Lee Phelps

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1893-05-14 (60 years old)

Deathday

1953-03-19

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Lee Phelps

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Phelps (May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films - Grand Hotel, You Can't Take It with You, and Gone with the Wind - that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Phelps appeared in the 1952 episode "Outlaw's Paradise" as a judge in the syndicated western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams in the title role. He also appeared in a 1952 TV episode (#90) of The Lone Ranger.

Acting

1946

The Dark Corner

as Policeman on Street (uncredited)

1941

Manpower

as Detective in Raid (uncredited)

1936

Theodora Goes Wild

as Reporter (uncredited)

1936

Hideaway Girl

as Police Sgt. Davis

1937

Under Suspicion

as Private Detective

1932

Thirteen Women

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

1952

Kansas City Confidential

as Jailer (uncredited)

1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

as Carpenter (uncredited)

1937

Easy Living

as Hotel Detective (uncredited)

1933

She Done Him Wrong

as Waiter -Singer (uncredited)

1931

The Secret Six

as Smelts - Waiter (uncredited)

1943

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

as Police Officer Ryan (uncredited)

1930

Anna Christie

as Larry the Bartender

1945

Along Came Jones

as Jailkeeper (uncredited)

1932

Blessed Event

as Hotel Desk Clerk

1932

Red-Headed Woman

as Waiter Calling Bill to Phone (uncredited)

1937

Raw Timber

as Goss 'Bull' Riley

1940

The Fargo Kid

as Bartender

1918

The Secret Code

as Towen Rage

1934

Fashions of 1934

as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

1934

The Crime Doctor

as Detective (uncredited)

1936

The Boss Rider of Gun Creek

as Sheriff Lem Morrison

1937

Sudden Bill Dorn

as Ken Fairchild

1933

Midnight Mary

as Club Imperial Floor Manager (uncredited)

1945

The Hidden Eye

as Polasky

1951

Fort Defiance

as Bartender

1944

Dark Mountain

as Police Dispatcher in montage (archive footage) (uncredited)

1935

Frisco Kid

as Second Lookout (uncredited)

1950

Western Pacific Agent

as Chief of Police

1933

The Nuisance

as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

1932

Cross-Examination

as Officer Myles

1953

The Blue Gardenia

as Information Desk Guard (uncredited)

1918

Marked Cards

as Wesley Cutting

1949

Gun Law Justice

as Hank Cardigan

1933

Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Station Master (uncredited)

1930

Dancing Sweeties

as Athletic and Social Club Manager (uncredited)

1950

1939

Undercover Agent

as Pete Higgens - Bartender

1949

Knock on Any Door

as Policeman (uncredited)

1931

Danger Lights

as Railroad Worker (uncredited)

1931

Ladies' Man

as Desk clerk

1933

Parole Girl

as Burns, 1st Store Detective (uncredited)

1938

Female Fugitive

as Investigator Steve Roberts

1930

The Florodora Girl

as Bartender (uncredited)

1930

The Girl Said No

as Truck Driver

1931

Laughing Sinners

as Poker-Playing Salesman

1932

Westward Passage

as Bartender (uncredited)

1933

Men Must Fight

as Secret Service Escort

1950

Timber Fury

as Sheriff Williams

1918

The Reckoning Day

as Jimmy Ware

1939

Tiny Troubles

as Officer O'Brien

1935

Hot Money

as Policeman (uncredited)

1934

Roast-Beef and Movies

as Attendant from Asylum (uncredited)

1935

Sequoia

as Hunter (uncredited)

1933

I'm No Angel

as Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)

1931

Flying High

as Reporter from the News (uncredited)

1937

Behind The Headlines

as FBI Agent Harris

1937

Man Of The People

as Relative of Sentenced Boy (uncredited)

1937

Wells Fargo

as Printer

1937

Midnight Taxi

as Chief of Detectives

1938

Trade Winds

as Detective (Uncredited)

1936

Robin Hood of El Dorado

as Off-Key Singer Hank

1931

Traveling Husbands

as Hotel Elevator Starter

1935

We're Only Human

as Detective

1935

Woman Wanted

as Detective Charlie Beale (uncredited)

1939

Tell No Tales

as Policeman at School (uncredited)

