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Dooley Wilson is a Actor American born on 3 april 1894 at Tyler (USA)

Dooley Wilson

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Birth name Arthur Wilson
Nationality USA
Birth 3 april 1894 at Tyler (USA)
Death 30 may 1953 (at 59 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Arthur "Dooley" Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor and singer, who is best remembered as the piano-player and singer Sam who sings "As Time Goes By" at the request of Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca (1942).

Wilson was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in Casablanca was by far his most prominent, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde (1942) with Bob Hope, Stormy Weather (1943) with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers, and the western Passage West (1951).

Biography

À partir de 1908 et jusque dans les années 1930, Arthur Wilson joue au théâtre à Chicago (où il reçoit le surnom de « Dooley ») et à New York. Entre 1912 et 1946, à Broadway, il participe à quatre pièces (dont Androclès et le Lion en 1938-1939 dans le rôle-titre) et, comme il est également chanteur, à trois comédies musicales (dont Un petit coin aux cieux en 1940-1941, sur une musique de Vernon Duke, avec Ethel Waters).

Dans les années 1920, il se produit comme batteur dans un jazz band - qu'il dirige aussi -, The Red Devils, et fera avec lui une tournée en Europe (à Paris, Londres...), ainsi qu'en Afrique du Nord (en particulier, à Casablanca).

De 1939 à 1951, il apparaît au cinéma, son rôle le plus connu étant, en 1942, celui du pianiste Sam dans Casablanca (il y chante lui-même, mais est doublé au piano, dont il ne jouait pas), avec Humphrey Bogart, qu'il retrouvera dans Les Ruelles du malheur (1949), où il a le petit rôle, non crédité, d'un... pianiste. Notons également sa participation, en 1943, à deux films aux côtés de Michèle Morgan, Rencontre à Londres et Amour et Swing (ce dernier, avec aussi Frank Sinatra).

Enfin, en 1951, il interprète un unique rôle à la télévision, dans la sitcom Beulah (deux épisodes, où il retrouve Ethel Waters dans le rôle-titre).

Usually with

William Haade
William Haade
(3 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(3 films)
Jean Louis
Jean Louis
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dooley Wilson (16 films)

