Fred Kelsey
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Fred Kelsey

Aug 20, 1884 - Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

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Movie1930She Got What She Wanted
Movie1942The Daughter of Rosie O'GradyPoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1950Revenue AgentSgt. Wallace
Movie1937Love Is NewsCop (uncredited)
Movie1926That's My BabyMurphy
Movie1934Twentieth CenturyTrain Detective (uncredited)
Movie1927Soft CushionsThe Police
Movie1924The Yankee ConsulAgent John J. Doyle
Movie1949Flamingo RoadTrain Conductor (uncredited)
Movie1931Subway ExpressDetective Kearney
Movie1929The Donovan AffairCarney
Movie1923Lights OutDecker
Movie1935One Frightened NightSheriff Jenks
Movie1939Moving VanitiesPolice Officer (uncredited)
Movie1920Alias Jimmy ValentineBit Part (uncredited)
Movie1918The Empty CabThe Detective
Movie1925Friendly Enemies
Movie1932The Iceman's BallPolice Sergeant
Movie1945Frontier DaysMayor Stone (uncredited)
Movie1922Deserted at the AltarThe Other Man
Movie1952Hans Christian AndersenFirst Gendarme
Movie1922One Clear CallStarnes
Movie1923LoveboundDetective Hahn
Movie1927Jewish PrudenceRent Collector
Movie1934The Crime DoctorBloodgood
Movie1942Counter-EspionageDickens
Movie1950So You Want a Raise
Movie1944Roaring Guns
Movie1944Trial by TriggerJerry (uncredited)
Movie1951Storm WarningTownsman (uncredited)
Movie1946Hiss and YellPoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1941The Lone Wolf Takes a ChanceDetective Dickens
Movie1955Tall Man RidingTownsman (uncredited)
Movie1943Northern PursuitTrain Conductor (uncredited)
Movie1952Springfield RifleBarfly (uncredited)
Movie1954The Silver ChaliceSilversmith (uncredited)
Movie1945Saratoga TrunkTrain Conductor (uncredited)
Movie1922ManslaughterMember of the Jury (uncredited)
Movie1949Colorado TerritoryTrain Engineer (uncredited)
Movie1921The Last CardDetective (uncredited)
Movie1917The Honor of an OutlawThe Deputy
Movie1950So You Think You're Not GuiltyPolice Turnkey (uncredited)
Movie1945If a Body Meets a BodyDetective
Movie1932If I Had a MillionPrison Jailer (uncredited)
Movie1932Discarded LoversDelaney
Movie1942Murder in the Big House"Screw"
Movie1941Secrets of the Lone WolfWesley Dickens
Movie1925Seven Keys to Baldpate
Movie1937Super-SleuthJailer
Movie1937That I May LiveAbner Jenkins
Movie1935Danger AheadDetective O'Brien
Movie1930Scarlet PagesMurphy
Movie1934The MothDetective Blake
Movie1934Lightning Strikes TwiceDugan
Movie1914Arms and the Gringo
Movie1943Murder on the WaterfrontCapt. Beal
Movie1955To Catch a ThiefParty Guest (uncredited)
Movie1954Lucky MePasserby on Street (uncredited)
Movie1945Christmas in ConnecticutHarper (uncredited)
Movie1936The Little Red SchoolhouseFirst Detective
Movie1926Say It with BabiesPoliceman
Movie1928The Wright IdeaM. T. Flatt
Movie1950BackfireFight Fan (uncredited)
Movie1955IllegalCourtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Movie1931Side ShowSheriff Hornsby
Movie1933The Crime of the CenturyPolice Guard (uncredited)
Movie1932Love in High GearDetective Duffy
Movie1935Atlantic AdventurePolice Officer Riley
Movie1934Strictly Fresh YeggsPoliceman
Movie1928Ladies' Night in a Turkish BathDetective
Movie1930The Woman RacketPolice Captain
Movie1942My Favorite BlondeSam - Policeman
Movie1935A Notorious GentlemanDetective
Movie1943A Gem of a JamPolice Chief
Movie1930Road to ParadiseCasey
Movie1930The Girl Said NoPoliceman
Movie1930Wide OpenDetective
Movie1922Don't ShootPolice Officer
Movie1932Guilty as HellDetective Duffy
Movie1959WestboundTownsman (uncredited)
Movie1914Silent SandySilent Sandy
Movie1935Death Flies EastPolice Lieutenant O'Brien
Movie1946Andy Plays HookeyPoliceman
Movie1942Lady GangsterPoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1939Tiny TroublesJudge
Movie1919The Silk Lined BurglarCapt. von Hoffmeier
Movie1942Larceny, Inc.Bronson
Movie1921There Are No VillainsDugall
Movie1918The Yellow DogMax Kummich
Movie1942Bullet ScarsPolice Chief Hansen
Movie1929The FakerPolice Detective
Movie1928TenderloinDetective Simpson
Movie1935Hot MoneyPolice Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
Movie1928Harold TeenMr. Lovewell
Movie1942X Marks the SpotPolice Officer Martin
Movie1936At Sea AshoreCop (uncredited)
Movie1923Souls for SaleDetective Quinn (uncredited)
Movie1932Red Haired AlibiCorcoran
Movie1946Detour to DangerDet. Kelsey
Movie1952Room for One More
Movie1924The Night Hawk
Movie1934I'll Be Suing YouInsurance Adjustor
Movie1937Love and HissesOfficer
Movie1938Night SpotPolice Band Leader
Movie1938JosetteHotel Detective
Movie1934I'll Tell the WorldSergeant at Border
Movie1928While the City SleepsDetective in Shadow Box
Movie1939Tell No TalesPoliceman at School (uncredited)
Movie1938Everybody's Doing ItPolice Sergeant
Movie1951The Enforcer
Movie1931Scandal SheetDetective Sgt. Vincent Molloy
Movie1930Going WildThe Conductor
Movie1922Captain Fly-by-NightGomez
Movie1927The GorillaMulligan
Movie1954A Star Is BornAudience Member (uncredited)
Movie1930The Laurel-Hardy Murder CaseChief of Detectives (uncredited)
Movie1930Only Saps WorkMurphy (uncredited)
Movie1933King of the JungleCop (uncredited)
Movie1923The Eleventh HourThe Submarine Commander
Movie1939Rough Riders' Round-upAgitator
Movie1939Charlie Chan in RenoReno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Movie1937The Lady EscapesMan on telephone (uncredited)
Movie1939Heaven with a Barbed Wire FencePete - Railroad Detective
Movie1939Chicken Wagon FamilyPoliceman
Movie1939Charlie Chan at Treasure IslandDetective - in Cab and at Theatre
Movie1933Quiet Please!Train Conductor
Movie1925The Uneasy Three
Movie1952O. Henry's Full HouseMr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Movie1946A Stolen LifeBartender (uncredited)
Movie1940The Lone Wolf Meets a LadyDickens
Movie1940The Lone Wolf StrikesDickens
Movie1940The Lone Wolf Keeps a DateDickens
Movie1940Mutiny in the CountyPoliceman
Movie1954Outlaw's Son
Movie1940The Man Who Wouldn't TalkBailiff
Movie1953Crime WaveOld Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
Movie1945Mildred PierceBumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
Movie1943Here Comes Mr. ZerkPoliceman
Movie1925Little Annie RooneyDesk Sergeant (uncredited)
Movie1945Snooper Service
Movie1944Crime by NightDad Martin (uncredited)
Movie1933Sailor's LuckCop
Movie1936High TensionDesk Sergeant
Movie1937Time Out for RomancePoliceman
Movie1934Rough NeckingJoe Cuttlehammer Sr.
