Fred Kelsey

Known for Acting

Details

Birthday: August 20, 1884

Deathday: September 02, 1961

Place of birth: Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Actor

1959

Westbound

1958

Auntie Mame

1957

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

1956

The Opposite Sex

1956

Serenade

1955

Tall Man Riding

1955

To Catch a Thief

1955

Illegal

1954

The Silver Chalice

1954

Lucky Me

1954

A Star Is Born

1954

Outlaw's Son

1954

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

1954

Riding Shotgun

1954

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

1954

Racing Blood

1953

Crime Wave

1953

Murder Without Tears

1953

So You Think You Can't Sleep

1953

So You Want to Be a Musician

1952

Hans Christian Andersen

1952

Springfield Rifle

1952

Room for One More

1952

O. Henry's Full House

1952

My Six Convicts

1952

So You Want to Enjoy Life

1952

Carson City

1952

Strop, Look and Listen

1951

Storm Warning

1951

The Enforcer

1951

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951

Strangers on a Train

1950

Revenue Agent

1950

So You Want a Raise

1950

So You Think You're Not Guilty

1950

Backfire

1950

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

1949

Flamingo Road

1949

Colorado Territory

1949

The Inspector General

1949

Dancing in the Dark

1949

Homicide

1949

The Fountainhead

1949

So You Want to Be a Muscle Man

1949

So You Want to Be an Actor

1948

The Noose Hangs High

1948

So You Want an Apartment

1948

Silver River

1947

The Unfaithful

1947

Nora Prentiss

1946

Hiss and Yell

1946

Andy Plays Hookey

1946

Detour to Danger

1946

A Stolen Life

1946

Never Say Goodbye

1946

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

1946

Three Strangers

1946

So You Want to Play the Horses

1946

Night and Day

1946

The Man I Love

1946

The People's Choice

1946

Monkey Businessmen

1945

Frontier Days

1945

Saratoga Trunk

1945

If a Body Meets a Body

1945

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

Mildred Pierce

1945

Snooper Service

1945

How DOooo You Do

1945

Come Out Fighting

1945

The Strange Mr. Gregory

1944

Roaring Guns

1944

Trial by Trigger

1944

Crime by Night

1944

Mr. Skeffington

1944

Make Your Own Bed

1944

Shine on Harvest Moon

1943

Northern Pursuit

1943

Murder on the Waterfront

1943

A Gem of a Jam

1943

Here Comes Mr. Zerk

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

Food and Magic

1943

One Dangerous Night

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

True to Life

1943

Old Acquaintance

1942

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

1942

Counter-Espionage

1942

Murder in the Big House

1942

My Favorite Blonde

1942

Lady Gangster

1942

Larceny, Inc.

1942

Bullet Scars

1942

X Marks the Spot

1942

Gentleman Jim

1942

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

Spy Ship

1942

I Was Framed

1942

Dear! Deer!

