Hobart Cavanaugh
Hobart Cavanaugh (born September 22, 1886 in Virginia City , Nevada , † April 27, 1950 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and stage actor.
life and career
Hobart Cavanaugh was born in the gold rush town of Virginia City.
His father worked there as a railroad engineer, and the family later moved to California. At first he wanted to become an engineer like his father and studied at the University of California. But he switched to acting and made his Broadway debut in 1916. He remained connected to Broadway in over a dozen pieces until 1948.
Cavanaugh made his film debut in 1928 in the film San Francisco Nights on the side of Mae Busch , then he was able to establish himself as a supporting actor.
Cavanaugh often embodied the "little man" who is not taken seriously by other movie characters and exploited for all purposes. Often his characters appeared a little nervous or sappy, but in some films Cavanaugh's characters turned out to be villains at the end of the film. In the mid-1930s, Cavanaugh achieved his greatest success with supporting roles in Michael Curtiz 'adventure film Unter Piratenflagge , in Max Reinhardt's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrat and in His Secretary alongside Clark Gable and Jean Harlow . He played several times with James Cagney . He also worked as a narrator for three documentaries.
In 1913 he married Florence Hester, they had one child. Hobart Cavanaugh was buried in the celebrity cemetery Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City .
Filmography (selection)
- 1928: San Francisco Nights
- 1933: I Cover the Waterfront
- 1933: Fair Rummel (State Fair)
- 1933: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Gold Diggers of 1933)
- 1933: The Detective and the Gambler (Private Detective 62)
- 1933: The Mayor of Hell
- 1933: Mary Stevens, MD
- 1933: A Study in Scarlet
- 1933: Lost in New York (Bureau of Missing Persons)
- 1933: Parade in the Spotlight (Footlight Parade)
- 1934: A Modern Hero
- 1934: Housewife
- 1934: Love without thread and thread (Fashions of 1934)
- 1934: The St. Louis Kid
- 1934: A fine gentleman (Jimmy the Gent)
- 1934: Mandalay
- 1934: Madame DuBarry not in the credits
- 1935: City on the border (Bordertown)
- 1935: Don't Bet On Blondes
- 1935: A Midsummer Night's Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- 1935: Under the pirate flag (Captain Blood)
- 1935: Light in the Dark (Wings in the Dark)
- 1936: His secretary (Wive vs. Secretary)
- 1936: Cain and Mabel (Cain and Mabel)
- 1936: The Golden Arrow
- 1936: Three cute girls (Three Smart Girls)
- 1937: Order is Half of Life (The Great O'Malley)
- 1939: The Wrong Paths of Love (Broadway Serenade)
- 1939: Zenobia, the fairground elephant (Zenobia)
- 1939: Father conducts (Four Daughters)
- 1939: That's Right - You're Wrong
- 1940: An Angel from Texas
- 1940: Land of the Wicked (Santa Fe Trail)
- 1941: I Wanted Wings
- 1941: Our Wife
- 1941: Marriage Posse (Skylark)
- 1942: Tarzan's New York Adventure (Tarzan's New York Adventure)
- 1942: Stand by for Action
- 1943: The Sheriff of Kansas (The Kansan)
- 1943: Dangerous Blonds
- 1943: And Life Goes On (The Human Comedy)
- 1943: Jack London
- 1944: Kismet
- 1945: I Was a Criminal
- 1945: The House of Fear (The House of Fear)
- 1946: Forgotten Hour (Black Angel)
- 1946: Faithful in My Fashion
- 1949: A Letter to Three Wives (A Letter to Three Wives)
- 1950: Stella
Web links
- Hobart Cavanaugh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hobart Cavanaugh in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Hobart Cavanaugh in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hobart Cavanaugh - About This Person. In: The New York Times. nytimes.com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 22, 2017 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cavanaugh, Hobart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Virginia City , Nevada , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1950 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , Los Angeles, United States |