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Fred Kelsey

Highest Rated:
100% My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Lowest Rated:
80% Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Birthday:
Aug 20, 1884
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Ohio-born Fred Kelsey was so firmly typed as a comedy cop in Hollywood films that in the 1944 MGM cartoon classic Who Killed Who?, animator Tex Avery deliberately designed his detective protagonist to look like Kelsey -- mustache, heavy eyebrows, derby hat and all. In films from 1909, Kelsey started…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 80% - 100%
Number of Movies: 68
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1953 The Mesa of Lost Women
  • Actor
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1952 80% Hans Christian Andersen
  • 1st Gendarme
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1952 O. Henry's Full House
  • Santa Claus The Gift of the Magi
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1952 My Six Convicts (My 6 Convicts)
  • Store Detective
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1950 Dallas
  • Carter
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1949 Flaxy Martin
  • Watchman
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1949 Colorado Territory (North of the Rio Grande)
  • engineer
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1949 83% The Fountainhead
  • Old Watchman
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1948 Silver River
  • Townsman
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1948 The Noose Hangs High
  • Cop
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1947 Nora Prentiss
  • Turnkey
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1947 Stallion Road
  • Rancher
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1946 My Reputation
  • Conductor
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1946 Detour to Danger
  • Kelsey
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1946 Nobody Lives Forever
  • Railroad Conductor
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1945 88% Christmas in Connecticut
  • Harper
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1944 Crime by Night
  • Dad Martin
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1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
  • Actor
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1943 Northern Pursuit
  • Conductor
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1942 91% Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Irish Cop in "Peck's Bad Boy"
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1942 Juke Girl
  • Actor
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1942 100% My Favorite Blonde
  • Sam
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1942 Lady Gangster
  • Cop
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1942 In This Our Life
  • Actor
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1942 Counter-Espionage
  • Dickens
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1942 Larceny, Inc.
  • Bronson
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1942 X Marks the Spot
  • Riley
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1942 100% Gentleman Jim
  • Sutro
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1941 80% The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Man
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1941 100% One Foot in Heaven
  • Conductor
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1941 82% They Died with Their Boots On
  • Actor
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1941 Blues in the Night
  • Bartender
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1941 Invisible Ghost (Murder by the Stars)(The Phantom Killer)
  • Ryan
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1941 100% Kings Row
  • Bill Hockinson
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1940 The Green Archer
  • Capt. Thompson
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1939 Rough Riders' Round-up
  • Actor
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1939 Charlie Chan in Reno
  • Police Desk Sergeant
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1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble
  • Mahoney
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1938 My Lucky Star
  • Detective
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1937 Second Honeymoon
  • Reporter
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1937 Charlie Chan at the Olympics
  • Cop
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1937 A Damsel in Distress
  • Sightseer
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1937 Love Is News
  • Actor
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1937 Super-Sleuth
  • Jailer
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1937 All Over Town
  • Inspector Murphy
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1936 Charlie Chan at the Race Track
  • Policeman
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1936 The Dark Hour
  • Watson
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1936 Private Number
  • Detective
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1935 Carnival (Carnival Nights)
  • Detective
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1935 Danger Ahead
  • Actor
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1935 Lightning Strikes Twice
  • Dugan
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1935 Sagebrush Troubadour
  • Hank Polk
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1935 One Frightened Night
  • Jenks
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1934 88% Twentieth Century
  • Detective on Train
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1934 Moth
  • Detective Blake
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1933 100% Gold Diggers of 1933
  • Detective Jones
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1933 100% Footlight Parade
  • House detective
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1933 The Bowery
  • Detective Kelsey
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1932 Red-Haired Alibi
  • Crown
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1932 Love in High Gear
  • Officer Duffy
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1932 If I Had a Million
  • Doctor
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1931 Going Wild
  • Conductor
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1930 The Unholy Three
  • Cop at Train
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1929 The Last Warning
  • Actor
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1929 Wrong Again
  • Actor
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1928 A Woman of Affairs (1928)
  • Actor
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1925 Paths to Paradise
  • Confederate
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1923 Souls for Sale
  • Quinn
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