Jimmy Aubrey
Jimmy Aubrey
Diminutive British knockabout comedian Jimmy Aubrey got his start with the legendary Fred Karno troupe, working alongside such budding stars as Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. Like Charley and Stan, Aubrey flourished as a silent screen comic. He headlined a series of Vitagraph two-reelers in 1919 and 1920, with a young Oliver Hardy lending support. In the mid-1920s, he starred in another comedy series for producer Joe Rock. By 1927, Aubrey's stardom was a thing of the past, and he found himself virtually unemployable. His old colleagues Laurel and Hardy cast Aubrey in supporting roles in three of their starring vehicles, most memorably as the flirtatious drunk in the 1929 2-reeler That's My Wife. Jimmy Aubrey continued taking movie jobs until his retirement in 1952, playing bits and featured roles as drunken sailors, hoboes, store clerks and cowboy sidekicks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Jimmy Aubrey:
- Amateur Crook with Joan Barclay , Jack Mulhall , Fuzzy Knight , Monte Blue
- Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh , Robert Taylor , Lucile Watson , Virginia Field , Maria Ouspenskaya , C. Aubrey Smith , Janet Shaw , Steffi Duna , Leo G. Carroll , David Clyde , Gilbert Emery , Herbert Evans , Ethel Griffies , Halliwell Hobbes , Charles Irwin , Wilfred Lucas , Leonard Mudie , Paul Scardon , Wyndham Standing , David Thursby , Norma Varden , Eric Wilton , Douglas Wood , Colin Campbell
- A Tale of Two Cities with Ronald Colman , Elizabeth Allan , Edna May Oliver , Reginald Owen , Basil Rathbone , Blanche Yurka , Henry B. Walthall , Donald Woods , Walter Catlett , Fritz Sr. Leiber , H.B. Warner , Mitchell Lewis , Billy Bevan , Isabel Jewell , Lucille LaVerne , E.E. Clive , Lawrence Grant , Robert Warwick , Ralf Harolde , Richard Alexander , Nigel DeBrulier , Sam Flint , Dale Fuller , Claude Sr. Gillingwater , Donald Haines , Winter Hall , Forrester Harvey , Edward Hearn , Boyd Irwin , Walter Kingsford , Eily Malyon , Tully Marshall , Edward Sr. Peil , Tom Ricketts , Rolfe Sedan , C. Montague Shaw , John Davidson
- The Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn , Olivia DeHavilland , Patric Knowles , Henry Stephenson , Donald Crisp , Nigel Bruce , David Niven , Robert H. Barrat , Spring Byington , E.E. Clive , Lumsden Hare , J. Carrol Naish , Scotty Beckett , George Regas , Colin Kenny , Herbert Evans , Henry C. Gordon , Holmes E. Herbert , Brandon Hurst , Boyd Irwin , Crauford Kent , Frank Lackteen , Wilfred Lucas , Georges Renavent , Harry Semels , Reginald Sheffield , C. Aubrey Smith , George Sorel , David Thursby , Michael Visaroff
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