Fred Kelsey
Known for: Acting
Born: August 20, 1884
Died: September 2, 1961
Place of birth: Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.
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Filmography
316 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
6.4
Westbound
1959
7.0
Auntie Mame
1958
5.3
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
6.0
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
5.4
The Opposite Sex
1956
5.6
Serenade
1956
6.5
Illegal
1955
7.3
To Catch a Thief
1955
5.8
Tall Man Riding
1955
10.0
Outlaw's Son
1954
4.4
The Silver Chalice
195410.0
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954
7.1
A Star Is Born
1954
6.8
Lucky Me
1954
6.0
Riding Shotgun
1954
6.2
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954
10.0
Racing Blood
19546.5
So You Think You Can't Sleep
1953
7.1
Crime Wave
1953
5.8
Murder Without Tears
19539.0
So You Want to Be a Musician
1953
6.2
Hans Christian Andersen
19528.0
Strop, Look and Listen
1952
6.4
Springfield Rifle
1952
6.9
O. Henry's Full House
1952
6.2
Carson City
19526.3
So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952
6.5
My Six Convicts
1952
6.6
Room for One More
1952
7.7
Strangers on a Train
1951
6.4
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
5.3
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
7.1
The Enforcer
1951
6.6
Storm Warning
1951
4.0
Revenue Agent
19507.0
So You Want a Raise
1950
6.3
The Flame and the Arrow
19509.0
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
7.0
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
6.1
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950
5.9
Backfire
1950
6.6
The Inspector General
194910.0
So You Want to Be an Actor
1949
6.0
Dancing in the Dark
19498.0
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1949
6.8
The Fountainhead
1949
7.0
Colorado Territory
1949
7.0
Flamingo Road
1949
5.7
Homicide
1949
6.2
Silver River
1948
6.9
The Noose Hangs High
19485.9
So You Want an Apartment
1948
5.9
The Unfaithful
1947
6.2
Nora Prentiss
1947
6.6
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
1946
6.1
The Man I Love
194610.0
Andy Plays Hookey
19469.0
The People's Choice
1946
6.3
Never Say Goodbye
19466.5
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
6.0
Night and Day
1946
6.4
Monkey Businessmen
1946
6.4
A Stolen Life
1946
5.0
Hiss and Yell
1946
6.4
Three Strangers
1946
8.0
Detour to Danger
1946
7.5
How DOooo You Do
1945
6.0
Frontier Days
1945
6.1
Saratoga Trunk
1945
7.6
Mildred Pierce
1945
7.5
Come Out Fighting
1945
5.6
If a Body Meets a Body
1945
7.0
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
8.0
Snooper Service
1945
5.5
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
6.4
Crime by Night
1944
6.0
Make Your Own Bed
1944
5.7
Trial by Trigger
1944
6.8
Mr. Skeffington
1944
6.8
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944
8.0
Roaring Guns
1944
7.3
A Gem of a Jam
1943
8.0
True to Life
1943
7.1
Old Acquaintance
1943
5.8
Food and Magic
1943
6.1
Northern Pursuit
1943
6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
7.0
Murder on the Waterfront
1943
10.0
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943
7.1
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
5.1
One Dangerous Night
1943
7.2
Gentleman Jim
1942
4.5
X Marks the Spot
1942
10.0
Dear! Deer!
1942
6.7
Counter-Espionage
19429.0
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942
7.0
Spy Ship
1942
6.9
In This Our Life
1942
7.1
Larceny, Inc.
1942
6.8
Murder in the Big House
1942
5.0
I Was Framed
1942
6.4
My Favorite Blonde
1942
5.7
Lady Gangster
1942
6.5
Bullet Scars
1942
5.5
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
6.6
Pacific Blackout
1941
7.0
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
6.7
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
6.0
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
7.0
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941
6.9
One Foot in Heaven
1941
5.3
Invisible Ghost
1941
5.8
Mr. District Attorney
1941
6.1
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
5.2
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
6.2
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
5.0
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
6.6
The Green Archer
1940
5.9
The Golden Fleecing
1940
7.0
Deadwood Dick
1940
6.4
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940NR
Mutiny in the County
1940
6.8
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
6.7
High School
1940
5.3
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
10.0
Too Busy to Work
1939
6.6
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
6.7
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
10.0
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
6.5
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939
5.4
Tell No Tales
1939
8.0
Moving Vanities
1939
9.0
Clock Wise
1939
5.3
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939
6.8
Tiny Troubles
1939
10.0
Down on the Farm
1938
7.0
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.5
Many Sappy Returns
1938
7.2
Josette
1938
7.0
Safety in Numbers
19388.0
Berth Quakes
1938
4.6
Night Spot
1938
6.0
Everybody's Doing It
1938
10.0
Love and Hisses
1937
7.0
Borrowing Trouble
1937
7.3
That I May Live
1937
6.6
One Mile from Heaven
1937
7.0
The Lady Escapes
1937
10.0
Wild and Woolly
1937
5.6
Super-Sleuth
1937
5.6
She Had to Eat
1937
7.5
Big Business
1937
5.1
Slave Ship
1937
6.0
Angel's Holiday
1937
6.3
Love Is News
1937
6.0
Time Out for Romance
1937
5.8
High Tension
1936
6.7
Private Number
1936
6.6
The Witness Chair
1936
8.0
At Sea Ashore
1936
6.7
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
5.7
The Garden Murder Case
1936
6.4
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935
10.0
Hot Money
1935
6.0
The Public Menace
1935
6.5
Diamond Jim
1935
6.0
Atlantic Adventure
1935
5.0
Danger Ahead
1935
5.6
One Frightened Night
1935
7.0
Death Flies East
1935
8.0
Carnival
1935
6.5
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
6.4
Horses' Collars
1935
5.3
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934
6.5
Among the Missing
19349.0
I'll Be Suing You
1934
6.8
Twentieth Century
1934
10.0
Rough Necking
1934
7.0
I'll Tell the World
1934NR
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934
7.5
School for Girls
1934
3.8
The Crime Doctor
1934
9.0
Beloved
1934
NR
The Moth
1934
7.0
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
5.4
The Bowery
19336.0
Quiet Please!
