Buddy Messinger

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Acting

Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.

Filmography

• Devil's Doorway (1950)
• Crime by Night (1944)
• The Affairs of Martha (1942)
• Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
• The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
• Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Keeping Company (1940)
• Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
• Hullabaloo (1940)
• Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
• Turnabout (1940)
• The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)
• Fast and Furious (1939)
• Sergeant Madden (1939)
• The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
• Fast and Loose (1939)
• Four Girls in White (1939)
• Idiot's Delight (1939)
• The Shining Hour (1938)
• Too Hot to Handle (1938)
• Hold That Kiss (1938)
• Midnight Madonna (1937)
• Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
• College Holiday (1936)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
• Three of a Kind (1936)
• Modern Times (1936)
• An All American Toothache (1936)
• Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
• Stage Mother (1933)
• Keyhole Katie (1933)
• Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
• Hot Stuff (1929)
• A Lady of Chance (1928)
• Undressed (1928)
• Dumb-Belles (1927)
• A Sorority Mixup (1927)
• Monkeys Prefer Blondes (1926)
• What an Eye (1924)
• Young Ideas (1924)
• The Racing Kid (1924)
• The Whispered Name (1924)
• Penrod and Sam (1923)
• Trifling with Honor (1923)
• Abysmal Brute (1923)
• A Howling Success (1923)
• A Front Page Story (1922)
• The Flirt (1922)
• When Love Comes (1922)
• Shadows (1922)
• The Old Nest (1921)
• Edgar, the Detective (1921)
• Edgar's Feast Day (1921)
• Edgar's Country Cousin (1921)
• Edgar's Little Saw (1920)
• Edgar Camps Out (1920)
• Edgar Takes the Cake (1920)
• Edgar's Jonah Day (1920)
• Edgar's Hamlet (1920)
• Edgar's Sunday Courtship (1920)
• Edgar and the Teacher's Pet (1920)
• Jinx (1919)
• The Hoodlum (1919)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918)
• Fan Fan (1918)
• The Babes in the Woods (1917)
• Treasure Island (1917)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1917)