From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Douglas Fowley (May 30, 1911 – May 21, 1998) was an American movie and television actor. Fowley was born Daniel Vincent Fowley in The Bronx, New York. The 5'11" actor is probably best remembered for his role as the movie director Roscoe Dexter in Singing in the Rain (1952). The actor appeared in over 240 films and later in dozens of television programs. Fowley's films include Twenty Mule Team, Mighty Joe Young, Battleground, Armored Car Robbery, Chick Carter, Detective, The Naked Jungle, The High and the Mighty and Walking Tall. Fowley began acting while attending St. Francis Xavier Military Academy. After nightclub performing and stage work, Fowley appeared in his first film alongside Spencer Tracy in The Mad Game in 1933. Early in his acting career he was usually cast as movie heavies or gangsters in B-movies including Charlie Chan and Laurel and Hardy features. Fowley, with then-wife contract actress Shelby Payne, is the father of 1960s record producer Kim Fowley. In the 1950s, he appeared on NBC's The Donald O'Connor Show as himself, as a con man in two episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life, in Reed Hadley's legal drama, The Public Defender, on the ABC situation comedy The Pride of the Family, and on two Rod Cameron series, the syndicated City Detective and the western-themed State Trooper. The World War II veteran grew a long beard in the 1960s to play Gabby Hayes-like roles on television which was a contrast to his well-groomed looks in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in the syndicated 1959-1960 western Pony Express in the episode "Showdown at "Thirty Mile Ridge". Miracle of the White Stallions (1963). Fowley was usually typecast as a villain; when not playing an actual criminal, he often portrayed an argumentative trouble-maker. Portraying a member of Tyrone Power's orchestra in Alexander's Ragtime Band, in the early scenes of the film Fowley's character quarrels with his bandmates, but this is not developed in the film's later scenes. From 1966-1967, Fowley was a regular cast member in Pistols 'n' Petticoats, a CBS sitcom parodying the Old West, somewhat like Forrest Tucker's F Troop on ABC. Fowley played the elderly patriarch in a family of gun-toting women who needed no male assistance. His co-stars were Ruth McDevitt as his wife; Ann Sheridan as his daughter (who died in real life two months before the series ended), and Gary Vinson as Sheriff Harold Sikes. Fowley continued to act into the 1970s and was frequently billed as "Douglas V. Fowley". One of his last roles was as Delaney Rafferty (opposite Patsy Kelly) in Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars, in which he dressed in drag. Fowley died nine days prior to his 87th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Fowley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer | Self (archive footage) | 2002-09-24 |
Movie | Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone | Doc Holliday / Doc Fabrique (flashback sequences) (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | Horrible Horror | Walter in 'Cat-Woman of the Moon' | 1986-01-01 |
Movie | The North Avenue Irregulars | Delaney | 1979-02-09 |
Series | Detective School | 1979-07-31 | |
Movie | Black Oak Conspiracy | Bryan Hancock (as Douglas V. Fowley) | 1977-04-20 |
Movie | The White Buffalo | Amos Bixby | 1977-05-01 |
Series | CHiPs | Unknown | 1977-09-15 |
Movie | Sunshine Christmas | Stanley | 1977-12-12 |
