Person
Chester Clute
Acting · 1891–1956 · Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chester Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films. He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Known for
Arsenic and Old Lace
Dr. Gilchrist
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Goff
The Clock
Michael Henry
Mildred Pierce
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Swing Fever
Milbane
The More the Merrier
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Guest Wife
Urban Nichols
You Can't Take It with You
Hammond (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady
Dr. Pullit (uncredited)
My Favorite Wife
Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Filmography
- 1953Scared StiffMan with Spaghetti on Head (uncredited)
- 1952Colorado SundownLawyer Davis
- 1951All That I HaveJuror Meek
- 1951Kentucky JubileeHorace Tilbury
- 1951Stop That CabLucy's Father
- 1950Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a ChanceUpperbottom
- 1950Lucky LosersConventioneer
- 1950Kill the UmpireMan Using Telephone (uncredited)
- 1950The Good Humor ManMeek Man (uncredited)
- 1949Master MindsMike Barton
- 1949Square Dance JubileeYes-Man
- 1949Mary Ryan, DetectiveChester Wiggin
- 1949In the Good Old SummertimeSheet Music Customer (uncredited)
- 1949Kimbar of the JungleDr. Beaseley
- 1949RingsideTimid Man
- 1949Blondie's Big DealMayor A.K. Ramsey
- 1948Jiggs and Maggie in CourtWorker
- 1948The Strange Mrs. CraneFred Marlow
- 1948Singin' SpursMr. Totter
- 1948Joe Palooka in Winner Take AllDoniger
- 1948Train to AlcatrazConductor Yelvington
- 1948Blondie's RewardLeroy J. Blodgett
- 1948On an Island with You(uncredited)
- 1948On Our Merry WayBank Teller (uncredited)
- 1948Mary LouCheever Chesney
- 1947Always TogetherFurrier (uncredited)
- 1947Joe Palooka in the KnockoutHotel Clerk
- 1947The Perils of PaulineWillie Millick (uncredited)
- 1947The Crimson KeyApartment House Desk Clerk
- 1947Web of DangerCornflake Eater
- 1947A Likely StoryDoctor Brown (uncredited)
- 1947It Happened on Fifth AvenuePhillips (uncredited)
- 1947Easy Come, Easy GoWaiter
- 1947Suddenly It's SpringWorkman (uncredited)
- 1946The Time, The Place and The GirlJeff's Apartment manager (uncredited)
- 1946The Secret HeartOld Man
- 1946That Brennan GirlMan in Night Club with Quarter
- 1946Angel on My ShoulderKramer (uncredited)
- 1946Spook BustersBrown
- 1946Down Missouri WayProf. Shaw
- 1946Two Guys from MilwaukeeMr. Carruthers (uncredited)
- 1946Canyon PassagePortland Storekeeper (uncredited)
- 1946Inside JobDisinterested Husband at Fashion Show
- 1946One Exciting WeekMayor Clarence Teeple
- 1946Two Sisters from BostonGeorge - Opera Stage Doorman (uncredited)
- 1946To Each His OwnClarence Ingham
- 1946Cinderella JonesKrencher
- 1945Sing Your Way HomeMr. Heathcliffe
- 1945She Went to the RacesWallace Mason
- 1945Mildred PierceMr. Jones (uncredited)
- 1945Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in HollywoodMr. Burvis (uncredited)
- 1945Arson SquadSam Purdy
- 1945Anchors AweighIturbi's Assistant
- 1945Lady on a TrainTrain Conductor (uncredited)
- 1945Guest WifeUrban Nichols
- 1945On Stage EverybodyTupper (uncredited)
- 1945Dangerous PartnersThe Diner (uncredited)
- 1945The ClockMichael Henry
- 1945Blonde RansomClerk
- 1945Two O'Clock CourageMr. Daniels (uncredited)
- 1945Earl Carroll VanitiesMr. Weems
- 1945The Man Who Walked AloneHerman Monroe
- 1945She Gets Her ManCharlie., in Play
- 1944The Town Went WildMr. Kurtz
- 1944The Falcon in HollywoodHotel Manager (uncredited)
- 1944Nothing But TroubleEmployment Office Clerk - 1944 (uncredited)
- 1944San Diego I Love YouPercy
- 1944Arsenic and Old LaceDr. Gilchrist
- 1944Reckless AgeJerkins
- 1944Johnny Doesn't Live Here AnymoreMr. Collins
- 19443 Men in WhiteMr. Burns (uncredited)
- 1944RationingSenator's Receptionist
- 1944Henry Aldrich, Boy ScoutMr. Pollup
- 1943What a WomanDormitory Clerk (uncredited)
- 1943Here Comes ElmerPostelwaite
- 1943Swing FeverMilbane
- 1943Princess O'RourkeMr. Mookle (uncredited)
- 1943Crazy HouseFud
- 1943So's Your UncleDinwiddle
- 1943The West Side KidGwylim
- 1943Someone to RememberMr. Roseby
- 1943Du Barry Was a LadyDr. Pullit (uncredited)
- 1943Crime DoctorHeadwaiter
