Dick Wessel
Dick Wessel
American actor Dick Wessel had a face like a Mack Truck bulldog and a screen personality to match. After several years on stage, Wessel began showing up in Hollywood extra roles around 1933; he is fleetingly visible in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933), Laurel and Hardy's Bonnie Scotland (1935), and the Columbia "screwball" comedy She Couldn't Take It (1935). The size of his roles increased in the '40s; perhaps his best feature-film showing was as the eponymous bald-domed master criminal in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946). He was a valuable member of Columbia Pictures' short subject stock company, playing a variety of bank robbers, wrestlers, jealous husbands and lazy brother-in-laws. Among his more memorable 2-reel appearances were as lovestruck boxer "Chopper" in The Three Stooges' Fright Night (1947), Andy Clyde's invention-happy brother-in-law in Eight Ball Andy (1948), and Hugh Herbert's overly sensitive strongman neighbor in Hot Heir (1947). Wessel was shown to good (if unbilled) advantage as a handlebar-mustached railroad engineer in the superspectacular Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and had a regular role as Carney on the 1959 TV adventure series Riverboat. Dick Wessel's farewell screen appearance was as a harried delivery man in Disney's The Ugly Dachshund (1965). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Dick Wessel:
- They Drive by Night with George Raft , Ann Sheridan , Humphrey Bogart , Ida Lupino , Gale Page , Alan Sr. Hale , Roscoe Karns , John Litel , George Tobias , Eddie Acuff , Marie Blake , Eddy Chandler , Joyce Compton , Joe Devlin , Frank Faylen , Eddie Fetherstone , Pat Flaherty , Saul Gorss , William Haade , Charles Halton , Howard C. Hickman , Al Hill , Paul C. Hurst , George H. Lloyd , Wilfred Lucas , Matt McHugh , Jack Mower , Henry O'Neill , John Ridgely , Ralph Sanford , Charles Sherlock , Charles Sullivan , Dorothy Vaughan , Max Wagner , Billy Wayne , Frank Wilcox , Norman Willis , Charles Wilson , Michael Lally
- King of the Cowboys with Roy Rogers , Smiley Burnette , Peggy Moran , Gerald Mohr , Lloyd Corrigan , James Bush , Russell Hicks , Irving Bacon , Pat Brady , Edward Earle , Jack Kirk , Jack O'Shea , Sons of the Pioneers , Forrest Taylor , Trigger the Horse , Emmett Vogan , Norman Willis , Yakima Canutt , Eddie Dean , Charles King , Bob Nolan
- Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney , Joan Leslie , Walter Huston , Richard Whorf , Jeanne Cagney , George Tobias , Rosemary DeCamp , Frances Langford , George Barbier , S.Z. Sakall , Walter Catlett , Eddie Jr. Foy , Minor Watson , Chester Clute , Eddie Acuff , Murray Alper , Leon Belasco , Walter Brooke , Spencer Charters , Wallis Clark , William B. Davidson , Ann Doran , Frank Faylen , Pat Flaherty , James Flavin , William Forrest , Creighton Hale , John Hamilton , Harry Hayden , William Hopper , Edward Keane , Fred A. Kelsey , Audrey Long , Lon McCallister , George Meeker , Dolores Moran , Garry Owen , Francis Pierlot , Joyce Reynolds , Ruth Robinson , Sid Saylor , Charles B. Smith , Michael Curtiz , Tom Dugan
- The Ugly Dachshund with Dean Jones , Suzanne Pleshette , Charles Ruggles , Parley Baer , Mako , Charles Lane , Gil Lamb , Hal Smith
