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James Finlayson is a Actor British born on 26 august 1887 at Falkirk (United-kingdom)

James Finlayson

James Finlayson
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Birth name James Henderson Finlayson
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 august 1887 at Falkirk (United-kingdom)
Death 9 october 1953 (at 66 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the most famous comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.

Biography

Débutant jeune sur les planches, il part en tournée aux États-Unis dans les années 1910 et s'y installe.

Au cinéma, il devient d'abord un Keystone cop, l'un de ces drôles de policiers très en vogue dans ces années-là. En 1923, il est engagé dans le même studio que Laurel et Hardy et obtient un certain succès auprès de ces deux compères.

En 1947, il joue son propre rôle dans Les Périls de Pauline de George Marschall.


D'oh!
Finlayson utilise l'expression « D'oh! » comme un juron raccourci pour remplacer le mot « Damn! ». Plus de 50 ans plus tard, Matt Groening, auteur des Simpson demande à Dan Castellaneta, voix de Homer Simpson, de prononcer un « grognement agacé » (annoyed grunt) et préfère qu'il prononce le « d'ooooooh » de Finlayson plus rapidement. Castellaneta le raccourcit en un plus rapide « d'oh! », désormais célèbre et ajouté en 2001 à l'Oxford English Dictionary, mais sans l'apostrophe.

Usually with

Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(64 films)
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(67 films)
H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker
(43 films)
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
(42 films)
Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
(28 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of James Finlayson (118 films)

