Arthur Housman
Acting • Born 1889-10-08 – Died 1942-04-08
Biography
From Wikipedia Arthur Housman (October 10, 1889 – April 8, 1942) was an American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Initially as a leading man, Housman later became known as Hollywood's most familiar comic drunkard in films of the 1930s, usually playing cameo parts in features but with better opportunities in short films. His best remembered roles were in several Laurel and Hardy films, notably Scram!, Our Relations and (in the title role) The Live Ghost. He also played a frustrated timekeeper in the Three Stooges' film Punch Drunks. Housman died of pneumonia at age 52. He was married to Ellen Grubley (31 July 1893 - 21 May 1960) from 1919 until his death in 1942.
Filmography
155 credits
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Movie • 1927
The Obtrusive Gentleman
Fast Company
Movie • 1929
Thunder Mountain
Movie • 1925
Joe Givens
Man-Proof
Movie • 1938
Drunk Sourpuss with Capon (uncredited)
The Bat
Movie • 1926
Richard Fleming
The Squealer
Movie • 1930
Mitter Davis
She Done Him Wrong
Movie • 1933
Hungry Barfly (uncredited)
The Necessary Evil
Movie • 1925
Pug
Fools for Luck
Movie • 1928
Charles Grogan
Feet First
Movie • 1930
Drunken clubman
Rumors for Rent
Movie • 1927
Warren
The Coast of Folly
Movie • 1925
Newspaper Reporter
Step Lively, Jeeves!
Movie • 1937
Max
Our Relations
Movie • 1936
Drunk
The Midnight Kiss
Movie • 1926
Hector Spencer
Punch Drunks
Movie • 1934
Fight Timekeeper (uncredited)
Show Boat
Movie • 1936
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie • 1932
Drunk
The Fixer Uppers
Movie • 1935
The Drunk
The Live Ghost
Movie • 1934
Drunken sailor
The Desert's Price
Movie • 1925
Tom Martin
It May Be You
Movie • 1915
Jack Kenwood
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Movie • 1926
Salesman
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Movie • 1934
Dick Harris
Five and Ten
Movie • 1931
Piggy - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
The Misleading Lady
Movie • 1920
Reporter
At Bear Track Gulch
Movie • 1913
Townsman
The Way of a Maid
Movie • 1921
Jimmy Van Trent
Braveheart
Movie • 1925
Frank Nelson
Brown of Harvard
Movie • 1918
Happy
The Gay Lord Quex
Movie • 1919
Valma
Rough House Rosie
Movie • 1927
Kid Farrell
Here Is My Heart
Movie • 1934
Waiter
Am I Having Fun!
Movie • 1936
'Scoop' McGoogle
Navy Secrets
Movie • 1939
Phoney Drunk
The Singing Fool
Movie • 1928
Blackie Joe
Escort Girl
Movie • 1941
Al, the Drunk (as Arthur Houseman)
Racing Blood
Movie • 1936
Legs
With Love and Kisses
Movie • 1936
Gilbert Holbrook
Roadhouse Queen
Movie • 1933
Arthur Young - Attorney
Wedding Belles
Movie • 1934
Where the West Begins
Movie • 1938
Beano, Jack's Cellmate
Officer O'Brien
Movie • 1930
Tony Zurick
No More Orchids
Movie • 1932
Serge
The Captain Hits the Ceiling
Movie • 1935
Cliff
It Always Happens
Movie • 1935
Drunk
Alias French Gertie
Movie • 1930
Bert
Benny, from Panama
Movie • 1934
Drunken, Irate Husband
Men Must Fight
Movie • 1933
Drunk on Ship
Sing Sister Sing
Movie • 1935
Drunk (uncredited)
Partners in Crime
Movie • 1928
Barton
All Woman
Movie • 1918
Dick Wellman
Back to the Woods
Movie • 1919
The County Fair
Movie • 1920
Bruce Hammerhead
Side Street
Movie • 1929
Silk Ruffo
While Paris Sleeps
Movie • 1932
The Intruder
Movie • 1933
Reggie Wayne
Part Time Wife
Movie • 1930
Golf Spectator (uncredited)
Manhandled
Movie • 1924
Chip Thorndyke
Night Life of New York
Movie • 1925
Jerry
Treasure Blues
Movie • 1935
Sailor
Done in Oil
Movie • 1934
Arthur
Babes in the Goods
Movie • 1934
The Drunk
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie • 1938
First Communist
Paris in Spring
Movie • 1935
Interviewer
Mr. Toots' Tooth
Movie • 1913
Mr. Toots
Gridiron Flash
Movie • 1934
Drunk
Woman Wanted
Movie • 1935
Art - Waiter at Party (uncredited)
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Movie • 1940
Mr. McGillicuddy - Drunk (uncredited)
Stronger Than Desire
Movie • 1939
Reporter (uncredited)
Scram!