Movie1926Atta BoyDetective
Movie1929Wrong Again
Movie1940Deadwood DickBottles
Movie1958Auntie MameFront Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
Movie1932HuddlePoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1940Misbehaving HusbandsSgt. Murphy
Movie1935Horses' CollarsDetective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)
Movie1937One Mile from HeavenSmitty - Policeman
Movie1942Gentleman JimSutro (uncredited)
Movie1940The Golden FleecingCop (uncredited)
Movie1944Mr. SkeffingtonCop in Raid (uncredited)
Movie1940The Green ArcherCapt. Thompson
Movie1941At the Stroke of TwelvePolice Sergeant
Movie1950So You Want to Hold Your HusbandLamb - Curry's Partner
Movie1943Thank Your Lucky StarsPub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Movie1932Yoo-HooDetective
Movie1925Paths to ParadiseConfederate
Movie1950The Damned Don't CryMan on Dock (uncredited)
Movie1946Never Say GoodbyePoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1937Big BusinessOil Man at Well
Movie1935Diamond JimHorsley's Secretary
Movie1936The Witness ChairDetective Costigan
Movie1925Seven SinnersPoliceman
Movie1941Invisible GhostDetective Ryan
Movie1926Bromo and JulietThe Detective (uncredited)
Movie1935CarnivalBit Part
Movie1926Crazy Like a FoxMan with Badge on Train (uncredited)
Movie1942Wild Bill Hickok RidesJailer
Movie1941They Died with Their Boots OnFt. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
Movie1928On TrialClerk
Movie1928Naughty BabyDugan
Movie1945How DOooo You DoDetective
Movie1943Food and Magic
Movie1937Slave ShipSeaman at Auction
Movie1938Straight, Place and ShowCop at Racetrack
Movie1940Mexican Spitfire Out WestJim - Detective
Movie1937Angel's HolidayConductor
Movie1939Clock WiseLandlord
Movie1941Mr. District AttorneyOfficer McCloskey
Movie1941Pacific BlackoutCop
Movie1942Spy ShipNight Watchman
Movie1940High SchoolJunk Man
Movie1942I Was FramedDrunk
Movie1928The Last WarningInspector
Movie1931Young Donovan's KidCollins
Movie1938Berth QuakesTrain Conductor
Movie1942Dear! Deer!Policeman
Movie1943One Dangerous NightDetective Dickens
Movie1943Action in the North AtlanticJoe (uncredited)
Movie1946So You Think You're a Nervous WreckFred
Movie1928A Woman of AffairsDetective (uncredited)
Movie1937Borrowing TroublePoliceman
Movie1938Safety in NumbersCop
Movie1938Down on the FarmBit Role
Movie1939Too Busy to WorkHank Fidler
Movie1943True to LifeCop (uncredited)
Movie1943Old AcquaintanceTrain Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
Movie1947The UnfaithfulCourtroom Spectator
Movie1946Three StrangersMan on the Street / Man in Pub
Movie1956The Opposite SexClub Patron (uncredited)
Movie1932Boys Will Be BoysDoorman
Movie1918A Society SensationJIm Cox
Movie1949The Inspector GeneralVillager (uncredited)
Movie1946So You Want to Play the HorsesDetective (uncredited)
Movie1934Among the MissingPolice Sgt. Murphy
Movie1944Make Your Own BedTurnkey
Movie1926The Third DegreeAssistant Chief of Detectives
Movie1949Dancing in the DarkDeputy
Movie1927The Thirteenth HourDet. Shaw
Movie1949HomicideOfficer O'Brien
Movie1949The FountainheadOld Watchman (uncredited)
Movie1922The Song of LifePolice Inspector
Movie1952My Six ConvictsStore Detective
Movie1931The Naughty FlirtPoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1937She Had to EatPolice Officer Tracy (uncredited)
Movie1948The Noose Hangs HighCop (uncredited)
Movie1927The 13th JurorThe Detective
Movie1941The Man Who Came to DinnerDetective (uncredited)
Movie1956SerenadeOpera Attendee (uncredited)
Movie1921Puppets of FateBobs
Movie1954So You Want to Know Your RelativesMr. Watson (uncredited)
Movie1934School for GirlsDetective
Movie1919The Light of VictoryCaptain Eric von Prohme
