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Clarence Wilson

Clarence Wilson

Clarence Hummel Wilson (November 17, 1876 – October 5, 1941) was an American character actor. He appeared in nearly 200 movies between 1920 and 1941, mostly in supporting roles as an old miser or grouch. He had notable supporting roles in films like The Front Page (1931), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), and You Can't Take It With You (1938). Wilson also played in several Our Gang comedies, most notably as Mr. Crutch in Shrimps for a Day and school board chairman Alonzo Pratt in Come Back, Miss Pipps, his final film.

Wilson died on October 5, 1941, approximately three weeks before the release of Come Back, Miss Pipps.

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Movies Starring Clarence Wilson (116)

It's Showtime (1976)

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...

Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941)

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all t ...

Road Show (1941)

Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ...

Little Men (1940)

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Bur ...

Friendly Neighbors (1940)

The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers so ...

Melody Ranch (1940)

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration. ...

Haunted House (1940)

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder. ...

We Who Are Young (1940)

A man violates company policy by getting married. ...

Millionaire Playboy (1940)

A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman. ...

Little Old New York (1940)

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat. ...

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and ...

Desperate Trails (1939)

A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws. ...

Some Like It Hot (1939)

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other l ...

Clown Princes (1939)

The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted. ...

East Side of Heaven (1939)

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family. ...

Let Us Live (1939)

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fianc� ...

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge. ...

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong. ...

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted ...

Having Wonderful Time (1938)

Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland. ...

Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show. ...

In Old Chicago (1938)

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. ...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast. ...

The Westland Case (1937)

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. ...

Small Town Boy (1937)

Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job h ...

The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...

The Great Gambini (1937)

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini. ...

It May Happen to You (1937)

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef. ...

Parnell (1937)

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom. ...

Damaged Goods (1937)

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis. ...

A Star Is Born (1937)

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. S ...

Two Wise Maids (1937)

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching t ...

Man Of The People (1937)

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks. ...

Hats Off (1936)

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (n ...

The Case of the Black Cat (1936)

Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, ...

Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their ...

Love Begins at Twenty (1936)

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes. ...

Little Miss Nobody (1936)

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past. ...

Educating Father (1936)

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy. ...

On the Wrong Trek (1936)

Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers. ...

Sutter's Gold (1936)

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush. ...

Paddy O'Day (1936)

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York. ...

Public Ghost # 1 (1935)

Charley is hired to haunt a house. ...

I Dream Too Much (1935)

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan ...

The Rainmakers (1935)

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought ...

Little Sinner (1935)

Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results. ...

It's in the Air (1935)

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing bo ...

Waterfront Lady (1935)

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner. ...

Nurse to You! (1935)

Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest. ...

Navy Wife (1935)

A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter. ...

Champagne for Breakfast (1935)

Always-broke racetrack tout shows his true colors when setting up an apartment for his girl friend. ...

Mad Love (1935)

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer. ...

One Frightened Night (1935)

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and procl ...

The Tin Man (1935)

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into ...

A Dog of Flanders (1935)

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter. ...

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to t ...

The Great Hotel Murder (1935)

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention. ...

When a Man's a Man (1935)

A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. B ...

The Winning Ticket (1935)

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife. ...

Forsaking All Others (1934)

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man. ...

Shrimps for a Day (1934)

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison. ...

Imitation of Life (1934)

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way. ...

I'll Fix It (1934)

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school ...

Kentucky Kernels (1934)

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south ...

A Successful Failure (1934)

Ellery Cushing is full of catchy sayings and old-fashioned wisdom. But all that his family cares about is how much money he makes, and all that his boss at the newspaper sees is that Cushing is getting too old to keep up with his work. So his loyal co-work ...

Gridiron Flash (1934)

A college football team recruits a tough convict. ...

Wake Up and Dream (1934)

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time. ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them. ...

Beyond the Law (1934)

Railroad Detective Tim Weston, charmed by Helen Glenn, agrees to clear her ex-convict father, John Glenn, of a murder and a robbery he did not commit. Complications quickly arrive and Weston finds himself hunted rather than being the hunter. A lost film. ...

Bachelor Bait (1934)

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking. ...

Operator 13 (1934)

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory. ...

Now I'll Tell (1934)

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most. ...

Half a Sinner (1934)

A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher. ...

Unknown Blonde (1934)

An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter. ...

I Like it That Way (1934)

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer. ...

The Son of Kong (1933)

Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong. ...

Lady Killer (1933)

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star. ...

King for a Night (1933)

A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame. ...

Day of Reckoning (1933)

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly ...

Tillie and Gus (1933)

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race a ...

A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residen ...

Storm at Daybreak (1933)

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife. ...

The Girl in 419 (1933)

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder. ...

Bondage (1933)

Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi. ...

Terror Aboard (1933)

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened. ...

The Keyhole (1933)

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame. ...

Pick-up (1933)

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together. ...

The Mysterious Rider (1933)

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to b ...

Smoke Lightning (1933)

After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake's young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the gir ...

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him. ...

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted. ...

Flaming Guns (1932)

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico. ...

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. ...

The Sport Parade (1932)

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation. ...

The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered. ...

The All-American (1932)

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player. ...

Young Ironsides (1932)

Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest. ...

Down To Earth (1932)

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize. ...

Love Me Tonight (1932)

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there. ...

The Purchase Price (1932)

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfrien ...

Winner Take All (1932)

Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance? ...

Jewel Robbery (1932)

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop. ...

The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwa ...

Amateur Daddy (1932)

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arriv ...

The Wet Parade (1932)

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family. ...

The Beast of the City (1932)

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed to watch over Daisy who is associated with Belmonte but things don't go as planned. ...

Under Eighteen (1932)

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the p ...

Her Majesty, Love (1931)

The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. Lia goes to Berlin to marry a Baron von Schwarzdorf, and Fred arrives too late to stop ...

The Sea Ghost (1931)

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67. ...

Flying High (1931)

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption. ...

Night Life in Reno (1931)

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period d ...

Wicked (1931)

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband. ...

Sweepstakes (1931)

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race. ...

Ladies' Man (1931)

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society. ...

The Front Page (1931)

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With t ...

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