Paul Guilfoyle
Known for ActingBorn 1902-07-14 — died 1961-06-27Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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Paul Guilfoyle (July 14, 1902 – June 27, 1961) was an American stage, film and television actor. Later in his career, he also directed films and television episodes.
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Guilfoyle was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He started off working on stage, performing on Broadway in 16 plays according to the Internet Broadway Database, beginning with The Jolly Roger and Cyrano de Bergerac in 1923 and ending with Jayhawker in 1934. He appeared in many films that starred Lee Tracy in the 1930s. In the 1949 crime film White Heat, he played (uncredited) a treacherous prison inmate murdered in cold blood by James Cagney's lead character.
He died of a heart attack on June 27, 1961 in Hollywood. He had a son, Anthony. Guilfoyle was interred in Glendale, California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Known for
Trial
1955 · as Cap Grant
Mighty Joe Young
1949 · as Smith
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · as Floyd
Bringing Up Baby
1938 · as (uncredited)
Special Agent
1935 · as Williams - Quinn's Secretary
Julius Caesar
1953 · as Citizen of Rome
White Heat
1949 · as Roy Parker (uncredited)
Tarnished Angel
1938 · as Eddie Fox
Apache
1954 · as Santos
Confidence Girl
1952 · as William Pope
Stage Fright
1938
Super-Sleuth
1937 · as Gibbons, a film director
The Virginian
1946 · as Shorty
Petticoat Larceny
1943 · as Joe 'Tinhorn' Foster
The North Star
1943 · as Iakin
Follow Me Quietly
1949 · as Overbeck
Society Lawyer
1939 · as Murtock
Maid's Night Out
1938 · as P.X. Quinn - Bailbondsman (uncredited)