Gus Schilling
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August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Known for
Credits
Citizen Kane (1941)
as John
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Attendant (uncredited)
Touch of Evil (1958)
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
as Goldfish
Macbeth (1948)
as A Porter
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
as Lucky
Bigger Than Life (1956)
as Druggist (uncredited)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
as Fernando
Run for Cover (1955)
as Doc Ridgeway
Executive Suite (1954)
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Jafar
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Scotty - Stage Manager
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
as Orchestra Conductor
Bride for Sale (1949)
as Timothy
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Gus
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
as Ed Gruman
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Raven
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Actor
Wedding Belle (1947)
as Gus Schilling
Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)
as Gus Schilling
Our Very Own (1950)
as Frank
The Return of October (1948)
as Benny
Hot Water (1946)
as Gus
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
as Orderly Cleaning Window
Ice-Capades (1941)
as Dave
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
as Leo Cobb
Larceny with Music (1943)
as Austin J. Caldwell
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
Angel on the Amazon (1948)
as Dean Hartley
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Rosey Blake
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
as Hotel Desk Clark
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
as Bughouse Sweeney
Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)
as Studio Guide
See My Lawyer (1945)
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
The Penalty (1941)
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
One Big Affair (1952)
as Mr. Rush
It's a Pleasure (1945)
as Bill Evans
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Eddie Gaskin
Broadway (1942)
as Joe
Pardon My Terror (1946)
as Gus
Glory (1956)
as Joe Page
Sing a Jingle (1944)
as Bucky
Stork Bites Man (1947)
as Hubert Butterfield
Pardon My Lamb Chop (1948)
as Gus
Gasoline Alley (1951)
as Joe Allen
Lucky Devils (1941)
as Aloysius Grimshaw
Dangerous Business (1946)
as Alexander Pough
Honeychile (1951)
as Window Washer
River Gang (1945)
as Dopey Charlie
Two Nuts in a Rut (1948)
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
Pop Always Pays (1940)
as City Dump Watchman
Flung by a Fling (1949)
as Capt. Gus Schilling
Chatterbox (1943)
as Gillie
He's in Again (1949)
as Gus
High Blood Pleasure (1945)
as Gus
Training for Trouble (1947)
as Gus Schilling