Robert Woolsey

Known for

Acting

Born

August 12, 1888

Birthplace

Oakland, California, USA

Died

October 31, 1938 (aged 50)

Biography

Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Best known work

The Stolen Jools

1931

Hook, Line and Sinker

1930

Half Shot at Sunrise

1930

Dixiana

1930

Kentucky Kernels

1934

The Nitwits

1935

Mummy's Boys

1936

So This Is Africa

1933

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

1934

Hold 'Em Jail

1932

Filmography

1986
Classic Comedy Teams
as Self (archive footage)
1937
High Flyers
as Pierre Potkin
1937
On Again—Off Again
as Claude Horton
1936
Mummy's Boys
as Aloysius C. Whittaker
1936
Silly Billies
as Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington
1935
The Rainmakers
as Roscoe Horne
1935
The Nitwits
as Newton
1934
Kentucky Kernels
as Elmer Dugan
1934
Cockeyed Cavaliers
as Bob
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
as Self
1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
as Dr. Dudley
1933
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
as Self
1933
Diplomaniacs
as Hercules Grub
1933
So This Is Africa
as Alexander
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
1932
Hold 'Em Jail
as Spider Robbins
1932
Hollywood on Parade
as Self
1932
Girl Crazy
as Slick Foster
1931
Peach-o-Reno
as Julius Swift
1931
Caught Plastered
as Eggbert G. Higginbothom
1931
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
as Julius Caesar
1931
Everything’s Rosie
as Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop
1931
Cracked Nuts
as Zander Ulysses Parkhurst
1931
The Stolen Jools
as Robert Woolsey