J. Carrol Naish
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American character actor born in New York City, New York. Naish did many film roles, but they were eclipsed when he found fame in the title role of radio's Life with Luigi (1948–1953), which surpassed Bob Hope in the 1950 ratings. Naish appeared on stage for several years before he began his film career. He began as a member of Gus Edwards's vaudeville troupe of child performers. In Paris after World War I, Naish formed his own song and dance act. He was traveling the globe from Europe to Egypt to Asia, when his China-bound ship developed engine problems, leaving him in California in 1926. His uncredited bit role in What Price Glory (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role in the 1943 film Sahara, then for his performance in the 1945 film A Medal for Benny, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture. He notably played Boris Karloff's hunchback assistant in The House of Frankenstein in 1944. He was of Irish descent, but never used his dialect skills to play Irishmen, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me." Instead, he portrayed myriad other ethnic groups on screen: Latino, Native American, East Asian, Polynesian, Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, Eastern European, and Mediterranean. Besides his film roles, he often appeared on television later in his career. He spent many of his later years in San Diego studying philosophy and theology. Naish was married (1929–1973) to actress Gladys Heaney (1907–1987). They had one daughter. For his contributions to television and film, J. Carrol Naish has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.
217 acting credits
Acting · 217
Wagon Train
1957
Get Smart
1965
Climax!
1954
Route 66
1960
Burke's Law
1963
The Untouchables
1959
Green Acres
1965
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Texan
1958
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
Rio Grande
1950
General Electric Theater
1953
Guestward, Ho!
1960
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Sahara
1943
Cimarron City
1958
Batman
1943
Captain Blood
1935
House of Frankenstein
1944
Gung Ho!
1943
Dragon Seed
1944
Canadian Pacific
1949
Beau Geste
1939
Joan of Arc
1948
Clash by Night
1952
Ride the Man Down
1952
Rage at Dawn
1955
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953
Thunder Trail
1937
Border Cafe
1937
Blood and Sand
1941
The Southerner
1945
Humoresque
1947
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
1957
Two Seconds
1932
Sitting Bull
1954
Jungle Woman
1944
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
Violent Saturday
1955
The Last Command
1955
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
Saskatchewan
1954
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Ladies of the Big House
1931
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
The Fugitive
1947
The Hanged Man
1964
Tales of Manhattan
1942
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
Special Agent
1935
That's Entertainment!
1974
This Could Be the Night
1957
The President Vanishes
1934
Annie Get Your Gun
1950
Hit the Deck
1955
Upperworld
1934
Anthony Adverse
1936
Front Page Woman
1935
Disneyland '59
1959
Ann Vickers
1933
Please Believe Me
1950
Calling Dr. Death
1943
The Corsican Brothers
1941
Big City Blues
1932
King of Chinatown
1939
The Beast of the City
1932
Enter Arsène Lupin
1944
Central Airport
1933
Down Argentine Way
1940
Across the Wide Missouri
1951
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
Ramona
1936
Marie Galante
1934
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Night Club Scandal
1937
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
Elmer, the Great
1933
Exclusive Story
1936
Black Hand
1950
The Past of Mary Holmes
1933
Charlie Chan at the Circus
1936
That Night in Rio
1941
The Mystery Squadron
1933
The Defense Rests
1934
New York Confidential
1955
The Beast with Five Fingers
1947
The Toast of New Orleans
1950
The Royal Bed
1931
Queen of the Mob
1940
Man on a Bus
1955
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936
Rebel in Town
1956
The Kid from Spain
1932
Absolute Quiet
1936
The Hell Cat
1934
Illegal Traffic
1938
The Whistler
1944
Know For Sure
1941
King of Alcatraz
1938
The Conquerors
1932
Frisco Jenny
1933
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937
Gun Smoke
1931
Arizona to Broadway
1933
Cheer Up and Smile
1930
The Pied Piper
1942
Under the Pampas Moon
1935
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
Black Fury
1935
Undercover Doctor
1939
The Devil's in Love
1933
Golden Gloves
1940
Infernal Machine
1933
The Kissing Bandit
1948
The Mark of the Renegade
1951
Little Big Shot
1935
Desert Sands
1955
Fighter Attack
1953
Mr. Dynamite
1941
Prison Farm
1938
Typhoon
1940
The Monster Maker
1944
Behind the Rising Sun
1943
The Whirlwind
1933
The Grand Bounce
1937
Denver and Rio Grande
1952
Hideaway
1937
Her Jungle Love
1938
The Mad Game
1933
British Agent
1934
Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
Captured!
1933
Dr. Broadway
1942
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939
Confidential
1935
Hotel Imperial
1939
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
The Mouthpiece
1932
Dracula in the Movies
1992
Two-Man Submarine
1944
Good Intentions
1930
Island of Lost Men
1939
We're in the Movies, Now!
1939
Forced Landing
1941
Cutter's Trail
1970
Surrender
1931
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
1989
Daughter of Shanghai
1937
Moonlight Murder
1936
The Avenger
1933
Song of the City
1937
Special Investigator
1936
Jackass Mail
1942
Tiger Shark
1932
Sleepers East
1934
Accent on Love
1941
Yaqui Drums
1956
Tonight or Never
1931
Hell in the Heavens
1934
Sunday Punch
1942
Double Cross Roads
1930
Homicide Squad
1931
A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940
We Who Are About to Die
1937
Birth of the Blues
1941
Waterfront
1944
Hunted Men
1938
The Finger Points
1931
Strange Confession
1945
Star in the Night
1945
Silent Men
1933
A Medal for Benny
1945
Force of Impulse
1961
The Last Trail
1933
That Midnight Kiss
1949
Persons in Hiding
1939
Notorious But Nice
1933
Two in the Dark
1936
Havana Widows
1933
Sea Racketeers
1937
The Famous Ferguson Case
1932
The Man in the Trunk
1942
What Price Glory
1926
Scotland Yard
1930
Murder in Trinidad
1934
Voice in the Wind
1944
No Other Woman
1933
Dr. Renault's Secret
1942
Bad Bascomb
1946
Return of the Terror
1934
It's Your America
1946
Crack-Up
1936
Bannerline
1951
The Hatchet Man
1932
Woman of the North Country
1952
A Gentleman at Heart
1942
No Living Witness
1932
The Young Don't Cry
1957
Tip-Off Girls
1938
Girl in Danger
1934
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
Behind the Green Lights
1935
Crooner
1932
One Is Guilty
1934
The World Gone Mad
1933
Harrigan's Kid
1943
Doom of Dracula
1966
The Return of Jimmy Valentine
1936
Good Morning, Judge
1943
It May Happen to You
1937
What's Your Racket
1934