Jack Oakie
Date of birth: 1903-11-12
Place of birth: Sedalia, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Джек Оуки, Lewis Delaney Offield
Biography
Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
Movie Credits
The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu
Fast Company
1929-09-20
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is
It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings
Thieves' Highway
1949-09-20
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfr
Finders Keepers
1928-02-18
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
The Wonderful Country
1959-10-21
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady t
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
1932-08-25
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a sal
Alice in Wonderland
1933-12-18
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla
Lover Come Back
1961-12-20
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike e
Wintertime
1943-09-17
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After No
The Dummy
1929-03-09
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his de
Tomahawk
1951-02-05
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007-05-10
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
The Wild Party
1929-04-06
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, S
Rise and Shine
1941-11-21
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football
The Toast of New York
1937-07-22
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a
The Texas Rangers
1936-08-28
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to
Murder at the Vanities
1934-05-18
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti
The Eagle and the Hawk
1933-05-06
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in
That's the Spirit
1945-06-01
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated
Young People
1940-08-30
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un
Hitting a New High
1937-12-24
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her M
Once in a Lifetime
1932-10-02
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
If I Had a Million
1932-11-18
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st
The Rat Race
1960-07-10
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer,
The Affairs of Annabel
1938-09-09
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve
The Man I Love
1929-05-25
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romanc
Street Girl
1929-08-21
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love
Something to Shout About
1943-02-25
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway
Colleen
1936-03-21
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Looking for Trouble
1934-03-28
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss D
Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a
Uptown New York
1932-11-27
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowin
Call of the Wild
1935-08-09
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold f
Sweet and Low-Down
1944-09-21
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are pac
Road House
1928-07-25
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to m
Super-Sleuth
1937-07-16
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-li
Let's Go Native
1930-08-15
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Bro
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948-11-10
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital
From Hell to Heaven
1933-02-24
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby
College Humor
1933-07-05
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe
Sitting Pretty
1933-11-23
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935-09-20
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of ban
Last of the Buccaneers
1950-10-25
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a Bri
Shoot the Works
1934-07-18
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even
Navy Blues
1941-09-13
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will
Big Brother
1923-12-23
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben
The Merry Monahans
1944-09-15
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love a
That Girl from Paris
1936-12-31
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j
King of Burlesque
1936-01-03
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway
Radio City Revels
1938-02-11
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich
Dancers in the Dark
1932-03-11
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t
Thanks for Everything
1938-12-23
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and
Too Much Harmony
1933-09-23
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
Sea Legs
1930-12-01
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fle
The Sap from Syracuse
1930-07-26
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a pro
Annabel Takes a Tour
1938-11-10
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival ge
Madison Square Garden
1932-11-04
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his characte
Song of the Islands
1942-03-13
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on beha
The Social Lion
1930-06-21
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country
Close Harmony
1929-04-12
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in
The Great American Broadcast
1941-05-09
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goe
Northwest Stampede
1948-07-28
In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the sto
Chinatown Nights
1929-03-29
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Ch
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1933-12-01
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
Dude Ranch
1931-05-16
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild
Florida Special
1936-05-01
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears whil
Kilroy
1965-03-14
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Be
Little Men
1940-11-29
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk
Sweetie
1929-10-25
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabota
Hit the Deck
1929-12-25
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
College Rhythm
1934-11-23
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the foo
Hard to Get
1929-08-04
A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.
Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla
Bowery to Broadway
1944-11-03
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly
Champagne Waltz
1937-02-05
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its
The Stolen Jools
1931-04-04
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra
Polo with the Stars
1941-09-20
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
1934-12-01
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Paramount on Parade
1930-04-22
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre
Around the World in 80 Days
1956-10-17
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor
Sky Bride
1932-04-19
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager,
She Wrote the Book
1946-05-31
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to
The Fleet's In
1928-09-15
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it i
Iceland
1942-09-21
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic famil
Collegiate
1936-01-22
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant
His Children's Children
1923-11-04
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch re
Hollywood Rhythm
1934-11-15
This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie "College Rhythm"
June Moon
1931-03-21
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
The Gang Buster
1931-01-17
Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute w
Sailor Be Good
1933-03-07
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up fo
On Stage Everybody
1945-07-13
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014-12-02
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first hal
Touchdown!
1931-11-15
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
2011-05-24
In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Ci
Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Make Me a Star
1932-07-01
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
Someone to Love
1928-12-01
A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she comes to believe
One to One: John & Yoko
2025-04-11
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —