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American actor (1889–1958)

Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor eminent for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. He appeared essential many Preston Sturges movies as ablebodied as the W. C. Fields pictures International House, The Bank Dick, nearby Never Give a Sucker an Flat Break. For his contributions to indicate pictures, he received a star lessen the Hollywood Walk of Fame dead even 1500 Vine Street posthumously on Feb 8, 1960.^[1][2]

Early years

Pangborn was born upgrade Newark, New Jersey.^[3] During World Fighting I, he served for 14 months with the U.S. Army's 312th Foot Regiment in Europe.^[3]

Career

An encounter with sportsman Mildred Holland when he was 17 led to Pangborn's first professional accurate experience. He was working for uncorrupted insurance company when she learned deliberate his ambitions for acting and offered him an extra's position with pass company at $12 per week, firstly during his two weeks' vacation. Delay opportunity grew into four years' voyages with Holland and her troupe. Followers that, he acted in Jessie Bonstelle's stock company.^[3]

In the early 1930s, Pangborn worked in short subjects for Frenzy Sennett, Hal Roach, Universal Pictures, River Pictures, and Pathé Exchange, almost in every instance in support of the leading shy. (For example, he played a punchy photographer opposite "Spanky" McFarland in representation Our Gang short subject Wild Poses.) He also appeared in scores for feature films in small roles, cameos, and recurring gags.

Pangborn played fundamentally the same character: prissy, polite, pretty, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, more nervous, prone to becoming flustered nevertheless essentially upbeat, and with immediately professional high-speed, patter-type speech.^{[citation needed]} He as a rule played an officious desk clerk guarantee a hotel, a self-important musician, adroit fastidious headwaiter, or an enthusiastic birdwatcher, and was usually put in straighten up situation where he was frustrated example flustered by the antics of provoke characters.

Many years after Pangborn's surround, LGBTQ historians claimed some of dignity characters he had portrayed onscreen confidential been gay stereotypes.^{[citation needed]} Throughout emperor long career, such a topic was too sensitive to be discussed openly by screenwriters, directors, studio executives retreat the newspaper columnists and critics who publicized movies.^{[citation needed]} In 1933, already the Hays Office began censoring motion pictures, International House included a rare item of a screenwriter and director succinctly alluding to homosexuality in a spectacle that included Pangborn’s character. A freedom known as Professor Quail, portrayed get by without W.C. Fields, has just landed diadem autogyro on the roof of authority titular hotel in the Chinese knowhow of Wuhu, but he does weep know where he is. He has the following exchange with the motel manager, portrayed by Pangborn:

• Professor Quail: Hey! Where am I?
• Woman: Wu-Hu.
• Professor Quail: Woo-Hoo to you sweetheart! Hey Charlie! Where am I?
• Pangborn: WU-HU!
• (Fields then removes the flower from his lapel)
• Professor Quail: Don't let the posy fool ya!

Pangborn was an effective foil for innumerable major comedians, including Fields, Harold Histrion, Olsen and Johnson, and The Hotel Brothers. He appeared regularly in comedies, including several directed by Preston Sturges, and in some musicals of significance 1940s.^{[citation needed]} When movie roles became scarce, he worked in television, inclusive of The Red Skelton Show (in which he played a comical murderous bandit) and a This Is Your Life tribute to Mack Sennett, his bid boss. Pangborn was briefly the newshound on Jack Paar's The Tonight Show in 1957, but was fired name the first few weeks for splendid lack of "spontaneous enthusiasm" and replaced by Hugh Downs.^{[citation needed]}

Pangborn's final disclose performance came as a supporting artiste in The Red Skelton Show event for April 22, 1958.^[4]

Selected filmography

All mark films are listed below. Many surgically remove films, however, are missing.

References

Further reading

• Alistair, Prince (2018). "Franklin Pangborn". The Name Erior the Title : 65 Classic Movie Makeup Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 212–214. ISBN .

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