Lucien Littlefield Biography

American actor (1895–1960)

Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895 – June 4, 1960) was an American actor who achieved a long career from silent films to the television era. He was noted for his versatility, playing a wide range of roles and already portraying old men before he was of voting age.

Life and career

Lucien Littlefield was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended Staunton Military Academy. He started his movie career in 1913 and worked as an actor until his death in 1960. He usually portrayed comedic supporting characters, often much older than himself. His role of the doctor in The Cat and the Canary (1927) is one of his more notable performances. The character actor appeared with Laurel and Hardy, first as an eccentric professor in Dirty Work and finally as a veterinarian in Sons of the Desert, both made in 1933. He also played Mary Pickford's father in My Best Girl in 1927. Other roles include the western Tumbleweeds with William S. Hart, the comedy Ruggles of Red Gap with Charles Laughton, and Johnny Come Lately with James Cagney.

He played an eccentric inventor in an early episode of Adventures of Superman *led "The Runaway Robot". Littlefield played many character roles in other TV shows of the 1950s, such as Blondie, L*ie, Dragnet and Peter Gunn.

He died of natural causes in 1960 at a veterans' hospital in Hollywood, California, and he was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

Rose of the Rancho (1914) (uncredited)
The Ghost Breaker (1914) as Judge Jarvis
The Warrens of Virginia (1915) as Tom Dabney
A Gentleman of Leisure (1915) as Clerk
The Wild Goose Chase (1915, short) as The 'Grind'
Kindling (1915) as Fence (uncredited)
The Marriage of Kitty (1915) as Minor Role
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915) as The Rag Picker
The Unknown (1915) as Minor Role
The Cheat (1915) as Hardy's Secretary (uncredited)
The Golden Chance (1915) as Roger Manning's Valet (uncredited)
Temptation (1915) (uncredited)
The Blacklist (1916) as Frederick Holtz
To Have and to Have (1916) as King James I
The Love Mask (1916)
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) as The Gardener
A Gutter Magdalene (1916)
Joan the Woman (1916)
The Golden Fetter (1917) as Pete
On Record (1917)
The Cost of Hatred (1917)
The Jaguar's Claws (1917) as Minor Role
The Squaw Man's Son (1917) as Lord Yester
The Hostage (1917) as Paul
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919) as Soldier on Patrol (uncredited)
Everywoman (1919) as Lord Witness
Double Speed (1920) as Reginald Toby
Why Change Your Wife? (1920) as Gordon's Butler
Jack Straw (1920) as Sherlo
Sick Abed (1920) as Dr. Widner
The Sins of St. Anthony (1920) as Lieutenant Humphrey Smith
The Fourteenth Man (1920) as Wesley Colfax Winslow
The Round-Up (1920) as Parenthesis (uncredited)
Eyes of the Heart (1920) as Whitey
Her First Elopement (1920) as Man with Rac* Coat (uncredited)
The Furnace (1920) as Bert Vallance
Her First Elopement (1920) as Ted Maitland
All Souls' Eve (1921)
The Little Clown (1921) as Connie Potts
Too Much Speed (1921) as Jimmy Rodman
Crazy to Marry (1921) as Minister
The Hell Diggers (1921) as Silas Hoskins
The Affairs of Anatol (1921) as Spencer's Valet (uncredited)
The Sheik (1921) as Gaston - French Valet
Rent Free (1922) as 'Batty' Briggs
Tillie (1922) as Doc Weaver
Saturday Night (1922) as Uncle Van's Secretary (uncredited)
Her Husband's Trademark (1922) as Slithy Winters
Across the Continent (1922) as Scott Tyler
Beyond the Rocks (1922) as Sir Lionel Grey's *ociate (uncredited)
Our Leading Citizen (1922) as The Editor
The Siren Call (1922) as Irishman
Manslaughter (1922) as Witness
To Have and to Hold (1922) as Duke of Buckingham
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923) as Martin Green
The Tiger's Claw (1923) as Goyrem
Three Wise Fools (1923) as Douglas
The French Doll (1923) as Dobbs, the Butler
In the Palace of the King (1923) as Adonis
The Rendezvous (1923) as Commissar
Leap Year (1924) as Jeremiah Piper
Name the Man (1924) as Sharf
True As Steel (1924) as Mr. Foote
Babbitt (1924) as Edward Littlefield
A Woman Who Sinned (1924) as Rev. Hillburn
Never Say Die (1924) as Griggs
The Painted Lady (1924) as Matt Logan
Feet of Clay (1924) as Minor Role (uncredited)
Gerald Cranston's Lady (1924) as Stanley Tilotson
