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Rolfe Sedan (January 20, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was an American character actor, best known for appearing in bit parts, often uncredited, usually portraying clerks, train conductors, postmen, cooks, waiters etc. He began his career in show business as a nightclub and vaudeville performer and began acting in East Coast theatre. Sedan debuted on Broadway in 1916 and appeared in his first motion picture for Metro Pictures Corporation in 1921.
He became a prolific character actor and is probably best remembered by movie buffs as the hotel manager in Ninotchka (1939) starring Greta Garbo. Around the same time, he appeared in an uncredited role as the Emerald City's Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He returned to Broadway, performing in several different shows during the first half of the 1940s and in the 1950s began a sequence of guest roles in television series such as The Jack Benny Show. His most frequent TV work came from recurring roles as put-upon mail carriers (25 episodes as Mr. Beasley on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; 4 episodes as Mr. Briggs on The Addams Family). He was also seen as the train conductor in the film Young Frankenstein (1974). Rolfe Sedan remained active throughout a career that spanned more than six decades.
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17 February 1929
Based on George Ade's story about a wealthy young man whose life is changed by his love for a gardener's daughter, transforming him into a more compassionate person.
18 May 1930
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian.
22 December 1939
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
10 December 1932
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
15 March 1930
Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
10 November 1934
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
03 June 1933
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
15 July 1928
Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends.
22 June 1929
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
18 July 1926
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
01 January 1932
John Moore, a young sea captain has a romance with Kay Wheeler, daughter of a trusted trader, "Pop" Wheeler, on a Pacific island.
28 April 1937
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
11 May 1929
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
05 August 1938
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up.
27 July 1934
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
05 June 1933
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
14 September 1929
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
23 May 1926
The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', iss
04 June 1932
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
15 December 1974
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper.
01 January 1930
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
15 July 1953
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr.
24 May 1934
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer.
10 December 1932
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
11 November 1967
A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general.
03 June 1932
A young lady is wooed by two men
04 October 1941
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry.
14 August 1928
The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother.
09 November 1935
The singing stoker and the vamp.
25 October 1930
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
20 August 1930
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
02 June 1933
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
10 November 1929
Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub.
19 September 1926
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
05 June 1940
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
04 February 1931
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred.
27 May 1933
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
27 June 1931
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
16 November 1939
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
11 September 1932
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
07 March 1952
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol.
24 February 1933
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it.
15 November 1935
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
24 March 1931
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
06 July 1979
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi.
12 August 1940
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter.
06 December 1929
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song.
13 September 1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal.
30 October 1932
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer.
20 October 1933
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
13 October 1929
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
05 July 1940
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
09 March 1930
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
25 May 1934
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
12 July 1935
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
03 October 1926
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
11 November 1933
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée deserts him, too. With few options, he joins a traveling carnival and begins a new life.
23 November 1935
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
18 January 1925
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
31 August 1938
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.
