1908-06-20 ( 116 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor.
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously).
Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe.
Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Movies
Touch of Evil
1958-03-30
Bigger Than Life
1956-11-20
Glory
1956-01-11
Rebel Without a Cause
1955-10-27
Run for Cover
1955-04-29
She Couldn't Say No
1954-02-15
One Big Affair
1952-02-22
On Dangerous Ground
1951-12-13
Honeychile
1951-10-20
Gasoline Alley
1951-01-02
Hit Parade of 1951
1950-10-15
Our Very Own
1950-07-27
Bride for Sale
1949-11-12
Flung by a Fling
1949-05-12
He's in Again
1949-01-13
Angel on the Amazon
1948-11-01
The Return of October
1948-10-26
Macbeth
1948-10-01
Pardon My Lamb Chop
1948-06-10
Two Nuts in a Rut
1948-02-10
The Lady from Shanghai
1947-12-24
Wedding Belle
1947-08-09
Training for Trouble
1947-07-03
Stork Bites Man
1947-06-21
Calendar Girl
1947-01-31
Pardon My Terror
1946-09-12
Hot Water
1946-07-25
Dangerous Business
1946-06-20
Ain't Love Cuckoo?
1946-06-06
High Blood Pleasure
1945-12-06
River Gang
1945-09-21
A Thousand and One Nights
1945-07-20
See My Lawyer
1945-03-09
It's a Pleasure
1945-03-03
Sing a Jingle
1944-01-07
Larceny with Music
1943-09-10
Hers to Hold
1943-07-16
Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Chatterbox
1943-04-27
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
Lady Bodyguard
1943-01-02
You Were Never Lovelier
1942-11-19
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942-07-10
There's One Born Every Minute
1942-06-26
Broadway
1942-05-08
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942-02-04
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Appointment for Love
1941-10-31
It Started with Eve
1941-09-26
Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Citizen Kane
1941-04-17
The Penalty
1941-03-13
Lucky Devils
1941-01-03
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940-11-29
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
Pop Always Pays
1940-06-21
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