Robert Woolsey
Date of birth: 1888-08-12
Place of birth: Oakland, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Robert Rolla Woolsey, Robert Raleigh Woolsey
Biography
Robert Rolla Woolsey (August 14, 1888 – October 31, 1938) was an American stage and screen comedian and half of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.
Movie Credits
Dixiana
1930-07-22
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When
Hook, Line and Sinker
1930-12-26
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
1931-08-17
A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them
Hollywood on Parade No. B-7
1933-01-01
Features Chico Marx and W.C. Fields
Rio Rita
1929-09-15
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with
Caught Plastered
1931-08-21
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming
Mummy's Boys
1936-10-02
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930-09-19
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
Kentucky Kernels
1934-11-02
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Mil
Hold 'Em Jail
1932-08-19
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship
The Cuckoos
1930-05-04
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
Girl Crazy
1932-03-24
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dan
The Nitwits
1935-06-07
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a
The Rainmakers
1935-10-25
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spel
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934-06-29
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Peach-o-Reno
1931-12-25
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other,
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
1934-02-02
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etti
So This Is Africa
1933-04-21
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
High Flyers
1937-11-07
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932-10-20
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Everything’s Rosie
1931-05-22
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ro
Diplomaniacs
1933-04-28
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they
Cracked Nuts
1931-04-18
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people t
On Again—Off Again
1937-07-09
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug com
Hollywood on Parade
1932-06-05
A short featuring many stars
Silly Billies
1936-03-20
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in t
The Stolen Jools
1931-04-04
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra
The Voice of Hollywood
1930-04-28
If you enjoy playing "Spot the Stars", this is the sort of short you'd enjoy. It's full of then-well
Signing 'em Up
1933-12-01
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
Classic Comedy Teams
1986-01-01
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12
1933-06-29
A short review hosted by Cliff Edward. Clarence Muse sings a song about the Congo, we see various Ho