Teeth (1924) as Under-sheriff
Gold Heels (1924) as Push Miller
The Deadwood Coach (1924) as Charlie Winter - in play
Charley's Aunt (1925) as Br*et - the Scout
Gold and the Girl (1925) as Weasel
The Rainbow Trail (1925) as Joe Lake
What Price Goofy? (1925, Short) as Speck - Jamison's Faithful Butler
Hearts and Spurs (1925) as Ford Driver (uncredited)
Innocent Husbands (1925, Short) as The House Detective
Madame Sans Jane (1925, Short) as Steward
There Goes the Bride (1925, Short)
Somewhere in Somewhere (1925, Short) as The Buck Private
Laughing Ladies (1925, Short) as The Dentist
Tumbleweeds (1925) as Kentucky Rose
Soul Mates (1925) as Stevens
A Punch in the Nose (1926, Short)
Your Husband's Past (1926, Short)
Torrent (1926) as Cupido
Brooding Eyes (1926) as Bell
Tony Runs Wild (1926) as Red
Bachelor Brides (1926) as Egbert Beamish
Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926, Short)
Take It from Me (1926) as Cyrus Crabb
Twinkletoes (1926) as Hank
Taxi! Taxi! (1927) as Billy Wallace
The Cat and the Canary (1927) as Ira Lazar
The Lighter That Failed (1927, Short) (uncredited)
My Best Girl (1927) as Pa Johnson
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) as Lawyer Marks
The Small Bachelor (1927)
Cheating Cheaters (1927) as 'Habeas Corpus' Lazarre
The Valley of the Giants (1927) as Councilman
A Texas Steer (1927) as Yell
A Ship Comes In (1928) as Dan Casey
The Man in Hobbles (1928) as Pa Harris
A Blonde for a Night (1928) as Jenks
Harold Teen (1928) as Dad Jenks
The Head Man (1928) as Ed Barnes
Heart to Heart (1928) as Uncle Joe Boyd
Mother Knows Best (1928) as Pa Quail
Do Your Duty (1928) as Andy McIntosh
Making the Grade (1929) as Silas Cooper
Clear the Decks (1929) as Plinge
Saturday's Children (1929) as Willie
This Is Heaven (1929) as Frank Chase
The Girl in the Gl* Cage (1929) as Sheik Smith
Drag (1929) as Pa Parker
Dark Streets (1929) as Census Taker
The Great Divide (1929) as Texas Tommy
Happy Days (1929) as Lucien Littlefield
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) as Thomas Hayden
No No Nanette (1930) as Jim Smith
Getting a Raise (1930, Short) as Pa Potter
Clancy in Wall Street (1930) as Andy MacIntosh
High Society Blues (1930) as Eli Granger
Big Money (1930, Short) as Pa Potter
She's My Weakness (1930) as Warren Thurber
Tom Sawyer (1930) as Schoolteacher
Reducing (1931) as Elmer Truffle
Scandal Sheet (1931) as Charles McCloskey
It Pays to Advertise (1931) as Adams
Misbehaving Ladies (1931) as Uncle Joe Boyd
Young as You Feel (1931) as Noah Marley
Trouble from Abroad (1931, Short) as Captain Wimble
The Great Junction Hotel (1931, Short)
Broken Lullaby (1932) as Herr Walter Schultz
Strangers in Love (1932) as Professor Clark
Are You Listening? (1932) as Fred (uncredited)
Shopworn (1932) as Fred
Strangers of the Evening (1932) as Frank 'Snookie' Daniels aka Richard Roe
Jimmy's New Yacht (1932, Short) as Mr. Ford
Miss Pinkerton (1932) as Henderson (scenes deleted)
Speed Madness (1932) as Forbes
Downstairs (1932) as Françoise - a Drunken Servant
Devil and the Deep (1932) as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
That's My Boy (1932) as Uncle Louie
Pride of the Legion (1932) as 'Dad' Tully
Evenings for Sale (1932) as Schwenk
If I Had a Million (1932) as Zeb - Hamburger Stand Owner (uncredited)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932) as Reveler at Party (uncredited)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) as Mr. Jacobson
That's My Baby (1932)
Sailor's Luck (1933) as Elmer Brown
Sweepings (1933) as Grimson
Professional Sweetheart (1933) as Ed - the Announcer
The Big Brain (1933) as Justice of the Peace
Skyway (1933) as Webster
Chance at Heaven (1933) as Fred Harris
Dirty Work (1933, Short) as Professor Noodle (uncredited)
East of Fifth Avenue (1933) as Gardner
Rainbow Over Broadway (1933) as Timothy Chibbins
Sons of the Desert (1933) as Dr. Horace Meddick, the Veterinarian
Alice in Wonderland (1933; scene deleted)
Mandalay (1934) as Mr. George Peters
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) as Professor Hi De Ho (uncredited)
Thirty Day Princess (1934) as Parker
Marrying Widows (1934) as The Brother-In-Law
Kiss and Make-Up (1934) as Max Pascal
When Strangers Meet (1934) as Barney Crane
Gridiron Flash (1934) as L.B. Fields
Love Time (1934) as Willie Obenbiegler
Sweepstake Annie (1935) as Henry Foster
