Job Actor
Years active 1913-1946
Top Roles Friar Tuck, Chick McGann, Alexander Bullock, Andrew Mason Sr., Insurance agent
Top GenresComedy, Drama, Romance, Musical, Silent Films, Short Films
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Comic), Based on Play
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Producer), (Producer), (Director)
Shares birthday with Kim Darby, Jean Rouverol, Pamela Brown  see more..

Eugene Pallette Overview:

Legendary character actor, Eugene Pallette, was born on Jul 8, 1889 in Winfield, KS. Pallette died at the age of 65 on Sep 3, 1954 in Los Angeles, CA and was laid to rest in Green Lawn Cemetery in Grenola, Elk County, KS.

MINI BIO:

Eugene Pallette was a popular character actor of the 1930s and 1940s, (1939, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; 1940, The Mark of Zorro; 1941, The Bride Came COD), usually playing fathers or figures of authority who proved to be neither as dumb nor as cantankerous as they looked.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

HONORS and AWARDS:

.

He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Pallette was never nominated for an Academy Award.

BlogHub Articles:

What A Character! blogathon: That beleaguered paterfamilias,

By carole_and_co on Dec 15, 2018 From Carole & Co.

Every character actor dreams of landing a role as career-defining as that given` a lead, and in 1936 did just that in "My Man Godfrey." As businessman Alexander Bullock -- the lone note of sanity in a scatterbrained but wealthy Park Avenue family -- he wins our sympathy, as he's clan... Read full article


’s Birthday: All Hail His Froggy Voice

By Judy on Jul 8, 2017 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

I’m a sucker for a good voice, and no voice was as memorable and amusing as ’s deep & froggy timbre. His is the kind of voice that startles you when he joins the national anthem/a church congregation’s chorus–the unmistakable, unbelievably harsh and scratch... Read full article


’s Birthday: All Hail His Froggy Voice

By Judy on Jul 8, 2017 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

I’m a sucker for a good voice, and no voice was as memorable and amusing as ’s deep & froggy timbre. His is the kind of voice that startles you when he joins the national anthem/a church congregation’s chorus–the unmistakable, unbelievably harsh and scratch... Read full article


By Michele on Jan 29, 2015 From Timeless Hollywood

is most recognized for his froggy voice. Although he started out in silent pictures and appeared in such movies as Birth of A Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), The Three Musketeers (1920) with Douglas Fairbanks, and Mantrap (1926) with Clara Bow, he is best known as a character acto... Read full article


, a ‘Corker’ of a Silent Star and a ‘Croaker’ of a Supporting Player in the Talkies!

By C. S. Williams on Jul 8, 2014 From Classic Film Aficionados

, the Young Star AKA Eugene Pallett, Gene Pallette, Jean Pallette, (Guy Mourdant) is truly a very interesting, controversial actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was the son of Baird William Pallette, referred to as J. W. or Baird[1] the general-manager of The Na... Read full article


See all articles

Eugene Pallette Quotes:

Sheriff Rufe Jeffers: [performing wedding ceremony in jail] Friends, we're gathered here in the eyes of God and one another for the purpose of joining together this here man and this here woman in holy matrimony. Can't nobody rightly say nothin' agin marriage, 'cause I reckon God intended everybody to live that-a-way. 'Cause every living human on this earth has got to find his mate sometime or other. And when God put Noah in the ark, he told him to take two of everything. 'Cause God knowed that was right, and I guess he knowed what it was to be lonesome. Now, if Duke and Fleety Belle here had a notion, they're only carrying out the Word of God.


Alexander Bullock: Life in this family is one subpoena after another.


Lucius K. Winfield: Well, I don't mind having a fortune hunter in the family, but I'll be darned if I'll stand for a piano player!


read more quotes from Eugene Pallette...



Share this page:
Visit the Classic Movie Hub Blog CMH
Also a Cancer






See All Cancers >>
Eugene Pallette on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame



See All Walk of Fame Stars >>
Eugene Pallette Fact
He was best remembered for his distinctive voice which was often described as "froggy." He actually started his acting career in the silent period with over 130 silent films to his credit.

See All Related Facts >>