Roscoe Karns
Actor

Roscoe Karns Net Worth

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He was also a writer, having penned the screenplay for the 1933 film The Big Cage. Roscoe Karns was a prolific actor and writer from San Bernardino, California. He began his career on stage at the age of 15 and went on to appear in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was best known for his wisecracking cab driver and brash newspaper reporter roles in the 1930s, such as in His Girl Friday (1940). He also wrote the screenplay for the 1933 film The Big Cage.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack, Writer
Birth Day September 07, 1891
Birth Place  San Bernardino, California, United States
Age 128 YEARS OLD
Died On February 6, 1970(1970-02-06) (aged 78)\nLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Libra
Occupation Actor
Years active 1915-1964
Spouse(s) Mary M. Fraso (m. 1920–1970)
Children 2; including Todd Karns

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1934

Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as Wings and Beggars of Life, his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus Passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy It Happened One Night (1934), quickly followed by one of his best performances as the boozy press agent Owen O'Malley in Howard Hawks' Twentieth Century. (Six years later, he co-starred as one of the reporters in another Hawks classic, His Girl Friday.) In 1937, Paramount teamed him with Lynne Overman as a pair of laconic private eyes in two B comedy-mysteries, Murder Goes to College and Partners in Crime. From 1950 to 1954, Karns played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective. His son, character actor Todd Karns, also appeared in that series.

1959

From 1959 to 1962, Karns was cast as Admiral Walter Shafer in seventy-three of the ninety-five episodes of the CBS military sitcom/drama series, Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper in the title role of a United States Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as nurse Martha Hale.

1964

His final film was another Hawks comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, in 1964.

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Tags 1891 births 1970 deaths Male actors from California American male film actors American male silent film actors American male television actors Actors from San Bernardino, California 20th-century American male actors Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

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