Date of birth: 1905-04-16
Place of birth: Corbin, Kentucky, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Arthur William Silverlake, Arthur Silverlake Jr.

Arthur Lake (April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.

1938-11-30
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion i

1939-07-20
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the estab

1939-11-08
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his

1941-07-17
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie

1942-08-06
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the

1942-01-15
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan

1939-03-08
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods bos

1940-07-25
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr

1940-02-29
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old gi

1940-10-31
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie

1941-02-27
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the femal

1942-04-09
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby
1930-03-31
Arthur Lake plays a bellhop whose dream is to become the house-detective at the hotel. A robbery at

1946-10-17
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while

1945-02-22
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a pl

1943-09-30
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he

1943-05-27
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mix

1946-04-04
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time b

1947-12-18
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surpr

1945-12-13
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest

1948-12-23
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised t

1949-09-08
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a constructi

1947-10-16
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so

1948-06-03
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by

1947-01-09
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in t

1947-04-10
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount

1950-04-13
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to

1949-03-04
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he

1950-03-09
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of

1968-01-01
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop

1937-07-16
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to

1937-12-24
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an
1929-09-25
The story is about a rebellious rich daughter who, instead of buckling down in school, is man-crazy

1931-04-25
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past sh

1948-07-25
A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver.

1929-07-13
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,

1928-09-29
Lost film. Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix s
1928-09-10
Hollywood or Bust is a silent comedy short.

1935-08-09
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's mar

1934-11-16
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an elec

1929-11-10
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spen

1945-01-22
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order

1929-12-13
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to

1937-09-10
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man

1937-03-21
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding

1934-12-21
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport

1937-12-20
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in
1932-01-27
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.

1930-06-22
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fi

1930-08-01
Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherite

1935-02-01
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.

1938-01-14
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspap

1936-10-01
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.

1938-01-28
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds".

1927-05-28
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Dr

1928-04-28
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirite

1938-10-14
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

1945-11-15
Seaman Hook has big plans for after the war, mostly involving rushing home and marrying his sweetie.

1928-10-18
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit

1945-11-15
Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at

1945-11-15
Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds.
1934-07-20
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All t

1944-02-24
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just bro

1933-09-22
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S.

1944-11-23
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays

1944-02-10
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
1925-11-16
Arthur and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ri

1939-09-02
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest a

1922-01-22
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which
1929-01-28
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, b

1936-09-05
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.

1925-11-29
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter

1935-09-28
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is
1927-01-24
Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student wh

1946-01-26
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.

1976-03-31
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

1926-04-18
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, s

1925-08-24
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
1931-12-23
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha

1925-09-12
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his w
1924-12-10

1937-10-02
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe
1954-07-01
A man who works for a sporting-supply company mistakenly orders surfboards instead of surfballs and

1917-07-30
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack c