Biography
Otto Hugo Fries (October 28, 1887 – September 15, 1938) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1920 and 1938. Fries was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in 1938 in Los Angeles, California at age 50. He was the father of National Football League player Sherwood Fries.
Fries became a dapper-looking supporting comic with a varied background in medicine shows and vaudeville. He easily transitioned to film in the early 1910s. By 1915, he was with the Keystone Cops and entered a lifelong friendship with Stan Laurel, which led to appearances in that star comedian's early films for Bronco Billy Anderson. Not surprisingly, Fries later landed at Hal Roach Studios, where he supported not only Laurel & Hardy and Charley Chase but also such lesser stars as Max Davidson and James Finlayson.Sound proved no hindrance and Fries would appear in many of Roach's German-language talkies, as well as characters in many of the Our Gang shorts. Often cast as inebriates, detectives, and bartenders (with a memorable turn as a Blacksmith matching wits with a delinquent 9-year-old in Roach's Readin' and Writin'), Fries played scores of bit parts and walk-ons in grade-A films. One of his more notable appearances was as a shiphand in the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business.
Filmography
all 69
Movies 69
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
Expensive Husbands (1937)
High Flyers (1937)
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Espionage (1937)
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Human Cargo (1936)
Sons o' Guns (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Here Comes the Band (1935)
The Mystery Man (1935)
The Best Man Wins (1935)
The Merry Widow (1934)
A Preferred List (1933)
Saturday's Millions (1933)
Alum and Eve (1932)
The Night of June 13 (1932)
Show Business (1932)
The Old Bull (1932)
Readin' and Writin' (1932)
On the Loose (1931)
Haunted at Midnight (1931)
Little Daddy (1931)
The King (1930)
The First Seven Years (1930)
Weak But Willing (1929)
Railroadin' (1929)
Waltzing Around (1929)
The Younger Generation (1929)
Riley the Cop (1928)
The Burglar (1928)
Taxi for Two (1928)
Land of the Lawless (1927)
Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
Rumors for Rent (1927)
Car Shy (1927)
The Broncho Twister (1927)
The Motor Boat Demon (1927)
Surrender (1927)
Hotel Imperial (1927)
Move Along (1926)
The Tin Ghost (1926)
Skybound (1926)
Time Flies (1926)
Maid in Morocco (1925)
Fair Warning (1925)
That's Funny (1924)
What a Night! (1924)
Fast and Furious (1924)
Dizzy Daisy (1924)
Air Pockets (1924)
Family Life (1924)
The Handy Man (1923)
The Weak-End Party (1922)
All Wet (1922)
Free and Easy (1921)
Bang! (1921)
Moonshine (1920)
April Fool (1920)
The Simp (1920)
The Paperhangers' Revenge (1918)
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up (1916)
The Bum's Rush
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GenderMale
Birthday1887-10-28
Deathday1938-09-15 (50 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Louis, United States of America
ChildrenSherwood Fries
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsOtto H. Fries, Otto Fried, Otto Hugo Fries
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