Buddy Messinger

Buddy Messinger

Born:October 26, 1907

Place of Birth:San Francisco, California, USA

Died:October 25, 1965

Known For:Acting

Biography

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.

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Buddy Messinger
Buddy Messinger

Filmography

Acting

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)

1941

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Modern Times

Modern Times

Cigar Counterman (uncredited)

1936

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..