Hobart Cavanaugh
Biography
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Hobart Cavanaugh (September 22, 1886 – April 26, 1950) was an American character actor in films and on stage.
He was born in Virginia City, Nevada on September 22, 1886. Cavanaugh attended the University of California.
He worked in vaudeville, teaming with Walter Catlett at some point. He appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including the original 1919 musical Irene and the long-running 1948 musical As the Girls Go.
He made his film debut in San Francisco Nights (1928). Over the next few years he established himself as a supporting actor, and although many of his roles were small and received no film credit, he played more substantial roles in films such as I Cover the Waterfront (1933) and Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933). By the mid-1930s, he was appearing in more prestigious productions, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Captain Blood (1935), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). He continued playing small, often comical roles until the end of his life, mostly as downtrodden or henpecked little men. His last performance was in Stella (1950); he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through. By the end of his life, he had appeared in more than 180 films.
He died following an operation at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Florence and a daughter.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-09-21
Place of birth
Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Images
Cast
Picture Snatcher
1933
7.00
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
My Girl Tisa
1948
0.00
Black Angel
1946
6.10
The Covered Trailer
1939
0.00
Home Movies
1940
6.00
I Cover the Waterfront
1933
5.10
Night Key
1937
6.13
Kismet
1944
5.00
Rose of Washington Square
1939
5.75
A Letter to Three Wives
1949
7.20
Three Smart Girls
1936
6.30
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
6.80
Captain Blood
1935
7.22
Fashions of 1934
1934
6.38
The Human Comedy
1943
6.30
The Kansan
1943
5.30
Private Detective 62
1933
6.09
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
6.40
Jimmy the Gent
1934
6.30
Wings in the Dark
1935
6.40
Gildersleeve on Broadway
1943
5.80
The Key
1934
5.00
Whistling in Dixie
1942
5.00
Don't Bet on Blondes
1935
5.00
Harold Teen
1934
6.00
Our Wife
1941
5.70
The Great O'Malley
1937
6.70
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
4.80
Jackass Mail
1942
7.00
Driftwood
1947
6.10
Dark Hazard
1934
5.40
Sing Me a Love Song
1936
0.00
Colleen
1936
5.30
Margie
1946
6.90
Wonder Bar
1934
6.10
Now I'll Tell
1934
4.80
Pilot #5
1943
5.80
A Scream in the Dark
1943
3.50
I Am a Thief
1934
6.00
A Tragedy at Midnight
1942
4.00
Cain and Mabel
1936
6.10
Easy to Love
1934
5.10
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933
5.70
Housewife
1934
7.70
Page Miss Glory
1935
6.30
From Headquarters
1933
5.80
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
6.00
Here Comes Carter
1936
5.00
I Live for Love
1935
4.80
Stage Struck
1936
4.00
A Lost Lady
1934
6.10
Dr. Socrates
1935
6.40
Goodbye Again
1933
5.00
Up in Central Park
1948
7.00
I'll Remember April
1945
4.00
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946
6.50
Havana Widows
1933
5.80
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
0.00
The Man from Down Under
1943
6.50
Madame du Barry
1934
4.80
A Very Honorable Guy
1934
2.00
I've Got Your Number
1934
6.00
Convention City
1933
3.67
Reno
1939
6.00
I Sell Anything
1934
4.50
We're in the Money
1935
5.50
Kansas City Princess
1934
4.50
State Fair
1933
6.23
Shooting High
1940
8.00
The Lady Consents
1936
5.80
Louisiana Hayride
1944
6.00
Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
1940
0.00
The St. Louis Kid
1934
5.80
The Firebird
1934
5.50
A Child Is Born
1939
6.50
Cowboy from Brooklyn
1938
4.00
Mysterious Crossing
1936
0.00
Love Letters of a Star
1936
0.00
My Woman
1933
3.67
Moulin Rouge
1934
7.00
Career
1939
0.00
Reported Missing
1937
0.00
The Wall Street Mystery
1931
6.00
Faithful in My Fashion
1946
6.30
Zenobia
1939
4.60
Tell No Tales
1939
5.30
That's Right – You're Wrong
1939
5.70
Too Much Harmony
1933
5.00
San Francisco Nights
1928
0.00
Roughly Speaking
1945
6.80
Broadway Gondolier
1935
5.40
Hi, Nellie!
1934
6.50
Naughty But Nice
1939
6.20
Hired Wife
1940
6.80
Cinderella Jones
1946
3.30
Idiot's Delight
1939
6.10
While the Patient Slept
1935
6.40
Land of the Open Range
1942
0.00
Never Say Die
1939
6.80
Daughters Courageous
1939
6.20
The House of Fear
1939
6.50
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
0.00
Four Wives
1939
5.30
Thieves Fall Out
1941
5.50
Horror Island
1941
5.79
No Marriage Ties
1933
4.80
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943
6.00
Bordertown
1935
5.90
The Golden Arrow
1936
6.09
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50
A Modern Hero
1934
7.00
Taxi, Mister
1943
4.20
Carnival Queen
1937
0.00
Charter Pilot
1940
6.00
Street of Memories
1940
0.00
The Devil's Mate
1933
0.00
Two Against the World
1936
5.80
An Angel from Texas
1940
4.80
Best Man Wins
1948
7.00
Love Begins at Twenty
1936
6.00
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
5.20
Stella
1950
0.00
San Diego I Love You
1944
6.30
What a Woman
1943
5.60
Mandalay
1934
5.90
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
5.10
Sympathy
1929
1.00
Down in San Diego
1941
5.50
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
4.50
The Poor Fish
1930
0.00
Headline Shooter
1933
5.80
Don Juan Quilligan
1945
6.00
The Mayor of Hell
1933
7.20
How to Sub-Let
1939
3.50
I Stole a Million
1939
6.00
A Dream Comes True
1935
5.50
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
8.20
Little Iodine
1946
3.00
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
5.70
My Favorite Spy
1942
5.20
Dangerous Blondes
1943
6.00
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933
5.80
Public Deb No. 1
1940
4.20
Girl Overboard
1937
0.00
The Inside Story
1948
6.50
Doctor Jim
1947
0.00
Stage to Chino
1940
4.80
See Your Doctor
1939
5.80
Reaching for the Sun
1941
6.00
The Mighty Treve
1937
6.00
Guest in the House
1944
4.38
The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939
5.70
The Great Plane Robbery
1940
0.00
The Ghost Comes Home
1940
5.00
The Magnificent Dope
1942
7.20
Stand by for Action
1942
6.82
I Wanted Wings
1941
5.38
Railroadin'
1941
0.00
Night and Day
1946
5.70
Love in a Bungalow
1937
0.00