Chester Clute
Chester Clute was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films. He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Selected filmography
- The Dentist
- Crash Donovan - Mr. Horner
- Navy Blues - Uncle Andrew
- There Goes My Girl - Stu Parker - Whelan's Idea Man
- Dance, Charlie, Dance - Alvin Gussett
- Exclusive - Garner
- She Asked for It - Photographer
- The Wrong Road - Dan O'Fearna
- The Great Garrick - M. Moreau
- Live, Love and Learn - Fake Art Critic Henderson
- Living on Love - Jessup
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry - Man with Toupee
- 45 Fathers - Timid Juror
- Big Town Girl - Assistant Hotel Manager
- True Confession - Juror
- Change of Heart - Tom Jones
- Love Is a Headache - Pants Salesman
- The Jury's Secret - Secretary
- Arsène Lupin Returns - Reporter
- Reckless Living - Sucker
- He Couldn't Say No - Musgrave
- Mr. Moto's Gamble - Ticket Theft Victim
- Go Chase Yourself - Pushy Little Man in Bank
- Rascals - Mr. Roger Adams
- Letter of Introduction - Guest at Cocktail Party
- Mr. Chump - Ed Mason
- Keep Smiling - Auctioneer
- Sing You Sinners - Race Tout at Lunch Counter
- You Can't Take It with You - Hammond
- Personal Secretary - Levering
- Youth Takes a Fling - Salesman
- Touchdown, Army - Mr. Rawlings
- Service de Luxe - Chester Bainbridge
- Hard to Get - Mr. Pinkey
- Annabel Takes a Tour - Pitcarin, Rodney-Marlborough Hotel Manager
- Comet Over Broadway - Willis
- Artists and Models Abroad - Simpson
- Pardon Our Nerve - Mr. Flemingwell
- I Was a Convict - Evans
- Dodge City - Coggins
- East Side of Heaven - Phil
- Bachelor Mother - Oliver - Man in Park
- The Spellbinder - Dr. Hillary Schunk
- Miracles for Sale - Waiter with Sugar
- Dust Be My Destiny - Movie Theatre Manager
- Dancing Co-Ed - Braddock
- Television Spy - Harry Payne
- Too Busy to Work - Springer
- Laugh It Off - Eliot Rigby
- The Honeymoon's Over - Higginsby
- Thou Shalt Not Kill - Waiter
- Invisible Stripes
- Remember the Night - Jewelry Salesman
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk - Pompous Man
- Blondie on a Budget - Ticket Agent
- The Doctor Takes a Wife - Johnson
- My Favorite Wife - Shoe Salesman
- Turnabout - Briggs
- Millionaires in Prison - Sidney Keats
- Wildcat Bus - Man Reading Repossession Notice
- Dance, Girl, Dance - Bailey #2
- Hired Wife - Martin Peabody - Justice of the Peace
- Public Deb No. 1 - Car Payment Man
- Too Many Girls - Lister
- A Little Bit of Heaven - Mr. Dixon
- Who Killed Aunt Maggie? - Justice of the Peace
- She Couldn't Say No - Ezra Pine
- Love Thy Neighbor - Judge
- This Thing Called Love - Bit Part
- Tall, Dark and Handsome - Floorwalker
- Footlight Fever - Mr. Holly - Parker's Secretary
- They Met in Argentina - B.A. Jackson, Hastings' Secretary
- She Knew All the Answers - Butter and Egg Man
- Hurry, Charlie, Hurry - Cardwell, Daniel's Secretary
- Manpower - Drug Store Clerk
- Sun Valley Serenade - Process Server
- Scattergood Meets Broadway - Quentin Van Deusen
- Unfinished Business - Mr. Beck
- The Smiling Ghost - Homely Woman's Husband
- Hold Back the Dawn - Man in Climax Bar
- Niagara Falls - Potter
- Three Girls About Town - Frank - Magician
- New York Town - Mr. Cobbler
- Look Who's Laughing - Mr. Blaize
- The Perfect Snob - Nibsie Nicholson
- Bedtime Story - Second Desk Clerk
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- All Through the Night - Westmore Hotel Clerk
- The Fleet's In - Justice of the Peace
- A Tragedy at Midnight - Pierre
- Valley of the Sun - Wilbur
- The Lady Is Willing - Income Tax Man
- The Remarkable Andrew - Sam Marbery
- Larceny, Inc. - Mr. Buchanan
- The Wife Takes a Flyer - Adolphe Bietjelboer
- The Spoilers - Mr. Montrose - Clerk
- This Gun for Hire - Rooming House Manager
- Meet the Stewarts - Mr. Hamilton, Club Manager
- My Favorite Spy - Higgenbotham
- Yankee Doodle Dandy - Harold Goff
- Joan of Ozark - Salesman
- Tales of Manhattan - Mr. Langehanke
- Pardon My Sarong - Bus Company Checker
- Just Off Broadway - Sperty
- Henry Aldrich, Editor - Drug Store Clerk
- Get Hep to Love - Mr. Tolly
- The Forest Rangers - Judge
- George Washington Slept Here - Apartment Hunter
- Star Spangled Rhythm - Air-Raid Warden - Bob Hope Skit
- No Place for a Lady - Yvonne
- The Meanest Man in the World - Lawyer
- Sagebrush Law - Cowhand with Whiskey Jug
- Chatterbox - Wilfred Peckinpaugh
