Movie and television actor Douglas Fowley (May 30, 1911-May 21, 1998) was born in The Bronx, New York, USA. Events 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund a supporter of Antipope John XXIII burns Jerome of Prague following Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The 5'11" actor is probably best remembered by movie buffs for his role as a movie director Roscoe Dexter in Singing in the Rain (1952). Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 Comedy Musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds The actor appeared in over 240 films and later and dozens of television programs. Fowley's films include Twenty Mule Team (1940), Mighty Joe Young (1949), Battleground (1949), Armored Car Robbery (1950), The Naked Jungle (1954), The High and the Mighty (1954) and Walking Tall (1973). Twenty Mule Team (aka 20 Mule Team) is a 1940 Western film about Arizona Borax miners starring Wallace Mighty Joe Young is an RKO Radio Pictures Film made in 1949 by the same creative team responsible for King Kong. Battleground is a War film that tells the story of the 3rd platoon of Item Company 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Armored Car Robbery ( 1950) is an American Film noir shot in a semi- Documentary style and directed by Richard Fleischer The Naked Jungle is a 1954 film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Walking Tall is a 1973 semi-biopic of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former Professional wrestler -turned-lawman in McNairy County Fowley began acting while attending St. Francis Xavier Military Academy. After nightclub performing and stage work, Fowley appeared in his first film alongside Spencer Tracy in The Mad Game, in 1933. Early in his acting career he was usually cast as movie heavies or gangsters in B-movies including Charlie Chan and Laurel and Hardy features. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American Detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, who acknowledged that he was inspired by the career of Laurel and Hardy were the popular American -based comedy team of thin British-born Stan Laurel (1890-1965 and heavy American-born Oliver Hardy (1892-1957 Fowley, with then-wife contract actress Shelby Payne, is the father of 1960s record producer Kim Fowley. Kim Fowley (born July 21, 1939) is an American Record producer, Impresario, Songwriter and occasional Recording artist The World War II vet grew a long beard in the 1960s to play Gabby Hayes-like roles on television which was a contrast to his well groomed looks in the 40s and 50s.
Fowley was usually typecast as a villain; when not playing an actual criminal, he often portrayed an argumentative trouble-maker. Portraying a member of Tyrone Power's orchestra in Alexander's Ragtime Band, in the early scenes of the film Fowley's character quarrels with his bandmates, but this is not developed in the film's later scenes. Tyrone Edmund Power Jr (May 5 1914 – November 15 1958 usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as " Ty Power " was an " Alexander's Ragtime Band " is the name of a song by Irving Berlin.
In the early 1960s, Fowley was a regular cast member in Pistols 'n' Petticoats, a sitcom parodying the old west; Fowley played the elderly patriarch in a family of gun-toting women who needed no male assistance. Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom that ran for one season on CBS during the 1966-1967 television season Fowley continued to act into the 1970s, but increasingly often was billed as "Douglas V. Fowley".
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