Edward Gargan
Biography
Edward Gargan was born of Irish parents in Brooklyn, New York in 1902. He was the elder brother of actor William Gargan whose July 17 birthday he shared.
Edward Gargan started as a musical comedy actor on Broadway. He sang in "Good News", "Rose-Marie", and other hit musicals of the 1920s, and also in opera. One of his early shows was "Polly of Hollywood" in 1927. He portrayed Patrolman Mulligan, one of the principals of "Strictly Dishonorable", in 1930.
He went to Hollywood in 1932 and the next year was in the cast of the film "David Harum". For the next 19 years he appeared in a variety of movies. Gargan was one of the most prolific bit players in the history of the movies, specializing in dumb policemen and dense sidekicks. He appeared in nearly 300 feature films over a three-decade span between 1921 and 1952, and television work from 1951 to 1953.
Gargan died in New York City in 1964.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-07-17
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
Bringing Up Baby
1938
7.53
It's All Over
1930
0.00
Blondie for Victory
1942
7.30
Life with Blondie
1945
6.00
Belle of Old Mexico
1950
0.00
Hit Parade of 1951
1950
6.00
Annabel Takes a Tour
1938
5.00
Go West
1940
6.50
Bombshell
1933
6.47
My Sister Eileen
1942
6.80
Triple Trouble
1950
6.20
A Sporting Chance
1945
0.00
Wild Gold
1934
5.00
Carefree
1938
6.56
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
7.10
Tillie the Toiler
1941
0.00
Adventures of Gallant Bess
1948
4.20
The Rage of Paris
1938
5.80
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
6.00
The Falcon in Danger
1943
5.60
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
5.50
The Falcon Out West
1944
5.17
The Falcon's Brother
1942
6.27
The Falcon and the Co-Eds
1943
6.61
The Saint Strikes Back
1939
5.56
So You Want a Raise
1950
6.00
So You Want to Move
1950
0.00
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
5.00
The Inner Circle
1946
5.20
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
7.01
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
6.00
Detective Kitty O'Day
1944
4.58
Belle of the Nineties
1934
5.70
Crime School
1938
6.30
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.40
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
5.90
Exposed
1947
5.80
Behind the Green Lights
1935
6.00
While New York Sleeps
1938
0.00
Under Your Spell
1936
7.00
Flying with Music
1942
3.50
Behind the Mask
1946
5.00
Wolf of New York
1940
7.00
False Pretenses
1935
5.00
Anything Goes
1936
5.30
Lucky Night
1939
6.60
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
5.90
Thanks for the Memory
1938
5.60
Grand Jury
1936
7.00
Two A.M.
1931
0.00
Sing Your Way Home
1945
5.20
The Door Knocker
1931
0.00
Radio Dough
1934
0.00
Jim Hanvey, Detective
1937
5.90
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944
5.00
They All Come Out
1939
5.60
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
1937
3.00
The African Dodger
1931
4.50
Key to the City
1950
6.20
Via Express
1931
0.00
We're in the Money
1935
5.50
The Flying Irishman
1939
4.60
Spring Parade
1940
6.70
The Gilded Lily
1935
6.50
The Bride Comes Home
1935
4.50
Twice Blessed
1945
6.00
Give Me a Sailor
1938
5.80
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
6.00
That's My Gal
1947
0.00
Port of Lost Dreams
1934
6.50
Danger Patrol
1937
5.30
Tarnished Lady
1931
3.75
She Had to Choose
1934
5.00
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
6.30
Stage Struck
1936
4.00
One New York Night
1935
0.00
San Francisco Docks
1940
6.00
The Band Plays On
1934
8.50
Registered Nurse
1934
4.14
Madame X
1937
5.80
The Man Who Found Himself
1937
7.00
Boy Trouble
1939
5.00
Sutter's Gold
1936
0.00
The Family Next Door
1939
5.20
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.42
Ace of Aces
1933
5.29
The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940
4.83
Spring Madness
1938
3.90
Cinderella Jones
1946
2.75
On Your Toes
1939
3.90
Honolulu
1939
6.10
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
5.80
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
5.00
Boulder Dam
1936
5.00
Another Thin Man
1939
7.10
A Child Is Born
1939
6.50
We Live Again
1934
6.60
The Spellbinder
1939
6.00
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
6.30
High Powered
1945
5.00
You Can't Buy Luck
1937
4.00
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
5.90
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939
6.20
Two Girls on Broadway
1940
6.60
Fixer Dugan
1939
6.50
The Great O'Malley
1937
6.70
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.20
Fly By Night
1942
6.40
Meet the Stewarts
1942
4.30
Linda, Be Good
1947
0.00
I Was a Burlesque Queen
1953
1.00
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
1948
4.70
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.27
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940
6.80
My Kingdom for a Cook
1943
0.00
The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
5.71
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
7.54
Love on a Budget
1938
0.00
Tahiti Honey
1943
4.50
Great Guy
1936
6.20
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
5.20
What's Cookin'?
