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Joseph Crehan

Born 1883-07-14

Died 1966-04-15

📍 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joseph Crehan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in Union Pacific and They Died With Their Boots On. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Hollywood, California from a stroke.

Crehan often played alongside Charles C. Wilson with whom he is sometimes confused.

Filmography 297

as Observer at Start (uncredited)

Seven Days in May

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Judgment at Nuremberg

as Courtroom Spectator at Verdict (uncredited)

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show

as Council Member

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show

as Thomas Bolland

Leave It to Beaver

as Train Conductor

The Twinkle In God's Eye

Highway Dragnet

as Elderly Border Inspection Officer

Deadline - U.S.A.

as City Editor of The Standard (uncredited)

The Family Secret

as Thompson (uncredited)

Pride of Maryland

The Flying Missile

as Rear Admiral

The Tougher They Come

The Fuller Brush Girl

as Police Boat Captain (uncredited)

as Warden Burnside

The Arizona Cowboy

as Colonel Jefferson

as Plant Foreman (uncredited)

as President Ulysses S. Grant

Dancing in the Dark

as Board Member

Alias the Champ

The Lone Ranger

as Oscar Brannigan

Duke of Chicago

as 'Tex' Harman

The Last Bandit

as Local No. 44 Engineer

State Department: File 649

as Government Official

Bad Men of Tombstone

as Mine Superintendent

Homicide for Three

as Police Captain

as Dr. James Fenton

Sundown in Santa Fe

as Major Larkin

The Countess of Monte Cristo

Night Time in Nevada

as Engineer Casey

as Doctor (uncredited)

The Gallant Legion

as George Trent - State Official

as Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)

as Small Town Police Captain

as William Barnes

Adventures in Silverado

The Enchanted Valley

The Story of Life

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

as Chief Brandon

Monsieur Verdoux

as Broker (uncredited)

The Sea of Grass

as Colorado Sen. Grew (uncredited)

Philo Vance's Gamble

The Falcon's Adventure

as Inspector Cavanaugh

Magnificent Doll

as Williams (uncredited)

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

as Chief Brandon

Dangerous Money

as Captain Black

Strange Journey

as Police Commissioner Salisbury (uncredited)

as Medical Examiner (uncredited)

The Mysterious Mr. M

Night Train to Memphis

as John Stevenson

as Gen. Donovan

as Gov. Clark (uncredited)

Behind the Mask

as Police Inspector Cardonna

The Phantom Thief

as 'Jumbo' Madigan - Pawnbroker

Deadline at Dawn

The Shadow Returns

as Police Insp. Cardona

A Guy Could Change

Girl on the Spot

as Editor (uncredited)

as Ed - Maritime Office (uncredited)

as Chief Brandon

Captain Tugboat Annie

as Dr. James P. Whitney

The Royal Mounted Rides Again

as RCMP Sergeant Nelson

Lady on a Train

as Train passenger (uncredited)

The Chicago Kid

as Chief Rogers

I Love a Mystery

as Police Captain Quinn (Uncredited)

The Thin Man Goes Home

as Clancy - Policeman at Railroad Station (uncredited)

The Missing Juror

as Willard Apple

When the Lights Go On Again

One Mysterious Night

as Jumbo Madigan (Uncredited)

as Police Sgt. Matthews

The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Ulysses S. Grant

Christmas Holiday

as Steve (uncredited)

Gambler's Choice

as Toby (uncredited)

The Great Alaskan Mystery

To the People of the United States

as Doctor at Hospital (uncredited)

Shine on Harvest Moon

as Harry Miller (uncredited)

as Chaplain Benson

Hands Across the Border

as Jeff "Bet-A-Hundred" Adams

The Woman of the Town

as New York Newspaper Editor

The Desert Song

as Steve, a Reporter

Mystery Broadcast

as Chief Daniels

as Mogey (uncredited)

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

as Col. George Bolton [Chs. 1-2]

Honeymoon Lodge

as Detective (uncredited)

as Train Conductor #1 (uncredited)

as Police Capt. Alan O'Brien

Mission to Moscow

as Reporter (uncredited)

She Has What It Takes

as George Clarke

Keep 'Em Slugging

as Detective Sergeant

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

City Without Men

as Father Burns

Whistling in Dixie

as Deputy Police Commissioner (uncredited)

as Mr. Jeffrey Ferguson

as Duffy - Referee (uncredited)

You Can't Escape Forever

as Warden (uncredited)

Eyes of the Underworld

as Kirby - Assistant Police Chief

The Secret Code

as Police Chief Henry Burns

as Luther Crittenden

Hello, Annapolis

Murder in the Big House

Obliging Young Lady

as Managing Editor (uncredited)

as Police Chief Martin O'Brien

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Ray Trent (uncredited)

Cadets on Parade

as Jeff Shannon

as Chief Charles R. Dugan

They Died with Their Boots On

as President Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)

Three Girls About Town

as Labor leader

as supporting role

as Rancher Dusty King

Doctors Don't Tell

as Judge Hoskins

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

as Editor (uncredited)

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Doctor (uncredited)

Washington Melodrama

as Phil Sampson

Here Comes Happiness

as Bob - Globe Newspaper Editor (uncredited)

