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
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
Macbeth (1948)
as A Porter
Bigger Than Life (1956)
as Druggist (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
as Orchestra Conductor
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
as Lucky
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
as Fernando
Run for Cover (1955)
as Doc Ridgeway
Executive Suite (1954)
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
Our Very Own (1950)
as Frank
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
as Jafar
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Gus
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Raven
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Scotty - Stage Manager
It's a Pleasure (1945)
as Bill Evans
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
as Orderly Cleaning Window
Pop Always Pays (1940)
as City Dump Watchman
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
as Bughouse Sweeney
There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
as Ed Gruman
Gasoline Alley (1951)
as Joe Allen
The Penalty (1941)
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Ain't Love Cuckoo? (1946)
as Gus Schilling
The Return of October (1948)
as Benny
Glory (1956)
as Joe Page
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
as Hotel Desk Clark
Ice-Capades (1941)
as Dave
See My Lawyer (1945)
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
One Big Affair (1952)
as Mr. Rush
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Actor
Broadway (1942)
as Joe
Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)
as Studio Guide
Pardon My Terror (1946)
as Gus
Bride for Sale (1949)
as Timothy
Angel on the Amazon (1948)
as Dean Hartley
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Rosey Blake
Larceny with Music (1943)
as Austin J. Caldwell
River Gang (1945)
as Dopey Charlie
Honeychile (1951)
as Window Washer
Pardon My Lamb Chop (1948)
as Gus
Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)
as Leo Cobb
Hot Water (1946)
as Gus
Two Nuts in a Rut (1948)
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
Stork Bites Man (1947)
as Hubert Butterfield
Dangerous Business (1946)
as Alexander Pough
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Eddie Gaskin
Chatterbox (1943)
as Gillie
Flung by a Fling (1949)
as Capt. Gus Schilling
Training for Trouble (1947)
as Gus Schilling
High Blood Pleasure (1945)
as Gus
Wedding Belle (1947)
as Gus Schilling
He's in Again (1949)
as Gus
Lucky Devils (1941)
as Aloysius Grimshaw
Sing a Jingle (1944)
as Bucky