1942
5.50
Dangerous Partners
1945
6.00
Street of Memories
1940
0.00
The West Side Kid
1943
0.00
Hands Across the Table
1935
6.88
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
0.00
The Dark Horse
1946
0.00
Strike It Rich
1948
0.00
A Girl with Ideas
1937
0.00
Queen Christina
1934
6.80
Northwest Passage
1940
6.50
San Fernando Valley
1944
0.00
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
6.40
Gateway
1938
6.50
City for Conquest
1940
6.81
20,000 Men a Year
1939
5.50
Susan and God
1940
6.50
Back in Circulation
1937
5.30
Castle on the Hudson
1940
6.80
Gambling Ship
1933
5.22
It All Came True
1940
5.80
Between Us Girls
1942
6.00
This Thing Called Love
1940
8.00
An Angel from Texas
1940
4.80
Johnny Apollo
1940
6.80
Road to Singapore
1940
6.50
Hold That Baby!
1949
5.00
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.00
Pilgrimage
1933
6.90
Campus Honeymoon
1948
0.00
Web of Danger
1947
4.80
Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
5.00
Gay Blades
1946
0.00
Thieves Fall Out
1941
5.50
The Girl in 419
1933
3.50
Cafe Society
1939
6.00
Wonder Man
1945
6.54
Saddle Pals
1947
5.00
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939
3.33
Four Mothers
1941
6.20
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
5.80
We're on the Jury
1937
5.80
Spooky Wooky
1950
0.00
Little Miss Broadway
1947
0.00
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.00
A Date with the Falcon
1942
6.50
Over My Dead Body
1942
0.00
Ceiling Zero
1936
5.78
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
6.30
Niagara Falls
1941
6.80
The Go-Getter
1937
5.80
Follow That Woman
1945
6.00
Dr. Kildare's Victory
1942
5.80
The Walking Dead
1936
6.26
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942
4.17
In Old Oklahoma
1943
6.24
$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
2.00
Something to Shout About
1943
5.80
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
6.20
Roaming Lady
1936
5.00
Night Work
1939
7.00
Princess O'Rourke
1943
6.30
Ice-Capades
1941
5.50
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
5.20
Blonde Alibi
1946
3.90
Flight from Destiny
1941
4.70
Here Comes Happiness
1941
5.00
Father of the Bride
1950
7.00
The Brasher Doubloon
1947
5.90
Hit the Ice
1943
5.90
The Naughty Nineties
1945
6.60
Little Giant
1946
5.10
Dangerous Waters
1936
4.50
Girl from God's Country
1940
0.00
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
6.30
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
6.40
My Man Godfrey
1936
7.50
Bedtime for Bonzo
1951
5.90
Up the River
1938
0.00
So You're Going to Be a Father
1947
4.30
The Girl Habit
1931
0.00
Queen of the Mob
1940
5.00
Daredevils of the Clouds
1948
6.00
Crack-Up
1946
5.64
Two for Tonight
1935
6.50
David Harum
1934
7.00
Wives Never Know
1936
0.00
Here Comes Cookie
1935
7.29
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
7.10
Three Cornered Moon
1933
5.70