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Actor

Passage West
Directed by Lewis R. Foster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary Anderson, Mary Beth Hughes
Roles Rainbow
Rating60% 3.0493153.0493153.0493153.0493153.049315
Six convicts led by Pete Black pull a Utah prison break. They intercept a California-bound wagon train and interrupt a child's funeral. Demanding the wagons leave immediately, they anger Rose Billings, a woman in a black dress mourning her father, but wagon train leader Jacob Karns, a preacher who plans to marry Rose, thinks it best to obey the men.
No Man of Her Own, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Roles Waiter on Train (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.693113.693113.693113.693113.69311
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.
Father Is a Bachelor, 1h23
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about children
Actors William Holden, Coleen Gray, Charles Winninger, Stuart Erwin, Clinton Sundberg, Gary Gray
Roles Blue (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.34413.34413.34413.34413.3441
Carefree vagabond Johnny Rutledge {William Holden) is stuck in a small town when his medicine show employer and friend Professor Mordecai Ford (Charles Winninger) is put in jail. He befriends a young girl named May Chalotte (Mary Jane Saunders). She, her brothers January (Gary Gray) and February (Billy Gray), and her twin brothers March (Warren Farlow) and April (Wayne A. Farlow) are orphans. However, fearful of being separated, they haven't told anybody. Johnny finds himself being "adopted" as their uncle. Johnny starts working hard to support his new family, working on a farm during the week and singing and waiting tables on Sunday in a restaurant owned by Jericho Schlosser (Sig Ruman).
Knock on Any Door, 3h20
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Mickey Knox, Barry Kelley
Roles Piano Player (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.295933.295933.295933.295933.29593
Against the wishes of his law partners, lawyer Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) takes the case of Nick Romano (John Derek), a troubled young man from the slums, partly because he himself came from the same slums, and partly because he feels guilty for botching the criminal trial of Nick's father years earlier (he was innocent). Nick is on trial for viciously killing a policeman point-blank and faces execution if convicted (the event is shown in a dark opening scene, but the killer's face is not seen).
Tell It to the Judge, 1h27
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Marie McDonald, Harry Davenport, Fay Baker
Roles Pullman Porter (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1949053.1949053.1949053.1949053.194905
Appointed to be a federal judge, Marsha Meredith (Rosalind Russell) is questioned by a U.S. Senate committee, specifically about her divorce from lawyer Peter Webb (Robert Cummings).
Come to the Stable, 1h34
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Mike Mazurki
Roles Anthony James
Rating70% 3.541333.541333.541333.541333.54133
One winter's night, two French nuns, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem (most likely modeled after Bethlehem, Connecticut – given the Abbey of Regina Laudis in that real town and the proximity to New York City), where they meet Amelia Potts, a painter of religious pictures. The Sisters announce that they have come to build a hospital there, and Chicago-born Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a children's hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign. As many of the children could not be evacuated, Sister Margaret made a personal plea to an American general not to shell the hospital, which the Germans were using as an observation post. The hospital was spared but at the cost of American lives, and Sister Margaret made a promise to God that, in gratitude for saving the children, she would return to America to build a children's hospital.
Seven Days Ashore, 1h14
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Actors Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Virginia Mayo, Elaine Shepard, Gordon Oliver
Roles Jason
Rating55% 2.764412.764412.764412.764412.76441
This script must be run from the command line
Casablanca
Casablanca (1943)
, 1h42
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
Roles Sam
Rating84% 4.2484954.2484954.2484954.2484954.248495
Set in December, 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side against the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Two Tickets to London, 1h18
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Michèle Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Alan Curtis, Barry Fitzgerald, Dooley Wilson, Robert Warwick
Roles Accordionist
Rating66% 3.330143.330143.330143.330143.33014
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Dan Driscoll, soupçonné d'avoir provoqué le torpillage d'un navire dont il était capitaine en second, est accusé de trahison. Il parvient à s'enfuir et reçoit l'aide de Jeanne, chanteuse de cabaret et sœur de l'une des victimes, afin de démasquer le véritable traître...
Stormy Weather, 1h18
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Katherine Dunham, Fayard Nicholas, Dooley Wilson, Stymie Beard
Roles Gabe Tucker
Rating72% 3.6442053.6442053.6442053.6442053.644205
Évocation de numéros de danse, de musiciens, de chanteurs et chanteuses qui ont marqué l'histoire du jazz entre 1919 et 1940.
Higher and Higher, 1h30
Directed by Tim Whelan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol, Victor Borge, Barbara Hale
Roles Oscar
Rating60% 3.0008653.0008653.0008653.0008653.000865
The household staff of millionaire Cyrus Drake hasn't been paid for months when his bankruptcy is announced. With the wife and daughter of Cyrus on a long trip abroad, a scheme is formed to pass off the attractive young maid Millie as the socialite daughter, Pamela Drake, and marry her off to a rich man so there'll be money for all.
Take a Letter, Darling, 1h32
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Constance Moore, Robert Benchley, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Moses
Rating67% 3.389083.389083.389083.389083.38908
A struggling painter Fred MacMurray takes a job as private secretary to a tough female advertising executive Rosalind Russell. While working together to win the account of a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
Cairo
Cairo (1942)
, 1h41
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Spy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Reginald Owen, Ethel Waters, Lionel Atwill, Grant Mitchell
Roles Hector
Rating60% 3.049243.049243.049243.049243.04924
Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald), while "between pictures" in London hires an American reporter, Homer Smith (Robert Young) as her butler. What Marcia doesn't know is that Smith is an American newspaperman, who strongly suspects that she is a Nazi spy (the real enemy agent is Mrs. Morrison (Mona Barrie).
My Favorite Blonde, 1h18
Directed by Frank Butler, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Macdonald Carey, Walter Kingsford
Roles Porter
Rating69% 3.4930153.4930153.4930153.4930153.493015
When a British secret agent is murdered in the line of duty, agent Karen Bentley inherits the mission from her partner. The mission is to deliver a flight plan for a hundred American bomber planes to a British agent in Chicago. The plans are hidden in a small medallion of a scorpion that Karen wears.