Fred Kelsey
Date of Birth:
Aug 20, 1884

Place of Birth:
Sandusky, Ohio, USA

Biography:

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.

filmography:

1959

1958

The Opposite Sex

1956

Serenade

1956

Illegal

1955

To Catch a Thief

1955

Tall Man Riding

1955

1954

The Silver Chalice

1954

So You Want to Know Your Relatives

1954

1954

Lucky Me

1954

1953

Springfield Rifle

1952

So You Want to Enjoy Life

1952

Room for One More

1952

Hans Christian Andersen

1952

My Six Convicts

1952

O. Henry's Full House

1952

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951

1951

1951

So You Want a Raise

1950

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

So You Want to Hold Your Husband

1950

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

1950

Backfire

1950

So You Think You're Not Guilty

1950

1949

Colorado Territory

1949

Dancing in the Dark

1949

The Fountainhead

1949

Homicide

1949

The Inspector General

1949

So You Want an Apartment

1948

The Noose Hangs High

1948

1947

Three Strangers

1946

Never Say Goodbye

1946

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck

1946

1946

1946

Andy Plays Hookey

1946

Detour to Danger

1946

So You Want to Play the Horses

1946

Snooper Service

1945

How DOooo You Do

1945

Christmas in Connecticut

1945

If a Body Meets a Body

1945

1945

Come Out Fighting

1945

1945

The Strange Mr. Gregory

1945

1945

1944

Mr. Skeffington

1944

Make Your Own Bed

1944

1944

Trial by Trigger

1944

1943

Old Acquaintance

1943

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

Northern Pursuit

1943

Murder on the Waterfront

1943

Here Comes Mr. Zerk

1943

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

One Dangerous Night

1943

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

1942

1942

1942

1942

Spy Ship

1942

1942

1942

In This Our Life

1942

X Marks the Spot

1942

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

Counter-Espionage

1942

1942

My Favorite Blonde

1942

Murder in the Big House

1942

One Foot in Heaven

1941

They Died with Their Boots On

1941

At the Stroke of Twelve

1941

Secrets of the Lone Wolf

1941

Invisible Ghost

1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941

Pacific Blackout

1941

Mr. District Attorney

1941

The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

1941

Mutiny in the County

1940

1940

Misbehaving Husbands

1940

The Green Archer

1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

1940

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

1940

The Golden Fleecing

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1940

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

1940

The Lone Wolf Strikes

1940

1940

1939

1939

1939

Chicken Wagon Family

1939

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939

Too Busy to Work

1939

Moving Vanities

1939

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

1939

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939

Rough Riders' Round-up

1939

Everybody's Doing It

1938

1938

Straight, Place and Show

1938

Safety in Numbers

1938

Josette

1938

Down on the Farm

1938

Many Sappy Returns

1938

1938

Wild and Woolly

1937

1937

One Mile from Heaven

1937

1937

1937

Angel's Holiday

1937

Borrowing Trouble

1937

1937

Love and Hisses

1937

The Lady Escapes

1937

Time Out for Romance

1937

That I May Live

1937

1937

The Witness Chair

1936

1936

1936

The Garden Murder Case

1936

1936

The Little Red Schoolhouse

1936

1935

The Public Menace

1935

Horses' Collars

1935

Death Flies East

1935

Atlantic Adventure

1935

The Sagebrush Troubadour

1935

Carnival

1935

1935

1935

A Notorious Gentleman

1935

One Frightened Night

1935

School for Girls

1934

The Moth

1934

Lightning Strikes Twice

1934

The Crime Doctor

1934

Among the Missing

1934

I'll Tell the World

1934

Twentieth Century

1934

I'll Be Suing You

1934

1934

Beloved

1934

Strictly Fresh Yeggs

1934

King of the Jungle

1933

The Crime of the Century

1933

1933

1933

The Iceman's Ball

1932

Love in High Gear

1932

Huddle

1932

Red Haired Alibi

1932

Shopping with Wifie

1932

If I Had a Million

1932

1932

Discarded Lovers

1932

Boys Will Be Boys

1932

Yoo-Hoo

1932

Young Donovan's Kid

1931

1931

1931

1931

The Woman Racket

1930

The Girl Said No

1930

1930

1930

The Naughty Flirt

1930

Murder on the Roof

1930

1930

Men Without Law

1930

Road to Paradise

1930

She Got What She Wanted

1930

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

1930

1930

1929

1929

The Donovan Affair

1929

Smiling Irish Eyes

1929

On Trial

1928

The Wright Idea

1928

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

1928

1928

While the City Sleeps

1928

1928

1928

A Woman of Affairs

1928

The Last Warning

1928

1927

The Thirteenth Hour

1927

1927

Jewish Prudence

1927

1927

1926

Crazy Like a Fox

1926

The Mystery Pilot

1926

Atta Boy

1926

Say It with Babies

1926

Bromo and Juliet

1926

Dog Shy

1926

The Third Degree

1926

1925

The Lawful Cheater

1925

The Uneasy Three

1925

Seven Keys to Baldpate

1925

Friendly Enemies

1925

Little Annie Rooney

1925

Paths to Paradise

1925

1925

The Yankee Consul

1924

1924

1923

1923

The Eleventh Hour

1923

Bag and Baggage

1923

1923

1922

1922

Deserted at the Altar

1922

1922

Captain Fly-by-Night

1922

The Song of Life

1922

1921

Puppets of Fate

1921

There Are No Villains

1921

Alias Jimmy Valentine

1920

The Light of Victory

1919

The Silk Lined Burglar

1919

The Fire Flingers

1919

A Society Sensation

1918

1918

1918

The Honor of an Outlaw

1917

Arms and the Gringo

1914

1914

1911