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August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor.
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously).
Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe.
Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
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02 January 1943
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy.
17 April 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist.
04 February 1942
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.
26 October 1948
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie.
20 June 1946
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed.
07 January 1944
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F.
08 May 1942
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
21 June 1940
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money.
21 September 1945
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
21 June 1947
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife become pregnant and they are evicted.
20 November 1956
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
26 September 1941
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy.
27 October 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems.
29 November 1940
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.
30 March 1958
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
02 January 1951
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
15 October 1950
While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.
09 March 1945
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job.
01 October 1948
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.
19 February 1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
22 February 1952
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives.
24 December 1947
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
10 July 1942
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
03 July 1947
Two unemployed vaudeville hoofers land a job in a show and learn that the leading man is their downstairs neighbor.
15 February 1954
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
10 September 1943
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
26 June 1942
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen.
06 June 1946
Gus Schilling and Richard Lane are two GIs serving overseas during World War II, and they get word that their wives, also in the U.
03 January 1941
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
20 July 1945
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie.
03 March 1945
A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.
13 December 1951
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman.
31 January 1947
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune.
29 April 1955
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
27 April 1943
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl.
27 July 1950
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
20 October 1951
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
10 February 1948
Hollywood producer Richard Lane needs a rest and he and his assistant, Gus Schilling, decide that Florida would be an ideal place far-removed from the hustle-and-bustle of Hollywood.
10 June 1948
This Columbia All Star Comedy (production number 9427) finds Gus Shilling discovering that a cranky wife (Dorothy Granger) isn't the worst thing after shell-shocked veteran Dick Lane shows up.
12 May 1949
Gus and Dick, attending a war veterans' convention with their wives, run in to an old girlfriend there, and try to prevent her from meeting up with their wives.
25 December 1941
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
29 April 1943
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
30 April 1954
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
19 August 1941
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen.
19 November 1942
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
29 October 1940
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman.
31 October 1941
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments.
25 July 1946
Gus and Dick find themselves in trouble when they fall into possession of a necklace, not realizing it was left over from a jewel robbery, and also must hide a woman, who is actually part of the robbery, from their wives.
13 January 1949
Gus, a cab driver is in love with the company owner's daughter, but mistakes Dick Lane a harmless, escaped asylum inmate, for the boss and takes him to lunch, and afterwards has the boss picked up as a mental case.
09 August 1947
As if Dick's marriage wasn't in enough trouble, an ex-girlfriend returns to town with her sights set on him.
06 December 1945
To avoid getting a speeding ticket, Gus poses as a doctor rushing a patient to the hospital for surgery.
12 November 1949
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents.
11 January 1956
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
01 November 1948
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
16 July 1943
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s.
12 September 1946
Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.
13 March 1941
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all.