- Tulsa with Susan Hayward , Robert Preston , Pedro Sr. Armendariz , Lloyd Gough , Chill Wills , Ed Sr. Begley , Jimmy Conlin , Harry T. Shannon , Pierre Watkin , Lola Albright , Charles D. Brown , Paul E. Burns , Lane R. Chandler , Iron Eyes Cody , Joseph Crehan , John Dehner , Fred Graham , Selmer Jackson , Larry Keating , Nolan Leary , Chief Yowlachie , Tom Dugan
- They Made Me a Criminal with John Garfield , Gloria Dickson , Bobby Jordan , Claude Rains , Leo Gorcey , Ann Sheridan , Huntz Hall , Gabriel Dell , William Halop , Bernard Punsly , John Ridgely , Barbara Pepper , Ward Bond , Robert Strange , Louis Jean Heydt , Irving Bacon , Clem Bevans , Eddy Chandler , Cliff Clark , William B. Davidson , Leyland Hodgson , Arthur Houseman , Doris Lloyd , Sam McDaniel , Bob Perry , Bert Roach , May Robson , Cliff Saum , John Sheehan , Elliott Sullivan , Tom Dugan
- They Died With Their Boots On with Errol Flynn , Olivia DeHavilland , Arthur Kennedy , Charles Grapewin , Regis Toomey , Gene Lockhart , Stanley Ridges , Anthony Quinn , Walter Hampden , John Litel , Joseph Sawyer , Frank Wilcox , Selmer Jackson , Minor Watson , Sydney Greenstreet , Hattie R. McDaniel , Eddie Acuff , Irving Bacon , Roy Barcroft , Hobart Bosworth , Virginia Brissac , Walter Brooke , Lane R. Chandler , Spencer Charters , George Pat Collins , Joseph Crehan , Steven Darrell , Joe Devlin , George Eldredge , Frank Ferguson , William Forrest , Saul Gorss , John Hamilton , Herbert Heywood , Russell Hicks , William Hopper , Edward Keane , Fred A. Kelsey , Joseph King , Arthur Loft , Ian MacDonald , Sam McDaniel , Jack Mower , Anna Q. Nilsson , Frank Orth , Eddie Parker , Eleanor Parker , Bob Perry , Aileen Pringle , George H. Reed , Renie Riano , Addison W. Richards , John Ridgely , James Seay , Harry Strang , Ray Teal , Minerva Urecal , Gig Young , Francis Ford
- Them! with James Whitmore , Edmund Gwenn , Joan Weldon , James Arness , Onslow Stevens , Sean T. McClory , Fess Parker , Olin Howland , Willis B. Bouchey , Richard Deacon , Ann Doran , Ann Doran , Charles Meredith , William Schallert , Douglas Spencer , Dub Taylor , Harry Tyler , Lawrence Dobkin , Leonard Nimoy
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game with Frank Sinatra , Esther Williams , Gene Kelly , Betty Garrett , Edward Arnold , Jules Munshin , Richard Lane , Tom Dugan , Murray Alper , James Burke , Saul Gorss , Si Jenks , Gordon Jones , Henry Kulky , Joi Lansing , Gil Perkins , Jack Rice , Frank Scannell , Almira Sessions , Charles Sullivan , Sally Forrest , Douglas Fowley
- Scarlet Street with Edward G. Robinson , Joan Bennett , Dan Duryea , Margaret Lindsay , Rosalind Ivan , Jess Barker , Samuel S. Hinds , Arthur Loft , Vladimir Sokoloff , Charles Kemper , Russell Hicks , Edgar Dearing , Chuck Hamilton , Sherry Hall , Rychard Cramer , Dick Curtis , Joe Devlin , Ralph Dunn , Byron K. Foulger , Herbert Heywood , Boyd Irwin , Edward Keane , Milton Kibbee , Fritz Sr. Leiber , George H. Lloyd , George Meader , Howard M. Mitchell , Horace Murphy , Clarence Muse , Dewey Robinson , Sid Saylor , Emmett Vogan , Charles Wilson , Will Wright
