captain O'Brien

Captain of the Guard

as Capt. O'Donnell

Seven Keys to Baldpate

The Trial of Mary Dugan

as Inspector Hunt

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929

as Officer O'Brien

Thru Different Eyes

Seven Footprints to Satan

as Judge O'Brien

as Police Chief

as Supt. Carleton

The Air Mail Pilot

The Night Flyer

Two Arabian Knights

as American Consul

The Great Mail Robbery

as Captain Davis

McFadden's Flats

as Patrick Halloran

The Fire Brigade

as Fire Chief Wallace

While London Sleeps

as Inspector Burke

as Orlando Wainwright

Chip of the Flying U

as J.G. Whitmore

The Splendid Road

as Capt. Bashford

as Director of Police

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

as Detective Ross

The Deadwood Coach

as Jim Shields - in play

The Deadwood Coach

Merton of the Movies

The Silent Watcher

as Detective Stuart

as Harrigan Blood

The Desert Outlaw

as Doc McChesney

The Gaiety Girl

as John Kershaw

By Divine Right

as Dan Collister

The Heart Bandit

as Pat O'Connell

as Col. 'Raw Meat' Islip

as Capt. Bristol

as Inspector Burke

as Murray McGuire

Flesh and Blood

as Detective Doyle

as J. J. Wallace

The Right That Failed

There Are No Villains

as Detective Flint

The Poverty of Riches

Alias Ladyfingers

Beating the Game

The Golden Snare

as 'Fighting' Fitzgerald

The Hillcrest Mystery

The Little American

as English Barrister