Movie1951Goodbye, My FancyParty Guest (Uncredited)
Movie1942In This Our LifeJailer (uncredited)
Movie1950The Flame and the ArrowGuard (uncredited)
Movie1932Shopping with WifieDet. Dugan
Movie1952So You Want to Enjoy LifeBoat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)
Movie1936Private NumberDetective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)
Movie1937Wild and WoollyPoliceman (uncredited)
Movie1948So You Want an ApartmentApartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)
Movie1945Come Out FightingMr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)
Movie1936The Garden Murder CaseHeath's Assistant (Uncredited)
Movie1930Men Without LawDeputy Sheriff Jeff
Movie1925Excuse MeGeorge Ketchem
Movie1934BelovedMulvaney
Movie1911A Left Hook
Movie1925The Lawful CheaterTom Horan
Movie1935The Sagebrush TroubadourHank Polk
Movie1935The Public MenaceMike - Cop
Movie1945The Strange Mr. GregoryLefert
Movie1938Many Sappy ReturnsFinnegan
Movie1941One Foot in HeavenTrain Conductor (uncredited)
Movie1926Dog ShyCop
Movie1919The Fire FlingersSgt. Powers
Movie1930Murder on the RoofRyan
Movie1926The Mystery PilotSkipper Larsen
Movie1923Bag and BaggageFred
Movie1929Smiling Irish EyesCounty Fair Manager
Movie1926There Ain't No Santa ClausStore Detective (uncredited)
Movie1947Nora PrentissTurnkey (uncredited)
Movie1946Night and DayFirst-Nighter (uncredited)
Movie1949So You Want to Be a Muscle ManDelivery Man
Movie1953Murder Without TearsSergeant-at-Arms
Movie1949So You Want to Be an ActorCounter Man
Movie1946The Man I LoveMac the Doorman (uncredited)
Movie1953So You Think You Can't SleepSleeping patient in waiting room
Movie1953So You Want to Be a MusicianRestaurant diner
Movie1951Strangers on a TrainTennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
Movie1932Speak EasilyProcess Server
Movie1927Orchids and ErminePolice Sergeant
Movie1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1Self - Tour Guide
Movie1922South of SuvaKarl Swartz
Movie1928Plastered in Paris
Movie1944Shine on Harvest MoonPoliceman in patrol car (uncredited)
Movie1925Youth and AdventureRed Mullin
TV Show1951The Adventures of Wild Bill HickokDoc Jones (uncredited)1

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Movie1914Over the LedgeDirectorDirecting
Movie1914The ExposureDirectorDirecting
Movie1915Station ContentDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Bad Man of CheyenneWriterWriting
Movie1917The Outlaw and the LadyScenario WriterWriting
Movie1917Goin' StraightScenario WriterWriting
Movie1917The Bad Man of CheyenneDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The DrifterDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Outlaw and the LadyDirectorDirecting
Movie1917Goin' StraightDirectorDirecting
Movie1917Hair-Trigger BurkeScenario WriterWriting
Movie1917The Honor of an OutlawDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Honor of an OutlawScenario WriterWriting
Movie1917A 44-Calibre MysteryDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Almost Good ManDirectorDirecting
Movie1917Six-Shooter JusticeDirectorDirecting
Movie1917Blood MoneyDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Wrong ManDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Mysterious OutlawDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Golden BulletDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The Fighting GringoDirectorDirecting
Movie1916The Black TerrorDirectorDirecting
Movie1916Brothers EqualDirectorDirecting
Movie1916The NymphDirectorDirecting
Movie1915The PretenderDirectorDirecting
Movie1915Her Buried PastDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The FugitiveDirectorDirecting
Movie1917The FugitiveProducerProduction