Scattergood Baines

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

The Case of the Black Parrot

as Inspector Grady

as Officer at Washington Party (uncredited)

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

Little Nellie Kelly

as Commissioner O'Brien (uncredited)

City for Conquest

as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Public Deb No. 1

The Secret Seven

as Police Chief Hobbs

as Brother MacEwen

Gaucho Serenade

as Edward Martin

as Mayor Steven Andrews (uncredited)

The House Across the Bay

Broadway Melody of 1940

as Ballroom Manager (uncredited)

as Warden (uncredited)

The Fighting 69th

as Inoculations Doctor (uncredited)

The Green Hornet

as Judge Stanton

Emergency Squad

as H. Tyler Joyce, editor

Music in My Heart

as Mark C. Gilman

Invisible Stripes

as Garage Owner (uncredited)

Private Detective

as Capt. Murphy

as President Ulysses S. Grant

We Are Not Alone

as American at Train Station

The Return of Doctor X

The Roaring Twenties

Hollywood Cavalcade

Full Confession

as Warden (uncredited)

as Mr. Blaine (uncredited)

as Thomas Marlowe

Stanley and Livingstone

They All Come Out

as Judge (uncredited)

Behind Prison Gates

as Prison Warden O'Neil

as Defense Attorney Wilcox

as Ulysses S. Grant

as Hammond (uncredited)

Almost a Gentleman

Whispering Enemies

as George Harley

You Can't Get Away with Murder

as Warden of Sing Sing

Wings of the Navy

as Second Doctor

as FBI Chief Herbert Daly

Illegal Traffic

Girls on Probation

The Arkansas Traveler

Crime Takes a Holiday

as Gov. Bill Allen

Too Hot to Handle

as First Advertising Man (uncredited)

Billy The Kid Returns

as U.S. Marshal Dave Conway

as Butler Pierce

Woman Against Woman

as Sen. Kingsley

A Criminal Is Born

as Frank Wheeler

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Stage Manager

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

as American Tourist (uncredited)

as Mr. Owen, Mine Owner

as Inspector Wayland

The Kid Comes Back

as Danny Lockridge

Midnight Intruder

as Bill Harwood - Newspaper Editor

Here's Flash Casey

Beg, Borrow or Steal

as Mr. Parsons, Murillo Customer (uncredited)

The Duke Comes Back

Blossoms On Broadway

as Bartender (uncredited)

as District Attorney

Outlaws of the Orient

as A.J. Lambert

as District Attorney

as Editor Brophy

The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

This Is My Affair

A Day at Santa Anita

as Biff, Blackburn's Trainer (uncredited)

There Goes My Girl

Draegerman Courage

as Dr. Stuart Hunter

The Cherokee Strip

as Army Officer

as Judge Frederick J. Thompson

Her Husband's Secretary

as Captain Andrews

God's Country and the Woman

as Tiny Torgensen

Guns of the Pecos

as Captain Norris

Gold Diggers of 1937

as Mike Trotter

The Captain's Kid

as Deputy Coroner Frank Knickerbocker

Here Comes Carter

as Daniel Bronson

as Reed's Manager

Down the Stretch

as Colonel Douglas

Anthony Adverse

as Capt. Elisha Jorham

as Bill Hinsdale

Earthworm Tractors

as Mr. Henderson

Murder by an Aristocrat

as Hilary Thatcher

Bullets or Ballots

as Grand Jury Spokesman

The Law in Her Hands

as Dist. Atty. Thomas Mallon

Brides Are Like That

The Singing Kid

as Agent Fulton (uncredited)

as Harry Shields

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Shipmates Forever

as Spike (uncredited)

The Case of the Lucky Legs

as Detective Johnson

as Commissioner of Police

Page Miss Glory

as Detective Chief

We're in the Money

as Post Office Attendant

Don't Bet on Blondes

as Doctor Delivering Quintuplets (Uncredited)

Front Page Woman

as Johnny Quinn

Oil for the Lamps of China

as Johnny Farrell

Let 'em Have It

as Memory Test Instructor

as Orphanage Director

Go Into Your Dance

as H.P. Jackson

Traveling Saleslady

While the Patient Slept

as Evening Bulletin Editor (uncredited)

as Harvey Morris

as Immigration Official

Gentlemen Are Born

Against the Law

as Capt. Elliott

Big Hearted Herbert

as IRS Tax Investigator (uncredited)

as Second Doctor (uncredited)

Among the Missing

as Detective O'Malley

The Case of the Howling Dog

as Captain Kelly (uncredited)

as Chief Anderson

Here Comes the Navy

as Recruiting Officer (uncredited)

as Captain Barnett

as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

The Merry Frinks

as Police Capt. Daniel McGrath

Voice in the Night

as John Robinson

as Murder Trial Judge (uncredited)

It Happened One Night

as Detective (uncredited)

as Conductor (uncredited)

Before Midnight

as Capt. Frank Flynn

as Ship Captain (uncredited)

as Dignitary at Reception (uncredited)

as Police Lieutenant (Uncredited)

Secrets of a Secretary

as Henry - Steve's Butler

Under Two Flags