Arthur Hohl

Born: 1889-05-20

Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 – March 10, 1964) was an American stage and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small, but he also played a few sympathetic characters.


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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Olivier
Released: 1939-12-29

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the...

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

as Brady (uncredited)
Released: 1947-04-17

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house...

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It Happened on Fifth Avenue

as Brady - Gates Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: 1947-04-17

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house...

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Baby Face

as Ed Sipple
Released: 1933-07-13

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon...

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Island of Lost Souls

as Montgomery
Released: 1932-12-24

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself...

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The Three Musketeers

as Dragon Rouge Host (uncredited)
Released: 1948-10-20

Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their...

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The Scarlet Claw

as Emile Journet
Released: 1944-05-18

When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural...

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Cleopatra

as Brutus
Released: 1934-10-05

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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The Spider Woman

as Adam Gilflower
Released: 1943-12-24

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Henchman Bassick
Released: 1939-09-01

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to...

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Monsieur Verdoux

as Real Estate Agent
Released: 1947-09-26

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining...

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The Sign of the Cross

as Titus
Released: 1932-11-30

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they...

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Footlight Parade

as Al Frazer
Released: 1933-10-21

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife...

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Show Boat

as Pete
Released: 1936-05-17

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into...

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The Devil-Doll

as Victor Radin
Released: 1936-07-10

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Captain Greenough
Released: 1942-01-29

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew...

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Wild Boys of the Road

as Dr. Henry A. Heckel
Released: 1933-10-07

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when...

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Man's Castle

as Bragg
Released: 1933-11-20

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will...

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The Whole Town's Talking

as Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle
Released: 1935-02-22

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never...

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

as Burr
Released: 1939-02-17

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run...

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The Kennel Murder Case

as Gamble the Butler
Released: 1933-10-28

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room...

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The Crime of the Century

as Announcer (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-18

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagent wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has plotted...

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Men of Boys Town

as Guard
Released: 1941-04-11

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

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Idaho

as Spike Madagan
Released: 1943-03-10

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed...

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Trapped by G-Men

as Henchman Blackie
Released: 1937-09-09

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

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Salome, Where She Danced

as Bartender
Released: 1945-04-17

During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after...

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Jimmy the Gent

as Monty Barton
Released: 1934-03-09

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics...

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Kidnapped

as Riach
Released: 1938-05-27

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century...

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They Shall Have Music

as Miller
Released: 1939-08-18

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his...

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20 Mule Team

as Salters
Released: 1940-05-03

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining...

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You Gotta Stay Happy

as Cemetery Man
Released: 1948-10-28

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to...

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The Vigilantes Return

as Sheriff
Released: 1947-05-31

Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to...

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The Woman of the Town

as Robert Wright
Released: 1943-12-31

Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of...

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Slave Ship

as Grimes
Released: 1937-06-16

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced...

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Lloyd's of London

as First Captain
Released: 1936-11-25

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very...

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The Defense Rests

as James Randolph
Released: 1934-07-15

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

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Romance in Manhattan

as Pander
Released: 1935-01-11

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New...

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Moontide

as Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: 1942-05-29

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

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The Frozen Ghost

as The Drunk in the Audience
Released: 1945-06-01

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die...

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Infernal Machine

as Ship's Captain
Released: 1933-04-08

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who...

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Blackmail

as Rawlins
Released: 1939-09-08

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Dr. Sothern
Released: 1934-08-15

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in...

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Private Detective 62

as Dan Hogan
Released: 1933-06-10

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is...

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Massacre

as Dr. Turner
Released: 1934-01-20

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the...

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Captured!

as Cocky
Released: 1933-08-19

While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his...

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Among the Missing

as Gordon
Released: 1934-09-25

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon...

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Stablemates

as Mr. Gale
Released: 1938-10-07

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a...

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In Spite of Danger

as Steve Lynch
Released: 1935-03-08

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to...

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Ride on Vaquero

as Sheriff Johnny Burns
Released: 1941-04-18

The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released...

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Case of the Missing Man

as Steve
Released: 1935-10-20

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his...

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A Modern Hero

as Homer Flint
Released: 1934-04-21

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the...

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College Coach

as Seymour Young
Released: 1933-11-04

Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students....

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If You Could Only Cook

as Conroy (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-30

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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The Bad Man of Brimstone

as Doc Laramie
Released: 1937-12-31

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his...

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The Life of Jimmy Dolan

as Herman Malvin
Released: 1933-06-03

Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and...

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As the Earth Turns

as George
Released: 1934-02-14

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a...

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Village Tale

as Elmer Stevenson
Released: 1935-06-15

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love...

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Blondie Has Servant Trouble

as Eric Vaughn
Released: 1940-07-25

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his...

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It Had to Happen

as Honest John Pelkey
Released: 1936-02-14

A poor boy rises to power in politics.

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We Go Fast

as Hold-Up Man
Released: 1941-09-19

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of...

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The World Changes

as Mr. Patten
Released: 1933-11-25

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as...

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The Road Back

as Heinrich
Released: 1937-06-01

After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel...

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The Narrow Corner

as Captain Nichols
Released: 1933-07-08

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

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We're Only Human

as John Martin
Released: 1935-12-27

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

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The Cheat

as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Released: 1931-11-28

Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and...

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The Silk Express

as Wallace Myton
Released: 1933-06-01

As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market...

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Brief Moment

as Steve Walsh
Released: 1933-09-29

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though...

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Lady by Choice

as Kendall
Released: 1934-10-15

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

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Whispering Ghosts

as Inspector Norris
Released: 1942-05-17

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old...

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Two Thoroughbreds

as Thaddeus Carey
Released: 1939-12-08

A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

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Shadows in the Night

as Riggs
Released: 1944-07-27

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

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Against the Law

as Kelly
Released: 1934-10-25

Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival...

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The Night of June 13

as Prosecuting Attorney
Released: 1932-09-17

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow....

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After the Dance

as Louie
Released: 1935-06-25

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses...

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Fugitive at Large

as Curtis
Released: 1939-12-07

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio...

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Girl in Danger

as Beckett
Released: 1934-09-11

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

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Penitentiary

as Finch
Released: 1938-02-05

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he...

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Eight Bells

as Williams
Released: 1935-04-10

A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

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One Frightened Night

as Arthur Proctor
Released: 1935-05-01

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide...

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Jealousy

as Mike Callahan
Released: 1934-11-23

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of...

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Boy Slaves

as Sheriff
Released: 1939-02-02

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge...

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Guard That Girl

as Reynolds
Released: 1935-11-02

Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into...

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Hot Water

as Walter Whittaker
Released: 1937-09-24

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous...

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Forgotten Faces

as Hi-Jack Eddie
Released: 1936-05-15

Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his...

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I'll Love You Always

as Jergens
Released: 1935-03-19

Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of...

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Mystery of the Riverboat

as Clayton
Released: 1944-10-24

A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble...

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Atlantic Adventure

as Frank Julian
Released: 1935-08-25

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he...

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Crime Takes a Holiday

as Joe Whitehead
Released: 1938-10-05

A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of...

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