Personal Info
Birth date
1887-09-07 (137 Years)
Day of death
1969-07-26
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Plymouth, Indiana, USA
Also known as
-Raymond Walburn
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raymond Walburn (September 9, 1887 – July 26, 1969) was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of Hollywood comedies and an occasional dramatic role during the 1930s and 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raymond Walburn, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Arsenic and Old Lace
7.634
Overview:
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!Eternally Yours
5.7
Overview:
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.5
Overview:
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.The Count of Monte Cristo
6.75
Overview:
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.The Great Ziegfeld
6.269
Overview:
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular showsKey to the City
6.2
Overview:
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron KerriganDark Command
6.3
Overview:
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.The Desperadoes
5.7
Overview:
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.State of the Union
6.657
Overview:
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.Breakfast in Hollywood
5
Overview:
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.Riding High
5.8
Overview:
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.Born to Dance
6.1
Overview:
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.Broadway Bill
5.976
Overview:
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...Red, Hot and Blue
5.8
Overview:
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.Gateway
6.5
Overview:
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.Dixie
3
Overview:
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."Christmas in July
6.9
Overview:
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.She Couldn't Take It
4.5
Overview:
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.Let Freedom Ring
6
Overview:
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
6.3
Overview:
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?High, Wide and Handsome
6.3
Overview:
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.Start Cheering
7
Overview:
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.Flowing Gold
7
Overview:
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.It's A Small World
4.5
Overview:
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.Professor Beware
6.1
Overview:
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.Millionaires in Prison
6
Overview:
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.Hail the Conquering Hero
7
Overview:
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8
Overview:
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!Acting
1955The Spoilers as Mr. Skinner
1954She Couldn't Say No as Judge Hobart
1951Golden Girl as Cornelius
1951Excuse My Dust as Mayor Fred Haskell
1951Father Takes the Air as Henry Latham
1950Short Grass as Doctor McKenna
1950Father's Wild Game as Henry Latham
1950Father Makes Good as Henry Latham
1950Riding High as Prof. Pettigrew
1950Key to the City as Mayor Billy Butler
1949Red, Hot and Blue as Mr. Creek
1949Leave It to Henry as Henry Latham
1949Henry, the Rainmaker as Henry Latham
1948State of the Union as Judge Alexander
1947The Sin of Harold Diddlebock as E.J. Waggleberry
1946Affairs of Geraldine as Amos Hartwell
1946The Plainsman and the Lady as Judge Winters
1946Rendezvous with Annie as Everett Thorndyke
1946Lover Come Back as J.P. Winthrop
1946Breakfast in Hollywood as Richard Cartwright
1945The Cheaters as Willie Crawford
1945I'll Tell the World as H.I. Bailey
1945Honeymoon Ahead as Rollie Mack
1944Heavenly Days as Mr. Popham
1944Music in Manhattan as Prof. Carl Roberti
1944Arsenic and Old Lace as Drummer at baseball game (uncredited)
1944Hail the Conquering Hero as Mayor Everett J. Noble
1944And the Angels Sing as Pop Angel
1943Let's Face It as Julian Watson
1943Dixie as Mr. Cook
1943The Desperadoes as Judge Cameron
1943Dixie Dugan as J.J. Lawson
1943Lady Bodyguard as Avery Jamieson
1942The Man in the Trunk as Jim Cheevers
1941Louisiana Purchase as Col. Davis Sr. aka Polar Bear
1941Confirm or Deny as H. Cyrus Stuyvesant
1941Rise and Shine as Colonel Bacon
1941Kiss the Boys Goodbye as Top Rumson
1941Puddin' Head as Harold L. Montgomery Sr.
1941Bachelor Daddy as George Smith
1940San Francisco Docks as Adm. Andy Tracy
1940Christmas in July as Dr. Maxford
1940Third Finger, Left Hand as Mr. Sherwood
1940Flowing Gold as Ellery Q. 'Wildcat' Chalmers
1940Millionaires in Prison as Bruce Vander
1940Dark Command as Judge Buckner
1939Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as B. Townsend Thayer - The Professor
1939Eternally Yours as Harley Bingham
1939The Under-Pup as Mr. Layton
1939It Could Happen to You as J. Hadden Quigley
1939Let Freedom Ring as Underwood
1938Sweethearts as Orlando
1938Gateway as Mr. Benjamin McNutt
1938Professor Beware as Judge James G. Parkhouse Marshall
1938Battle of Broadway as Homer C. Bundy
1938Start Cheering as Dean Worthington
1937Murder in Greenwich Village as The Senator
1937Thin Ice as Uncle Dornik
1937Broadway Melody of 1938 as Herman Whipple
1937High, Wide and Handsome as Doc Watterson
1937It Can't Last Forever as Dr. Fothergill
1937Let's Get Married as B.B. Harrington
1937Breezing Home as Clint Evans
1936Born to Dance as Captain Dingby
1936Mister Cinderella as Peter Randolph
1936Craig's Wife as Billy Birkmire
1936They Met in a Taxi as Mr. Roger Clifton
1936The King Steps Out as Col. Von Kempen
1936The Three Wise Guys as Doc Brown
1936Absolute Quiet as Gov. Sam K. Pruden
1936Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Walter
1936The Great Ziegfeld as Sage
1935The Lone Wolf Returns as Jenkins
1935Thanks a Million as Judge Culliman
1935She Couldn't Take It as Party Guest
1935She Married Her Boss as Franklin
1935Redheads on Parade as Augustus Twill
1935Welcome Home as Giltedge
1935It's A Small World as Judge Julius B. Clummerhorn
1935I'll Love You Always as Charlie
1935Death Flies East as Evans
1935Society Doctor as Dr. Waverly
1934Mills of the Gods as Willard Hastings
1934Broadway Bill as Colonel Pettigrew
1934Jealousy as Phil
1934Lady by Choice as Front O'Malley
1934The Count of Monte Cristo as Danglars
1934The Defense Rests as Austin
1934The Great Flirtation as Henry Morgan
1929The Laughing Lady as Hector Lee
1916The Man Hunt as Captain Steadwell