Fred Kelsey
Born in Sandusky, Ohio, USA — Aug 20 1884• Died Sep 02 1961
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Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.
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Fred Kelsey's Credits
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Doc Jones (uncredited)
To Catch a Thief
Party Guest (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train
Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
A Star Is Born
Audience Member (uncredited)
The Silver Chalice
Silversmith (uncredited)
Mildred Pierce
Bumped First Night Diner (uncredited)
Auntie Mame
Front Row Audience at Play (uncredited)
They Died with Their Boots On
Ft. Lincoln Bartender (uncredited)
The Fountainhead
Old Watchman (uncredited)
Silver River
Townsman (uncredited)
Gentleman Jim
Sutro (uncredited)
Mr. Skeffington
Cop in Raid (uncredited)
In This Our Life
Jailer (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story
Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
Barfly (uncredited)
The Unfaithful
Courtroom Spectator
Crime Wave
Old Man Crossing Street (uncredited)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Crowd Spectator (uncredited)
Illegal
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Serenade
Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Nora Prentiss
Turnkey (uncredited)
Night and Day
First-Nighter (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Riding Shotgun
Townsman (uncredited)
Room for One More
O. Henry's Full House
Mr. Schultz (segment "The Gift of the Magi")
Tall Man Riding
Townsman (uncredited)
If I Had a Million
Prison Jailer (uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
Train Conductor (uncredited)
The Crime of the Century
Police Guard (uncredited)
The Damned Don't Cry
Man on Dock (uncredited)
True to Life
Cop (uncredited)
The Enforcer
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Jailer
Love Is News
Cop (uncredited)
The Opposite Sex
Club Patron (uncredited)
The Bowery
Detective Kelsey (uncredited)
Christmas in Connecticut
Harper (uncredited)
The Inspector General
Villager (uncredited)
A Society Sensation
JIm Cox
Huddle
Policeman (uncredited)
Carson City
Townsman (uncredited)
Homicide
Officer O'Brien
Storm Warning
Townsman (uncredited)
The Flame and the Arrow
Guard (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Joe (uncredited)
Spy Ship
Night Watchman
Night Spot
Police Band Leader
A Stolen Life
Bartender (uncredited)
The Man I Love
Mac the Doorman (uncredited)
Twentieth Century
Train Detective (uncredited)
Murder Without Tears
Sergeant-at-Arms
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Dickens
Backfire
Fight Fan (uncredited)
Three Strangers
Man on the Street / Man in Pub (uncredited)
Larceny, Inc.
Bronson
Everybody's Doing It
Police Sergeant
The Woman Racket
Police Captain
Manslaughter
Member of the Jury (uncredited)
Private Number
Detective in Ellen's Apartment (Uncredited)
Gold Diggers of 1933
Detective Jones (uncredited)
Colorado Territory
Train Engineer (uncredited)
The Garden Murder Case
Heath's Assistant (Uncredited)
Springfield Rifle
Barfly (uncredited)
Dancing in the Dark
Deputy
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Dickens
The Golden Fleecing
Cop (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
Murphy (uncredited)
Lucky Me
Passerby on Street (uncredited)
The Crime Doctor
Bloodgood
X Marks the Spot
Police Officer Martin
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Detective - in Cab and at Theatre
The Green Archer
Capt. Thompson
Diamond Jim
Horsley's Secretary
High Tension
Desk Sergeant
Northern Pursuit
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Carnival
Bit Part
Goodbye, My Fancy
Party Guest (Uncredited)
One Mile from Heaven
Smitty - Policeman
The Witness Chair
Detective Costigan
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Pete - Railroad Detective
Death Flies East
Police Lieutenant O'Brien
Revenue Agent
Sgt. Wallace
Mr. District Attorney
Officer McCloskey
High School
Junk Man
Murder in the Big House
"Screw"
Souls for Sale
