Buddy Messinger

Known for Acting

10/26/1907

San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.

Known For (65 credits)

6.9

Movie

Devil's Doorway

1950

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

5.8

Movie

Crime by Night

1944

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.

6.2

Movie

The Affairs of Martha

1942

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

6.0

Movie

Brooklyn Orchid

1942

Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.

4.3

Movie

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

1941

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

6.7

Movie

Hold Back the Dawn

1941

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

8.0

Movie

Citizen Kane

1941

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

6.4

Movie

Keeping Company

1940

Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

6.5

Movie

Love Thy Neighbor

1940

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.

4.0

Movie

Hullabaloo

1940

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

5.4

Movie

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

6.0

Movie

Turnabout

1940

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.