1942

In This Our Life

1941

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

1941

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

1941

At the Stroke of Twelve

1941

Invisible Ghost

1941

They Died with Their Boots On

1941

Mr. District Attorney

1941

Pacific Blackout

1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941

One Foot in Heaven

1940

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

1940

The Lone Wolf Strikes

1940

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

1940

Mutiny in the County

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1940

Deadwood Dick

1940

Misbehaving Husbands

1940

The Golden Fleecing

1940

The Green Archer

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

1940

High School

1939

Moving Vanities

1939

Tiny Troubles

1939

Tell No Tales

1939

Rough Riders' Round-up

1939

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

1939

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939

Chicken Wagon Family

1939

Clock Wise

1939

Too Busy to Work

1938

Josette

1938

Night Spot

1938

Everybody's Doing It

1938

Straight, Place and Show

1938

Berth Quakes

1938

Safety in Numbers

1938

Down on the Farm

1938

Many Sappy Returns

1937

Love Is News

1937

Super-Sleuth

1937

That I May Live

1937

Love and Hisses

1937

The Lady Escapes

1937

Time Out for Romance

1937

One Mile from Heaven

1937

Big Business

1937

Slave Ship

1937

Angel's Holiday

1937

Borrowing Trouble

1937

She Had to Eat

1937

Wild and Woolly

1936

The Little Red Schoolhouse

1936

At Sea Ashore

1936

High Tension

1936

The Witness Chair

1936

Private Number

1936

The Garden Murder Case

1935

One Frightened Night

1935

Danger Ahead

1935

Atlantic Adventure

1935

A Notorious Gentleman

1935

Death Flies East

1935

Hot Money

1935

Horses' Collars

1935

Diamond Jim

1935

Carnival

1935

The Sagebrush Troubadour

1935

The Public Menace

1934

Twentieth Century

1934

The Crime Doctor

1934

The Moth

1934

Lightning Strikes Twice

1934

Strictly Fresh Yeggs

1934

I'll Be Suing You

1934

I'll Tell the World

1934

Rough Necking

1934

Among the Missing

1934

School for Girls

1934

Beloved

1933

The Crime of the Century

1933

King of the Jungle

1933

Quiet Please!

1933

Sailor's Luck

1933

The Bowery

1933

Shadows of Sing Sing

1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1932

The Iceman's Ball

1932

If I Had a Million

1932

Discarded Lovers

1932

Love in High Gear

1932

Guilty as Hell

1932

Red Haired Alibi

1932

Huddle

1932

Yoo-Hoo

1932

Boys Will Be Boys

1932

Shopping with Wifie

1932

Speak Easily

1932

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

1931

Subway Express

1931

Side Show

1931

Scandal Sheet

1931

Young Donovan's Kid

1931

The Naughty Flirt

1930

She Got What She Wanted

1930

Scarlet Pages

1930

The Woman Racket

1930

Wide Open

1930

Road to Paradise

1930

The Girl Said No

1930

Going Wild

1930

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

1930

Only Saps Work

1930

Men Without Law

1930

Murder on the Roof

1930

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1929

The Donovan Affair

1929

The Faker

1929

Wrong Again

1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

1928

The Wright Idea

1928

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

1928

Tenderloin

1928

Harold Teen

1928

While the City Sleeps

1928

On Trial

1928

Naughty Baby

1928

The Last Warning

1928

A Woman of Affairs

1928

Plastered in Paris

1928

A Midnight Adventure

1927

Soft Cushions

1927

Jewish Prudence

1927

The Gorilla

1927

The Thirteenth Hour

1927

The 13th Juror

1927

Orchids and Ermine

1927

Held by the Law

1926

That's My Baby

1926

Say It with Babies

1926

Atta Boy

1926

Bromo and Juliet

1926

Crazy Like a Fox

1926

The Third Degree

1926

Dog Shy

1926

The Mystery Pilot

1926

There Ain't No Santa Claus

1926

The Social Highwayman

1925

Friendly Enemies

1925

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

The Uneasy Three

1925

Little Annie Rooney

1925

Paths to Paradise

1925

Seven Sinners

1925

Excuse Me

1925

The Lawful Cheater

1925

Youth and Adventure

1925

Smooth as Satin

1924

The Yankee Consul

1924

The Night Hawk

1924

Traffic in Hearts

1923

Lights Out

1923

Lovebound

1923

Souls for Sale

1923

The Eleventh Hour

1923

Bag and Baggage

1922

Deserted at the Altar

1922

One Clear Call

1922

Manslaughter

1922

Don't Shoot

1922

Captain Fly-by-Night

1922

The Song of Life

1922

South of Suva

1921

The Last Card

1921

There Are No Villains

1921

Puppets of Fate

1921

The Off-Shore Pirate

1921

The Match-Breaker

1920

Alias Jimmy Valentine

1920

The Third Generation

1919

The Silk Lined Burglar

1919

The Light of Victory

1919

The Fire Flingers

1918

The Empty Cab

1918

The Yellow Dog

1918

A Society Sensation

1917

The Honor of an Outlaw

1914

Arms and the Gringo

1914

Silent Sandy

1911

A Left Hook

Director

1918

The Purple Lily

1917

The Outlaw and the Lady

1917

Goin' Straight

1917

The Drifter

1917

The Bad Man of Cheyenne

1917

The Honor of an Outlaw

1917

A 44-Calibre Mystery

1917

The Almost Good Man

1917

Six-Shooter Justice

1917

Blood Money

1917

The Mysterious Outlaw

1917

The Wrong Man

1917

The Golden Bullet

1917

The Fighting Gringo

1917

The Fugitive

1916

The Black Terror

1916

Brothers Equal

1916

The Nymph

1915

Station Content

1915

The Pretender

1915

Her Buried Past

1914

The Exposure

1914

Over the Ledge

Writer

1917

The Bad Man of Cheyenne