Hobart Cavanaugh Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Hobart Cavanaugh Trailers
Total trailers found: 165
26 July 1940
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
04 November 1931
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr.
07 July 1939
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman.
25 April 1940
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
17 April 1942
A land owner's will leaves his ranch to anyone who has served at least two years in prison.
22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
07 March 1947
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
28 July 1933
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
03 November 1934
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette.
09 June 1934
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
10 August 1939
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities.
18 November 1933
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
02 October 1937
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife.
16 April 1943
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
11 July 1936
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
01 January 1947
Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner.
31 January 1934
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems.
15 August 1937
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
07 June 1934
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
20 August 1941
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
13 July 1935
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
31 January 1945
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
08 November 1936
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible.
02 February 1942
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
06 May 1948
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
20 August 1933
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart.
12 September 1936
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
11 August 1934
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client.
13 February 1937
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
10 January 1934
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her.
01 August 1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
07 April 1934
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show.
07 June 1930
Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone.
23 January 1935
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
10 November 1939
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
01 April 1945
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
01 July 1942
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
22 July 1933
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together.
29 September 1934
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
04 April 1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected.
19 October 1946
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
09 September 1933
Flirtatious mix-ups abound when a celebrated novelist tangles with an old flame and her suspicious husband.
23 September 1943
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them.
14 December 1933
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.
23 June 1939
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman.
17 February 1940
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
09 March 1946
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
10 November 1934
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out.
16 December 1939
A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
12 June 1939
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
26 September 1936
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
22 August 1936
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
03 May 1941
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business.
20 January 1949
A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one.
30 June 1939
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play.