- The More the Merrier - Hotel Clerk
- Three Hearts for Julia - Man with Binoculars
- The Desperadoes - Rollo
- False Faces - Apartment Manager
- Du Barry Was a Lady - Dr. Pullit
- Crime Doctor - Headwaiter
- The Good Fellows - Abner Merritt
- Someone to Remember - Mr. Roseby
- The West Side Kid - Gwylim
- So's Your Uncle - Dinwiddle
- I Dood It - Hotel Manager With Flowers
- Crazy House - Fud
- Princess O'Rourke - Mr. Mookle
- Swing Fever - Mr. Milbane, Manager of Telephone Company
- Here Comes Elmer - Postelwaite
- What a Woman - Dormitory Clerk
- Sing a Jingle - Hendricks
- Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout - Mr. Pollup
- Hat Check Honey - Uniformed Officer
- Rationing - Roberts
- Bermuda Mystery - Angela's Father
- 3 Men in White - Mr. Burns
- Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More - Mr. Collins
- Reckless Age - Jerkins
- Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Gilchrist
- Ever Since Venus - Milquetoast Customer
- San Diego, I Love You - Percy Caldwell
- My Gal Loves Music - Doctor
- Nothing but Trouble - Clerk in 1944
- The Falcon in Hollywood - Hotel Manager
- The Town Went Wild - Mr. Kurtz
- Lake Placid Serenade - Haines
- Nothing But the Truth
- She Gets Her Man - Charlie, in Play
- Roughly Speaking - The Proprietor
- The Man Who Walked Alone - Mr. Monroe
- The Clock - Michael Henry, Judge's Clerk
- Earl Carroll Vanities - Mr. Weems
- Two O'Clock Courage - Mr. Daniels
- Swing Out, Sister - Mr. Gaston
- Blonde Ransom - Clerk
- Dangerous Partners - The Diner
- Wonder Man - Man on Bus
- Blonde from Brooklyn - Mr. Weams
- On Stage Everybody - Tupper
- Anchors Aweigh - Iturbi's Assistant
- Guest Wife - Urban Nichols
- Lady on a Train - Train Conductor
- Arson Squad - Sam Purdy
- Mildred Pierce - Mr. Jones
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood - Mr. Burvis
- She Went to the Races - Wallace Mason
- Sing Your Way Home - Heathcliffe
- Saratoga Trunk - Hotel Clerk
- The Sailor Takes a Wife - Lone Diner
- The Gentleman Misbehaves - Quackenbush
- Cinderella Jones - Krencher
- To Each His Own - Clarence Ingham
- Two Sisters from Boston - George - Opera Stage Doorman
- One Exciting Week - Mayor Clarence Teeple
- Inside Job - Husband
- Night and Day - Music Publisher
- Canyon Passage - Portland Storekeeper
- Two Guys from Milwaukee - Manicure Customer - Mr. Carruthers
- Down Missouri Way - Prof. Shaw
- Spook Busters - Brown
- Angel on My Shoulder - Kramer
- No Leave, No Love - Mr. Tansey
- That Brennan Girl - Man in Night Club with Quarter
- The Secret Heart - Old Man
- The Time, the Place and the Girl - Jeff's Apartment Manager
- Easy Come, Easy Go - Waiter
- Suddenly It's Spring - Workman
- Hit Parade of 1947 - Radio Station Assistant
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Phillips
- A Likely Story - Doctor Brown
- Copacabana - Hotel Night Clerk
- Web of Danger - Cornflakes Eater
- Living in a Big Way - Union Leader
- The Crimson Key - Hotel Clerk
- The Perils of Pauline - Willie Millick
- Something in the Wind - Albert Beamis
- Joe Palooka in the Knockout - Hotel Clerk
- Always Together - Furrier
- Mary Lou - Cheever Chesney
- On Our Merry Way - Bank Teller
- On an Island with You - Tommy
- Best Man Wins - Villager
- Blondie's Reward - Leroy J. Blodgett
- Train to Alcatraz - Train Conductor Yelvington
- Joe Palooka in Winner Take All - Doniger
- Singin' Spurs - Mr. Totter
- The Strange Mrs. Crane - Fred Marlow
- Jiggs and Maggie in Court - Worker
- Blondie's Big Deal - Mayor A.K. Ramsey
- My Dream Is Yours - Party Guest
- Ringside - Timid Man
- The Girl from Jones Beach - Collection Agent
- Mighty Joe Young - Doctor
- In the Good Old Summertime - Sheet Music Customer
- Mary Ryan, Detective - Chester Wiggin
- Square Dance Jubilee - Yes-Man
- Bride for Sale - Mr. Baker
- Master Minds - Mike Barton
- The Great Lover - Passenger Drinking in Cabin
- Bodyhold - Little Spectator in Crowd
- The Good Humor Man - Meek Man
- Kill the Umpire - Man Talking to Wife on Phone
- Lucky Losers - Conventioneer from Paducah
- Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance - Upperbottom
- Hit Parade of 1951 - Haberdashery Clerk
- Belle Le Grand - Secretary
- Stop That Cab - Lucy's Father
- Kentucky Jubilee - Mayor Horace Tilbury
- All That I Have - Juror Meek
- Colorado Sundown - Lawyer Davis
- Scared Stiff - Man with Spaghetti on Head