Fred Kelsey
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1884-08-20
Place of birth
Sandusky, Ohio, USA
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Cast
She Got What She Wanted
1930
0.00
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942
0.00
Revenue Agent
1950
1.00
Love Is News
1937
6.00
That's My Baby
1926
0.00
Twentieth Century
1934
6.80
Soft Cushions
1927
0.00
The Yankee Consul
1924
0.00
Flamingo Road
1949
7.00
Subway Express
1931
0.00
The Donovan Affair
1929
6.00
Lights Out
1923
0.00
One Frightened Night
1935
5.21
Moving Vanities
1939
0.00
Alias Jimmy Valentine
1920
0.00
The Empty Cab
1918
0.00
Friendly Enemies
1925
0.00
The Iceman's Ball
1932
1.00
Frontier Days
1945
4.00
Deserted at the Altar
1922
0.00
Hans Christian Andersen
1952
6.30
One Clear Call
1922
0.00
Lovebound
1923
0.00
Jewish Prudence
1927
6.50
The Crime Doctor
1934
3.50
Counter-Espionage
1942
6.20
So You Want a Raise
1950
6.00
Roaring Guns
1944
0.00
Trial by Trigger
1944
2.00
Storm Warning
1951
6.60
Hiss and Yell
1946
3.00
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
6.00
Tall Man Riding
1955
5.60
Northern Pursuit
1943
5.90
Springfield Rifle
1952
6.10
The Silver Chalice
1954
4.40
Saratoga Trunk
1945
5.70
Manslaughter
1922
5.40
Colorado Territory
1949
6.92
The Last Card
1921
0.00
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917
0.00
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950
5.74
If a Body Meets a Body
1945
5.33
If I Had a Million
1932
6.70
Discarded Lovers
1932
4.29
Murder in the Big House
1942
6.50
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941
6.30
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925
0.00
Super-Sleuth
1937
5.00
That I May Live
1937
6.50
Danger Ahead
1935
4.17
Scarlet Pages
1930
6.50
The Moth
1934
0.00
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934
4.70
Arms and the Gringo
1914
0.00
Murder on the Waterfront
1943
5.00
To Catch a Thief
1955
7.28
Lucky Me
1954
6.70
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
6.90
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
5.50
Say It with Babies
1926
5.00
The Wright Idea
1928
0.00
Backfire
1950
5.91
Illegal
1955
6.40
Side Show
1931
5.00
The Crime of the Century
1933
6.30
Love in High Gear
1932
0.00
Atlantic Adventure
1935
5.50
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934
0.00
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928
0.00
The Woman Racket
1930
4.70
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.40
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
6.00
A Gem of a Jam
1943
7.29
Wide Open
1930
5.30
Road to Paradise
1930
6.20
The Girl Said No
1930
5.50
Guilty as Hell
1932
5.80
Don't Shoot
1922
0.00
Westbound
1959
6.10
Silent Sandy
1914
0.00
Death Flies East
1935
5.00
Andy Plays Hookey
1946
0.00
Lady Gangster
1942
5.50
Tiny Troubles
1939
6.00
The Silk Lined Burglar
1919
0.00
Larceny, Inc.
1942
6.90
There Are No Villains
1921
0.00
The Yellow Dog
1918
0.00
Bullet Scars
1942
6.20
The Faker
1929
0.00
Tenderloin
1928
0.00
Hot Money
1935
0.00
Harold Teen
1928
7.00
X Marks the Spot
1942
3.86
At Sea Ashore
1936
0.00
Souls for Sale
1923
6.19
Red Haired Alibi
1932
4.70
Detour to Danger
1946
0.00
Room for One More
1952
6.30
The Night Hawk
1924
0.00
I'll Be Suing You
1934
0.00
Love and Hisses
1937
0.00
Josette
1938
6.50
Night Spot
1938
4.70
I'll Tell the World
1934
0.00
While the City Sleeps
1928
5.90
Tell No Tales
1939
5.30
Everybody's Doing It
1938
5.00
The Enforcer
1951
7.14
Scandal Sheet
1931
0.00
Going Wild
1930
6.00
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
4.50
The Gorilla
1927
0.00
A Star Is Born
1954
7.12
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
6.73
Only Saps Work
1930
5.50
King of the Jungle
1933
5.00
The Eleventh Hour
1923
0.00
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939
4.00
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939
6.20
The Lady Escapes
1937
0.00
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
6.30
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
6.60
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
0.00
Quiet Please!