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Actor

Royal Wedding, 1h33
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about marriage
Actors Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn, Henri Letondal
Roles Cabby (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3470853.3470853.3470853.3470853.347085
The story sees brother and sister Tom and Ellen Bowen as stars of a show Every Night at Seven, a Broadway success. They are persuaded to take the show to London, capitalizing on an imminent royal wedding.
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives, 1h29
Directed by Claude Accursi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Monty Banks, Stan Laurel, Marjorie Beebe, Mack Sennett, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde
Roles (archive footage)
Rating43% 2.176412.176412.176412.176412.17641
Film de montage de scènes du cinéma muet, sonorisées, prenant pour trame une enquête menée par Stan Laurel.
Challenge to Lassie, 1h16
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Geraldine Brooks, Pal, Sara Allgood, Alan Webb
Rating61% 3.0933653.0933653.0933653.0933653.093365
Jock Gray (Donald Crisp) raises his collie Lassie to be an extraordinary sheep dog and companion. When he is beaten to death by robbers after he retires, Lassie keeps vigil over his grave and refuses to let anyone else take ownership of her. However, the law requires that all dogs be leashed and licensed by a legal owner. With no owner to pay her license and her only "home" being the church graveyard, Lassie faces an uncertain future.
Grand Canyon Trail
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Andy Devine, Roy Barcroft, Jane Frazee, James Finlayson, Robert Livingston
Roles Sheriff
Rating55% 2.7681852.7681852.7681852.7681852.768185
Sintown n'est qu'une ville fantôme déserte jusqu'à ce que Vanerpool commence à chercher de l'argent. Cookie et les partenaires de Roy ont investi 20 000 $ dans l'entreprise pour constater que la mine est sans valeur et Vanerpool est en faillite. Carol vient chercher de l'argent pour sauver l'entreprise, mais ne sait pas que leur ingénieur, nommé Regan, est tordu et veut tout l'argent pour lui-même. Mais seul Old Ed sait où se trouve le filon mère.
The Perils of Pauline, 1h36
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen
Roles Comic Chef
Rating63% 3.1978553.1978553.1978553.1978553.197855
Pearl White (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become a dramatic actress. She joins a touring theatrical troupe managed by handsome but pompous Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her because she's unable to suppress her natural rambunctiousness. In desperation, White takes a job at a movie studio, where she promptly finds herself in the middle of a slapstick pie fight. With the help of bombastic director Mac (William Demarest), top-hatted villain portrayer Timmy (Billy De Wolfe), and imperious dramatics coach Julia (Constance Collier), Pearl soon becomes world-famous as the star of such cliffhanging, tied-to-the-railroad-tracks serials as The Perils of Pauline.
She-Wolf of London, 1h1
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors June Lockhart, Don Porter, Lloyd Corrigan, Dennis Hoey, Sara Haden, Martin Kosleck
Roles Constable (uncredited)
Rating52% 2.606122.606122.606122.606122.60612
Phyllis Allenby is a young and beautiful woman who is soon to be married to lawyer and boyfriend Barry Lanfield. Phyllis is living at the Allenby Mansion without the protection of a male, along with her aunt Martha and her cousin Carol and the servant Hannah. As the wedding date approaches, London is shocked by a series of murders at the local park, where the victims are discovered with throats ripped out. Many of the detectives at Scotland Yard begin murmuring about werewolves, while Inspector Pierce believes the opposite and suspects strange activity at the Allenby Mansion (which is near the park), where the "Wolf-Woman" is seen prowling at night and heading for the park. Phyllis becomes extremely terrified and anxious, since she is convinced that she is the "Wolf-Woman", deeply believing in the legend of the so-called "Curse of the Allenbys". Aunt Martha tries to convince Phyllis how ridiculous the legend sounds, while she (Aunt Martha) and Carol are suspicious in their own ways. Phyllis each day denies Barry visiting her, and when a suspicious detective is murdered soon after he visits the mansion in the same way the other victims perished, Barry begins believing that something else is going on beside the so-called "Werewolf murders" and makes his own investigations both of the park and the mansion.
To Be or Not to Be, 1h39
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about television, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Roles Scottish Farmer with Mustache (uncredited)
Rating80% 4.0472754.0472754.0472754.0472754.047275
Before the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the stars of a theater company in Warsaw are the "ham" Josef Tura (Jack Benny) and his beautiful wife, Maria (Carole Lombard). As part of the company's rehearsal of a play satirizing the Nazis, one of the actors, Bronski (Tom Dugan), takes to the street to prove that he looks like Hitler in his costume and makeup. People gawk at the appearance of the Nazi dictator in Warsaw, until a young girl asks for the autograph of "Mr. Bronski."
A Chump at Oxford, 1h3
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Forrester Harvey
Roles Baldy Vandevere (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.594123.594123.594123.594123.59412
Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift and drenches them with water as a joke and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post and to leave it to them. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes".
Foreign Correspondent, 1h59
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, Robert Benchley
Roles Dutch Peasant (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.6963753.6963753.6963753.6963753.696375
The editor of the New York Globe, Mr. Powers (Harry Davenport), is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents to get answers about whether or not war will ensue. After searching for a good, tough crime reporter for a fresh viewpoint, he appoints Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) as a foreign correspondent, under the pen name Huntley Haverstock.
Saps at Sea, 57minutes
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Harry Bernard, Ben Turpin, Richard Cramer
Roles Dr. J.H. Finlayson (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.542683.542683.542683.542683.54268
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory, where Hardy is already under stress from all the incessant noise. One worker (Eddie Borden) has already gone insane and is the latest casualty of the work environment. Ollie is sent home after developing "hornophobia" and starts going crazy each time he hears horns or horn-based musical instruments. A physician (Jimmy Finlayson) is called to treat Ollie and, warning Ollie that he could develop a more serious condition, "hornomania," he prescribes a relaxing boat trip and goat's milk. Ollie dismisses the idea because he is afraid to sail on the ocean, but Stan prescribes an alternative: they will simply rent a boat and keep it attached to the dock, getting all the sea air they can while never actually going out to sea. When Stan's trombone teacher (Eddie Conrad) arrives and Ollie, returning from a fight with the janitor (Ben Turpin) who messed up the plumbing, hears the music, goes berserk and throws the teacher out, he knows he should take that advice. Phoning the hotel manager to complain why that teacher was allowed in, Hardy is accidentally knocked out the window and into the street.
The Flying Deuces, 1h9
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes French war films, Military humor in film, Transport films, Aviation films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Jean Del Val, James Finlayson
Roles Jailor
Rating66% 3.345393.345393.345393.345393.34539
While on holiday in Paris, Ollie falls so much in love with Georgette, the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, he intends to marry her. Unfortunately, she turns down his marriage proposal because there is someone else, "very much so". (Unbeknownst to him at the moment, a Foreign Legion officer named Francois is her husband, and has returned briefly to see her.) Ollie is heartbroken to the point of committing suicide. Just as he about to jump into a river (with Stan joining him), Francois, happening to catch sight of them about to do so, convinces the duo to enlist in the Foreign Legion in order to forget Ollie's failed romance. When Stan asks him how long it will take Ollie to forget, should they join the Foreign Legion, Francois points out it will only take a matter of a few days. Enticed by Francois's offer, plus the fact that Ollie will completely forget his failed romance very shortly, they enlist.
Raffles
Raffles (1939)
, 1h12
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, E. E. Clive
Roles Hansom Cab Driver
Rating63% 3.1971153.1971153.1971153.1971153.197115
A.J. Raffles, the celebrated cricketer, is welcomed in the parlours and country estates of high society. This circumstance he uses to his advantage in his secret career as "The Amateur Cracksman", a master burglar and safecracker who remains always one step ahead of Scotland Yard. An old school friend, Bunny Manders, reintroduces Raffles to his sister, Gwen, with whom Raffles had been infatuated a decade ago. Raffles falls in love with her all over again, and she with him. When Bunny confides a crushing gambling debt over which he is considering suicide, Raffles assures him the money can be obtained. He plans to accept a weekend invitation to the country house of Lord and Lady Melrose; Lady Melrose's famous jewellery can easily solve Bunny's problem. Another guest, however, is Inspector MacKenzie incognito, who clearly suspects Raffles of being the Cracksman. Raffles plots to frame a petty criminal with the jewel theft...but keep the jewellery, of course.
Hollywood Cavalcade, 1h37
Directed by Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair, Snub Pollard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Actors Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Jed Prouty
Roles Keystone Cop
Rating64% 3.242333.242333.242333.242333.24233
À partir de 1913, le réalisateur Connors découvre la chanteuse Molly Adair. En devenant une star, elle épouse un acteur, alors Connors les vire. Elle le demande comme réalisateur de son prochain film. De nombreuses étoiles silencieuses montrées faisant la transition vers le son.