1933
7.2
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
6.0
Sailor's Luck
1933
5.8
King of the Jungle
1933
6.7
The Crime of the Century
193310.0
Boys Will Be Boys
1932
6.5
If I Had a Million
1932
4.8
Red Haired Alibi
19328.0
Yoo-Hoo
1932
5.8
Speak Easily
19324.0
The Iceman's Ball
1932
6.7
Guilty as Hell
1932
7.0
Huddle
1932
6.0
Love in High Gear
1932
9.0
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
19325.0
Shopping with Wifie
1932
4.9
Discarded Lovers
1932
5.6
Side Show
1931
10.0
Young Donovan's Kid
1931
10.0
Subway Express
1931
10.0
Scandal Sheet
1931
6.2
The Naughty Flirt
1931
7.0
Going Wild
1930
6.0
Only Saps Work
193010.0
She Got What She Wanted
1930
8.0
Men Without Law
1930
7.0
Scarlet Pages
1930
NR
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930
6.9
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
6.4
Road to Paradise
1930
5.8
The Girl Said No
1930
5.6
Wide Open
1930
7.0
Murder on the Roof
1930
6.0
The Woman Racket
1930
9.0
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
7.5
The Donovan Affair
1929
6.8
Wrong Again
1929
8.0
The Faker
1929
6.7
The Last Warning
1928
5.0
Naughty Baby
1928
6.5
A Woman of Affairs
1928
7.0
On Trial
192810.0
Plastered in Paris
1928
10.0
The Wright Idea
192810.0
A Midnight Adventure
1928
7.0
Harold Teen
1928
10.0
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928
10.0
Tenderloin
1928
6.3
While the City Sleeps
1928
10.0
The Gorilla
1927
9.0
The 13th Juror
1927
8.0
The Thirteenth Hour
1927
7.0
Soft Cushions
1927
7.0
Jewish Prudence
1927
9.0
Held by the Law
1927
5.9
Orchids and Ermine
1927
6.8
There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926
7.0
The Third Degree
1926
9.0
Atta Boy
1926
5.8
Bromo and Juliet
1926
6.2
Crazy Like a Fox
1926
6.5
Say It with Babies
1926
8.0
The Social Highwayman
19267.0
The Mystery Pilot
19269.0
That's My Baby
1926
7.1
Dog Shy
1926
7.0
The Uneasy Three
1925
6.5
Seven Sinners
1925
7.0
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925
7.1
Little Annie Rooney
1925
NR
The Lawful Cheater
1925
6.2
Paths to Paradise
1925
9.0
Smooth as Satin
1925
9.0
Friendly Enemies
1925
8.0
Excuse Me
1925
9.0
Youth and Adventure
19259.0
Traffic in Hearts
1924
9.0
The Yankee Consul
1924
8.0
The Night Hawk
1924
8.0
Lights Out
1923
8.0
Bag and Baggage
1923
7.0
The Eleventh Hour
1923
6.3
Souls for Sale
1923
9.0
Lovebound
1923
6.8
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
7.0
Deserted at the Altar
1922
5.5
Manslaughter
1922
8.0
Don't Shoot
1922
7.0
South of Suva
1922
7.0
One Clear Call
1922
6.5
The Song of Life
1922
9.0
There Are No Villains
1921
9.0
The Match-Breaker
1921
8.0
The Last Card
19218.0
Puppets of Fate
1921
9.0
The Off-Shore Pirate
1921
8.0
Alias Jimmy Valentine
1920
7.0
The Third Generation
1920
7.0
The Fire Flingers
1919
9.0
The Silk Lined Burglar
1919
10.0
The Light of Victory
1919
NR
The Yellow Dog
1918
5.8
A Society Sensation
1918
NR
The Empty Cab
1918
NR
The Purple Lily
1918NR
Six-Shooter Justice
1917NR
The Wrong Man
1917
NR
The Golden Bullet
1917NR
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917
NR
The Almost Good Man
1917
NR
A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917NR
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917NR
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917
NR
The Fighting Gringo
1917NR
Goin' Straight
19177.0
The Drifter
1917
NR
The Outlaw and the Lady
19179.0
The Fugitive
1917NR
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917NR
Blood Money
19178.0
The Black Terror
19167.0
Brothers Equal
1916NR
The Nymph
1916NR
The Pretender
1915
NR
Station Content
191510.0
Her Buried Past
1915NR
The Exposure
1914NR
Over the Ledge
1914
NR
Arms and the Gringo
1914NR
Silent Sandy
19147.0
A Left Hook
1911