Robert Woolsey

Personal Info

Birthday

August 12, 1888

Day of Death

1938-10-31

(50 years old)

Place of Birth

Oakland, California, USA

Also Known As

Robert Rolla Woolsey

Robert Raleigh Woolsey

Robert Woolsey

Biography

Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Known For

Hook, Line and Sinker

Everything’s Rosie

Dixiana

The Stolen Jools

High Flyers

Mummy's Boys

Peach-o-Reno

On Again—Off Again

Filmography

1937
High Flyers
as Pierre Potkin
On Again—Off Again
as Claude Horton
1936
Mummy's Boys
as Aloysius C. Whittaker
Silly Billies
as Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington
1935
The Rainmakers
as Roscoe Horne
The Nitwits
as Newton
1934
Kentucky Kernels
as Elmer Dugan
Cockeyed Cavaliers
as Bob
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
as Dr. Dudley
1933
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
Diplomaniacs
as Hercules Grub
So This Is Africa
as Alexander
Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
as Self
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
Hold 'Em Jail
as Spider Robbins
Hollywood on Parade
as Self
Girl Crazy
as Slick Foster
1931
Peach-o-Reno
as Julius Swift
Caught Plastered
as Eggbert G. Higginbothom
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
as Julius Caesar
Everything’s Rosie
as Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop
Cracked Nuts
as Zander Ulysses Parkhurst
The Stolen Jools
as Robert Woolsey
1930
Hook, Line and Sinker
as Addington Ganzy
Half Shot at Sunrise
as Gilbert Simpson
Dixiana
as Ginger Dandy
The Cuckoos
as Prof. Cunningham
The Voice of Hollywood
as Himself / host
1929
Rio Rita
as Ned Lovett