1936

Palm Springs

as Bartender

1939

Angels Wash Their Faces

as Guard at Reform School (uncredited)

1939

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

1934

Blind Date

as Marathon Dance Attendant

1935

Baby Face Harrington

as Policeman (uncredited)

1939

Four Girls in White

as Foreman at Accident

1938

1939

Kid Nightingale

as Ring Announcer

1939

Smashing the Money Ring

as Night Gate Guard (uncredited)

1939

1938

Spring Madness

as Police Officer Ryan

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Stage Doorman at Club Lido (uncredited)

1938

Men with Wings

as Photographer

1933

King of the Jungle

as Customs Inspector (uncredited)

1939

Idiot's Delight

as Train Announcer

1939

Wings of the Navy

as Train Conductor

1939

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

as Sheriff (uncredited)

1939

Let Us Live

as Cop (uncredited)

1939

The Flying Irishman

as Mechanic Hiring Doug

1939

Women in the Wind

as Wichita Official (uncredited)

1939

Boys' Reformatory

as Officer on Train

1939

Lucky Night

as Waiter At George's (uncredited)

1939

These Glamour Girls

as Policeman (uncredited)

1939

They Shall Have Music

as Policeman in Auditorium (uncredited)

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Bartender (uncredited)

1939

Golden Boy

as Ring Announcer

1939

Girl from Rio

as Dennis Slater

1939

Hell's Kitchen

as Bailiff (uncredited)

1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

as Police Guard (uncredited)

1939

Each Dawn I Die

as Guard (uncredited)

1939

Coast Guard

as Senior Officer (uncredited)

1949

Follow Me Quietly

as Detective

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Riley - Airplane Workman

1939

Sergeant Madden

as Policeman

1932

Vanity Street

as Detective (uncredited)

1939

Dog Daze

as Officer Sweeney

1939

Dancing Co-Ed

as Workman's Stooge (uncredited)

1939

The Roaring Twenties

as Bailiff (uncredited)

1939

Bad Little Angel

as Fireman (uncredited)

1939

Sued for Libel

as Policeman Playing Cards (uncredited)

1939

Balalaika

as Doorman (uncredited)

1935

Murder in the Fleet

as Officer Berating Guard (Uncredited)

1953

Vice Squad

as Vickie's Apartment Manager (uncredited)

1935

Confidential

as One of Keaton's Lieutenants

1922

1935

The Winning Ticket

as Bookmaker

1931

Local Boy Makes Good

as Assistant Coach

1939

Fixer Dugan

as Hammer Game Barker

1941

Love Crazy

as Uniformed Sanitarium Guard (uncredited)

1947

A Likely Story

as Cop at Intersection (uncredited)

1931

Daybreak

as Waiter

1945

Scarlet Street

as First Policeman in Hogarth's Office (uncredited)

1934

Two Heads on a Pillow

as Court Clerk

1938

You Can't Take It with You

as Bailiff (uncredited)

1932

Emma

as Railroad Ticket Agent (uncredited)

1949

White Heat

as Prison Tower Guard (uncredited)

1931

Ten Cents a Dance

as Bouncer (uncredited)

1938

Heart of Arizona

as Ranger Captain

1930

Street of Chance

as Bert (uncredited)

1936

Postal Inspector

as Cop (uncredited)

1944

Arsenic and Old Lace

as Umpire (uncredited)

1940

Young Tom Edison

as Train Engineer Miller

1940

Murder Over New York

as Police Officer Joe

1940

I Take This Woman

as Policeman (uncredited)

1940

The Saint's Double Trouble

as Police Sergeant Outside Bohlen's Office (uncredited)

1936

Little Miss Nobody

as Policeman

1937

1939

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

as Detective (uncredited)

1940

Brother Orchid

as 1st Policeman at Buck's Hideout (uncredited)

1936

Murder with Pictures

as Girard Henchman (uncredited)

1933

Wild Boys of the Road

as Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)

1943

Power of the Press

as Policeman (uncredited)

1934

The Thin Man

as Detective (uncredited)

1950

Hi-Jacked

as Highway Patrolman

1942

Saboteur

as Plant Security Officer (uncredited)

1939

Money to Loan

as Policeman

1947

The Sea of Grass

as Homesteader (uncredited)

