John Tyrrell (actor)
| John Tyrrell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Edward Tyrrell December 7, 1900 The Bronx, New York, United States |
| Died |
September 20, 1949 (aged 48) The Bronx, New York, United States |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Years active | 1935-1947 |
| Spouse(s) | Grette Ardine |
John Tyrrell (December 7, 1900 – September 20, 1949) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 250 films between 1935 and 1947.
Career
Tyrrell is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges short subjects.[1] Like many actors in the Stooge comedies, Tyrrell was a salaried contract player. The Columbia stock company was called upon to play incidental roles in practically everything the studio produced: important films, low-budget "B" pictures, short subjects, and serials. (Some of these players graduated to stardom, like Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Bennett, Adele Mara, and Ann Doran.) John Tyrrell worked steadily at Columbia from 1938 to 1945. Occasionally, only Tyrrell's voice would be used, as a radio newsman, public-address announcer, or police-call dispatcher. Tyrrell and fellow stock player Eddie Laughton often appeared together in Columbia movies (frequently as mobsters waiting in a getaway car). Tyrrell's biggest role was probably in the 1939 serial Mandrake the Magician, in which he played a masked crime lord's right-hand man.
Death
After spending several months at Kingsbridge Veteran's Hospital in the Bronx, New York, John Tyrrell died of pneumonia in 1949.[1]
Selected filmography
- Three Little Beers (1935)
- Three Smart Girls (1936)
- Counterfeit Lady (1936)
- It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- Motor Madness (1937)
- The Frame-Up (1937)
- We Want Our Mummy (1939) - Thug in Egyptian garb
- Mandrake the Magician (1939)
- Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Thundering Frontier (1940)
- You Nazty Spy! (1940)
- A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
- Nutty But Nice (1940)
- From Nurse to Worse (1940)
- No Census, No Feeling (1940)
- Boobs in Arms (1940)
- So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
- All the World's a Stooge (1941)
- In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
- Some More of Samoa (1941)
- Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
- What's the Matador? (1942)
- Three Smart Saps (1942)
- They Stooge to Conga (1943)
- Dizzy Detectives (1943)
- A Gem of a Jam (1943)
- Crash Goes the Hash (1944)
- Busy Buddies (1944)
- Gents Without Cents (1944)
- No Dough Boys (1944)
- If a Body Meets a Body (1945) - The Lawyer (uncredited)
- Booby Dupes (1945)
- Micro-Phonies (1945)
- Uncivil War Birds (1946)