Gus Schilling
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor.
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously).
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Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
Born
Jun 20, 1908
New York City, New York, USA
Died
Jun 16, 1957
Known For
Acting
Movies
57 acting
0 crew
Popularity
0.6
Known For
Citizen Kane
1941
as John
Touch of Evil
1958
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
as Attendant (uncredited)
Macbeth
1948
as A Porter
The Lady from Shanghai
1947
as Goldfish
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
Bigger Than Life
1956
as Druggist (uncredited)
On Dangerous Ground
1951
as Lucky
Hellzapoppin'
1941
as Orchestra Conductor
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