Chester Clute

Actor

February 18, 1891 (65 years)

† April 2, 1956

Orange, New Jersey, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chester Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films. He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Filmography

7.6

Mildred Pierce

Mr. Jones (uncredited)

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

6.8

Anchors Aweigh

Iturbi's Assistant

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

6.9

Dodge City

Coggins (uncredited)

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

7.6

Arsenic and Old Lace

Dr. Gilchrist

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

7.1

The Clock

Michael Henry

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

7.0

The More the Merrier

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

7.5

You Can't Take It with You

Hammond (uncredited)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

7.0

My Favorite Wife

Shoe Salesman (uncredited)

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.

6.2

The Spoilers

Mr. Montrose - Clerk (uncredited)

When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

7.0

This Gun for Hire

Rooming House Manager

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

7.1

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Goff

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

6.7

All Through the Night

Westmore Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

6.5

Scared Stiff

Man with Spaghetti on Head (uncredited)

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

6.5

Angel on My Shoulder

Kramer (uncredited)

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

6.7

Canyon Passage

Portland Storekeeper (uncredited)

In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

7.3

Remember the Night

Jewelry Salesman (uncredited)

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

6.7

In the Good Old Summertime

Sheet Music Customer (uncredited)

Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

7.2

Bachelor Mother

Oliver (uncredited)

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

7.1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Phillips (uncredited)

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

6.8

Hired Wife

Martin Peabody - Justice of the Peace

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. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.