1933
2.00
The Uneasy Three
1925
0.00
O. Henry's Full House
1952
6.54
A Stolen Life
1946
6.40
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
5.90
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
6.30
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
6.30
Mutiny in the County
1940
0.00
Outlaw's Son
1954
0.00
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
4.00
Crime Wave
1953
7.10
Mildred Pierce
1945
7.62
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943
0.00
Little Annie Rooney
1925
6.90
Snooper Service
1945
0.00
Crime by Night
1944
5.80
Sailor's Luck
1933
5.00
High Tension
1936
5.40
Time Out for Romance
1937
5.60
Rough Necking
1934
10.00
Atta Boy
1926
0.00
Wrong Again
1929
6.64
Deadwood Dick
1940
6.00
Auntie Mame
1958
7.05
Huddle
1932
6.60
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
5.00
Horses' Collars
1935
6.03
One Mile from Heaven
1937
6.70
Gentleman Jim
1942
7.20
The Golden Fleecing
1940
5.30
Mr. Skeffington
1944
6.64
The Green Archer
1940
5.90
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
5.00
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
0.00
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.15
Yoo-Hoo
1932
0.00
Paths to Paradise
1925
5.80
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.10
Never Say Goodbye
1946
6.30
Big Business
1937
5.00
Diamond Jim
1935
6.00
The Witness Chair
1936
6.20
Seven Sinners
1925
6.00
Invisible Ghost
1941
5.15
Bromo and Juliet
1926
5.60
Carnival
1935
0.00
Crazy Like a Fox
1926
6.20
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
4.70
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
6.59
On Trial
1928
6.00
Naughty Baby
1928
4.50
How DOooo You Do
1945
0.00
Food and Magic
1943
5.00
Slave Ship
1937
4.80
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.00
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
4.60
Angel's Holiday
1937
5.50
Clock Wise
1939
0.00
Mr. District Attorney
1941
5.43
Pacific Blackout
1941
6.30
High School
1940
5.50
Spy Ship
1942
6.00
I Was Framed
1942
4.00
The Last Warning
1928
6.70
Young Donovan's Kid
1931
0.00
Berth Quakes
1938
0.00
Dear! Deer!
1942
0.00
One Dangerous Night
1943
5.00
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
7.07
A Woman of Affairs
1928
6.67
Borrowing Trouble
1937
6.00
Safety in Numbers
1938
0.00
Down on the Farm
1938
0.00
Too Busy to Work
1939
0.00
True to Life
1943
6.00
Old Acquaintance
1943
6.90
The Unfaithful
1947
6.00
Three Strangers
1946
6.40
The Opposite Sex
1956
5.20
Boys Will Be Boys
1932
0.00
A Society Sensation
1918
5.70
The Inspector General
1949
6.47
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
6.00
Among the Missing
1934
6.33
Make Your Own Bed
1944
5.80
The Third Degree
1926
0.00
Dancing in the Dark
1949
5.00
The Thirteenth Hour
1927
7.00
Homicide
1949
5.30
The Fountainhead
1949
6.90
The Song of Life
1922
5.00
My Six Convicts
1952
6.30
The Naughty Flirt
1931
5.70
She Had to Eat
1937
5.00
The Noose Hangs High
1948
6.80
The 13th Juror
1927
0.00
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
6.90
Serenade
1956
5.50
Puppets of Fate
1921
0.00
School for Girls
1934
6.00
The Light of Victory
1919
0.00
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
5.90
In This Our Life
1942
6.80
The Flame and the Arrow
1950
6.23
Shopping with Wifie
1932
1.00
So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952
2.00
Private Number
1936
6.50
Wild and Woolly
1937
0.00
So You Want an Apartment
1948
5.00
Come Out Fighting
1945
7.00
The Garden Murder Case
1936
5.50
Men Without Law
1930
0.00
Excuse Me
1925
0.00
Beloved
1934
0.00
A Left Hook
1911
0.00
The Lawful Cheater
1925
0.00
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935
5.50
The Public Menace
1935
5.00
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
5.10
Many Sappy Returns
1938
4.80
One Foot in Heaven
1941
6.58
Dog Shy
1926
6.60
The Fire Flingers
1919
0.00
Murder on the Roof
1930
0.00
The Mystery Pilot
1926
0.00
Bag and Baggage
1923
0.00
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
0.00
There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926
6.00
Nora Prentiss
1947
6.10
Night and Day
1946
5.70
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1949
0.00
Murder Without Tears
1953
5.20
So You Want to Be an Actor
1949
0.00
The Man I Love
1946
6.20
So You Think You Can't Sleep
1953
5.00
So You Want to Be a Musician
1953
0.00
Strangers on a Train
1951
7.66
Speak Easily
1932
5.81
Orchids and Ermine
1927
4.50
South of Suva
1922
0.00
Plastered in Paris
1928
0.00