- The Roaring Twenties with James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart , Priscilla Lane , Jeffrey Lynn , Gladys George , Frank McHugh , Paul Kelly , Elizabeth Risdon , Edward Keane , Joseph Sawyer , Joseph Crehan , George Meeker , John Hamilton , Eddy Chandler , Max Wagner , Eddie Acuff , Murray Alper , Raymond Bailey , Wade Boteler , Harry C. Bradley , Al Bridge , Ann Codee , Joe Devlin , James Flavin , Fred Graham , Creighton Hale , Sam Harris , John Harron , Al Hill , Milton Kibbee , Arthur Loft , Philip Morris , Jack Norton , Pat O'Malley , Oscar O'Shea , Emory Parnell , John Ridgely , Cyril Ring , Elliott Sullivan , Billy Wayne , Frank Wilcox , Norman Willis , Abner Biberman
- Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean , Natalie Wood , Corey Allen , Sal Mineo , Dennis Hopper , Jim Backus , William Hopper , Rochelle Hudson , Virginia Brissac , Ann Doran , Edward Platt , Ian Wolfe , Nick Adams , Paul Birch , Paul Bryar , Robert Foulk , Gus Schilling , Almira Sessions , Nicholas Ray
- On the Town with Gene Kelly , Frank Sinatra , Betty Garrett , Ann Miller , Jules Munshin , Vera-Ellen , Florence Bates , Alice Pearce , George Meader , Murray Alper , Eugene Borden , Don Brodie , Claire Carleton , Hans Conried , Lester Dorr , Frank S. Hagney , Judy Holliday , Sid Melton , William "Bill" Phillips , Tom Dugan
- The Scar with Paul Henreid , Joan Bennett , Eduard Franz , John Qualen , Mabel Paige , Herbert Rudley , Charles Arnt , George Chandler , Paul E. Burns , Charles Trowbridge , Henry Brandon , Cliff Clark , Eddie Dunn , Franklin Farnum , Lyle Latell , Nolan Leary , Lucien Littlefield , Philip Morris , Cyril Ring , Norma Varden , Benny Rubin , Jack Webb
- Harvey with James Stewart , Peggy Dow , Charles Drake , Cecil Kellaway , Wallace Ford , Jesse White , Nana Bryant , Clem Bevans , Ida Moore , Don Brodie , Gino Corrado , Pat Flaherty , Norman Leavitt , Anne O'Neal , Almira Sessions , Minerva Urecal
- Father of the Bride with Spencer Tracy , Elizabeth Taylor , Joan Bennett , Don Taylor , Billie Burke , Russ Tamblyn , Leo G. Carroll , Moroni Olsen , Melville Cooper , Taylor Holmes , Frank Orth , Richard Alexander , Carleton Carpenter , Edward Gargan , William Haade , Sherry Hall , Paul Harvey , Paul Maxey , Gil Perkins , Ralph Peters , William "Bill" Phillips , Dewey Robinson , Douglas Spencer , Harry Dean Stanton , John Welsh , Jeff York , Betty Farrington
- The Errand Boy with Jerry Lewis , Brian Donlevy , Howard McNear , Dick Wesson , Renee Taylor , Kathleen Freeman , Isobel Elsom , Sig Rumann , Doodles Weaver , Fritz Feld , Kenneth MacDonald , Iris Adrian , Murray Alper , Roscoe Ates , Don "Red" Barry , Dan Blocker , Harry V. Cheshire , Milton Frome , Lorne Greene , Mike Mazurki , Harry "Snub" Pollard , Pernell Roberts , Michael Ross , Frank Scannell , Mary Louise Treen , Herb Vigran , Dick Winslow , Richard Bakalyan , Michael Landon , Benny Rubin
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball with Morgan Conway , Anne Jeffreys , Lyle Latell , Rita Corday , Ian Keith , Douglas Walton , Esther Howard , Joseph Crehan , Byron K. Foulger , Milton Parsons , Skelton Knaggs , Trevor Bardette , Robert Bray , Harry V. Cheshire , Ralph Dunn , Dorothy Granger , Perc Launders , William 'Billy' Newell , Jason Sr. Robards , Max Wagner , Frank Mills
