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