Russell Simpson
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880, Danville, California – December 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor who appeared in over 500 movies. He is best known for his "grizzled old man" appearances. Gaunt, lanky, and rustic-sounding, Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years, particularly as a member of the John Ford Stock Company. At age 18 Simpson prospected for gold in Alaska. He began taking acting classes in Seattle, Washington. In 1910 he married Gertrude Alter from New York City. By 1909, he had gone into the theatre. He appeared in at least two plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1912, and made his motion picture debut in Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 original film version of The Virginian in a bit part. By 1923, when the film was remade, Simpson had progressed to playing the lead villain. Throughout his career, Simpson worked for 12 years in road shows, stock companies, and on Broadway. He didn't usually perform lead roles, but he did star in many movies throughout the silent movie era. He performed a lead role as the grandfather in Out of the Dust (1920). Simpson is best known for his work in the films of John Ford and, in particular, for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His final film was The Horse Soldiers, his tenth film for Ford. Simpson worked up to 1959, the year of his death. He was the president of the Overseas Phonograph Accessories Corporation.
Known for
Credits
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Susan Lenox (1931)
as Doctor
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
as Pa Joad
My Darling Clementine (1946)
as John Simpson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
as Fred Bixby
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
as Henry Goodbody
The Tin Star (1957)
as Clem Hall
Dodge City (1939)
as Orth
Oklahoma! (1955)
as The Minister (uncredited)
They Were Expendable (1945)
as 'Dad' Knowland
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
as Dr. Petry
Joan of Arc (1948)
as Old Man with Pipe (uncredited)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
as Brother Griffith - Elder (uncredited)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
as Woolridge (uncredited)
The Tall Men (1955)
as Emigrant (uncredited)
Tap Roots (1948)
as Big Sam Dabney
Lovely Mary (1916)
as Peter Nelson
Hello Trouble (1932)
as Jonathan Kenyon
Meet John Doe (1941)
as (uncredited)
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
as Pat Foster (uncredited)
Wagon Master (1950)
as Adam Perkins
Carolina (1934)
as Richards
The Spoilers (1942)
as Flapjack
Desire (1923)
as Patrick Ryan
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Shubel Morgan
Virginia City (1940)
as Gaylord
Breakers Ahead (1918)
as Captain Scudder
Brigham Young (1940)
as U.S. Army Major
Tobacco Road (1941)
as Chief of Police
San Francisco (1936)
as 'Red' Kelly
Broken Lance (1954)
as Judge (uncredited)
The Barrier (1917)
as John Gaylord / John Tale
Lone Star (1952)
as Maynard Cole
Death Valley (1946)
as Old Silas Bagley
The Last Command (1955)
as The Parson
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
as Lewt Lake
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon (1952)
as Sam Stanton
Fighting Cressy (1919)
as Hiram McKinstry
Oh, Johnny! (1918)
as Adele's Father
The Outriders (1950)
as Farmer (uncredited)
Along Came Jones (1945)
as Pop de Longpre
Blue Jeans (1917)
as Jacob Tutwiler
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
as Bartender (as old Timer)
The Lonely Man (1957)
Actor
Parnell (1937)
as Dead Child's Father
Way Down East (1935)
as Squire Amasa Bartlett
Call Her Savage (1932)
as Old Man in Wagon Train
Old Shoes (1925)
Actor
Geronimo (1939)
as Scout
Swamp Water (1941)
as Marty McCord
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
as MacKenzie
Three Faces West (1940)
as Minister
Noisy Neighbors (1929)
as Ebenezer
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
as Lincoln's Employer
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
as Uncle Joe
Valley of the Giants (1938)
as McKenzie
Coroner Creek (1948)
as Walt Hardison
Nazi Agent (1942)
as 2nd Captain (uncredited)
Law and Order (1932)
as Judge R.W. Williams
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
as Kirby
The Big Bonanza (1944)
as Adam Parker
Defying Destiny (1923)
as Mr. Wilkens
Snowblind (1921)
as Hugh Garth
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Village Marshal (Uncredited)
Citadel of Crime (1941)
as Jess Meekins
The Eagle (1925)
as The Eagle's Lieutenant / Coach Driver (uncredited)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Ned Nolan
Lahoma (1920)
as 'Brick' Willock
Painted People (1924)
as Fred Lane
Wyoming (1940)
as Mr. Bronson
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
as Judge
Saddle Tramp (1950)
as Pop
The Brass Legend (1956)
as Deputy 'Pop' Jackson
Secrets (1933)
as Doctor (uncredited)
Border Patrol (1943)
as Orestes Krebs
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
as Dan Yeary
Mountain Justice (1937)
as Matthew Turnbull
Under the Lash (1921)
as Simeon Krillet
Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934)
as A.B. Crockett
