Gus Schilling
57 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 20, 1908
- Died
- Jun 16, 1957 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- August Schilling · August "Gus" Schilling
Biography
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).
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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.
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Known for
Gus Schilling: movies and TV shows
Acting (57)
- 1958 Touch of Evil
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
- 1956 Bigger Than Life
as Druggist (uncredited)
- 1956 Glory
as Joe Page
- 1955 Rebel Without a Cause
as Attendant (uncredited)
- 1955 Run for Cover
as Doc Ridgeway
- 1954 Executive Suite
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
- 1954 She Couldn't Say No
as Ed Gruman
- 1952 One Big Affair
as Mr. Rush
- 1951 On Dangerous Ground
as Lucky
- 1951 Honeychile
as Window Washer
- 1951 Gasoline Alley
as Joe Allen
- 1950 Hit Parade of 1951
as Studio Guide
- 1950 Our Very Own
as Frank
- 1949 Bride for Sale
as Timothy
- 1949 Flung by a Fling
as Capt. Gus Schilling
- 1949 He's in Again
as Gus
- 1948 Angel on the Amazon
as Dean Hartley
- 1948 The Return of October
as Benny
- 1948 Macbeth
as A Porter
- 1948 Pardon My Lamb Chop
as Gus
- 1948 Two Nuts in a Rut
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
- 1947 The Lady from Shanghai
as Goldfish
- 1947 Wedding Belle
as Gus Schilling
- 1947 Training for Trouble
as Gus Schilling
- 1947 Stork Bites Man
as Hubert Butterfield
- 1947 Calendar Girl
as Eddie Gaskin
- 1946 Pardon My Terror
as Gus
- 1946 Hot Water
as Gus
- 1946 Dangerous Business
as Alexander Pough
- 1946 Ain't Love Cuckoo?
as Gus Schilling
- 1945 High Blood Pleasure
as Gus
- 1945 River Gang
as Dopey Charlie
- 1945 A Thousand and One Nights
as Jafar
- 1945 See My Lawyer
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
- 1945 It's a Pleasure
as Bill Evans
- 1944 Sing a Jingle
as Bucky
- 1943 Larceny with Music
as Austin J. Caldwell
- 1943 Hers to Hold
as Rosey Blake
- 1943 Presenting Lily Mars
as Scotty - Stage Manager
- 1943 Chatterbox
as Gillie
- 1943
- 1943 Lady Bodyguard
as Bughouse Sweeney
- 1942 You Were Never Lovelier
as Fernando
- 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
- 1942 There's One Born Every Minute
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
- 1942 Broadway
as Joe
- 1942 Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Leo Cobb
- 1941 Hellzapoppin'
as Orchestra Conductor
- 1941 Appointment for Love
as Gus
- 1941 It Started with Eve
as Raven
- 1941 Ice-Capades
as Dave
- 1941 Citizen Kane
as John
- 1941 The Penalty
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
- 1941 Lucky Devils
as Aloysius Grimshaw
- 1940 Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Orderly Cleaning Window
- 1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Hotel Desk Clark
- 1940 Pop Always Pays
as City Dump Watchman