- 1943False FacesApartment Manager
- 1943The DesperadoesRollo
- 1943Three Hearts for JuliaMan with Binoculars at Opera (uncredited)
- 1943The More the MerrierHotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 1943ChatterboxWilfred Peckinpaugh
- 1943Sagebrush LawCowhand with Whiskey Jug (uncredited)
- 1943The Meanest Man in the WorldLawyer (uncredited)
- 1943No Place for a Lady'Yvonne', dress designer
- 1942George Washington Slept HereApartment Hunter (uncredited)
- 1942The Forest RangersJudge (uncredited)
- 1942Get Hep to LoveMr. Tolly
- 1942Just Off BroadwaySperty, Juror-Roommate
- 1942Pardon My SarongBus Company Checker (uncredited)
- 1942My Favorite SpyHiggenbotham
- 1942The SpoilersMr. Montrose - Clerk (uncredited)
- 1942Yankee Doodle DandyGoff
- 1942Meet the StewartsMr. Hamilton (uncredited)
- 1942The Wife Takes a FlyerAdolphe Bietjelboer
- 1942Larceny, Inc.Mr. Buchanan
- 1942This Gun for HireRooming House Manager
- 1942The Remarkable AndrewSam Marbery
- 1942Valley of the SunWilber (uncredited)
- 1942A Tragedy at MidnightPierre (uncredited)
- 1942The Fleet's InJustice of the Peace
- 1942All Through the NightWestmore Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- 1941Wedding WorriesJudge Martin (uncredited)
- 1941New York TownMr. Cobbler (uncredited)
- 1941Three Girls About TownFrank - Magician
- 1941Niagara FallsPotter
- 1941Hold Back the DawnMan in Climax Bar (uncredited)
- 1941Sun Valley SerenadeProcess Server
- 1941Unfinished BusinessMr. Beck
- 1941Scattergood Meets BroadwayQuentin Van Deusen
- 1941ManpowerDrug Store Clerk (uncredited)
- 1941She Knew All the AnswersButter and Egg Man
- 1940Love Thy NeighborJudge
- 1940This Thing Called Love
- 1940She Couldn't Say NoEzra Pine
- 1940Who Killed Aunt Maggie?Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- 1940A Little Bit of HeavenMr. Dixon
- 1940Too Many GirlsLister
- 1940Hired WifeMartin Peabody - Justice of the Peace
- 1940Public Deb No. 1Car Payment Man
- 1940Dance, Girl, DanceBailey #2
- 1940Wildcat BusMan Reading Repossession Notice (uncredited)
- 1940Millionaires in PrisonSidney Keats
- 1940TurnaboutBriggs (uncredited)
- 1940My Favorite WifeShoe Salesman (uncredited)
- 1940The Doctor Takes a WifeJohnson
- 1940Blondie on a BudgetTicket Agent (uncredited)
- 1940Remember the NightJewelry Salesman (uncredited)
- 1940The Man Who Wouldn't TalkPompous Man
- 1939Invisible StripesButler (uncredited)
- 1939Laugh It OffEliot Rigby
- 1939Too Busy to WorkSpringer
- 1939Television SpyHarry Payne
- 1939Dancing Co-EdBraddock
- 1939Dust Be My DestinyMovie Theatre Manager (uncredited)
- 1939Miracles for SaleWaiter with Sugar
- 1939The SpellbinderDr. Hillary Schunk (uncredited)
- 1939Bachelor MotherOliver (uncredited)
- 1939Dodge CityCoggins (uncredited)
- 1939East Side of HeavenPhil (uncredited)
- 1938Artists and Models AbroadSimpson
- 1938Comet Over BroadwayWillis
- 1938Annabel Takes a TourPitcarin, Rodney-Marlborough Hotel Manager
- 1938Hard to GetMr. Pinkey (uncredited)
- 1938Service de LuxeBridegroom
- 1938Youth Takes a FlingSalesman
- 1938Sing, You SinnersRace Tout at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
- 1938You Can't Take It with YouHammond (uncredited)
- 1938Mr. ChumpEd Mason
- 1938RascalsMr. Roger Adams
- 1938Snow Gets in Your EyesDepartment Store Manager (uncredited)
- 1938Go Chase YourselfPushy Little Man in Bank (uncredited)
- 1938He Couldn't Say NoMusgrave
- 1938Life in Sometown, U.S.A.Henry Barber (uncredited)
- 1938Arsène Lupin ReturnsReporter (uncredited)
- 1938The Jury's SecretSecretary
- 1938Change of HeartTom Jones
- 1938Love Is a HeadachePants Salesman (uncredited)
- 1937True ConfessionJuror (uncredited)
- 1937Big Town GirlAssistant Hotel Manager
- 1937Living on LoveJessup
- 1937The Great GarrickM. Moreau
- 1937Live, Love and LearnFake Art Critic Henderson (uncredited)
- 1937The Wrong RoadDan O'Fearna
- 1937ExclusiveGarner
- 1937Dance Charlie DanceAlvin Gussett
- 1937Navy BluesUncle Andrew
- 1936Crash DonovanMr. Horner (uncredited)
- 1933Plane CrazyShy Husband
- 1933Walking the Baby
- 1933Along Came RuthAl - Hotel Social Director
- 1931The Door KnockerClerk
- 1931Personal MaidGary Family Servant (uncredited)
- —Let's Go Stepping
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