- Dakota with John Wayne , Vera Ralston , Walter Brennan , Ward Bond , Mike Mazurki , Ona Munson , Olive Blakeney , Hugo Haas , Paul Fix , Grant Withers , Robert Livingston , Olin Howland , Pierre Watkin , Robert H. Barrat , Jonathan Hale , Paul C. Hurst , Eddy C. Waller , Sarah Padden , Jack LaRue , George Cleveland , Selmer Jackson , Roy Barcroft , Eugene Borden , Paul E. Burns , Dorothy Christy , Kenne Duncan , Fred Graham , William Haade , Cliff Lyons , LeRoy Mason , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Linda Stirling , Victor Varconi , Michael Visaroff , Robert Blake , Yakima Canutt
- City for Conquest with James Cagney , Ann Sheridan , Frank Craven , Donald Crisp , Arthur Kennedy , Frank McHugh , George Tobias , Blanche Yurka , Elia Kazan , Anthony Quinn , Bob Steele , George H. Lloyd , Murray Alper , Joyce Compton , Jerome Cowan , Joseph Crehan , Pat Flaherty , Edward Gargan , Thurston Hall , Margaret Hayes , Howard C. Hickman , Selmer Jackson , Edward Keane , William 'Billy' Newell , Lee Patrick , Billy Wayne , Ben Welden , Charles Wilson , Charles Lane , Sidney Miller
- Calamity Jane with Doris Day , Howard Keel , Allyn Ann McLerie , Philip Carey , Dick Wesson , Paul Harvey , Gale Robbins
- Brother Orchid with Edward G. Robinson , Humphrey Bogart , Donald Crisp , Ralph Bellamy , Allen Jenkins , Charles D. Brown , Cecil Kellaway , Morgan Conway , Richard Lane , Paul Guilfoyle , John Ridgely , Joseph Crehan , Wilfred Lucas , Tom Tyler , Granville Bates , Joan Blondell , Charles Coleman , Gino Corrado , Jean DelVal , Frank Faylen , James Flavin , Mary Gordon , Creighton Hale , William Hopper , Armand Kaliz , Sam McDaniel , Leonard Mudie , Edgar Norton , Frank Orth , John Qualen , Ann Sothern
- Around the World in 80 Days with David Niven , Cantinflas , Robert Newton , Shirley MacLaine , Charles Boyer , Joe E. Brown , Ronald Colman , Martine Carol , John Carradine , Charles Coburn , Melville Cooper , Noel Coward , Finlay Currie , Reginald Denny , Andy Devine , Marlene Dietrich , Fernandel , John Gielgud , Hermione Gingold , Jose Greco , Cedric Hardwicke , Trevor Howard , Glynis Johns , Buster Keaton , Evelyn Keyes , Peter Lorre , Edmund Lowe , Victor McLaglen , Mike Mazurki , John Mills , Alan Mowbray , Robert Morley , Jack Oakie , George Raft , Gilbert Roland , Cesar Romero , Frank Sinatra , Red Skelton , Ronald Squire , Basil Sydney , Ronald Adam , Philip Ahn , Patrick Cargill , Walter Fitzgerald , Ava Gardner , Chuck Hamilton , Roddy Hughes , Walter Kingsford , Frederick Leister , Richard Loo , Keye Luke , Tim McCoy , Jack Mulhall , Bill Shine , Philip vanZandt , Richard Wattis
- Angels With Dirty Faces with James Cagney , Pat O'Brien , Humphrey Bogart , Ann Sheridan , George Bancroft , William Halop , Bobby Jordan , Leo Gorcey , Gabriel Dell , Huntz Hall , Bernard Punsly , Adrian Morris , Lane R. Chandler , Frank Jr. Coghlan , Steven Darrell , Joe Devlin , John Dilson , Earl Dwire , William Edmunds , James Farley , Mary Gordon , Frank S. Hagney , John Hamilton , John Harron , Harry Hayden , Ben Jr. Hendricks , Al Hill , Robert Emmett Homans , Wilfred Lucas , Wilbur Mack , Belle Mitchell , Jack Mower , Pat O'Malley , Oscar O'Shea , Emory Parnell , William Pawley , Dick Rich , Ralph Sanford , George Sorel , Charles Sullivan , Elliott Sullivan , William Tracy , Charles Trowbridge , Charles Wilson , William Worthington
Dick Wessel Trivia
Who did Dick Wessel play in Unknown Island?
