Fred Kelsey
Acting
1884-08-20 · Sandusky, Ohio, USA
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.
Filmography
Westbound
1959 · Movie
Auntie Mame
1958 · Movie
The Helen Morgan Story
1957 · Movie
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957 · Movie
The Opposite Sex
1956 · Movie
Serenade
1956 · Movie
Illegal
1955 · Movie
To Catch a Thief
1955 · Movie
Tall Man Riding
1955 · Movie
Outlaw's Son
1954 · Movie
The Silver Chalice
1954 · Movie
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954 · Movie
A Star Is Born
1954 · Movie
Lucky Me
1954 · Movie
Riding Shotgun
1954 · Movie
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954 · Movie
Racing Blood
1954 · Movie
So You Think You Can't Sleep
1953 · Movie
Crime Wave
1953 · Movie
Murder Without Tears
1953 · Movie
So You Want to Be a Musician
1953 · Movie
Hans Christian Andersen
1952 · Movie
Strop, Look and Listen
1952 · Movie
Springfield Rifle
1952 · Movie
O. Henry's Full House
1952 · Movie
Carson City
1952 · Movie
So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952 · Movie
My Six Convicts
1952 · Movie
Room for One More
1952 · Movie
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Movie
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951 · Movie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Series
The Enforcer
1951 · Movie
Storm Warning
1951 · Movie
Revenue Agent
1950 · Movie
So You Want a Raise
1950 · Movie
The Flame and the Arrow
1950 · Movie
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950 · Movie
The Damned Don't Cry
1950 · Movie
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950 · Movie
Backfire
1950 · Movie
The Inspector General
1949 · Movie
So You Want to Be an Actor
1949 · Movie
Dancing in the Dark
1949 · Movie
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1949 · Movie
The Fountainhead
1949 · Movie
Colorado Territory
1949 · Movie
Flamingo Road
1949 · Movie
Homicide
1949 · Movie
Silver River
1948 · Movie
The Noose Hangs High
1948 · Movie
So You Want an Apartment
1948 · Movie
The Unfaithful
1947 · Movie
Nora Prentiss
1947 · Movie
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
1946 · Movie
The Man I Love
1946 · Movie
Andy Plays Hookey
1946 · Movie
The People's Choice
1946 · Movie
Never Say Goodbye
1946 · Movie
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946 · Movie
Night and Day
1946 · Movie
Monkey Businessmen
1946 · Movie
A Stolen Life
1946 · Movie
Hiss and Yell
1946 · Movie
Three Strangers
1946 · Movie
Detour to Danger
1946 · Movie
How DOooo You Do
1945 · Movie
Frontier Days
1945 · Movie
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · Movie
Mildred Pierce
1945 · Movie
Come Out Fighting
1945 · Movie
If a Body Meets a Body
1945 · Movie
Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · Movie
Snooper Service
1945 · Movie
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945 · Movie
Crime by Night
1944 · Movie
Make Your Own Bed
1944 · Movie
Trial by Trigger
1944 · Movie
Mr. Skeffington
1944 · Movie
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944 · Movie
Roaring Guns
1944 · Movie
A Gem of a Jam
1943 · Movie
True to Life
1943 · Movie
Old Acquaintance
1943 · Movie
Food and Magic
1943 · Movie
Northern Pursuit
1943 · Movie
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 · Movie
Murder on the Waterfront
1943 · Movie
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943 · Movie
Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · Movie
One Dangerous Night
1943 · Movie
Gentleman Jim
1942 · Movie
X Marks the Spot
1942 · Movie
Dear! Deer!
1942 · Movie
Counter-Espionage
1942 · Movie
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942 · Movie
Spy Ship
1942 · Movie
In This Our Life
1942 · Movie
Larceny, Inc.