Movie | From Noon Till Three | Buck Bowers | 1976-08-13 |
Movie | Starsky & Hutch | Lijah | 1975-05-01 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Movie | Homebodies | Mr. Crawford | 1974-09-01 |
Series | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown | 1974-09-13 |
Series | The Rockford Files | Ted (as Douglas V. Fowley) | 1974-09-13 |
Movie | Walking Tall | Judge Clarke | 1973-02-22 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
Series | Kung Fu | Unknown | 1972-10-14 |
Movie | Run, Cougar, Run | Joe Bickley | 1972-10-18 |
Series | O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Unknown | 1971-09-17 |
Series | My World and Welcome to It | Unknown | 1969-09-15 |
Movie | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Grundy | 1969-10-10 |
Series | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | 1966-09-17 | |
Series | Branded | Unknown | 1965-01-24 |
Series | Laredo | Unknown | 1965-09-16 |
Movie | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | Toothless Cowboy | 1964-03-18 |
Series | Daniel Boone | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Movie | Guns of Diablo | Mr. Knudsen | 1964-10-04 |
Series | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Unknown | 1964-09-25 |
Series | The Bill Dana Show | Unknown | 1963-09-22 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Series | The Lucy Show | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
Movie | Barabbas | Vasasio | 1961-12-23 |
Movie | Buffalo Gun | Sheriff | 1961-07-01 |
Series | My Three Sons | Unknown | 1960-09-29 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Movie | Desire in the Dust | Zuba Wilson | 1960-10-10 |
Series | Tightrope | Unknown | 1959-09-08 |
Series | Sea Hunt | Unknown | 1958-01-04 |
Series | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Unknown | 1958-09-06 |
Series | The Texan | Unknown | 1958-09-29 |
Movie | The Badge of Marshal Brennan | Marshal Brennan | 1957-04-14 |
Movie | Kelly and Me | Dave Gans | 1957-04-10 |
Movie | Bayou | Emil Hebert | 1957-06-01 |
Movie | Raiders of Old California | Sheriff | 1957-11-01 |
Series | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Unknown | 1957-07-01 |
Series | Trackdown | Unknown | 1957-10-04 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | Bandit! | McGhee | 1956-09-01 |
Movie | The Broken Star | Thornton W. Wills | 1956-04-01 |
Series | State Trooper | Unknown | 1956-09-25 |
Series | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown | 1956-10-05 |
Movie | Man from Del Rio | Doc Adams | 1956-10-30 |
Movie | Rock, Pretty Baby | Pop Wright | 1956-12-01 |
Movie | The Lonesome Trail | Crazy Charley Bonesteel | 1955-07-01 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
Series | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Unknown | 1955-09-06 |
Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
Series | The Great Gildersleeve | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
Movie | The Girl Rush | Charlie - Stickman | 1955-09-16 |
Movie | Texas Lady | Clay Ballard (Clarion owner) | 1955-11-23 |
Movie | Southwest Passage | Toad Ellis | 1954-04-01 |
Movie | Untamed Heiress | Pal | 1954-03-31 |
Movie | The Naked Jungle | Medicine Man | 1954-03-03 |
Movie | Casanova's Big Night | Second Prisoner | 1954-04-07 |
Series | Public Defender | Unknown | 1954-03-11 |
Movie | The Lone Gun | Bartender | 1954-04-25 |
Movie | Deep in My Heart | Harold Butterfield (uncredited) | 1954-12-09 |
Series | Lassie | Unknown | 1954-09-12 |
