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J. Carrol Naish

Born 1896-01-20

Died 1973-01-24

📍 New York City, New York, USA

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Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi (1948–1953), which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings.

Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. In Paris after World War I, Naish formed his own song and dance act. He was traveling the globe from Europe to Egypt to Asia, when his China-bound ship developed engine problems, leaving him in California in 1926.

His uncredited bit role in What Price Glory (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role in the 1943 film Sahara, then for his performance in the 1945 film A Medal for Benny, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture. He notably played Boris Karloff's hunchback assistant in The House of Frankenstein in 1944.

He was of Irish descent, but never used his dialect skills to play Irishmen, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me." Instead, he portrayed myriad other ethnic groups on screen: Latino, Native American, East Asian, Polynesian, Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, Eastern European, and Mediterranean. Besides his film roles, he often appeared on television later in his career. He spent many of his later years in San Diego studying philosophy and theology.

Naish was married (1929–1973) to actress Gladys Heaney (1907–1987). They had one daughter.

For his contributions to television and film, J. Carrol Naish has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.

Filmography 216

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Daniel (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

Dracula in the Movies

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Daniel (archive footage)

Batmania: From Comics to Screen

as Dr. Daka (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

as Dr. Duryea alias Frankenstein

Doom of Dracula

as The Hunchback (archive footage)

I Dream of Jeannie

as Sam Vittorio

as Chief Yellow Horse

as Uncle Picaud

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Uncle Giuliano

Force of Impulse

as Antonio Marino

The Untouchables

as Joseph H. 'Joe' Bucco

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Miguel Ramierez

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Old Man Charvanaugh

The New Adventures of Charlie Chan

The Young Don't Cry

This Could Be the Night

as Bedloe Mason

The Last Command

as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

Violent Saturday

as Chapman, Bank Robber

as Simeon 'Sim' Reno

New York Confidential

as Ben Dagajanian

as Sitting Bull

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Socrates Houlis

General Electric Theater

Ride the Man Down

as Sheriff Joe Kneen

Woman of the North Country

as John Mulholland

Denver and Rio Grande

as Gil Harkness

Across the Wide Missouri

as Looking Glass

as Frankie Scarbine

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Mark of the Renegade

as Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan

The Toast of New Orleans

as Nicky Duvalle

Annie Get Your Gun

as Chief Sitting Bull

Please Believe Me

as 'Lucky' Reilly

as Louis Lorelli

That Midnight Kiss

as Papa Donnetti

Canadian Pacific

as Dynamite Dawson

as John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor

The Kissing Bandit

The Ed Sullivan Show

as A Police Informer

Carnival in Costa Rica

as Papa Rico Molina

The Beast with Five Fingers

as Police Commissario Ovidio Castanio

It's Your America

as French Soldier (uncredited)

Getting Gertie's Garter

as Charles, the Butler

Star in the Night

as Nick Catapoli

Strange Confession

as Roger Graham

A Medal for Benny

as Charley Martin

House of Frankenstein

Enter Arsène Lupin

as Japanese Kitchen Overseer

as Dr. Karl Decker

as Dr. Carl Fletcher

The Monster Maker

as Dr. Igor Markoff

Two-Man Submarine

as Dr. Augustus Hadley

Voice in the Wind

as Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos

Calling Dr. Death

as Inspector Gregg

Behind the Rising Sun

Good Morning, Judge

as Andre Bouchard

Dr. Renault's Secret

The Man in the Trunk

as Reginald DeWinters

as Aristide Rougeron

Tales of Manhattan

as Signor Michel O'Sullivan

as Matt Bassler

A Gentleman at Heart

The Corsican Brothers

Birth of the Blues

as Tony Madroni

as Manuel Lombroso

as Andros Banshek

That Night in Rio

as 'The Professor'

A Night at Earl Carroll's

as Steve Kalkus

Down Argentine Way

as Joe Taggerty

Queen of the Mob

as George Frost

Island of Lost Men

as Gregory Prin

Undercover Doctor

as Dr. Bartley Morgan

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

as Richard Lane (Archive Footage)

King of Chinatown

as The Professor

Persons in Hiding

as Freddie 'Gunner' Martin

Illegal Traffic

King of Alcatraz

as Steve Murkil

Bulldog Drummond in Africa

as Richard Lane

as Noel Haskins

Her Jungle Love

as Joseph Valkus

Daughter of Shanghai

as Frank Barden

Night Club Scandal

as Jack Reed - Gangster

as Rafael Lopez

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

as Mikhail Valdin

as Harry Durant

Think Fast, Mr. Moto

It May Happen to You

The Grand Bounce

as Hoodlum (uncredited)

Song of the City

We Who Are About to Die

as Operative #77

The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Subahdar-Major Puran Singh

Anthony Adverse

as Major Doumet

Special Investigator

as Eddie Selton

Charlie Chan at the Circus

Moonlight Murder

as André Bejac

Robin Hood of El Dorado

as Three Fingered Jack

The Return of Jimmy Valentine

as Tony Scapelli

The Leathernecks Have Landed

Exclusive Story

Two in the Dark

as Burt Mansfield

as 'Lefty' Tate

Little Big Shot

Front Page Woman

as Robert Cardoza

Under the Pampas Moon

as Steve Croner

Behind the Green Lights

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

as Grand Vizier

Hell in the Heavens

as Sgt. Chevalier

The President Vanishes

as Anti-War Demonstrator (uncredited)

as French Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)

as Commissioner of War Trotsky

The Defense Rests

as Monte Ballou

Return of the Terror

Murder in Trinidad

What's Your Racket

The Mystery Squadron

as First Taxi Driver (uncredited)

as Chopper Allen

as Cpl. Guarand

Notorious But Nice

Arizona to Broadway

The Devil's in Love

Elmer, the Great

as Jerry (as J. Carroll Naish)

The World Gone Mad

as Ramon Salvadore

Central Airport

as Drunk in Wreck (uncredited)

Infernal Machine

The Past of Mary Holmes

as Ed Harris (uncredited)

The Kid from Spain

as Bootlegger (uncredited)

No Living Witness

The Famous Ferguson Case

as Claude Wright

The Beast of the City

as Pietro Cholo

The Hatchet Man

as Sun Yat Ming

Ladies of the Big House

as Witness Against Doremus (uncredited)

as French Prisoner of War (uncredited)

The Finger Points

as "The Finger is on You" Phone Voice (voice) (uncredited)

as Mink Gordon (uncredited)

Tonight or Never

as Radio Announcer

Good Intentions

as Charlie Hattrick

Cheer Up and Smile

as Gangster Robbing Pierre's (uncredited)

Double Cross Roads

as Dyke's Lookout

What Price Glory

as French Soldier (uncredited)