The Food Gamblers (1917)
as Samuel Sloane
Bad Bascomb (1946)
as Elijah Walker
The Brand (1919)
as Dan McGill
Albuquerque (1948)
as Abner Huggins
Girl of the Ozarks (1936)
as Bascomb Rogers
The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
as Fred - Outrider in Prologue
Free For All (1949)
as Farmer
West of the Pecos (1934)
as Roy Neal
The Untamed Breed (1948)
as Minister
Billy the Kid (1930)
as Angus McSween
Wild West Days (1937)
as Matt Keeler
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Hank Younger
The World Moves On (1934)
as Notary (1825)
Silver Dollar (1932)
as Hamlin
My Dog Shep (1946)
as Mathew Hodgkins
Riding High (1943)
as Frenchy McGuire
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
as Clem Johnson
Heart of the North (1938)
as Dave MacMillan
Roughly Speaking (1945)
as The Colonel - Drill Instructor (uncredited)
Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
as Mayor Potter
The Power and the Glory (1933)
as Professor (uncredited)
The Narrow Street (1925)
as Garvey
Feudin' Fools (1952)
as Grandpa Smith
The Lone Star Ranger (1930)
as Colonel John Aldridge
Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
as Luke Barlow
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
as Banker Craig
The Deadlier Sex (1920)
as Jim Willis
The Great Meadow (1931)
as Thomas Hall
The Social Highwayman (1926)
as The Mayor's Partner
Annie Laurie (1927)
as Sandy
Tropical Nights (1928)
as Singapore Joe
Green Light (1937)
as Sheep Man
Texas Masquerade (1944)
as J.K. Trimble
Now We're in the Air (1927)
as Lord Abercrombie McTavish
The Woman of the Town (1943)
as Sime
Ramona (1936)
as Scroggs
The Earth Woman (1926)
as Ezra Tilden
Life's Mockery (1928)
as Wolf Miller
The Heart of the Yukon (1927)
as 'Cash' Cynon
Man Hunt (1936)
as Jeff Parkington
The Bill of Rights (1939)
as Frontiersman
Three on a Honeymoon (1934)
as Ezra MacDuff
The First Auto (1927)
as Hank Armstrong
Frontier Marshal (1934)
as Editor Pickett
Ridin' for Justice (1932)
as Marshal Joseph Slyde
Paddy O'Day (1936)
as Benton
Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
as Sheriff Evans
The Challenge Accepted (1918)
as Uncle Zeke Sawyer
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
as Marshal Len Baker
Lena Rivers (1932)
as Grandfather Nichols
Peg o' My Heart (1922)
as Jim O'Connell
Why Women Love (1925)
as Silas Martin
California Gold Rush (1946)
as Colonel Parker
Colt Comrades (1943)
as Sheriff
Rags to Riches (1922)
as The Sheriff
The Huntress (1923)
as Big Jack Skinner
The Sap (1929)
as The Banker
Roaring Guns (1944)
as Farmer MacKenzie
Paint and Powder (1925)
as Riley
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
as Jap Taylor
Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937)
as Bayliss Baynum
Lone Star Ranger (1942)
as Tom Duane
Last of the Duanes (1941)
as Tom Duane
Flames (1932)
as Jake
Desperate Trails (1939)
as Sheriff Big Bill Tanner
Call of the Klondike (1950)
as Andy McKay
Wild Geese (1927)
as Caleb Gare
Tuna Clipper (1949)
as Capt. Fergus MacLennan
Alexander Hamilton (1931)
as Harvey Taylor - First Ex-Soldier
Face in the Sky (1933)
as Pa Nathan Brown
The Virginian (1914)
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
That I May Live (1937)
as Bish Plivens
Man to Man (1930)
as Uncle Cal
The Girl of the Golden West (1923)
as Jack Rance
The Virginian (1923)
as Trampas
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
as Doc Small
Western Caravans (1939)
as Winchester Thompson
Human Hearts (1922)
as Paul Logan
The Kingdom Within (1922)
as Caleb Deming
The Frontiersman (1927)
as Andrew Jackson
The Splendid Road (1925)
as Capt. Lightfoot
The Blue Bandanna (1919)
as Jim Yancy
All Faces West (1929)
as Gunner Bill
Beauty and the Bad Man (1925)
as Chuckwalla Bill
Thunder Mountain (1925)
as Si Pace
The Harvester (1936)
as Abner Prewett
The Fabulous Texan (1947)
as Wade Clayton
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles (1933)
as Speaker
Ever Since Eve (1934)
as Jim Wood
A Boy and His Dog (1946)
as Mr. Thornycroft
The Honor of the Press (1932)
as Dan Perkins
Desert Gold (1919)
as Ladd
The Old Homestead (1915)
as Sheriff
Ship of Souls (1925)
as Angus Garth
Paradise Isle (1937)
as Baxter
Hearts Aflame (1923)
as Black Joe
The Riding Tornado (1932)
as Sheriff
Lovey Mary (1926)
as Stubbins
Across the Dead-Line (1922)
as Enoch Kidder
Rustlin' for Cupid (1926)
as Hank Blatchford
A Weaver of Dreams (1918)
as Martin Chandler
Circus Days (1923)
as Eben Holt
Sundown in Santa Fe (1948)
as Sheriff Jim Wyatt
Motive for Revenge (1935)
as McAllister
The Branding Iron (1920)
as John Carver
The Bushranger (1928)
as Sir Eric
Faint Perfume (1925)
as Grandpa Crumb
Godless Men (1920)
as 'Black' Pawl
Radio Scout (1934)
as Pappy Tolliver
Back to Nature (1936)
as Sheriff
Riders of the Night (1918)
as Sally's Grandfather
Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921)
as Tammas Biggar
Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
as Uncle Rufus
Innocents of Paris (1929)
as Emile Leval
Bill Apperson's Boy (1919)
as Bill Apperson
The Border Legion (1918)
as Overland Bradley
After the Fog (1929)
as Joshua Barker
The Uphill Path (1918)
as James Lawton
My Lady's Past (1929)
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