Personal Info
Birth date
1889-07-07 (135 Years)
Day of death
1954-09-03
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Winfield, Kansas, USA
Also known as
Юджин Пэллет
Gene Pallette
Eugene William Pallette
Eugene Pallette
Biography
Eugene William Pallette (July 8, 1889 – September 3, 1954) was an American actor. He appeared in over 240 silent era and sound era motion pictures between 1913 and 1946. An overweight man with large stomach and deep, gravelly voice, Pallette is probably best-remembered for comic character roles such as Alexander Bullock, Carole Lombard's father, in My Man Godfrey (1936), his role as Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn and his similar role as Fray Felipe in The Mark of Zorro (1940) starring Tyrone Power Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugene Pallette, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.466
Overview:
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.Heaven Can Wait
6.9
Overview:
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.The Kennel Murder Case
6.1
Overview:
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.The Birth of a Nation
6.005
Overview:
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.849
Overview:
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.The Ten Commandments
6.547
Overview:
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.074
Overview:
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.The Kansan
5.3
Overview:
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.Shanghai Express
6.955
Overview:
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.My Man Godfrey
7.551
Overview:
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.The Lady Eve
7.24
Overview:
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.Topper
6.728
Overview:
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.Terror Island
4.9
Overview:
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.The Mark of Zorro
7.058
Overview:
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless fop, while on the other, he is the masked avenger Zorro.Tarzan of the Apes
5.391
Overview:
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time missing Lord Greystoke. But then, one of the search members, Jane Porter, gets separated from the group and comes face to face with fearsome wild animals. Tarzan saves her from harm just in the knick of time and love begins to blossom.Tales of Manhattan
6.3
Overview:
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.Bordertown
5.9
Overview:
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.The Big Street
5.8
Overview:
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.The Canary Murder Case
5.6
Overview:
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.The Ghost Goes West
6.5
Overview:
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5
Overview:
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.Suspense
6.3
Overview:
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.Stowaway
6.7
Overview:
Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7
Overview:
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.Made on Broadway
6.5
Overview:
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.The Stolen Jools
5.6
Overview:
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)Going Hollywood: The '30s
10
Overview:
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.It Ain't Hay
6.357
Overview:
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.Breakdowns of 1938
5
Overview:
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.Appointment for Love
5.667
Overview:
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.Acting
TBAFair and Warmer as Billy Bartlett
2023Laurel & Hardy: Year One as Unknown
1997Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1984Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1946Suspense as Harry Wheeler
1946In Old Sacramento as Sheriff Jim Wales
1945The Cheaters as James C. Pidgeon
1944Lake Placid Serenade as Carl Cermak
1944Heavenly Days as Senator Bigbee
1944In the Meantime, Darling as Henry B. Preston
1944Step Lively as Simon Jenkins
1944Sensations of 1945 as Gus Crane
1944Pin Up Girl as Barney Briggs
1943The Gang's All Here as Andrew Mason Sr.
1943The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
1943The Kansan as Tom Waggoner
1943Heaven Can Wait as E.F. Strabel
1943Slightly Dangerous as Durstin
1943It Ain't Hay as Gregory Warner
1942Silver Queen as Steve Adams
1942The Forest Rangers as Howard Huston
1942The Big Street as Nicely Nicely Johnson
1942Tales of Manhattan as Luther - Orman's butler
1942Lady in a Jam as Billingsley
1942Are Husbands Necessary? as Bunker
1942Almost Married as Doctor Dobson
1942The Male Animal as Ed Keller
1941Swamp Water as Jeb McKane
1941Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941Appointment for Love as George Hastings
1941Unfinished Business as Elmer
1941World Premiere as Gregory Martin
1941The Bride Came C.O.D. as Lucius K. Winfield
1941The Lady Eve as Horace Pike
1941Ride, Kelly, Ride as Duke Martin
1940The Mark of Zorro as Friar Felipe
1940A Little Bit of Heaven as Herrington
1940He Stayed for Breakfast as Maurice Duval
1940Sandy Is a Lady as P.J. Barnett
1940It's a Date as Gov. Allen
1940Young Tom Edison as Mr. Nelson
1939First Love as James Clinton
1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Chick McGann
1939Wife, Husband and Friend as Mike Craig
1938Breakdowns of 1938 as Friar Tuck (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938There Goes My Heart as Mr. Stevens - Editor
1938The Adventures of Robin Hood as Friar Tuck