1942 · Movie
Murder in the Big House
1942 · Movie
I Was Framed
1942 · Movie
My Favorite Blonde
1942 · Movie
Lady Gangster
1942 · Movie
Bullet Scars
1942 · Movie
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · Movie
Pacific Blackout
1941 · Movie
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Movie
They Died with Their Boots On
1941 · Movie
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941 · Movie
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941 · Movie
One Foot in Heaven
1941 · Movie
Invisible Ghost
1941 · Movie
Mr. District Attorney
1941 · Movie
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941 · Movie
Misbehaving Husbands
1940 · Movie
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940 · Movie
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940 · Movie
The Green Archer
1940 · Movie
The Golden Fleecing
1940 · Movie
Deadwood Dick
1940 · Movie
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · Movie
Mutiny in the County
1940 · Movie
High School
1940 · Movie
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940 · Movie
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940 · Movie
Too Busy to Work
1939 · Movie
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939 · Movie
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939 · Movie
Chicken Wagon Family
1939 · Movie
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939 · Movie
Tell No Tales
1939 · Movie
Moving Vanities
1939 · Movie
Clock Wise
1939 · Movie
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939 · Movie
Tiny Troubles
1939 · Movie
Down on the Farm
1938 · Movie
Straight, Place and Show
1938 · Movie
Many Sappy Returns
1938 · Movie
Josette
1938 · Movie
Safety in Numbers
1938 · Movie
Berth Quakes
1938 · Movie
Night Spot
1938 · Movie
Everybody's Doing It
1938 · Movie
Love and Hisses
1937 · Movie
Borrowing Trouble
1937 · Movie
That I May Live
1937 · Movie
One Mile from Heaven
1937 · Movie
The Lady Escapes
1937 · Movie
Wild and Woolly
1937 · Movie
Super-Sleuth
1937 · Movie
She Had to Eat
1937 · Movie
Big Business
1937 · Movie
Slave Ship
1937 · Movie
Angel's Holiday
1937 · Movie
Love Is News
1937 · Movie
Time Out for Romance
1937 · Movie
High Tension
1936 · Movie
Private Number
1936 · Movie
The Witness Chair
1936 · Movie
At Sea Ashore
1936 · Movie
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936 · Movie
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Movie
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935 · Movie
Hot Money
1935 · Movie
The Public Menace
1935 · Movie
Diamond Jim
1935 · Movie
Atlantic Adventure
1935 · Movie
Danger Ahead
1935 · Movie
One Frightened Night
1935 · Movie
Death Flies East
1935 · Movie
Carnival
1935 · Movie
A Notorious Gentleman
1935 · Movie
Horses' Collars
1935 · Movie
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934 · Movie
Among the Missing
1934 · Movie
I'll Be Suing You
1934 · Movie
Twentieth Century
1934 · Movie
Rough Necking
1934 · Movie
I'll Tell the World
1934 · Movie
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934 · Movie
School for Girls
1934 · Movie
The Crime Doctor
1934 · Movie
Beloved
1934 · Movie
The Moth
1934 · Movie
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933 · Movie
The Bowery
1933 · Movie
Quiet Please!