Detective Quinn (uncredited)
Old Acquaintance
Train Conductor / Man at Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
I'll Tell the World
Sergeant at Border
Make Your Own Bed
Turnkey
Scandal Sheet
Detective Sgt. Vincent Molloy
Food and Magic
School for Girls
Detective
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Detective Dickens
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Wesley Dickens
Tell No Tales
Policeman at School (uncredited)
Bromo and Juliet
The Detective (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Detective (uncredited)
Among the Missing
Police Sgt. Murphy
A Gem of a Jam
Police Chief
Shine on Harvest Moon
Policeman in patrol car (uncredited)
Westbound
Townsman (uncredited)
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Mr. Watson (uncredited)
Murder on the Roof
Ryan
While the City Sleeps
Detective in Shadow Box
Pacific Blackout
Cop
Charlie Chan in Reno
Reno Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Bullet Scars
Police Chief Hansen
One Clear Call
Starnes
My Six Convicts
Store Detective
Rough Riders' Round-up
Agitator
My Favorite Blonde
Sam - Policeman
Angel's Holiday
Conductor
Guilty as Hell
Detective Duffy
Flamingo Road
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Slave Ship
Seaman at Auction
Puppets of Fate
Bobs
Crime by Night
Dad Martin (uncredited)
A Woman of Affairs
Detective (uncredited)
Hans Christian Andersen
First Gendarme
Roaring Guns
Josette
Hotel Detective
Dog Shy
Cop
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Dickens
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Bailiff
The Moth
Detective Blake
Straight, Place and Show
Cop at Racetrack
The Noose Hangs High
Cop (uncredited)
Safety in Numbers
Cop
The Wrong Man
Directing
Crazy Like a Fox
Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)
Invisible Ghost
Detective Ryan
King of the Jungle
Cop (uncredited)
The Little Red Schoolhouse
First Detective
Side Show
Sheriff Hornsby
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Jim - Detective
Wide Open
Detective
The Naughty Flirt
Policeman (uncredited)
Super-Sleuth
Jailer
Harold Teen
Mr. Lovewell
Beloved
Mulvaney
On Trial
Clerk
Wrong Again
Down on the Farm
Bit Role
There Ain't No Santa Claus
Store Detective (uncredited)
Horses' Collars
Detective Hyden Zeke (uncredited)
Lightning Strikes Twice
Dugan
Love and Hisses
Officer
That's My Baby
Murphy
Red Haired Alibi
Corcoran
The Yellow Dog
Max Kummich
One Dangerous Night
Detective Dickens
At Sea Ashore
Cop (uncredited)
Speak Easily
Process Server
Never Say Goodbye
Policeman (uncredited)
The Strange Mr. Gregory
Lefert
Time Out for Romance
Policeman
Atlantic Adventure
Police Officer Riley
The Night Hawk
Naughty Baby
Dugan
How DOooo You Do
Detective
Tiny Troubles
Judge
She Had to Eat
Police Officer Tracy (uncredited)
Shadows of Sing Sing
Murphy
The Lawful Cheater
Tom Horan
Dear! Deer!
Policeman
The Girl Said No
Policeman
Frontier Days
Mayor Stone (uncredited)
Seven Sinners
Policeman
The Gorilla
Mulligan
Jewish Prudence
Rent Collector
Murder on the Waterfront
Capt. Beal
Wild and Woolly
Policeman (uncredited)
Chicken Wagon Family
Policeman
Scarlet Pages
Murphy
The Donovan Affair
Carney
I Was Framed
Drunk
That I May Live
Abner Jenkins
At the Stroke of Twelve
Police Sergeant
The Third Degree
Assistant Chief of Detectives
Berth Quakes
Train Conductor
Too Busy to Work
Hank Fidler
Little Annie Rooney
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Lady Gangster
Policeman (uncredited)
Smiling Irish Eyes
County Fair Manager
The Faker
Police Detective
One Frightened Night
Sheriff Jenks
Youth and Adventure
Red Mullin
Danger Ahead
Detective O'Brien
A Notorious Gentleman
Detective
If a Body Meets a Body
Detective
Rough Necking
Joe Cuttlehammer Sr.
The Sagebrush Troubadour
Hank Polk
Alias Jimmy Valentine
Bit Part (uncredited)
The Lady Escapes
Man on telephone (uncredited)
Sailor's Luck
Cop
Atta Boy
Detective
Going Wild
The Conductor
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Cop (uncredited)
The Last Warning
Inspector
The People's Choice
Say It with Babies
Policeman
Quiet Please!
