Personal Info
Birth date
1904-09-01 (121 Years)
Day of death
1999-04-24
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Also known as
Calman Schimen Sklawer
Carl Sklover
Biography
Carl Sklover (September 1, 1904 - April 23, 1999), born in Vilna, Russia as Calman Schimen Sklawer. He is known for his work on "Meet Danny Wilson (1952)", "Playgirl (1954)" and "Dragnet (1951)". He died on April 24, 1999 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Filmography
Rawhide
7.1
Overview:
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.The Rebel
5.1
Overview:
After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.The Abbott and Costello Show
7.2
Overview:
Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.The Underworld Story
6.1
Overview:
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.The Last Hurrah
7.167
Overview:
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.Some Like It Hot
8.093
Overview:
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as they deal with the problems this brings.Tension
6.9
Overview:
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.The Big Steal
6.55
Overview:
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased by his accuser, Capt. Blake.The Great Race
7.089
Overview:
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.Woman in Hiding
6.2
Overview:
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.Annie Get Your Gun
6.8
Overview:
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
6.043
Overview:
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.It's Always Fair Weather
7.042
Overview:
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.Crime of Passion
6.17
Overview:
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.The Blue Gardenia
6.6
Overview:
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.Flesh and Fury
6.1
Overview:
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.Edge of Darkness
6.1
Overview:
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.A Man Betrayed
5.4
Overview:
A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.New York Confidential
5.8
Overview:
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.Shakedown
6.143
Overview:
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.Powder Town
3.7
Overview:
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.Mary, Mary
5.2
Overview:
Sparks fly when a recently-divorced couple is forced back into proximity to sort out a tax matter.Holiday Affair
6.8
Overview:
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.An Affair to Remember
7.356
Overview:
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?Batman
6.396
Overview:
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.Chicago Syndicate
5.8
Overview:
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.The Vampire
6.186
Overview:
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.Calamity Jane
6.981
Overview:
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.Attack of the Giant Leeches
4.1
Overview:
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.Black Tuesday
5.9
Overview:
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.Acting
1966Batman as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1966A Big Hand for the Little Lady as Casino Patron (uncredited)
1965The Great Race as Townsman (uncredited)
1963The Wheeler Dealers as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1963Mary, Mary as Waiter (uncredited)
1960The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Croupier (uncredited)
1959The Rebel (1, 1 Episode) as Townsman (uncredited), Union Officer (uncredited)
1959Attack of the Giant Leeches as Search Party Member (uncredited)
1959Some Like It Hot as (uncredited)
1959Rawhide (1 Episode) as Bartender (uncredited)
1958The Last Hurrah as Political Rally Marcher (uncredited)
1958Marjorie Morningstar as Leon Lamm (uncredited)
1957An Affair to Remember as Chauffer (uncredited)
1957The Vampire as Gravedigger (uncredited)
1957The Girl in the Kremlin as Rashti (uncredited)
1956Crime of Passion as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1956The Harder They Fall as Referee (uncredited)
1955Duel on the Mississippi as Merchant (uncredited)
1955It's Always Fair Weather as Mug (uncredited)
1955Chicago Syndicate as Reporter on Murder Scene (Uncredited)
1955New York Confidential as Unknown
1954Black Tuesday as Reporter (uncredited)
1954She Couldn't Say No as Minor Role (uncredited)
1953Calamity Jane as Barfly (uncredited)
1953The Blue Gardenia as Photographer (uncredited)
1953Angel Face as Man (uncredited)
1952The Abbott and Costello Show (1 Episode) as Passerby
1952Flesh and Fury as Referee for Lugano Fight (uncredited)
1952Meet Danny Wilson as Cab driver
1951Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Lou's Handler (uncredited)
1950Gambling House as Informant (uncredited)
1950Where Danger Lives as Man (uncredited)
1950Shakedown as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1950Never a Dull Moment as Vendor (uncredited)
1950The Underworld Story as Howard George 'Turk' Meyers (uncredited)
1950Peggy as Cab Driver
1950Annie Get Your Gun as Bit Role (uncredited)
1950The Secret Fury as Man (uncredited)
1950Woman in Hiding as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1949Holiday Affair as Department Store Clerk (uncredited)
1949Tension as Reporter at Press Club Café (uncredited)
1949The Big Steal as Dockhand (uncredited)
1949The Set-Up as Man (uncredited)
1948Hollow Triumph as Gambler (uncredited)
1948Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as Man at Costume Party
1943Edge of Darkness as Soldier (uncredited)
1942Powder Town as Man at Dice Table (uncredited)
1941A Man Betrayed as Hood at Train Station (uncredited)