1940

Wyoming

as Ed James

1940

Light of Western Stars

as Train Conductor

1941

1940

Santa Fe Marshal

as Blacksmith

1942

Murder in the Big House

as Executioner (uncredited)

1940

The Return of Frank James

as Denver House Bartender (uncredited)

1940

Hidden Gold

as Sheriff Cameron

1940

Boom Town

as Man Fighting Oil Fire (uncredited)

1931

Quick Millions

as Tom, Man in sound track (uncredited)

1940

The Philadelphia Story

as Bartender (uncredited)

1940

Gallant Sons

as Police Lieutenant Bill Maloney (uncredited)

1937

1942

Gentleman Jim

as Detective (uncredited)

1935

Waterfront Lady

as Detective Bates

1940

Flowing Gold

as Policeman (uncredited)

1940

City for Conquest

as Ring Announcer (uncredited)

1940

Little Nellie Kelly

as Detective Barter (uncredited)

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

1935

It's in the Air

as Investigator (uncredited)

1940

Castle on the Hudson

as Visitor Room Guard (uncredited)

1940

It All Came True

as Police Officer Pegasee (uncredited)

1940

Knute Rockne All American

as Army Coach (uncredited)

1940

Men Against the Sky

as Shop Foreman

1940

Angels Over Broadway

as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

1949

Red, Hot and Blue

as Cop (uncredited)

1940

Stranger on the Third Floor

as Cab Driver Sitting on Cab (uncredited)

1940

1940

Girl in 313

as Second Detective

1940

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

as Flynn (uncredited)

1940

Women Without Names

as Police Broadcaster

1931

The Champ

as Louie the Bartender (uncredited)

1920

The Penalty

as Policeman (uncredited)

1935

Men of Action

as Construction Worker

1936

Road Gang

as Guard in Blackfoot Mine (uncredited)

1938

Over the Wall

as Patrolman Who Arrests Davis

1936

And Sudden Death

as Court Clerk

1945

Girls of the Big House

as Detective Benson

1942

Blondie Goes to College

as Coach Hartley

1932

Afraid to Talk

as Taxi Driver

1932

Attorney for the Defense

as Radio Test Man

1950

The Girl from San Lorenzo

as Sheriff Marlowe

1944

1950

Hills of Oklahoma

as Rancher Scotty Davis

1936

Sinner Take All

as Police Officer Beaumont (uncredited)

1953

The Magnetic Monster

as City Engineer

1941

The Spider Returns

as Police Officer Mulligan

1933

The Chief

as Tim, a Man Watching Fire

1939

Scouts to the Rescue

as G-Man Jim Carson [Chs. 11-12]

1940

Pop Always Pays

as Policeman at the Pawnbroker's

1942

Riders of the West

as The Sheriff-Conspirator

1933

Bedtime Worries

as Police Officer

1941

Honky Tonk

as Townsman at Meeting House

1941

1949

Sky Dragon

as Detective at Airport Gate

1937

Left-Handed Law

as Sheriff Joe Grant

1941

Dead Men Tell

as Detective (unconfirmed)

1944

The Lady and the Monster

as Headwaiter with Phone (Uncredited)

1933

1936

Human Cargo

as Gangster

1942

1942

Spy Ship

as Listener on Street

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1938

The First Hundred Years

as The Judge's clerk (uncredited)

1934

The Gay Bride

as Safety deposit box guard (uncredited)

1937

Boss of Lonely Valley

as Peter Starr

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

as Lieutenant-Commander (uncredited)

1950

1934

Chained

as Ship's Bartender (uncredited)

1933

Goldie Gets Along

as Spring Valley Contest Judge

1941

Her First Beau

as State Trooper

1949

A Woman's Secret

as District Attorney's Office Clerk (Uncredited)

1943

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

as Bronson - Prison Gate Guard (uncredited)

1931

The Criminal Code

as Detective Doherty

1942

Grand Central Murder

as First Railroad Yardman (uncredited)

1946

Blonde Alibi

as Policeman #1 (Uncredited)

1936

Crash Donovan

as Patrolman (uncredited)

1937

Let Them Live

as Fireman

1938

The Saint in New York

as Detective Kestry (Uncredited)

