Greenridge Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York
Occupations
Actor
director
professor
Years active
1929?–1955
Known for
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley[1] (August 17, 1888 – May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor.[2] At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his role in the 1939 stage play The Man Who Came to Dinner and its 1942 film adaptation. His distinctive white beard was his trademark and he was affectionately known as "The Beard."[3]
^Truitt, Evelyn Mack. Who Was Who Onscreen New York: Bowker (1977)
^Obituary Variety, May 8, 1963, page 223.
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Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley (August 17, 1888 – May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom...
television emblem. "Hollywood Star Walk – MontyWoolley". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 25, 2010. "MontyWoolley Dies". St. Petersburg Times. May 7, 1963...
Lieutenant Commander Tony Willett Shirley Temple as Bridget 'Brig' Hilton MontyWoolley as Colonel William G. Smollett Lionel Barrymore as Clergyman Robert...
his busy schedule of radio broadcasts and lectures, he declined, and MontyWoolley played the part on stage and in the subsequent film adaptation. Woollcott...
As Young as You Feel is a 1951 American comedy film starring MontyWoolley, Thelma Ritter, and David Wayne, with Marilyn Monroe in a small role. It was...
It may also refer to: Holy Matrimony (1943 film), a comedy starring MontyWoolley and Gracie Fields Holy Matrimony (1994 film), a comedy directed by Leonard...
Year Title Role Notes 1942 The Man Who Came to Dinner Nurse Preen Both MontyWoolley and Wickes reprised their roles from the original Broadway production;...
however, Miss Otis is a polite society lady. Friend and Yale classmate MontyWoolley jumped in to help Porter "sell it", pretending to be a butler who explains...
co-written by Herbert Fields. This was also the first musical directed by MontyWoolley. Peter Forbes, a young American millionaire, journeys to Paris and bets...
gifted composer of many popular Irish songs, including the titular one. MontyWoolley ... Edgar Brawley June Haver ... Mary "Irish" O'Neill Dick Haymes ....
to top billing for On the Sunny Side (1942). He was billed second to MontyWoolley in The Pied Piper (1942), playing a war orphan, then he had top billing...
figures, including General Custer (among other styles) and the actor MontyWoolley. Colonel Sanders would also qualify as having a Van Dyke. Jonathan Hyde...
Rains Job Skeffington Mr. Skeffington Clifton Webb Waldo Lydecker Laura MontyWoolley Colonel William G. Smollett Since You Went Away 1945 (18th) James Dunn...
is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring MontyWoolley, Gracie Fields, Reginald Gardiner and Roddy McDowall and released by...
Ruggles, Randolph Scott, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, MontyWoolley, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers. Actresses with whom Grant worked...
Gehrig The Pride of the Yankees Walter Pidgeon Clem Miniver Mrs. Miniver MontyWoolley Howard The Pied Piper 1943 (16th) Paul Lukas ‡ Kurt Muller Watch on...
Stanley, the young daughter of the Ohio couple forced to put up with MontyWoolley, who tells her to follow her heart to the man she loves, a trade unionist...
Olivia de Havilland The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Bette Davis, MontyWoolley, Jimmy Durante The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (El hombre que se...
romantic male lead in Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942), supporting MontyWoolley, and supported Sonja Henie in Wintertime (1943). In 1945, Columbia Pictures...
cast included Ray Bolger (Junior), Tamara Geva (Vera Barnova), and MontyWoolley (Sergei Alexandrovitch). The London West End production opened on February...
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