Series | December Bride | Unknown | 1954-10-04 |
Movie | The High and the Mighty | Alsop | 1954-07-03 |
Movie | A Slight Case of Larceny | Mr. White | 1953-06-05 |
Movie | Kansas Pacific | Max Janus | 1953-02-22 |
Movie | The Man Behind The Gun | Buckley Saloon Manager | 1953-01-31 |
Movie | Cruisin' Down the River | Humphrey Hepburn | 1953-08-02 |
Movie | Red River Shore | Case Lockwood | 1953-12-15 |
Movie | The Band Wagon | Auctioneer (uncredited) | 1953-08-07 |
Series | City Detective | Unknown | 1953-09-07 |
Movie | Cat-Women of the Moon | Walter 'Walt' Walters | 1953-09-03 |
Movie | This Woman Is Dangerous | Saunders (Uncredited) | 1952-02-09 |
Movie | Finders Keepers | Franke Simmons | 1952-01-01 |
Movie | Just This Once | Frank Pirosh | 1952-02-27 |
Movie | Singin' in the Rain | Roscoe Dexter | 1952-04-09 |
Movie | Horizons West | Ed Tompkins | 1952-10-11 |
Movie | Criminal Lawyer | Harry Cheney | 1951-08-23 |
Movie | Tarzan's Peril | Herbert Trask | 1951-03-13 |
Series | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Unknown | 1951-04-15 |
Movie | Across the Wide Missouri | Tin Cup Owens (uncredited) | 1951-10-12 |
Movie | Callaway Went Thataway | Gaffer (uncredited) | 1951-11-15 |
Movie | South of Caliente | Dave Norris | 1951-10-15 |
Movie | Angels in the Outfield | Cab Driver (uncredited) | 1951-10-19 |
Movie | Rider from Tucson | Bob Rankin | 1950-06-07 |
Movie | Hoedown | Gang Leader (uncredited) | 1950-06-01 |
Movie | Killer Shark | Louie Bracado | 1950-03-19 |
Movie | Armored Car Robbery | Benjamin 'Benny' McBride | 1950-06-08 |
Movie | So You Think You're Not Guilty | Convict (uncredited) | 1950-04-15 |
Movie | Edge of Doom | Detective #2 | 1950-08-03 |
Movie | Stage to Tucson | Ira Prentiss | 1950-12-01 |
Movie | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone | Steve Kepplar | 1950-12-08 |
Movie | Rio Grande Patrol | Bragg Orcutt | 1950-10-20 |
Movie | He's a Cockeyed Wonder | 'Crabs' Freeley | 1950-12-02 |
Series | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Unknown | 1950-09-10 |
Movie | Bunco Squad | Det. Sgt. Mack McManus | 1950-09-01 |
Movie | Arson, Inc. | Frederick P. 'Fred' Fender | 1949-06-24 |
Movie | Susanna Pass | Roberts aka Walter P. Johnson | 1949-04-29 |
Movie | Flaxy Martin | Max, Detective | 1949-02-15 |
Movie | Massacre River | Simms | 1949-06-26 |
Movie | Search for Danger | The Inspector | 1949-04-15 |
Movie | Renegades of the Sage | Sloper | 1949-11-24 |
Movie | Any Number Can Play | Smitty (uncredited) | 1949-07-15 |
Movie | Satan's Cradle | Steve Gentry | 1949-10-06 |
Movie | Battleground | 'Kipp' Kippton | 1949-11-09 |
Movie | Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch | Thurston | 1949-08-14 |
Movie | Mighty Joe Young | Jones | 1949-07-27 |
Movie | Docks of New Orleans | Grock | 1948-03-21 |
Movie | The Dude Goes West | Beetle | 1948-05-30 |
Movie | So You Want to Be a Gambler | Honest John (uncredited) | 1948-02-14 |
Movie | If You Knew Susie | Marty | 1948-02-07 |
Movie | Waterfront at Midnight | Joe Sargus | 1948-06-25 |
Movie | Black Bart | Sheriff Mix (uncredited) | 1948-02-17 |
Movie | Coroner Creek | Stew Shallis | 1948-07-01 |
Movie | The Denver Kid | Henchman Slip | 1948-09-30 |
Movie | Gun Smugglers | Steve Reeves | 1948-12-28 |
Movie | Joe Palooka in Winner Take All | Reporter | 1948-09-19 |
Movie | Behind Locked Doors | Larson | 1948-09-13 |
Movie | Fall Guy | Inspector Shannon | 1947-03-15 |
Movie | Yankee Fakir | Murgatroyd Bartholomew Davis | 1947-04-01 |
