Fred Kelsey
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as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited) Strangers on a Train 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.
Filmography
Strangers on a Train
as Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
To Catch a Thief
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Mildred Pierce
as Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
as Audience Member (uncredited)
Gold Diggers of 1933
as Detective Jones (uncredited)
Christmas in Connecticut
as Harper (uncredited)
The Fountainhead
as Old Watchman (uncredited)
Auntie Mame
as Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
as Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
Twentieth Century
as Train Detective (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Detective (uncredited)
The Flame and the Arrow
as Guard (uncredited)
Crime Wave
as Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
Hans Christian Andersen
as First Gendarme
Colorado Territory
as Train Engineer (uncredited)
Gentleman Jim
as Sutro (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
as Cop in Raid (uncredited)
The Damned Don't Cry
as Man on Dock (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Joe (uncredited)