Robert Woolsey

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.

Known For

Rio Rita

The Cuckoos

Silly Billies

Acting

1930

Dixiana

as

Ginger Dandy

1930

Hook, Line and Sinker

as

Addington Ganzy

1931

Oh! Oh! Cleopatra

as

Julius Caesar

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-7

as

Self

1929

Rio Rita

as

Ned Lovett

1931

Caught Plastered

as

Eggbert G. Higginbothom

1936

Mummy's Boys

as

Aloysius C. Whittaker

1930

Half Shot at Sunrise

as

Gilbert Simpson

1934

Kentucky Kernels

as

Elmer Dugan

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

as

Spider Robbins

1932

Girl Crazy

as

Slick Foster

1935

The Rainmakers

as

Roscoe Horne

1935

The Nitwits

as

Newton

1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

as

Bob

1930

The Cuckoos

as

Prof. Cunningham

1931

Peach-o-Reno

as

Julius Swift

1934

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

as

Dr. Dudley

1933

So This Is Africa

as

Alexander

1937

High Flyers

as

Pierre Potkin

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

as

Self

1931

Everything’s Rosie

as

Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop

1933

Diplomaniacs

as

Hercules Grub

1931

Cracked Nuts

as

Zander Ulysses Parkhurst

1937

On Again—Off Again

as

Claude Horton

1932

Hollywood on Parade

as

Self

1936

Silly Billies

as

Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington

1931

The Stolen Jools

as

Robert Woolsey

1930

The Voice of Hollywood

as

Himself / host

1933

Signing 'em Up

as

Himself

Production

Crew

Directing