Movie | Three on a Ticket | Mace Morgan | 1947-04-04 |
Movie | Backlash | Red Bailey | 1947-03-01 |
Movie | Wild Country | Clark Varney | 1947-01-17 |
Movie | Fun on a Weekend | Gambling House Owner (Uncredited) | 1947-05-15 |
Movie | Scared to Death | Terry Lee | 1947-02-01 |
Movie | Undercover Maisie | Daniels | 1947-03-01 |
Movie | The Trespasser | Bill Monroe | 1947-07-03 |
Movie | Key Witness | Jim Guthrie (uncredited) | 1947-10-09 |
Movie | Merton of the Movies | Phil | 1947-10-11 |
Movie | Roses Are Red | Ace Oliver (as Doug Fowley) | 1947-11-10 |
Movie | Desperate | Pete | 1947-06-20 |
Movie | Ridin' Down the Trail | Mark Butler | 1947-10-03 |
Movie | The Gas House Kids in Hollywood | Mitch Gordon | 1947-08-23 |
Movie | The Hucksters | Georgie Gaver | 1947-07-17 |
Movie | Jungle Flight | Tom Hammond | 1947-08-22 |
Movie | Larceny in Her Heart | Doc H. C. Patterson | 1946-05-20 |
Movie | The Glass Alibi | Joe Eykner | 1946-04-27 |
Movie | In Fast Company | Steve Trent | 1946-06-22 |
Movie | Drifting Along | Jack Dailey | 1946-01-26 |
Movie | Blonde Alibi | Henchman Willie (Uncredited) | 1946-03-01 |
Movie | Chick Carter, Detective | Rusty Farrell | 1946-07-11 |
Movie | 'Neath Canadian Skies | Ned Thompson | 1946-10-15 |
Movie | North of the Border | Nails Nelson | 1946-11-15 |
Movie | High School Hero | Coach Carter | 1946-09-06 |
Movie | Along the Navajo Trail | J. Richard Bentley | 1945-09-15 |
Movie | Don't Fence Me In | Jack Gordon | 1945-10-20 |
Movie | Life with Blondie | Blackie Leonard (uncredited) | 1945-12-13 |
Movie | Rationing | Dixie Samson | 1944-03-24 |
Movie | See Here, Private Hargrove | Capt. R.S. Manville | 1944-03-18 |
Movie | Shake Hands with Murder | Steve Morgan | 1944-04-22 |
Movie | The Racket Man | Toby Sykes | 1944-01-18 |
Movie | Lady in the Death House | Dr. Dwight 'Brad' Bradford | 1944-03-15 |
Movie | And the Angels Sing | N.Y. Cafe Manager (uncredited) | 1944-04-25 |
Movie | Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Rudy (uncredited) | 1944-07-07 |
Movie | One Body Too Many | Henry Rutherford | 1944-11-24 |
Movie | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1944-07-04 |
Movie | Detective Kitty O'Day | Harry Downs | 1944-05-13 |
Movie | Jitterbugs | Malcolm Bennett | 1943-06-05 |
Movie | Colt Comrades | Joe Brass | 1943-06-18 |
Movie | Gildersleeve's Bad Day | Louie Barton | 1943-05-10 |
Movie | The Kansan | Ben Nash | 1943-09-10 |
Movie | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Wallace (uncredited) | 1943-05-08 |
Movie | Swing Shift Maisie | Investigator (Uncredited) | 1943-10-01 |
Movie | Bar 20 | Henchman Slash | 1943-10-01 |
Movie | Riding High | Brown | 1943-11-11 |
Movie | Minesweeper | Cutter Lieutenant Wells | 1943-11-10 |
Movie | The Chance of a Lifetime | Nails Blanton (Uncredited) | 1943-10-26 |
Movie | Mississippi Gambler | Chet Matthews | 1942-04-17 |
Movie | So's Your Aunt Emma! | Gus Hammond | 1942-04-17 |
Movie | Hay Foot | Captain Rossmead | 1942-01-02 |
Movie | I Live on Danger | Joey Farr | 1942-06-16 |
Movie | Sunset on the Desert | Ramsay McCall | 1942-04-01 |
Movie | Mr. Wise Guy | Bill Collins | 1942-02-20 |
Movie | For the Common Defense! | Dutch Mullner | 1942-06-20 |
Movie | Stand by for Action | Ensign Martin | 1942-12-31 |
Movie | Lost Canyon | Jeff Burton | 1942-12-18 |
Movie | The Devil with Hitler | Walter Beeter | 1942-10-18 |
Movie | The Man in the Trunk | Ed Mygatt | 1942-09-19 |
Movie | Dangerous Lady | Police Sgt. Brent | 1941-09-12 |
Movie | The Parson of Panamint | Chappie Ellerton | 1941-07-25 |
