Personal Info
Birth date
1886-08-12 (139 Years)
Day of death
1944-07-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Also known as
-Nat Carr
Biography
Nat Carr (born Natan Krechevsky; August 12, 1886 – July 6, 1944) was an American character actor of the silent and early talking picture eras. During his eighteen-year career, Carr appeared in over 100 films, most of the features.
Filmography
Here Comes the Band
5
Overview:
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."Jesse James at Bay
4.2
Overview:
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.The Roaring Twenties
7.5
Overview:
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.The Cowboy Quarterback
5.5
Overview:
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.Sergeant York
7.2
Overview:
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.Comet Over Broadway
5
Overview:
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.Secret Service of the Air
5.8
Overview:
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.The Jazz Singer
6.1
Overview:
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.Dark Victory
6.956
Overview:
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.Women in the Wind
6.8
Overview:
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.The Return of Doctor X
5.922
Overview:
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.They Made Me a Criminal
6.2
Overview:
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.Rainbow Over Broadway
4
Overview:
Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.Dodge City
6.9
Overview:
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.Calling Philo Vance
5.9
Overview:
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.Millionaires
NYR
Overview:
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.King of the Underworld
6.4
Overview:
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.Smashing the Money Ring
5
Overview:
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.Portia on Trial
5.429
Overview:
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon. Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon, forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!Daughters Courageous
6.2
Overview:
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.Indianapolis Speedway
5
Overview:
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.A Fugitive from Justice
3.5
Overview:
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.Union Depot
6.1
Overview:
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.The Red Blood of Courage
4.3
Overview:
A man posing as Mark Henry is after Henry's oil land but Henry's niece is part owner and he needs to marry her off to his henchman Slager. Mountie Jim Sullivan arives posing as a wanted man and is soon caught up in the plot when Slager, wanting everything for himself, kills his boss and makes Jim a prisoner.April Fool
NYR
Overview:
An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.Manpower
6.7
Overview:
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.Hard to Get
6
Overview:
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.Acting
1941Jesse James at Bay as Andrew Collins
1941Sergeant York as Reporter (uncredited)
1941Manpower as 28 Club Waiter (uncredited)
1941Highway West as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1940A Fugitive from Justice as Druggist Richards (uncredited)
1940'Til We Meet Again as Assistant Purser (uncredited)
1940King of the Lumberjacks as 'Shorty', First Waiter
1940Teddy the Rough Rider as Reporter
1940Castle on the Hudson as Reporter (uncredited)
1940Calling Philo Vance as 2nd Photographer (uncredited)
1939The Return of Doctor X as Reporter (uncredited)
1939Kid Nightingale as California Boxing Commissioner Representative (uncredited)
1939The Roaring Twenties as Waiter (uncredited)
1939Smashing the Money Ring as Prison Doctor (uncredited)
1939Dust Be My Destiny as Film Developer (uncredited)
1939Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as Policeman (uncredited)
1939Everybody's Hobby as Jim Blake
1939Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite as Book Store Clerk
1939Indianapolis Speedway as Spectator
1939The Cowboy Quarterback as Hotel Clerk
1939Naughty But Nice as Extra in Nightclub (uncredited)
1939Daughters Courageous as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1939Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter as Man in Sheriff's Office
1939Dark Victory as Doctor (uncredited)
1939Women in the Wind as Salesman (uncredited)
1939Dodge City as Crocker (uncredited)
1939On Trial as Clerk
1939Secret Service of the Air as Drunk at Bar
1939Nancy Drew... Reporter as Dr. Carey (uncredited)
1939They Made Me a Criminal as Haskell - Reporter at First Fight (uncredited)
1939King of the Underworld as Second Villager (uncredited)
1939Devil's Island as Court Clerk
1938Comet Over Broadway as Haines
1938Torchy Gets Her Man as Mr. Schmidt (uncredited)
1938Hard to Get as Construction Foreman (uncredited)
1938Girls on Probation as Pawnbroker
1938Garden of the Moon as Joe - Food Store Owner (uncredited)
1938Racket Busters as Merchant (uncredited)
1938My Bill as Frank - Last Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)
1937Portia on Trial as 1st Committeeman
1937Bank Alarm as Yoritz
1936The Jonker Diamond as La Zarre Kaplan
1935Here Comes the Band as Tailor (uncredited)
1935Pardon My Scotch as Mr. Martin
1935The Red Blood of Courage as Dr. Meyer
1934Contented Calves as Mr. Marx
1934I Can't Escape as Mr. Watson, clothier
1934Wrong Direction as Garner, the Producer
1933Rainbow Over Broadway as Sanfield
1933Big Time Or Bust as Lew Feld
1933What Fur as Unknown
1933Knee Deep In Music as Unknown
1933Hip Zip Hooray as Mr. Marx
1932The Man from Arizona as Moe Ginsberg
1932Union Depot as Magazine Counter Clerk (uncredited)
1930Traffic Tangle as Max Ginsberg
1930Two Plus Fours as Ripstitch the Tailor
1930Red Heads as Unknown
1930General Ginsberg as Unknown
1929The Talk of Hollywood as J. Pierpont Ginsburg
1927The Jazz Singer as Levi (uncredited)
1927A Small Town Princess as J. Arthur Ginsberg - Producer
1926April Fool as Moisha Ginsburg
1926Private Izzy Murphy as The Shadchen, Moe Ginsberg
1926Her Big Night as Mr. Harmon
1926Millionaires as Maurice, Reba's Husband
1926Kosher Kitty Kelly as Moses Ginsburg
1926The Cohens and Kellys as Milton J. Katz
1923Little Johnny Jones as Unknown
Writing
1930General Ginsberg ... Writer