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El Brendel is a Actor American born on 24 march 1890 at Philadelphia (USA)

El Brendel

El Brendel
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Birth name Elmer Goodfellow Brendel
Nationality USA
Birth 24 march 1890 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 9 april 1964 (at 74 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Elmer Goodfellow Brendel, known professionally as El Brendel /ˈɛl brɛnˈdɛl/ (March 25, 1890 – April 9, 1964), was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect routine as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930), produced by Fox Film Corporation. His screen name was pronounced "El Bren-DEL".

Biography

El Brendel débute au théâtre en 1913, dans le répertoire du vaudeville, où il joue notamment avec son épouse Sophie « Flo » Bert (1898-1981) — et notons la participation du couple à deux revues représentées en 1920 et 1921 à Broadway —.

Il entame une carrière au cinéma à l'occasion de trois films muets sortis en 1926, dont Petite Championne de Clarence G. Badger (avec Bebe Daniels et James Hall), dans un rôle de type suédois — il en tiendra souvent ultérieurement, bien que sans ascendance de ce côté —.

Suivent soixante-douze autres films américains, les deux derniers étant The She-Creature d'Edward L. Cahn (1956, avec Chester Morris et Marla English) et Laffing Time d'Alfred J. Goulding (1959), tous deux aux côtés de sa femme. Entretemps, citons Les Ailes de William A. Wellman (1927, avec Clara Bow et Buddy Rogers), La Piste des géants de Raoul Walsh (1930, avec John Wayne et Marguerite Churchill), La Vallée des géants de William Keighley (1938, avec Wayne Morris et Claire Trevor), ainsi que Mam'zelle mitraillette de Preston Sturges (1949, avec Betty Grable et Cesar Romero).

Pour la télévision, il collabore à douze séries américaines à partir de 1952, dont Rintintin (un épisode, 1957) et Perry Mason (un épisode, 1962).

Sa dernière série est Vacation Playhouse , avec un épisode diffusé en 1965, plus d'un an après sa mort (en 1964, à 74 ans), d'une crise cardiaque.

Usually with

David Butler
David Butler
(5 films)
Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh
(4 films)
Edmund Lowe
Edmund Lowe
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of El Brendel (48 films)

