Part 6: The Players

The Character Actors

The stars of 1930s Hollywood had all the glitz and glamour of our modern film stars. Like today they became both very rich and very famous. However, a large part of the success of the films of the 1930s should also be credited to the supporting actors and actresses. These character actors were integral to the success of so many of the movies of the Golden Age. Some were well known for their fine acting talents and others were not, but all added flavor to the films of the 1930s. Take a look at some of these familiar faces, and their sometimes not-so-familiar names.

Edward Arnold	Mischa Auer	Fay Bainter	Charles Bickford	Wallace Beery
Ralph Bellamy	Eric Blore	Mary Boland	Beulah Bondi	Alice Brady
Nigel Bruce	Billie Burke	Spring Byington	Jack Carson	Charles Coburn
Walter Connolly	Donald Crisp	Andy Devine	Brian Donlevy	Marie Dressler
Margaret Dumont	Harry Davenport	William Frawley	James Gleason	Alan Hale
Margaret Hamilton	Sterling Holloway	Edward Everett Horton	Jean Hersholt	Walter Huston
Warren Hymer	Boris Karloff	Roscoe Karns	Patsy Kelly	Edgar Kennedy
Guy Kibbee	Lionel Barrymore	Peter Lorre	Bela Lugosi	Barton MacLane
Marjorie Main	Frank McHugh	Aline MacMahon	Donald Meek	Adolph Menjou
Una Merkel	Thomas Mitchell	Frank Morgan	Jack Oakie	Edna May Oliver
Maria Ouspenskaya	Eugene Pallette	Franklin Pangborn	Gail Patrick	Nat Pendleton
Claude Rains	May Robson	Charlie Ruggles	Sig Ruman	Alison Skipworth
C. Aubrey Smith	Lewis Stone	Henry Stephenson	Grady Sutton	George Tobias

I hope you have enjoyed this pictoral trip back to the films of the 1930s. If you have, please email me and let me know.