Duke York
Duke York
Billed as Duke York Jr. when he entered films in 1933, this muscular actor essayed such action-oriented roles as King Kala in Flash Gordon (1936). By the 1940s, York had found his particular niche as a second-string Lon Chaney Jr. He was a mainstay at Columbia's short-subject unit in the 1940s, playing the various hunchbacks, werewolves, goons, and Frankensteins who menaced such comedians as the Three Stooges, El Brendel, and Andy Clyde. One of his rare roles out of makeup was in the Stooges' 1943 comedy Higher Than a Kite, which revealed that York wasn't quite as adept at handling dialogue as he was at grunting and growling. Though Duke York committed suicide in 1952, he kept appearing in Columbia's two-reelers and Westerns through the magic of stock footage until the mid-'50s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Duke York:
- Silver Canyon with Gene Autry , Pat Buttram , Gail Davis , Bob Steele , Edgar Dearing , Peter Mamakos , Stanley Andrews , Pat O'Malley , Jack O'Shea
- Texas with William Holden , Glenn Ford , Claire Trevor , George Bancroft , Edgar Buchanan , Don Beddoe , James Flavin , Raymond Hatton , Ethan Laidlaw , Lyle Latell , Ralph Peters
- Saboteur with Priscilla Lane , Robert Cummings , Norman Lloyd , Otto Kruger , Hans Conried , Billy Curtis , James Flavin , Margaret Hayes , Frank Marlowe , Belle Mitchell , Cyril Ring , William H. Ruhl , Charles Sherlock , Torin Thatcher , Archie Twitchell , Dale vanSickel , Claire Whitney , Ian Wolfe , Will Wright
- The Paleface with Bob Hope , Jane Russell , Robert Armstrong , Jackie Searl , Stanley Andrews , Iron Eyes Cody , Henry Brandon , Frank S. Hagney , Skelton Knaggs , Edgar Dearing , Dick Elliott , Dorothy Granger , Al Hill , Ethan Laidlaw , Ted Mapes , John "Skins" Miller , Arthur Space , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Hall Bartlett
- Libeled Lady with Jean Harlow , William Powell , Myrna Loy , Spencer Tracy , Walter Connolly , Charles Grapewin , E.E. Clive , Greta Meyer , William Benedict , Fred Graham , Sherry Hall , Hattie R. McDaniel , Alphonse Martell , Jack Mulhall , William Stack , Edwin Stanley , Pat West , Eric Wilton , Charles King , Dennis O'Keefe , Pat Somerset
- Fury with Spencer Tracy , Sylvia Sidney , Bruce Cabot , Edward Ellis , Walter Brennan , Clara Blandick , Ward Bond , Esther Dale , Ben Hall , Sherry Hall , Raymond Hatton , Si Jenks , Clarence Kolb , Edward J. LeSaint , Murdock MacQuarrie , Mira McKinney , Franklin Parker , Eddie Quillan , Carl Stockdale , Minerva Urecal , Frank Mills
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