Robert Woolsey

Robert Woolsey

Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.

Known For

The Stolen Jools

as Robert Woolsey

Hook, Line and Sinker

as Addington Ganzy

Half Shot at Sunrise

as Gilbert Simpson

Cast Credits

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)

High Flyers

as Pierre Potkin

On Again—Off Again

as Claude Horton

Mummy's Boys

as Aloysius C. Whittaker

Silly Billies

as Dr. Philip 'Painless' Pennington

The Rainmakers

as Roscoe Horne

The Nitwits

as Newton

Kentucky Kernels

as Elmer Dugan

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

as Dr. Dudley

Diplomaniacs

as Hercules Grub

So This Is Africa

as Alexander

Hold 'Em Jail

as Spider Robbins

Girl Crazy

as Slick Foster

Peach-o-Reno

as Julius Swift

Caught Plastered

as Eggbert G. Higginbothom

Oh! Oh! Cleopatra

as Julius Caesar

Everything’s Rosie

as Dr. J. Dockweiler Droop

Cracked Nuts

as Zander Ulysses Parkhurst

The Stolen Jools

as Robert Woolsey

Hook, Line and Sinker

as Addington Ganzy

Half Shot at Sunrise

as Gilbert Simpson

Dixiana

as Ginger Dandy

The Cuckoos

as Prof. Cunningham

The Voice of Hollywood

as Himself / host

Rio Rita

as Ned Lovett