Dick Wessel was Sanderson in Unknown Island
What role did Dick Wessel play in Thieves' Highway?
Dick Wessel played Cab Driver in Thieves' Highway
Who did Dick Wessel play in West of the Badlands?
Dick Wessel was Red in West of the Badlands
Who did Dick Wessel portray in The Black Angel?
Dick Wessel was Doorman in The Black Angel
Who did Dick Wessel play in Bells of Capistrano?
Dick Wessel was Sign poster in Bells of Capistrano
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Operation Pacific?
Dick Wessel was Mess Sergeant in Operation Pacific
Who did Dick Wessel play in King of the Cowboys?
Dick Wessel was Hershel in King of the Cowboys
What role did Dick Wessel play in Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Dick Wessel played Union Army veteran in Yankee Doodle Dandy
What role did Dick Wessel play in X Marks the Spot?
Dick Wessel played Dizzy in X Marks the Spot
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Vogues of 1938?
Dick Wessel was Boxer in Vogues of 1938
Who did Dick Wessel portray in The Ugly Dachshund?
Dick Wessel was Garbageman in The Ugly Dachshund
What role did Dick Wessel portray in Tulsa?
Dick Wessel played Joker in Tulsa
Who did Dick Wessel portray in They Made Me a Criminal?
Dick Wessel was Collucci in They Made Me a Criminal
Who did Dick Wessel portray in They Died With Their Boots On?
Dick Wessel was Staff Sgt. Brown in They Died With Their Boots On
What role did Dick Wessel play in Them!?
Dick Wessel played Cop in Them!
What role did Dick Wessel portray in Take Me Out to the Ball Game?
Dick Wessel played Umpire in Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Who did Dick Wessel play in Strangers on a Train?
Dick Wessel was Bill in Strangers on a Train
Who did Dick Wessel play in Scarlet Street?
Dick Wessel was 2nd Detective in Scarlet Street
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Sands of Iwo Jima?
Dick Wessel was Grenade Instructor in Sands of Iwo Jima
What role did Dick Wessel portray in Round-Up Time in Texas?
Dick Wessel played Johnson in Round-Up Time in Texas
What role did Dick Wessel play in The Roaring Twenties?
Dick Wessel played 2nd Mechanic in The Roaring Twenties
Who did Dick Wessel play in Rebel Without a Cause?
Dick Wessel was Guide in Rebel Without a Cause
Who did Dick Wessel play in On the Town?
Dick Wessel was Sailor Simpkins in On the Town
What role did Dick Wessel play in It Happened in Brooklyn?
Dick Wessel played Cop in It Happened in Brooklyn
Who did Dick Wessel play in The Scar?
Dick Wessel was Sidekick in The Scar
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Harvey?
Dick Wessel was Cracker in Harvey
Who did Dick Wessel play in Flying Leathernecks?
Dick Wessel was Mess sergeant in Flying Leathernecks
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Father of the Bride?
Dick Wessel was Moving Man in Father of the Bride
What role did Dick Wessel portray in The Errand Boy?
Dick Wessel played The A.D. in The Errand Boy
Who did Dick Wessel play in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball?
Dick Wessel was Cueball in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Dakota?
Dick Wessel was Roughneck in Dakota
Who did Dick Wessel portray in Calamity Jane?
Dick Wessel was Francis Fryer in Calamity Jane
What role did Dick Wessel play in Brother Orchid?
Dick Wessel played Buffalo Burns in Brother Orchid
Who did Dick Wessel play in Around the World in 80 Days?
Dick Wessel was Train fireman in Around the World in 80 Days
What role did Dick Wessel play in An American in Paris?
Dick Wessel played Ben Macrow in An American in Paris
What role did Dick Wessel play in Ace Drummond [Serial]?
Dick Wessel played Boris in Ace Drummond [Serial]
