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Vince Barnett

Acting Born Jul 4, 1902 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 24 credits

Biography

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Vince Barnett (July 4, 1902 – August 10, 1977) was an American film and television actor. He appeared on stage originally.

Barnett's initial involvement with Hollywood was as a screenwriter, writing screenplays for the two-reeler movies of the late 1920s. He began appearing in films in 1930, playing hundreds of comedy bits and supporting parts. One of his more sizable screen roles was the moronic, illiterate gangster "secretary" in Scarface (1932). Among his best-regarded early roles, apart from Scarface, were The Big Cage (1933), Thirty Day Princess (1934) and Princess O'Hara (1935).

In later years, Barnett played straight character parts, often as careworn little men, undertakers, janitors, bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir (The Killers, 1946) to westerns (Springfield Rifle, 1952). He was a welcome presence in "B" comedies and mysteries: as Runyonesque gangsters in Petticoat Larceny (1943), Little Miss Broadway (1947), and Gas House Kids Go West (1947), and notably as Tom Conway's enthusiastic sidekick in The Falcon's Alibi (1946).

After World War II, with the Hollywood studios making fewer films, Barnett became a familiar face on television.

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Known for

Perry Mason

as Noonan
Film

Predator

as Elmo

Green Acres

1965
Film

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
Film

Scarface

as Angelo

Full filmography

  • Perry Mason (1957) as Noonan
  • The Andy Griffith Show (1960) as Elmo
  • Green Acres (1965)
  • Here's Lucy (1968) as Cabbie #1
  • MGM Parade (1955) as Self
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) as Scissors
  • Mayberry R.F.D. (1968) as Elmo
  • The Life Of Riley (1953) as Herman
  • Cimarron Strip (1967)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
  • Letter to Loretta (1953) as Grimes
  • Scarface (1932) as Angelo
  • Glynis (1963)
  • The Killers (1946) as Charleston
  • Brute Force (1947) as Muggsy
  • Crazy Mama (1975) as Homer
  • The Virginian (1946) as Baldy
  • The Big Mouth (1967) as Man at Telephone Booth (uncredited)
  • The Affairs of Cellini (1934) as Ascanio
  • Seven Sinners (1940) as Bartender
  • The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) as Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
  • After the Thin Man (1936) as Wrester's Manager (uncredited)
  • Springfield Rifle (1952) as Cook (uncredited)
  • Carson City (1952) as Henry