Clarence Kolb (Actor)

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Movies starring Clarence Kolb have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

His Girl Friday - released in 1940 - is Clarence Kolb's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 657 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Clarence Kolb is Christmas Eve - released in 1947 - with a score of 43% based on 2 reviews.

Actor Biography

Clarence William Kolb (July 31, 1874 – November 25, 1964) was an American vaudeville performer and actor.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of second generation Austrian parents who owned a local meat company.

Kolb started out as one half of a vaudeville comedy team, Kolb and Dill, with Max Dill. They styled their act on the famous team of Weber and Fields. In addition to their stage work, they appeared in a series of short films and a feature length movie in 1917. Afterwards, Kolb made a return to vaudeville, and he only returned to the movies in the late 1930s.

He became famous for portraying the same type of character in many films, namely a politician or businessman. He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multi-Academy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live (1938), the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday (1940), and as Mr. Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie (1952). Kolb played himself in his last movie appearance, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), opposite Danny Beck (who played the late Max Dill).

Clarence Kolb died at age 90 of a stroke at the Orchard Gables Sanitarium in Hollywood. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Clarence Kolb has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Irving Bacon, Bobby Barber and Paul Hurst.

Clarence Kolb has worked with these film directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Lewis Seiler, Elliott Nugent and Michael Curtiz.