Date of birth: 1889-10-08
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Arthur Hausman, Arthur Houseman

From Wikipedia Arthur Housman (October 10, 1889 – April 8, 1942) was an American actor in films during both the silent film era and the Golden Age of Hollywood. Initially as a leading man, Housman later became known as Hollywood's most familiar comic drunkard in films of the 1930s, usually playing cameo parts in features but with better opportunities in short films. His best remembered roles were in several Laurel and Hardy films, notably Scram!, Our Relations and (in the title role) The Live Ghost. He also played a frustrated timekeeper in the Three Stooges' film Punch Drunks. Housman died of pneumonia at age 52. He was married to Ellen Grubley (31 July 1893 - 21 May 1960) from 1919 until his death in 1942.

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A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi
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1938-01-07
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1930-08-20
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1933-02-09
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them

1925-05-17
Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama

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1930-10-30
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1927-06-05
The story of Helen and Warren's marriage from courtship to parenthood.

1925-09-21
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20

1937-06-30
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

1936-09-15
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1926-10-10
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1934-07-13
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1936-05-17
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1932-02-03
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1935-02-09
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1934-12-08
Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the
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1926-12-19
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1934-10-28
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1931-06-13
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1920-12-20
Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New Y

1913-01-14
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found i

1921-11-30
A silent film comedy.

1925-12-27
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1918-01-10
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not

1919-12-21
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1927-05-14
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1934-12-28
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1936-09-17
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1939-02-08
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investig

1928-09-29
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1941-11-04
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of y

1936-11-14
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four
1936-12-06
A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who l

1933-06-29
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora L
1934-06-24
Lloyd stows away on a ship to be near his girlfriend.

1938-02-02
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1930-02-15
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang

1932-11-25
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in or
1935-07-09
Franklin gets into a disagreement with a tough sea captain. However, he doesn't find out until later
1935-09-14
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a cl

1930-04-20
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a noc
1934-05-26
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests fol

1933-02-17
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

1935-03-02
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including sing

1928-03-01
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Ri

1918-06-09
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be

1919-05-31
Harold and Snub are self-proclaimed big-game hunters who stop at a remote outpost. They hire two nat

1920-09-05
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unle

1929-09-14
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

1932-05-08
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques C

1933-03-13
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including

1930-11-30
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1924-07-21
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up

1925-08-02
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1935-01-26
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

1934-11-10
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.

1934-02-10
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on t

1938-09-22
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1935-07-05
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1913-09-30
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1934-10-06
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1940-10-11
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1939-06-30
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1932-09-10
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1939-01-21
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1939-04-07
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1939-11-03
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1914-11-07
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1945-12-13
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1939-07-20
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1936-06-05
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1921-10-19
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1931-11-01
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1931-11-01
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1940-12-06
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1933-02-18
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1940-09-21
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1940-09-14
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1912-02-21
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1934-11-02
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1935-09-01
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1932-11-17
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1927-11-19
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1941-05-30
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1913-02-07
A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of
1930-09-30
Two incompetent bus drivers attempt to exact revenge on their no nonsense boss. Hilarity ensues.
1927-05-01
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1934-10-04
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1919-02-16
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1934-02-09
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.

1930-10-12
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1929-05-27
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1933-07-21
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1913-02-17
A group of actors in various costumes including powdered-wigged 18th century interlocutor, and black
1931-01-11
A new housekeeper, her son, and two not-too-bright burglars wreak havoc at a doctor's office.
1929-04-21
A Hollywood satire in slapstick.
1926-09-19
Arthur Housman gets invited into a ranch house.

1934-02-28
To avoid getting a speeding ticket Walter poses as an expectant father rushing to see his wife; when

1939-05-11
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

1926-10-24
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.

1918-07-28
Daughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to the l

1922-10-13

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1929-09-01
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.

1935-05-31
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1938-11-05
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill

1917-11-24
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Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the

1933-10-20
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1923-11-12
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1932-09-23
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1920-05-10
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1923-08-25
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1928-12-28
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he st

1920-02-08
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling yo

1936-01-03
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from hi
1912-12-23
Short comedy
1912-11-13
A man goes undercover and plays golf.

1937-09-17
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that t

1934-09-08
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1917-11-01
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rath

1935-09-12
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1924-02-15
Robert Powell, a New York City husband is fond of going out on the town and making friends with vari

1926-04-25
Tommy and Daphne Carter, a young married couple, following the advice of a pretentious friend, decid

1921-01-01
Having been rejected by Phyllis Leigh in favor of wealthier suitor Peter Lester, Hugh prevents Elino

1920-03-29
American author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases a

1936-09-18
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1918-02-04
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1916-12-01
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1922-01-10
An idealistic sea captain, Dick Carson (Conway Tearle), is wounded by revenue officers while smuggli

1935-08-30
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1934-04-09
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of

1922-03-20
Russell Carrington accepts the blame for a murder charge to protect Rita, the woman he loves, from b

1921-07-01

1921-09-01
1913-04-30
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1927-10-02
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1919-02-02
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1918-04-15
Mary Ames is caught while planning to elope, and locked in a room by Aunt Letitia. Her sister, Geral

1919-12-14
A great novelist succumbs to worldly pleasures and shirks the writing of which he is capable. His pu