1933 · Movie
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933 · Movie
Sailor's Luck
1933 · Movie
King of the Jungle
1933 · Movie
The Crime of the Century
1933 · Movie
Boys Will Be Boys
1932 · Movie
If I Had a Million
1932 · Movie
Red Haired Alibi
1932 · Movie
Yoo-Hoo
1932 · Movie
Speak Easily
1932 · Movie
The Iceman's Ball
1932 · Movie
Guilty as Hell
1932 · Movie
Huddle
1932 · Movie
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932 · Movie
Love in High Gear
1932 · Movie
Shopping with Wifie
1932 · Movie
Discarded Lovers
1932 · Movie
Side Show
1931 · Movie
Young Donovan's Kid
1931 · Movie
Subway Express
1931 · Movie
Scandal Sheet
1931 · Movie
The Naughty Flirt
1931 · Movie
Going Wild
1930 · Movie
Only Saps Work
1930 · Movie
She Got What She Wanted
1930 · Movie
Men Without Law
1930 · Movie
Scarlet Pages
1930 · Movie
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930 · Movie
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930 · Movie
Road to Paradise
1930 · Movie
The Girl Said No
1930 · Movie
Wide Open
1930 · Movie
Murder on the Roof
1930 · Movie
The Woman Racket
1930 · Movie
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929 · Movie
The Donovan Affair
1929 · Movie
Wrong Again
1929 · Movie
The Faker
1929 · Movie
The Last Warning
1928 · Movie
Naughty Baby
1928 · Movie
A Woman of Affairs
1928 · Movie
On Trial
1928 · Movie
Plastered in Paris
1928 · Movie
The Wright Idea
1928 · Movie
A Midnight Adventure
1928 · Movie
Harold Teen
1928 · Movie
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928 · Movie
Tenderloin
1928 · Movie
While the City Sleeps
1928 · Movie
The Gorilla
1927 · Movie
The 13th Juror
1927 · Movie
The Thirteenth Hour
1927 · Movie
Soft Cushions
1927 · Movie
Jewish Prudence
1927 · Movie
Held by the Law
1927 · Movie
Orchids and Ermine
1927 · Movie
There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926 · Movie
The Third Degree
1926 · Movie
Atta Boy
1926 · Movie
Bromo and Juliet
1926 · Movie
Crazy Like a Fox
1926 · Movie
Say It with Babies
1926 · Movie
The Social Highwayman
1926 · Movie
The Mystery Pilot
1926 · Movie
That's My Baby
1926 · Movie
Dog Shy
1926 · Movie
The Uneasy Three
1925 · Movie
Seven Sinners
1925 · Movie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925 · Movie
Little Annie Rooney
1925 · Movie
The Lawful Cheater
1925 · Movie
Paths to Paradise
1925 · Movie
Smooth as Satin
1925 · Movie
Friendly Enemies
1925 · Movie
Excuse Me
1925 · Movie
Youth and Adventure
1925 · Movie
Traffic in Hearts
1924 · Movie
The Yankee Consul
1924 · Movie
The Night Hawk
1924 · Movie
Lights Out
1923 · Movie
Bag and Baggage
1923 · Movie
The Eleventh Hour
1923 · Movie
Souls for Sale
1923 · Movie
Lovebound
1923 · Movie
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922 · Movie
Deserted at the Altar
1922 · Movie
Manslaughter
1922 · Movie
Don't Shoot
1922 · Movie
South of Suva
1922 · Movie
One Clear Call
1922 · Movie
The Song of Life
1922 · Movie
There Are No Villains
1921 · Movie
The Match-Breaker
1921 · Movie
The Last Card
1921 · Movie
Puppets of Fate
1921 · Movie
The Off-Shore Pirate
1921 · Movie
Alias Jimmy Valentine
1920 · Movie
The Third Generation
1920 · Movie
The Fire Flingers
1919 · Movie
The Silk Lined Burglar
1919 · Movie
The Light of Victory
1919 · Movie
The Yellow Dog
1918 · Movie
A Society Sensation
1918 · Movie
The Empty Cab
1918 · Movie
The Purple Lily
1918 · Movie
Six-Shooter Justice
1917 · Movie
The Wrong Man
1917 · Movie
The Golden Bullet
1917 · Movie
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917 · Movie
The Almost Good Man
1917 · Movie
A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917 · Movie
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917 · Movie
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917 · Movie
The Fighting Gringo
1917 · Movie
Goin' Straight
1917 · Movie
The Drifter
1917 · Movie
The Outlaw and the Lady
1917 · Movie
The Fugitive
1917 · Movie
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917 · Movie
Blood Money
1917 · Movie
The Black Terror
1916 · Movie
Brothers Equal
1916 · Movie
The Nymph
1916 · Movie
The Pretender
1915 · Movie
Station Content
1915 · Movie
Her Buried Past
1915 · Movie
The Exposure
1914 · Movie
Over the Ledge
1914 · Movie
Arms and the Gringo
1914 · Movie
Silent Sandy
1914 · Movie
A Left Hook
1911 · Movie