Henry Armetta
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously. Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously.
Scarface
as Pietro, the Barber (uncredited)In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface,...
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A Farewell to Arms
as Bonello the Ambulance Driver (uncredited)A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt....
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The Black Cat
as The SergeantAfter a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr....
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The Big Store
as GuiseppiA detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department...
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Anchors Aweigh
as Hamburger ManTwo sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the...
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Imitation of Life
as The PainterA struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter....
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The Merry Widow
as Turk (uncredited)A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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7th Heaven
as uncreditedIn 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been...
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Red-Headed Woman
as Waiter Warning Bill of Lipstick (uncredited)Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an...
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Street Angel
as MascettoA spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Angelo the Barber (uncredited)An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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The Devil's Brother
as MatteoTwo wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra...
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Stage Door Canteen
as Henry ArmettaA young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous...
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A Bell for Adano
as Errante - Cart ManMajor Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano....
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The Passionate Plumber
as BouncerParis plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony...
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One Night of Love
as Cafe OwnerMary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic...
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Rasputin and the Empress
as Photographer (uncredited)The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the...
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Arsène Lupin
as Sheriff's ManA charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he...
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Make a Wish
as MoretaWhile vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer...
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Romance
as Theater Manager BeppoA beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
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Strangers May Kiss
as WaiterAfter years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy,...
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Poor Little Rich Girl
as TonyCossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed...
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Magnificent Obsession
as TonyA playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Gift of Gab
as JanitorConceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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A Girl in Every Port
as Bartender in Panama (uncredited)Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally...
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Straight from the Heart
as Ice Cream ManIn this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to...
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The Red Dance
as Prisoner (uncredited)Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne...
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The Girl Said No
as Grove Cafe WaiterA comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of...
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Once Upon a Time
as Barber (uncredited)Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a...
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After Office Hours
as Italian Diner OwnerA managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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The Unholy Garden
as Nick the GooseAt a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of...
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Speed to Burn
as Papa GambiniHorse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been...
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Speak Easily
as TonyA professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
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Prosperity
as Henry a BarberLongtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
as Jimmy EconomyThe story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired...
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In Old Arizona
as Barber (uncredited)Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and...
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Laughing Sinners
as TonyIvy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting...
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The Trespasser
as Barber (uncredited)A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His...
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So This Is Africa
as Street Cleaner (uncredited)Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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So This Is Africa
as Street CleanerBroke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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as BeppoCarlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life...
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I Stole a Million
as Nick RespinaA cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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Five and Ten
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to...
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Dust Be My Destiny
as Nick SpelucciEmbittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail,...
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The Sins of the Children
as TonyA barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier...
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The Lady and the Mob
as V. ZambrogioHattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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The Escape
as Guiseppi PeronniAn embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is...
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Hide-Out
as ShumanWounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with...
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Laughing at Life
as Fruit VendorEaster, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the...
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Central Park
as Tony, Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes
as LuigiInjured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his...
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Submarine Patrol
as LuigiA naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...
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Just a Gigolo
as Hotel ManagerA playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a...
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We Who Are Young
as TonyA man violates company policy by getting married.
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Huddle
as Mr. AmattoTony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a...
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Let's Sing Again
as Joe PasqualeAn orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
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3 Kids and a Queen
as Tony OrsattiAn eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She...
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Kiss and Make-Up
as Banquet ChairmanDr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also...
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The Doomed Battalion
as AngeloDuring World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the...
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
as Tony SpirellaA young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's...
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What! No Beer?
as TonyWhen Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against...
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Everybody Sing
as Signor VittorinoBoisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her...
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
as LaurentA writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen.
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Sunny Side Up
as Italian Husband (uncredited)Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store....
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Romance in the Rain
as TulioThe publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a...
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Madame X
as Hotel Owner (uncredited)A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney...
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Manhattan Moon
as TonyNight club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn,...
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The Cat and the Fiddle
as Taxi DriverA romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
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A Tailor-Made Man
as Peter, TailorJohn Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night,...
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Two Heads on a Pillow
as Enrico PopulopulliniA lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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Too Much Harmony
as Mr. GallottiA singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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The Face at Your Window
as DangloTwo factory owners, Hiram Maxwell and Nicholas Harding are almost polar opposites -- Maxwell...
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Dinky
as Tony KaramazoA mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a...
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Hush Money
as Bootlegger (uncredited)Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by...
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Okay, America!
as SamA gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Cross Country Cruise
as The ItalianA young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He...
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Half a Sinner
as The BarberA con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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Let's Talk It Over
as TonyA young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress;...
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Bachelor's Affairs
as Tony - Cosmetician (uncredited)A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being...
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Her First Mate
as SocratesA camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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Lovin' the Ladies
as Signore SagatelliA man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by...
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Lady of the Pavements
as Papa PierreKarl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him....
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Princess O'Hara
as SpidoniWhen King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she...
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Two in a Crowd
as ToscaniWhen two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that...
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Embarrassing Moments
as MorganzaJerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when...
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The Ship from Shanghai
as Sailor (uncredited)On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac...
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Mike ZalorisA 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the...
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
as SpadoniIn this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers...
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You're Not So Tough
as SalvatoreThe Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny...
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
as Captain SilvaKelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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Week Ends Only
as Washroom AttendantA recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess....
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I've Been Around
as ItalianRomantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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The Poor Rich
as TonyAlbert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at...
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The Magnificent Brute
as BuzellA love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker...
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Steady Company
as Tony CapriTruck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June...
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Wake Up and Dream
as Giovanni CelliniThe story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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The Climax
as Anton DonatelliYoung Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
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Penthouse Rhythm
as Cafe Owner JoeMusical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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Deception
as NickModest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize...
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Cheating Cheaters
as Prof. Tony VerdiThe Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres....
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Hat Check Girl
as Water Wagon Driver (uncredited)Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and...
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The Marble Heart
as uncreditedTherese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a...
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Half Marriage
as HenryA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll...
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Jazz Heaven
as TonyA young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
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Top of the Town
as BacciagalluppiIn this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam...
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Love, Live & Laugh
as TonyAny movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi...
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The Eternal Sin
as The JesterGennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has...
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Winner Take All
as Papa Luigi GambiniWhen a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him;...
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Little Accident
as Rudolpho AmendelaraOn the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Men Of America
as Tony GarboniBank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
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Hello Pop
as Italian MusicianA stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with...
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