J. Carrol Naish
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known for
Credits
Rio Grande (1950)
as Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan
Captain Blood (1935)
as Cahusac
Joan of Arc (1948)
as John, Count of Luxembourg, Joan's Captor
Saskatchewan (1954)
as Batouche
House of Frankenstein (1944)
as Daniel
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Across the Wide Missouri (1951)
as Looking Glass
Batman (1943)
as Tito Daka
Blood and Sand (1941)
as Garabato
Sahara (1943)
as Giuseppe
Beau Geste (1939)
as Rasinoff
The Last Command (1955)
as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Clash by Night (1952)
as Uncle Vince
Violent Saturday (1955)
as Chapman, Bank Robber
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
as Chief Sitting Bull
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
as Costello
The Fugitive (1947)
as A Police Informer
Hit the Deck (1955)
as Mr. Peroni
Dragon Seed (1944)
as Japanese Kitchen Overseer
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
as Socrates Houlis
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
as Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
Gung Ho! (1943)
as Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos
Bannerline (1951)
as Frankie Scarbine
Special Agent (1935)
as Joe Durell
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
as Lorenzo
Canadian Pacific (1949)
as Dynamite Dawson
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
as Dr. Duryea alias Frankenstein
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
as Nicky Duvalle
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
British Agent (1934)
as Commissioner of War Trotsky
Humoresque (1947)
as Rudy Boray
Rage at Dawn (1955)
as Simeon 'Sim' Reno
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
as Grand Vizier
Anthony Adverse (1936)
as Major Doumet
Thunder Trail (1937)
as Rafael Lopez
The Southerner (1945)
as Devers
Front Page Woman (1935)
as Robert Cardoza
Crack-Up (1936)
as Operative #77
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
as Reo Seki
Infernal Machine (1933)
as Bryan
Ride the Man Down (1952)
as Sheriff Joe Kneen
The Mark of the Renegade (1951)
as Luis
New York Confidential (1955)
as Ben Dagajanian
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
as Gil Harkness
Two Seconds (1932)
as Tony
Black Hand (1950)
as Louis Lorelli
Girl in Danger (1934)
as Russo
The Beast of the City (1932)
as Pietro Cholo
Elmer, the Great (1933)
as Jerry (as J. Carroll Naish)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
as Casiano
Undercover Doctor (1939)
as Dr. Bartley Morgan
Moonlight Murder (1936)
as André Bejac
Doom of Dracula (1966)
as The Hunchback (archive footage)
Cutter's Trail (1970)
as Froteras
The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
as Police Commissario Ovidio Castanio
Central Airport (1933)
as Drunk in Wreck (uncredited)
Dracula in the Movies (1992)
as (archive footage)
The Hell Cat (1934)
as Joe Morgan
Rebel in Town (1956)
as Bedloe Mason
That Midnight Kiss (1949)
as Papa Donnetti
Dr. Broadway (1942)
as Jack Venner
Sitting Bull (1954)
as Sitting Bull
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The President Vanishes (1934)
as Anti-War Demonstrator (uncredited)
Bad Bascomb (1946)
as Bart Yancy
The Conquerors (1932)
as Agitator
Desert Sands (1955)
as Sgt. Diepel
Black Fury (1935)
as Steve Croner
Jungle Woman (1944)
as Dr. Carl Fletcher
Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
as Three Fingered Jack
The Pied Piper (1942)
as Aristide Rougeron
Two in the Dark (1936)
as Burt Mansfield
Return of the Terror (1934)
as Steve Scola
The Whistler (1944)
as The Killer
Upperworld (1934)
as Lou Colima
Man on a Bus (1955)
as Mr Stein
It May Happen to You (1937)
as Moxie
A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
as Gigi
The Kissing Bandit (1948)
as Chico
Tip-Off Girls (1938)
as Joseph Valkus
The Hatchet Man (1932)
as Sun Yat Ming
Crooner (1932)
as Nick Meyer
Typhoon (1940)
as Mekaike
That Night in Rio (1941)
as Machado
Illegal Traffic (1938)
as Lewis Zomar
The Kid from Spain (1932)
as Pedro
Hotel Imperial (1939)
as Kuprin
Marie Galante (1934)
as French Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
Ann Vickers (1933)
as Dr. Sorelle
Island of Lost Men (1939)
as Gregory Prin
The Hanged Man (1964)
as Uncle Picaud
Sunday Punch (1942)
as Matt Bassler
Exclusive Story (1936)
as Comos
Queen of the Mob (1940)
as George Frost
A Medal for Benny (1945)
as Charley Martin
King of Chinatown (1939)
as The Professor
The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
as Daniel (archive footage)
Special Investigator (1936)
as Eddie Selton