Carnival (1935) as Minor Role (uncredited)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) as Charles Belknap-Jackson
One Frightened Night (1935) as Dr. Denham
The Murder Man (1935) as Peter J. Rafferty
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) as Mr. Peabody
She Gets Her Man (1935) as Elmer
The Return of Peter Grimm (1935) as Colonel Tom Lawton
Cappy Ricks Returns (1935) as Skinner
I Dream Too Much (1935) as Hubert Dilley
Magnificent Obsession (1935) as Breezy (uncredited)
Strike Me Pink (1936) as Professor Kittridge (uncredited)
Rose Marie (1936) as Storekeeper
The Moon's Our Home (1936) as Ogden Holbrook
Let's Sing Again (1936) as Supt. Henry Perkins
Early to Bed (1936) as Mr. O'Leary
Hotel Haywire (1937) as Elmer (uncredited)
Wild Money (1937) as Bill Hawkins
High, Wide, and Handsome (1937) as Mr. Lippincott
Souls at Sea (1937) as Toymaker
Partners in Crime (1937) as Mr. Twitchell
Born to the West (1937) as Cattle Buyer
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) as Mr. Smith
Wells Fargo (1937) as San Francisco Postmaster (uncredited)
Scandal Street (1938) as Robert Johnson
Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938) as Watchman
Reckless Living (1938) as Lucius Carr (uncredited)
Wide Open Faces (1938) as P. T. 'Doc' Williams
The Gladiator (1938) as Professor Abner Danner
I Am the Law (1938) as Mr. Roberts (uncredited)
The Night Hawk (1938) as Parrish
Pirates of the Skies (1939) as Dr. Amos Pettingill
Mystery Plane (1939) as Winslow
Unmarried (1939) as School Principal (uncredited)
What a Life (1939) as Mr. Patterson
Sabotage (1939) as Eli
Jeepers Creepers (1939) as Grandpa
Money to Burn (1939) as Irving
Those Were the Days! (1940) as Professor Silli*s
The Westerner (1940) as The Stranger
Life with Henry (1940) as Mr. Stevens
Li'l Abner (1940) as The Sheriff / Mr. Oldtimer
Murder Among Friends (1941) as Dr. Fred Turk
The Great American Broadcast (1941) as Justice of the Peace
The Little Foxes (1941) as Manders
Man at Large (1941) as Jones, Nervous Man at Tourist Camp
Henry Aldrich for President (1941) as Mr. Crosley
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942) as Barnes
Castle in the Desert (1942) as Gleason
This Time for Keeps (1942) as Herb - Western Union Man (uncredited)
Larceny, Inc. (1942) as Third Customer (uncredited)
The Great Man's Lady (1942) as City Editor
Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942) as Prof. Waldo James
Bells of Capistrano (1942) as Daniel (Pop) McCracken
Whistling in Dixie (1942) as Corporal Lucken
Silent Witness (1943) as Hank Eastman
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943) as Mr. Quid (uncredited)
Johnny Come Lately (1943) as Blaker
Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943) as Mr. Quid
Casanova in Burlesque (1944) as John Alden Compton
Lady, Let's Dance (1944) as Mr. Snodgr*
Cowboy and the Senorita (1944) as Judge Loomis
Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944) as Collins
When the Lights Go on Again (1944) as Andy
One Body Too Many (1944) as Kenneth Hopkins
Lady, Let's Dance (1944) as The Judge
Zorro's Black Whip (1944) as 'Tenpoint' Jackson
Scared Stiff (1945) as Charles Waldeck / Preston Waldeck
The Caribbean Mystery (1945) as Dr. Praskins (uncredited)
In Old Sacramento (1946) as Barber (uncredited)
Rendezvous with Annie (1946) as Ed Kramer
That Brennan Girl (1946) as The Florist
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946) as Telegraph Clerk (uncredited)
The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947) as The Judge, in 'Fabulous Joe'
The Fabulous Joe (1947) as Judge
Sweet Genevieve (1947) as Mr. Rogers
Lightnin' in the Forest (1947) as Joad
Jinx Money (1948) as Tipper
Hollow Triumph (1948) as Mr. Davis (uncredited)
Let's Live a Little (1948) as Mr. Tinker (uncredited)
Bad Men of Tombstone (1949) as Old Man in Claims Office (uncredited)
Susanna P* (1949) as Russell Masters
At Sword's Point (1952) as Cpl. Gautier (uncredited)
Woman of the North Country (1952) as Parvin (uncredited)
Roar of the Crowd (1953) as Josh (uncredited)
Casanova's Big Night (1954) as First Prisoner
Sudden Danger (1955) as Dave Glennon
Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957) as Prof. Winthrop
The High Cost of Loving (1958) as Brabin (uncredited)
Wink of an Eye (1958) as Old Man

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