Walter Catlett

'Walter Catlett' (qv) carved out a career for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards, and few actors did it better. A San Francisco native, he started out in vaudeville - with a detour for a while in opera - before breaking into films in the mid-1920s. Two of his best remembered roles were as the stage manager driven to distraction by 'James Cagney' (qv) in _Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)_ (qv) and the local constable who throws the entire cast in jail, and winds up there himself, in the classic screwball comedy _Bringing Up Baby (1938)_ (qv). He retired after making _Beau James (1957)_ (qv), and died of a stroke in 1960.::frankfob2@yahoo.com