Arthur Aylesworth
Date of birth: 1881-08-12
Place of birth: Apponaug, Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Arthur Preston Aylsworth, Arthur P. Aylsworth, Arthur Aylsworth, Arthur Alysworth
Biography
Arthur Preston Aylsworth, professionally known as Arthur Aylesworth (occasionally also using the regular no-e surname spelling), was an American stage and screen actor. Aylesworth's Broadway career spanned the years 1911-1942; he appeared in many productions. In the 1930s he became a contract player at Warner Bros. working in character roles, often uncredited.
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Red, Green and Yellow
1930-10-18
Husband and wife decide to carry on their arguing by red-light-green-light traffic lights.
Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938-12-15
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encou
The Dragon Murder Case
1934-08-25
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides t
Dangerously They Live
1941-12-24
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
The Man with Two Faces
1934-08-04
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Va
Christmas in Connecticut
1945-07-27
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi
Happiness Ahead
1934-10-27
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941-11-21
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigatin
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1938-02-11
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t
The Smiling Ghost
1941-09-06
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hir
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935-08-03
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match wit
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
The Plot Thickens
1936-12-11
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the c
Kentucky Moonshine
1938-05-20
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Of Human Hearts
1938-02-11
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War
6 Day Bike Rider
1934-10-20
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day r
Mister Cinderella
1936-10-22
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buz
Midnight Alibi
1934-07-12
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his gir
The Arizona Raiders
1936-06-27
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They the
Marry the Girl
1937-07-13
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing
Little Old New York
1940-02-09
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi
Escape by Night
1937-09-01
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Dancing on a Dime
1940-11-01
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe o
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934-09-22
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his
British Agent
1934-09-15
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Pete
I Am a Thief
1934-11-24
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
The St. Louis Kid
1934-11-10
Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knock
6,000 Enemies
1939-06-09
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char
What a Life
1939-10-05
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
A Burglar to the Rescue
1931-09-07
He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversati
Wine, Women and Horses
1937-09-11
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
In Name Only
1939-08-18
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive
Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil
Desirable
1934-09-08
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Men Without Names
1935-06-29
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Gentlemen Are Born
1934-11-17
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the
That Man's Here Again
1937-04-16
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in
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
Her Master's Voice
1936-01-17
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out
Test Pilot
1938-04-16
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the l
Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l
Mountain Justice
1937-04-24
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej
King of the Underworld
1939-01-14
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i
Jesse James
1939-01-14
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t
I Cover the War!
1937-07-04
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939-02-10
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his
The Oklahoma Kid
1939-03-11
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939-04-28
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid w
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939-06-09
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes
They Shall Have Music
1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f
Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi
Beau Geste
1939-07-24
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped
Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939-11-10
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the M
Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
Dragonwyck
1946-04-10
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go
Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939-07-20
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the estab
The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra
Dames
1934-09-01
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Edison, the Man
1940-05-10
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star
The Secret Bride
1934-12-22
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945-09-27
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
Moontide
1942-05-29
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Brigham Young
1940-09-27
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp
Santa Fe Trail
1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G
The Westerner
1940-09-18
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bea
Sandflow
1937-02-14
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day west
Love Begins at Twenty
1936-08-22
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the
Northwest Passage
1940-02-23
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who jo
To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success
Sky Murder
1940-09-27
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Women Without Names
1940-03-14
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of
Show Kids
1935-01-05
During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to clo
Babbitt
1934-12-08
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing commun
Three Girls About Town
1941-10-23
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next doo
Sin Town
1942-09-25
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get
Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi
Western Union
1941-02-21
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
1935-02-02
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bro
Rose of the Rancho
1936-01-09
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and adm
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again
King of the Pecos
1936-03-09
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a
Fifty Roads to Town
1937-06-03
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935-03-15
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a
Down the Ribber
1936-03-27
Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.
The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day pennil
Boys Town
1938-09-08
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juven
Scattergood Rides High
1942-05-08
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness r
Marked Woman
1937-04-10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste
Behind the Mike
1937-09-26
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
The Key
1934-06-09
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
Roxie Hart
1942-02-20
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc
Red Hot Tires
1935-02-02
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Granny Get Your Gun
1940-02-10
An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges.
Scared Stiff
1945-06-22
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
Joaquin Murrieta
1938-06-11
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, i
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938-02-12
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a
Escape from Devil's Island
1935-11-24
Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
Woman Trap
1936-03-06
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as r
Railroadin'
1941-10-30
Produced in 1941, this film was sponsored by Alco Locomotives & General Electric, so naturally their
Forced Landing
1935-12-02
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers ar