Edward Brophy
Edward Brophy was born in New York City, New York, United States on February 27th, 1895 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 65, Edward Brophy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Edward Santree Brophy (February 27, 1895-May 27, 1960) was an American character actor and comedian.
He often depicted dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comedic, with a small amount of build, balding, and raucous-voiced. He is best known for his role in the Falcon film series, based on the suave detective of the same name, and for his role as Timothy Q. (1941) mouse in Dumbo (1941).
Early life
Edward Santree Brophy was born in New York City on February 27, 1895 and attended the University of Virginia.
Career
His screen debut was in Yes or No?
(1920) The twentieth century was a century of wartime (1820). Brophy was working as a production manager for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1928, with just a few minor film appearances to his credit. An actor who was unable to arrive, and Keaton hired Brophy on the spot to replace him rather than having to wait for the studio to send a replacement. In a small changing room shared by two occupants of a bath house, Brophy and Keaton are trying to undress and put on bathing gloves. Every time Keaton attempts to hang his clothes on a hook, Brophy removes the clothes and hands them back to Keaton and gestures to the other hook. At one point, he manhandles the smaller, more slender Keaton, picking him up by the feet and throwing him out of his trousers. Though Brophy was only in this one brief scene, it attracted enough attention to be given more and more roles.In his military comedy Doughboys (1930), Keaton used Brophy again, with Brophy as a lying drill sergeant. This characterized Brophy's screen persona as a Brooklyn-accented, streetwise character. In four more Keaton films, the loyal fight manager in The Champ (1931); and as a hired firearm in The Thin Man (1934).
By 1940, Brophy had been so identified as a Runyonesque voice with a Brooklynese speech style that he was cast as Timothy Q. Despite being uncredited for his role, the mouse in Dumbo was still acting. Brophy appeared in both stage and uncredited roles, nearly always in light film fare. He was rarely called upon to be of such skill in the police procedural Arson, Inc. (1949), in which he fought a potentially lethal firebug. He appeared in several films by John Ford, most notably as "Ditto" Boland in Brophy's last film.
Brophy was the model for Doiby Dickles, the cab-driving sidekick to Green Lantern in the 1940s.