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Actor

The She-Creature, 1h17
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Frieda Inescort
Roles Olaf, the butler
Rating38% 1.909851.909851.909851.909851.90985
The plot concerns an oily carnival hypnotist (Chester Morris), whose experiments in hypnotic regression take his unwitting female subject (Marla English) to a past life as a prehistoric humanoid form of sea life. He uses the physical manifestation of the prehistoric creature to commit murders. The hypnotist's motives are never explicitly described, and the murders happen, apparently, either for revenge or notoriety.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, 1h17
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallée, Olga San Juan, Porter Hall, Hugh Herbert
Roles Mr. Jorgensen
Rating59% 2.9992252.9992252.9992252.9992252.999225
Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones (Betty Grable) is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero (Cesar Romero), flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits a Judge (Porter Hall) instead, so she and her friend Conchita (Olga San Juan) take it on the lam. When they get to a tiny hole-in-the-wall town, Freddie and Conchita are mistaken for the new schoolmarm and her Indian maid. They meet the local muckety-mucks, including wealthy Charles Hingelman (Rudy Vallee), owner of a valuable gold mine, who starts to romance Freddie. When Blackie shows up while tracking Freddie down, complications ensue.
I'm from Arkansas, 1h10
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Slim Summerville, El Brendel, Iris Adrian, Bruce Bennett, Maude Eburne, Al St. John
Roles Oly
Rating52% 2.62842.62842.62842.62842.6284
The town of Pitchfork, Arkansas makes national headlines when Esmeralda the sow gives birth to 18 piglets. Among the visitors to Pitchfork are a troupe of showgirls hoping to entertain the visitors and a folk music group returning to their home after their touring is through. In addition to the artists a meat packing company sends two men to investigate what made Esmeralda give birth to so many piglets and to bring the secret back to increase meat production.
Machine Gun Mama, 1h1
Directed by Harold Young
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Armida, El Brendel, Wallace Ford, Jack La Rue, Luis Alberni, Julian Rivero
Roles Ollie Swenson
Rating51% 2.5576552.5576552.5576552.5576552.557655
Two truck drivers from Brooklyn travel to Mexico to deliver an elephant named "Bunny", but they have lost the address of where Bunny is to be delivered to. Adopting the elephant as their own, the two stumble into a traveling carnival headed by Alberto Cordoba and his daughter Nita. The carnival is destitute and menaced by loan sharks. The two Americans sell Bunny to the carnival to replace their recently departed flea circus but agree not to accept their payment until the carnival regains its fortune thanks to Bunny and Brooklyn "ballyhoo". The loan sharks attempt a variety of dirty tricks against the gringos.
Captain Caution, 1h26
Directed by Richard Wallace, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Bruce Cabot, Leo Carrillo, Robert Barrat, Miles Mander
Roles Slushy
Rating55% 2.760522.760522.760522.760522.76052
Lorsque son père meurt, une jeune fille aide un jeune homme prendre le commandement du navire pour combattre les Britanniques pendant la guerre de 1812.
If I Had My Way, 1h33
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel, Allyn Joslyn, Claire Dodd
Roles Axel Swensen
Rating60% 3.00393.00393.00393.00393.0039
Buzz Blackwell, Fred Johnson and Axel Swenson are construction workers who are building a bridge. They are good friends and Buzz and Axel even help Fred raising his daughter Patricia. When Fred tragically dies in a fatal accident, Patricia is forced to live with her relatives in New York City whom she has never met. Buzz and Axel decide to depart with her. They soon arrive at her uncle and aunt Jarvis and Brenda, who are horrible persons. Jarvis is a snobby rich man, while Brenda is supercilious. Jarvis has received a letter from Buzz, warning him for their arrival and wants no part in raising Patricia. As they show up, Jarvis pretends to be someone else and sends them to the other "J. Johnson". This is Joe, Patricia's great uncle and husband of Marian. They are poor ex-vaudevillans but welcome them with open arms. Buzz wants to give Joe Fred's money he left him for Patricia, but finds out a drunken Axel used that money to buy a Swedish restaurant. This restaurant, which is doomed to fail, is now the only money bringer for the Johnsons. Buzz is determined to help them out and turns the restaurant in a night club, but is bothered with Jarvis, he has returned to claim "his" money back.
Call a Messenger, 1h5
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Hal E. Chester, William Benedict, David Gorcey, Robert Armstrong
Roles 'Baldy'
Rating58% 2.924232.924232.924232.924232.92423
Jimmy Hogan and his gang are caught robbing a post office. Jimmy is given a choice to either go to reform school or work as a messenger boy for the post office as punishment. Jimmy decides to be a messenger boy, and soon drags his pals into the job. The kids eventually enjoy their jobs, especially when their new boss, Frances O'Neill, turns out to be quite attractive.
Code of the Streets, 1h12
Directed by Harold Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Frankie Thomas, Hal E. Chester, Harry Carey, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Rita Quigley
Roles Mickhail 'Micky' Bjorgulfsen
Rating55% 2.772182.772182.772182.772182.77218
Convicted on circumstantial evidence, Tommy Shay (Paul Fix), a young product of the Front Street slums, is sentenced to die for the murder of police lieutenant Carson (Monte Montague). When Denver Collins (Marc Lawrence), Tommy's only alibi, mysteriously disappears, Tommy's younger brother Danny (James McCallion) and his gang of alley kids (The Little Tough Guys) determine to find a way to save Tommy from the electric chair. Lieutenant Lewis (Harry Carrey), Tommy's arresting officer, also believes that the boy is innocent and tries to get the case reopened. For his efforts, Lewis is demoted to patrolman, prompting his son Bob (Frankie Thomas), a radio bug with an ambition to become a detective, to initiate his own investigation by which he hopes to find the real murderer and reinstate his father.
Little Miss Broadway, 1h12
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Shirley Temple, Edna May Oliver, George Murphy, Edward Ellis, Phyllis Brooks, Jimmy Durante
Roles Ole
Rating64% 3.2468853.2468853.2468853.2468853.246885
Betsy Brown is released from an orphanage into the care of Pop Shea, her parents' friend who runs a boarding house for theatrical performers. Sarah Wendling, the curmudgeon owner and next-door neighbor of the building, detests "show people" and their noise, and demands Pop pay the $2,500 back rent he owes or move out immediately. Her nephew Roger is in love with Pop's daughter Barbara and files suit against Sarah in order to gain control of the building and his inheritance, with which he plans to stage a show starring the hotel residents. Sarah questions the soundness of Roger's investment in the show, and Betsy convinces the judge to see the production before he decides the case. With the assistance of her friends, the little girl presents a lavish musical revue in the courtroom that so impresses one of the observers he offers the troupe $2,500 a week to star in his International Follies. Having had a change of heart, Sarah insists the show is worth $5,000 and convinces the impresario to double his offer. Roger and Barbara then announce their intent to wed and adopt Betsy.
Happy Landing
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero, Billy Gilbert, Wally Vernon
Roles Yonnie
Rating63% 3.1897253.1897253.1897253.1897253.189725
A bandleader, Duke Sargent, and his manager Jimmy Hall are flying from New York to Paris when they must make a forced landing in Norway. A misunderstanding results in local girl Trudy Ericksen being romantically committed to Duke, but he has Flo Kelly waiting for him back in New York and slips away.
Valley of the Giants, 1h19
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Charles Bickford
Roles 'Fats'
Rating61% 3.0966253.0966253.0966253.0966253.096625
This film is about a man named Bill Cardigan who owns a large portion of the California Redwoods. Characters Howard Fallon along with Hendricks, Lee Roberts, Ed Morell and Fingers McCarthy go to California and try to procure Bills land. Howard finds out about Bills large debt that he owes to the bank and now has a way to get ownership of the forest. Accidentally the claims Howard had towards the land get destroyed in a fire giving Bill a chance to reclaim his ownership. Now all Bill has to do it get his lumber cut and shipped within six weeks. Howard does everything in his power to stop Bill including destroying the railroad, damming the river and even locks him along with Lee in the caboose of the train and sends it towards the destroyed track. Fallon gets captured and surrenders to Bill giving him back his land.