1934

Among the Missing

as Detective Gaynor

1942

Fingers at the Window

as Police Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1948

Red River

as Gambler (uncredited)

1935

1938

The Chaser

as Ambulance Dispatcher

1931

Strangers May Kiss

as Bartender

1932

Man Wanted

as Speakeasy Waiter (Uncredited)

1932

Letty Lynton

as Dennis (Uncredited)

1940

Gold Rush Maisie

as Man Outside General Store (Uncredited)

1935

'G' Men

as McCord's Aide (uncredited)

1935

Public Hero Number 1

as Tower Guard with Machine Gun (uncredited)

1935

The Calling of Dan Matthews

as Club Owner (uncredited)

1936

The Voice of Bugle Ann

as Davis' Cellmate (uncredited)

1949

The Fountainhead

as Juror (uncredited)

1923

Why Worry?

as Guest (uncredited)

1932

The Rich Are Always with Us

as Club Clerk (uncredited)

1935

Special Agent

as Court Clerk (uncredited)

1950

Father of the Bride

as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)

1931

The Public Enemy

as Steve - Bartender (uncredited)

1950

Hunt the Man Down

as Court Bailiff (uncredited)

1942

War Dogs

as Sgt. Day

1937

Black Legion

as Guard at Jail (uncredited)

1945

Anchors Aweigh

as Cop (uncredited)

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Immigration Officer with Black Hatband (uncredited)

1932

70,000 Witnesses

as Detective (uncredited)

1937

Blossoms On Broadway

as Cop (uncredited)

1934

Manhattan Melodrama

as Bailiff (uncredited)

1938

Midnight Intruder

as Deputy (uncredited)

1942

Night in New Orleans

as Grady, Police Car Driver (Uncredited)

1945

Adventure

as Bartender at Frank & Bob's Place (uncredited)

1946

Her Adventurous Night

as Cop #3 (uncredited)

1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

as Chauffeur (Uncredited)

1946

1937

You Only Live Once

as Corridor Guard (uncredited)

1933

Penthouse

as Detective (uncredited)

1936

Absolute Quiet

as First Mechanic (Uncredited)

1942

In This Our Life

as Police Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1931

Stepping Out

as Casino Patron

1933

Murders in the Zoo

as Banquet Photographer / Zoo Guard (Uncredited)

1942

Joe Smith, American

as Second Police Driver (uncredited)

1946

Duel in the Sun

as Train Fireman (uncredited)

1936

The Garden Murder Case

as Bus Driver (Uncredited)

1933

Female

as Man with Thorne's Blueprint (Uncredited)

1937

Sandflow

as Singing Guard

1934

Cross Country Cruise

as Bus Driver (Uncredited)

1943

Swing Shift Maisie

as Security Officer (Uncredited)

1947

Undercover Maisie

as Police Officer Mitchell (Uncredited)

1946

Up Goes Maisie

as Cop at Fire (Uncredited)

1936

Big Brown Eyes

as Lee (Uncredited)

1932

Young America

as Court Clerk (Uncredited)

1949

The Window

as Police Officer (Uncredited)

1929

The Kiss

as Tour Guide (uncredited)

1919

1918

Limousine Life

as Moncure Kelts

1944

Youth Runs Wild

as Night Watchman (uncredited)

1947

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

as Detective (uncredited)

1932

By Whose Hand?

as Ticket Agent (uncredited)

1934

Beggars in Ermine

as Joe Swanson

1930

Brothers

as Bailiff (uncredited)

1950

The Baron of Arizona

as Guest at Governor's Mansion (uncredited)

1934

Sadie McKee

as Brennan’s Chauffeur (uncredited)

1935

Vagabond Lady

as Yelling Ship Official (uncredited)

1936

Wives Never Know

as Doorman (uncredited)

1941

The Face Behind the Mask

as Detective at Cary's Office (uncredited)

1942

Broadway

as Detective (uncredited)

1942

Two Yanks in Trinidad

as Lieutenant (uncredited)

1948

The Fuller Brush Man

as Fire Captain (uncredited)

1933

Frisco Jenny

as Jailer (uncredited)

1953

America for Me

as Indian Dance Spectator

1947

High Barbaree

as Workman (uncredited)

1950

Devil's Doorway

as Posse Member (uncredited)

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