Movie | Tanks a Million | Capt. Rossmead | 1941-09-12 |
Movie | Secret of the Wastelands | Slade Salters | 1941-11-15 |
Movie | Doctors Don't Tell | Joe Grant | 1941-09-22 |
Movie | Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case | Vincent Mackay | 1941-12-18 |
Movie | 20 Mule Team | Stag Roper | 1940-05-03 |
Movie | Cafe Hostess | Eddie Morgan | 1940-01-11 |
Movie | Wagons Westward | Bill Marsden | 1940-06-19 |
Movie | Pier 13 | Johnnie Hale | 1940-08-08 |
Movie | Ellery Queen, Master Detective | Rocky Taylor | 1940-11-30 |
Movie | Cherokee Strip | Alf Barrett | 1940-10-10 |
Movie | East of the River | Cy Turner | 1940-11-09 |
Movie | The Leather Pushers | Slick Connolly | 1940-09-13 |
Movie | Dodge City | Munger | 1939-04-08 |
Movie | Inside Story | Gus Brawley | 1939-03-10 |
Movie | The Arizona Wildcat | Rufe Galloway | 1939-02-11 |
Movie | Lucky Night | George | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | It Could Happen to You | Freddie Barlow | 1939-06-08 |
Movie | Slightly Honorable | Madder | 1939-12-22 |
Movie | Boy Friend | Ed Boyd | 1939-05-19 |
Movie | Henry Goes Arizona | Ricky Dole | 1939-12-08 |
Movie | Charlie Chan at Treasure Island | Peter Lewis | 1939-08-31 |
Movie | Alexander's Ragtime Band | Snapper | 1938-05-24 |
Movie | City Girl | Ritchie | 1938-01-07 |
Movie | Walking Down Broadway | Ace Wagner | 1938-03-11 |
Movie | Mr. Moto's Gamble | Nick Crowder | 1938-04-07 |
Movie | Submarine Patrol | Seaman Pinky Brett | 1938-11-25 |
Movie | Time Out for Murder | J.E. 'Dutch' Moran | 1938-09-25 |
Movie | Passport Husband | Tiger Martin | 1938-07-15 |
Movie | Keep Smiling | Cedric Hunt | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | Fifty Roads to Town | Dutch Nelson | 1937-06-03 |
Movie | This Is My Affair | Alec | 1937-05-28 |
Movie | Time Out for Romance | Roy Webster | 1937-02-10 |
Movie | She Had to Eat | Duke Stacey | 1937-07-02 |
Movie | On the Avenue | Eddie Eads | 1937-02-12 |
Movie | Wild and Woolly | Blackie Morgan | 1937-07-19 |
Movie | Love and Hisses | Webster | 1937-12-21 |
Movie | Wake Up and Live | Herman | 1937-08-23 |
Movie | Charlie Chan on Broadway | Johnny Burke | 1937-09-22 |
Movie | One Mile from Heaven | Jim Tabor | 1937-08-18 |
Movie | Small Town Girl | Chick Page (uncredited) | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Big Brown Eyes | Benny Battle | 1936-04-03 |
Movie | Ring Around the Moon | Ted Curlew | 1936-02-15 |
Movie | Navy Born | Lt. Steve Bassett | 1936-06-02 |
Movie | 36 Hours to Kill | Duke Benson | 1936-07-24 |
Movie | Private Number | Sheik (Uncredited) | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | 15 Maiden Lane | Nick Shelby | 1936-10-16 |
Movie | Sing, Baby, Sing | Mac | 1936-08-21 |
Movie | Crash Donovan | Harris | 1936-08-01 |
Movie | Night Life of the Gods | Cyril Sparks | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Princess O'Hara | Emcee (uncredited) | 1935-03-31 |
Movie | Transient Lady | Matt Baxter | 1935-03-04 |
Movie | Old Man Rhythm | Oyster | 1935-08-02 |
Movie | Two for Tonight | Pooch Donahue | 1935-09-12 |
Movie | I Hate Women | Nelson | 1934-05-10 |
Movie | Sleepers East | Gangster (uncredited) | 1934-01-01 |
Movie | The Thin Man | Taxi Driver (uncredited) | 1934-05-25 |
Movie | Operator 13 | Union Officer (uncredited) | 1934-06-08 |
Movie | Student Tour | Mushy | 1934-10-05 |
Movie | The Girl from Missouri | New Bellboy with Vase (uncredited) | 1934-08-03 |
Movie | Let's Talk It Over | Sailor Jones | 1934-06-01 |