Clarence Kolb
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Clarence William Kolb (July 31, 1874 – November 25, 1964) was an American vaudeville performer and actor.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of second generation Austrian parents who owned a local meat company.
Kolb started out as one half of a vaudeville comedy team, Kolb and Dill, with Max Dill. They styled their act on the famous team of Weber and Fields. In addition to their stage work, they appeared in a series of short films and a feature length movie in 1917. Afterwards, Kolb made a return to vaudeville, and he only returned to the movies in the late 1930s.
He became famous for portraying the same type of character in many films, namely a politician or businessman. He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live (1938), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday (1940), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie (1952). Kolb played himself in his last movie appearance, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), opposite Danny Beck (who played the late Max Dill).
Clarence Kolb died at age 90 of a stroke at the Orchard Gables Sanitarium in Hollywood. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
As Actor/Actress
My Little Margie
Ayuno de amor
Mayor
Furia
Durkin's Friend (uncredited)
La costilla de Adán
Judge Reiser
Impact
Darcy
Hellzapoppin'
Andrew Rand
Christmas Eve
Judge Alston
Wells Fargo
John Butterfield
Man of a Thousand Faces
Clarence Kolb
Bedtime Story
Collins
Blossoms in the Dust
Senator
Merrily We Live
Henry Kilbourne
The Toast of New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Carefree
Judge Travers
The Pilgrim Lady
Prof. Rankin
Society Lawyer
Mr. Leonard
Nothing but the Truth
Mr. Van Dusen
Maid of Salem
Town Crier (Uncredited)
Honolulu
Mr. Horace Grayson
The Kid from Brooklyn
Mr. Austin
Gold Is Where You Find It
Senator Walsh
Beware Spooks!
Lester Lewis
White Tie and Tails
Mr. Arkwright
True to Life
Mr. Huggins
Good Girls Go to Paris
Ted Dayton Sr.
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
J.H. King
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
J.B. Armstrong
The Falcon in Danger
Stanley Harris Palmer
Caught in the Draft
Col. Peter Fairbanks
The Night of January 16th
Tilton