Captured! (1933)
as Cpl. Guarand
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
as Inspector Gregg
The Mouthpiece (1932)
as Tony Rocco
Frisco Jenny (1933)
as Ed Harris (uncredited)
Tonight or Never (1931)
as Radio Announcer
Tiger Shark (1932)
as Tony
Her Jungle Love (1938)
as Kuasa
One Is Guilty (1934)
as Jack Allen
Please Believe Me (1950)
as 'Lucky' Reilly
The Defense Rests (1934)
as Monte Ballou
Night Club Scandal (1937)
as Jack Reed - Gangster
Big City Blues (1932)
as Bootlegger (uncredited)
The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
as Tony Scapelli
Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
as Charles, the Butler
Hell in the Heavens (1934)
as Sgt. Chevalier
No Living Witness (1932)
as Nick
Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
as Frank Barden
Strange Confession (1945)
as Roger Graham
Murder in Trinidad (1934)
as Duval
This Could Be the Night (1957)
as Leon
Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
as Ganimard
Woman of the North Country (1952)
as John Mulholland
Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)
as Adram
Prison Farm (1938)
as Noel Haskins
Absolute Quiet (1936)
as Pedro
The Devil's in Love (1933)
as Salazar
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Daniel (archive footage)
The Monster Maker (1944)
as Dr. Igor Markoff
Fighter Attack (1953)
as Bruno
Birth of the Blues (1941)
as Blackie
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
as Claude Wright
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
as Mikhail Valdin
The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
as Irenov
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Bert
Golden Gloves (1940)
as Joe Taggerty
Waterfront (1944)
as Dr. Karl Decker
Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
as Richard Lane
Mr. Dynamite (1941)
as 'The Professor'
Border Cafe (1937)
as Rocky Alton
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
as Richard Lane (Archive Footage)
Scotland Yard (1930)
as Dr. Remur
It's Your America (1946)
as French Soldier (uncredited)
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as Joe Charney
Ramona (1936)
as Juan Can
Good Morning, Judge (1943)
as Andre Bouchard
The Young Don't Cry (1957)
as Plug
Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
as Tito
Confidential (1935)
as 'Lefty' Tate
Jackass Mail (1942)
as Signor Michel O'Sullivan
The Royal Bed (1931)
as Laker
The Mystery Squadron (1933)
as Collins
Force of Impulse (1961)
as Antonio Marino
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
as Tom Holt
Voice in the Wind (1944)
as Luigi
The Mad Game (1933)
as Chopper Allen
The Man in the Trunk (1942)
as Reginald DeWinters
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
as Gangster Robbing Pierre's (uncredited)
The World Gone Mad (1933)
as Ramon Salvadore
Good Intentions (1930)
as Charlie Hattrick
King of Alcatraz (1938)
as Steve Murkil
Havana Widows (1933)
as First Taxi Driver (uncredited)
The Avenger (1933)
as Hanley
Sea Racketeers (1937)
as Harry Durant
What's Your Racket (1934)
as Dick Graves
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
as Gary Kent
Persons in Hiding (1939)
as Freddie 'Gunner' Martin
Ladies of the Big House (1931)
as Witness Against Doremus (uncredited)
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
as Nick Trotti
Song of the City (1937)
as Mario
Gun Smoke (1931)
as Mink Gordon (uncredited)
A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
as Steve Kalkus
Hunted Men (1938)
as Henry Rice
Homicide Squad (1931)
as Hugo
Surrender (1931)
as French Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Two-Man Submarine (1944)
as Dr. Augustus Hadley
The Finger Points (1931)
as "The Finger is on You" Phone Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
as Papa Rico Molina
Know For Sure (1941)
as Tony Madroni
Arizona to Broadway (1933)
as Tommy Monk
No Other Woman (1933)
as Bonelli
What Price Glory (1926)
as French Soldier (uncredited)
Accent on Love (1941)
as Manuel Lombroso
Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
as Noel
Silent Men (1933)
as Jack Wilder
Batmania: From Comics to Screen (1989)
as Dr. Daka (archive footage)
Forced Landing (1941)
as Andros Banshek
Behind the Green Lights (1935)
as Sam Dover
Star in the Night (1945)
as Nick Catapoli
The Last Trail (1933)
as John Ross
The Whirlwind (1933)
as Injun
Sleepers East (1934)
as Carl Izzard
The Grand Bounce (1937)
as Hoodlum (uncredited)
Yaqui Drums (1956)
as Yacqi Jack
Harrigan's Kid (1943)
as Jed Jerrett
We're in the Movies, Now! (1939)
as Himself
Hideaway (1937)
as Mike Clarke
Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Dyke's Lookout