Highest rated movie: So Ends Our Night (1941)
Lowest rated movie: Dixiana (1930)
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Movies starring Joseph Cawthorn have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
So Ends Our Night - released in 1941 - is Joseph Cawthorn's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Joseph Cawthorn is Dixiana - released in 1930 - with a score of 39% based on 1 reviews.
Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies.
Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club.
When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936).
Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.
Joseph Cawthorn has acted in films with Harry Tyler, Edward Arnold, Myrna Loy and Frank Morgan.
Joseph Cawthorn has worked with these film directors: W.S. Van Dyke, William C. McGann, John Cromwell and Busby Berkeley.
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