Edward Brophy

Actor

February 26, 1895 (65 years)

† May 27, 1960

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Edward Brophy was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic. He is best remembered for his roles in the Falcon film series and for voicing Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo. His screen debut was in Yes or No. He appeared in The Champ, Freaks, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home (1944). He also made several appearances in the films of director John Ford.

Filmography

5.8

The Millionaire

Preliminary Feeney

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

7.0

Dumbo

Timothy Q. Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

5.0

Mr. & Mrs. North

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.

7.8

Freaks

Rollo Brother

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

7.8

The Cameraman

Man in Bathhouse Stall with Buster (uncredited)

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

6.4

Cover Girl

Joe, bartender (uncredited)

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

7.5

The Thin Man

Joe Morelli

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

7.1

The Thin Man Goes Home

Brogan

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

6.8

It Happened Tomorrow

Jake Shomberg

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

6.5

Air Force

Marine Sgt. J.J. Callahan

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

6.2

China Seas

Wilbur Timmons

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

7.5

The Great Gambini

Butch

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.

7.2

The Champ

Tim

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

6.7

All Through the Night

Joe Denning

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

6.6

Wonder Man

Torso

Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.

6.0

Breakdowns of 1942

Self

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

7.1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Gates Patrolman Cecil Felton

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.

7.2

The Last Hurrah

Ditto Boland

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

6.5

Golden Boy

Roxy Lewis

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.

7.3

Hide-Out

Det. Britt

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.