Robert Woolsey

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

Biography

Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Oakland, California, USA

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

12 August 1888, 137 years old

Known For

The Stolen Jools

Hook, Line and Sinker

Half Shot at Sunrise

Dixiana

Kentucky Kernels

The Nitwits

Mummy's Boys

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

So This Is Africa

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Classic Comedy Teams

Self (archive footage)

1986

High Flyers

Pierre Potkin

1937

On Again—Off Again

Claude Horton

1937

Mummy's Boys

Aloysius C. Whittaker

1936

Silly Billies

Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington

1936

The Rainmakers

Roscoe Horne

1935

The Nitwits

Newton

1935

Kentucky Kernels

Elmer Dugan

1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Bob

1934

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Dr. Dudley

1934

Signing 'em Up

Himself

1933

Diplomaniacs

Hercules Grub

1933

So This Is Africa

Alexander

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-7

Self

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Self

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

Spider Robbins

1932

Hollywood on Parade

Self

1932

Girl Crazy

Slick Foster

1932

Peach-o-Reno

Julius Swift

1931

Caught Plastered

Eggbert G. Higginbothom

1931

Oh! Oh! Cleopatra

Julius Caesar

1931

Everything’s Rosie

Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop

1931

Cracked Nuts

Zander Ulysses Parkhurst

1931

The Stolen Jools

Robert Woolsey

1931

Hook, Line and Sinker

Addington Ganzy

1930

Half Shot at Sunrise

Gilbert Simpson

1930

Dixiana

Ginger Dandy

1930

The Cuckoos

Prof. Cunningham

1930

The Voice of Hollywood

Himself / host

1930

Rio Rita

Ned Lovett

1929