Movie • 1932
Drunk
They Made Me a Criminal
Movie • 1939
Drunk Next to Grandma (uncredited)
Broadway Serenade
Movie • 1939
Jonathan (uncredited)
The Flying Deuces
Movie • 1939
Drunk Legionnaire
Getting to the Ball Game
Movie • 1914
Nearly Spliced
Movie • 1921
A Hit with a Miss
Movie • 1945
Fight Timekeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1939
Drunk on Train (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody
Movie • 1936
Drunk
Clay Dollars
Movie • 1921
Ben Willetts
Night Life in Reno
Movie • 1931
Roy Carlton
Anybody's Blonde
Movie • 1931
Mulligan
Go West
Movie • 1940
Drunk in Saloon
Wreckety Wrecks
Movie • 1933
Drunk (uncredited)
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Radio Listener (uncredited)
No Time for Comedy
Movie • 1940
Drunk Wanting Directions (uncredited)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1968
Second Drunk (archive footage)
Next Door Neighbors
Movie • 1931
Herman Andrews
Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
Movie • 1912
Waiter
How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family
Movie • 1912
Tim Flanagan - Horseshoe Target
The Merry Widow
Movie • 1934
Drunken Man (uncredited)
Diamond Jim
Movie • 1935
Souse
Afraid to Talk
Movie • 1932
Archie (drunk)
The Spotlight
Movie • 1927
Ebbetts
Queen of the Night Clubs
Movie • 1929
Andy Quinland
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1941
Saloon Janitor (uncredited)
Jack's Joke
Movie • 1913
Ned Brown
Rolling Along
Movie • 1930
Just a Husband
Movie • 1927
Warren
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie • 1934
Self (uncredited)
The End of the Road
Movie • 1919
Bridal Bail
Movie • 1934
Drunk
The Girl of the Golden West
Movie • 1930
Sidney Dick
Broadway
Movie • 1929
Dolph
Her Bodyguard
Movie • 1933
Drunk
The Edison Minstrels
Movie • 1913
Interlocutor
Help Wanted, Female
Movie • 1931
Howling Hollywood
Movie • 1929
The Non-Stop Bride
Movie • 1926
Barney
Elmer Steps Out
Movie • 1934
Ex-Champ
Movie • 1939
Drunk in Barroom
Whispering Wires
Movie • 1926
Casey
Back to the Woods
Movie • 1918
Bill Andrews
Man Wanted
Movie • 1922
Edgar Little
Why Announce Your Marriage?
Movie • 1922
Times Square
Movie • 1929
Public Hero Number 1
Movie • 1935
Scottsdale Bar Drunk (uncredited)
Hard to Get
Movie • 1938
Drunk on Subway (uncredited)
Red, White and Blue Blood
Movie • 1917
A Man Must Live
Movie • 1925
Tod Cragge
The Way to Love
Movie • 1933
Drunk Being Photographed
Under the Red Robe
Movie • 1923
Captain La Rolle
Movie Crazy
Movie • 1932
Customer Who Didn't Order Rabbit
The Flapper
Movie • 1920
Tom Morran
Wife in Name Only
Movie • 1923
Victor Harwood
Sins of the Fathers
Movie • 1928
The Count
The Blooming Angel
Movie • 1920
Ramon
Riffraff
Movie • 1936
'Ratsy'
An Old Fashioned Elopement
Movie • 1912
A Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mun
Movie • 1912
Double or Nothing
Movie • 1937
Drunk
Something Simple
Movie • 1934
Drunk
Persuasive Peggy
Movie • 1917
Percy Pipp
Two for Tonight
Movie • 1935
Warburton
The Masked Dancer
Movie • 1924
Manager at Club Royal
Early to Wed
Movie • 1926
Art Nevers
Worlds Apart
Movie • 1921
Harley Marshall
A Fool and His Money
Movie • 1920
Count Tarnowsky
Wives Never Know
Movie • 1936
Snorter
Under Suspicion
Movie • 1918
Red Hogan
Ignorance
Movie • 1916
The Dancer
Shadows of the Sea
Movie • 1922
Ralph Dean
Here Comes Cookie
Movie • 1935
Drunk (uncredited)
I Believed in You
Movie • 1934
Jerry Hartman, a Drunk
Love's Masquerade
Movie • 1922
Newspaper Reporter
The Fighter
Movie • 1921
Blacardo
Is Life Worth Living?
Movie • 1921
Jimmy Colton
A Reluctant Cinderella
Movie • 1913
Dick Evans
Publicity Madness
Movie • 1927
Oscar Hawks
The Bondage of Barbara
Movie • 1919
Jack Newton
With Neatness and Dispatch
Movie • 1918
Burns
Toby's Bow
Movie • 1919
Bagby
The Road of Ambition
Movie • 1920
Monty Newcomb
The Prophet's Paradise
Movie • 1922
Kadir
Song of Love
Movie • 1929
Joe Sweeney, Acrobat