Fred Kelsey
Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.
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She Got What She Wanted
0
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
0
Revenue Agent
1
Love Is News
6
That's My Baby
0
Twentieth Century
6.8
Soft Cushions
0
The Yankee Consul
0
Flamingo Road
7
Subway Express
0
The Donovan Affair
6
Lights Out
0
One Frightened Night
5.214
Moving Vanities
0
Alias Jimmy Valentine
0
The Empty Cab
0
Friendly Enemies
0
The Iceman's Ball
1
Frontier Days
4
Deserted at the Altar
0
Hans Christian Andersen
6.3
One Clear Call
0
Lovebound
0
Jewish Prudence
6.5
The Crime Doctor
3.5
Counter-Espionage
6.2
So You Want a Raise
6
Roaring Guns
0
Trial by Trigger
2
Storm Warning
6.6
Hiss and Yell
3
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
6
Tall Man Riding
5.6
Northern Pursuit
5.9
Springfield Rifle
6.1
The Silver Chalice
4.4
Saratoga Trunk
5.7
Manslaughter
5.4
Colorado Territory
6.92
The Last Card
0
The Honor of an Outlaw
0
So You Think You're Not Guilty
5.737
If a Body Meets a Body
5.333
If I Had a Million
6.7
Discarded Lovers
4.286
Murder in the Big House
6.5
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
6.3
Seven Keys to Baldpate
0
Super-Sleuth
5
That I May Live
6.5
Danger Ahead
4.167
Scarlet Pages
6.5
The Moth
0
Lightning Strikes Twice
4.7
Arms and the Gringo
0
Murder on the Waterfront
5
To Catch a Thief
7.28
Lucky Me
6.7
Christmas in Connecticut
6.9
The Little Red Schoolhouse
5.5
Say It with Babies
5
The Wright Idea
0
Backfire
5.914
Illegal
6.4
Side Show
5
The Crime of the Century
6.3
Love in High Gear
0
Atlantic Adventure
5.5
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
0
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
0
The Woman Racket
4.7
My Favorite Blonde
6.4
A Notorious Gentleman
6
A Gem of a Jam
7.286
Wide Open
5.3
The Girl Said No
5.5
Road to Paradise
6.2
Don't Shoot
0
Guilty as Hell
5.8
Westbound
6.1
Silent Sandy
0
Death Flies East
5
Andy Plays Hookey
0
Lady Gangster
5.5
The Silk Lined Burglar
0
Tiny Troubles
6
Larceny, Inc.
6.9
There Are No Villains
0
The Yellow Dog
0
Bullet Scars
6.2
The Faker
0
Tenderloin
0
Hot Money
0
Harold Teen
7
X Marks the Spot
3.864
At Sea Ashore
0
Souls for Sale
6.19
Red Haired Alibi
4.7
Detour to Danger
0
Room for One More
6.3
The Night Hawk
0
I'll Be Suing You
0
Love and Hisses
0
Josette
6.5
I'll Tell the World
0
Night Spot
4.7
While the City Sleeps
5.9
Tell No Tales
5.3
Everybody's Doing It
5
The Enforcer
7.137
Scandal Sheet
0
Going Wild
6
Captain Fly-by-Night
4.5
The Gorilla
0
A Star Is Born
7.121
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
6.732
Only Saps Work
5.5
King of the Jungle
5
The Eleventh Hour
0
Rough Riders' Round-up
4
Charlie Chan in Reno
6.2
The Lady Escapes
0
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
6.3
Chicken Wagon Family
0
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
6.6
Quiet Please!
2
The Uneasy Three
0
O. Henry's Full House
6.541
A Stolen Life
6.4
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
5.9
The Lone Wolf Strikes
6.3
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
6.3
Mutiny in the County
0
Outlaw's Son
0
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
4
Crime Wave
7.103
Mildred Pierce
7.621
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
0
Little Annie Rooney
6.9
Snooper Service
0
Crime by Night
5.8
Sailor's Luck
5
High Tension
5.4
Time Out for Romance
5.6
Rough Necking
10
Atta Boy
0
Wrong Again
6.636
Deadwood Dick
6
Auntie Mame
7.047
Huddle
6.6
Misbehaving Husbands
5
Horses' Collars
6.028
One Mile from Heaven
6.7
Gentleman Jim
7.2
The Golden Fleecing
5.3
Mr. Skeffington
6.643
The Green Archer
5.9
At the Stroke of Twelve
5
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.147
Yoo-Hoo
0
Paths to Paradise
5.8
The Damned Don't Cry
7.1
Never Say Goodbye
6.3
Big Business
5
Diamond Jim
6
The Witness Chair
6.2
Seven Sinners
6
Invisible Ghost
5.147
Bromo and Juliet
5.6
Carnival
0
Crazy Like a Fox
6.2
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
4.7
They Died with Their Boots On
6.592
On Trial
6
Naughty Baby
4.5
How DOooo You Do
0
Food and Magic
5
Slave Ship
4.8
Straight, Place and Show
6
Mexican Spitfire Out West
4.6
Angel's Holiday
5.5
Clock Wise
0
Mr. District Attorney
5.429
Pacific Blackout
6.3
High School
5.5
Spy Ship
6
I Was Framed
4
The Last Warning
6.7
Young Donovan's Kid
0
Berth Quakes
0
Dear! Deer!
0
One Dangerous Night
5
Action in the North Atlantic
7.074
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
6
A Woman of Affairs
6.674
Borrowing Trouble
6
Safety in Numbers
0
Down on the Farm
0
Too Busy to Work
0
True to Life
6
Old Acquaintance
6.9
The Unfaithful
6
Three Strangers
6.4
The Opposite Sex
5.2
Boys Will Be Boys
0
A Society Sensation
5.7
The Inspector General
6.472
So You Want to Play the Horses
6
Among the Missing
6.333
Make Your Own Bed
5.8
The Third Degree
0
Dancing in the Dark
5
The Thirteenth Hour
7
Homicide
5.3
The Fountainhead
6.9
The Song of Life
5
My Six Convicts
6.3
The Naughty Flirt
5.7
She Had to Eat
5
The Noose Hangs High
6.8
The 13th Juror
0
The Man Who Came to Dinner
6.9
Serenade
5.5
Puppets of Fate
0
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
0
School for Girls
6
The Light of Victory
0
Goodbye, My Fancy
5.9
In This Our Life
6.8
The Flame and the Arrow
6.226
Shopping with Wifie
1
So You Want to Enjoy Life
2
Private Number
6.5
Wild and Woolly
0
So You Want an Apartment
5
Come Out Fighting
7
The Garden Murder Case
5.5
Men Without Law
0
Excuse Me
0
Beloved
0
A Left Hook
0
The Lawful Cheater
0
The Sagebrush Troubadour
5.5
The Public Menace
5
The Strange Mr. Gregory
5.1
Many Sappy Returns
4.8
One Foot in Heaven
6.583
Dog Shy
6.6
The Fire Flingers
0
Murder on the Roof
0
The Mystery Pilot
0
Bag and Baggage
0
Smiling Irish Eyes
0
There Ain't No Santa Claus
6
Nora Prentiss
6.1
Night and Day
5.7
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
0
Murder Without Tears
5.2
So You Want to Be an Actor
0
The Man I Love
6.2
So You Think You Can't Sleep
5
So You Want to Be a Musician
0
Strangers on a Train
7.664
Speak Easily
5.81
Orchids and Ermine
4.5
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
0
South of Suva
0
Plastered in Paris
0