
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor.
August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously).
Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe.
Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.

Citizen Kane
1941 · as John

Touch of Evil
1958 · as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)

Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · as Attendant (uncredited)

The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · as Goldfish

Macbeth
1948 · as A Porter

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · as Drug Clerk (uncredited)

Bigger Than Life
1956 · as Druggist (uncredited)

Run for Cover
1955 · as Doc Ridgeway

Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · as Scotty - Stage Manager

You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · as Fernando

A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · as Jafar

Executive Suite
1954 · as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)

On Dangerous Ground
1951 · as Lucky

Hellzapoppin'
1941 · as Orchestra Conductor

It's a Pleasure
1945 · as Bill Evans

Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940 · as Orderly Cleaning Window

One Big Affair
1952 · as Mr. Rush

Appointment for Love
1941 · as Gus