1937One Hundred Men and a Girl as John R. Frost
1937Topper as Casey
1937She Had to Eat as Raymond Q. Nash
1937The Crime Nobody Saw as 'Babe' Lawton
1937Clarence as Mr. Wheeler
1936Stowaway as The Colonel
1936Easy to Take as Reginald "Doc" Kraft
1936The Luckiest Girl in the World as Campbell Duncan
1936Dishonour Bright as Busby
1936My Man Godfrey as Alexander Bullock
1936The Golden Arrow as Mr. Samuel Burke-Meyers
1935The Ghost Goes West as Mr. Joe Martin
1935Steamboat Round the Bend as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
1935Black Sheep as Col. Upton Calhoun Belcher
1935Baby Face Harrington as Uncle Henry
1935All the King's Horses as Conrad Q. Conley
1935Bordertown as Charles 'Charlie' Roark
1934Caravan as Gypsy Chief
1934One Exciting Adventure as Kleinsilber
1934The Dragon Murder Case as Sgt. Ernest Heath
1934Friends of Mr. Sweeney as Wynn Rixey
1934Making the Rounds as Unknown
1934Strictly Dynamite as Sourwood
1934I've Got Your Number as Joseph 'Joe' Flood
1934Cross Country Cruise as Willy Bronson
1933Mr. Skitch as Cliff Merriweather
1933From Headquarters as Sgt. Boggs
1933The Kennel Murder Case as Detective Heath
1933Sailor Beware! as Jonesy
1933Shanghai Madness as Lobo Lonergan
1933Storm at Daybreak as Janos
1933Hell Below as Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man
1933Made on Broadway as Terwilliger
1933Hip Zip Hooray as Sheriff Bell
1932The Half-Naked Truth as Achilles
1932Wild Girl as Yuba Bill
1932Always Kickin' as Unknown
1932Off His Base as Jerry Minor
1932The Night Mayor as Hymie Shane
1932Tom Brown of Culver as Deaf Diner
1932Thunder Below as Bill Horner
1932Strangers of the Evening as Detective Brubacher
1932Dancers in the Dark as Gus
1932Shanghai Express as Sam Salt
1931Girls About Town as Benjamin Thomas
1931Huckleberry Finn as Duke of Bilgewater
1931Dude Ranch as Judd
1931Gun Smoke as Stub Wallack
1931The Stolen Jools as Reporter
1931It Pays to Advertise as Cyrus Martin
1931Fighting Caravans as Seth Higgins
1930Sea Legs as Hyacinth Nitouche
1930Playboy of Paris as Pierre Bourdin
1930The Santa Fe Trail as Doc Brady
1930Follow Thru as J.C. Effingham
1930The Sea God as Square Deal McCarthy
1930Let's Go Native as Deputy Sheriff 'Careful' Cuthbert
1930The Border Legion as Bunco Davis
1930Paramount on Parade as Sergeant Heath
1930The Benson Murder Case as Sgt. Edward Heath
1930Men Are Like That as Traffic Cop
1930Slightly Scarlet as Sylvester Corbett
1930The Love Parade as Minister of War
1930The Kibitzer as Klaus
1929Pointed Heels as Joe Carrington
1929The Virginian as 'Honey' Wiggin
1929The Greene Murder Case as Sergeant Heath
1929The Studio Murder Mystery as Detective Lieutenant Dirk
1929The Dummy as Madison
1929The Canary Murder Case as Sergeant Heath
1928His Private Life as Henri Bérgere
1928The Red Mark as Sergeo
1928Out of the Ruins as Volange
1928Lights of New York as Gene
1928The Swell Head as Unknown
1928Should Women Drive? as Unknown
1928Aching Youth as Unknown
1927The Battle of the Century as Insurance agent (uncredited)
1927Chicago as Rodney Casley
1927Assistant Wives as Charley's Boss
1927The Second 100 Years as Dinner Host (uncredited)
1927The Lighter That Failed as Charley's Brother-in-Law
1927Sugar Daddies as Hardy look-alike
1927Fluttering Hearts as Motorcycle Cop
1927Jewish Prudence as Rent Collector
1927Moulders of Men as Barney Mulholland
1927Should Men Walk Home? as Detective, Intelligence Bureau
1927Many Scrappy Returns as Wellington - Charley's Brother
1926Desert Valley as Deputy
1926You Never Know Women as Party Guest (uncredited)
1926Mantrap as E. Wesson Woodbury
1926The Volga Boatman as Revolutionary
1926Whispering Smith as Bill Dancing
1926Rocking Moon as Side Money
1925Without Mercy as Simon Linke
1925Wild Horse Mesa as Melberne Townsman
1925The Light of Western Stars as Stub (as Gene Pallette)
1924Stupid, but Brave as Richard Peeling
1924Wandering Husbands as Percy
1924The Galloping Fish as Anti-Volstead Esquire
1924The Wolf Man as Pierre
1923The Ten Commandments as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
1923North of Hudson Bay as Peter Dane
1923Hell's Hole as Pablo
1923To the Last Man as Simm Bruce
1922Without Compromise as Tommy Ainsworth
1921The Three Musketeers as Aramis
1921Fine Feathers as Bob Reynolds
1920Terror Island as Guy Mourdant
1920Alias Jimmy Valentine as 'Red' Jocelyn
1919Be a Little Sport as Dick Nevins
1919Words and Music by - as Gene Harris
1918No Man's Land as Sidney Dundas
1918Breakers Ahead as Jim Hawley
1918Tarzan of the Apes as Unknown
1918Madam Who as Lieutenant Conroy
1917The World Apart as Clyde Holt
1917The Marcellini Millions as Mr. Murray
1917The Bond Between as Raoul Vaux
1917The Winning of Sally Temple as Sir John Gorham
1917Each to His Kind as Dick Larimer
1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Prosper Latour (French Story)
1916Gretchen the Greenhorn as Rodgers
1916Hell-to-Pay Austin as Harry Tracey
1916Going Straight as Jimmy Briggs
1916The Children in the House as Arthur Vincent
1916Sunshine Dad as Alfred Evergreen
1915The Spell of the Poppy as Manfredi
1915How Hazel Got Even as Patsy
1915The Birth of a Nation as Union Soldier (uncredited)
1915After Twenty Years as Tom's Grown Son
1915The Terror of the Mountains as Soapy Smith
1914The Tardy Cannon Ball as Dink
1914The Stolen Ore as Dick Raleigh
1914The Sheriff's Prisoner as John Walsh - the Miner
1914A Pair of Cuffs as Unknown
1914The Thief and the Book as The Fly
1913The Kiss as Unknown
1913Youth and Jealousy as Unknown
1913The Brothers as Estabon
1913The Tattooed Arm as Jim Halliday
1913When Jim Returned as Unknown