Train Conductor
Hiss and Yell
Policeman (uncredited)
Tenderloin
Detective Simpson
The Last Card
Detective (uncredited)
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Chief of Detectives (uncredited)
Clock Wise
Landlord
Don't Shoot
Police Officer
Racing Blood
Smithy
Boys Will Be Boys
Doorman
The Wright Idea
M. T. Flatt
Deadwood Dick
Bottles
Young Donovan's Kid
Collins
Lovebound
Detective Hahn
Counter-Espionage
Dickens
So You Want to Play the Horses
Detective (uncredited)
Blood Money
Directing
The Outlaw and the Lady
Directing
The Golden Bullet
Directing
Goin' Straight
Directing
Silent Sandy
Silent Sandy
Men Without Law
Deputy Sheriff Jeff
The Thirteenth Hour
Det. Shaw
Big Business
Oil Man at Well
The Exposure
Directing
The Mysterious Outlaw
Directing
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Policeman (uncredited)
A Left Hook
So You Think You're Not Guilty
Police Turnkey (uncredited)
Come Out Fighting
Mr. McGinnis, Sr. (as Fred Kelsy)
Hot Money
Police Officer Kelsey (as Fred A. Kelsey)
The Uneasy Three
The Off-Shore Pirate
Sailor
She Got What She Wanted
Lights Out
Decker
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Detective
Snooper Service
Monkey Businessmen
Smiling Sam McGann (uncredited)
Subway Express
Detective Kearney
Captain Fly-by-Night
Gomez
Orchids and Ermine
Police Sergeant
South of Suva
Karl Swartz
Discarded Lovers
Delaney
Misbehaving Husbands
Sgt. Murphy
Soft Cushions
The Police
The Song of Life
Police Inspector
The Empty Cab
The Detective
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Held by the Law
Detective
Hair-Trigger Burke
Writing
The Public Menace
Mike - Cop
Excuse Me
George Ketchem
Outlaw's Son
Over the Ledge
Directing
Plastered in Paris
The Nymph
Directing
The Pretender
Directing
Road to Paradise
Casey
So You Want to Enjoy Life
Boat Salesman / Flugleman's Assistant (uncredited)
A 44-Calibre Mystery
Directing
Friendly Enemies
The Iceman's Ball
Police Sergeant
So You Want an Apartment
Apartment Manager with a Vacancy (uncredited)
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Lamb - Curry's Partner
Six-Shooter Justice
Directing
Trial by Trigger
Jerry (uncredited)
Yoo-Hoo
Detective
Andy Plays Hookey
Policeman
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
Self - Tour Guide
The 13th Juror
The Detective
Paths to Paradise
Confederate
The Fighting Gringo
Directing
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Directing
So You Want to Be an Actor
Counter Man
Many Sappy Returns
Finnegan
There Are No Villains
Dugall
The Third Generation
Brody
So You Want to Be a Musician
Restaurant diner
Her Buried Past
Directing
The Drifter
Directing
Moving Vanities
Police Officer (uncredited)
The Eleventh Hour
The Submarine Commander
Bag and Baggage
Fred
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
Delivery Man
The Match-Breaker
Detective
Borrowing Trouble
Policeman
So You Want a Raise
The Silk Lined Burglar
Capt. von Hoffmeier
The Almost Good Man
Directing
Detour to Danger
Det. Kelsey
Love in High Gear
Detective Duffy
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
Fred
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Policeman
The Light of Victory
Captain Eric von Prohme
The Fire Flingers
Sgt. Powers
The Yankee Consul
Agent John J. Doyle
Traffic in Hearts
Tim Tracy
The Social Highwayman
Chief of Police
The Honor of an Outlaw
The Deputy
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
Policeman
I'll Be Suing You
Insurance Adjustor
Deserted at the Altar
The Other Man
The Fugitive
Directing
So You Think You Can't Sleep
Sleeping patient in waiting room
Arms and the Gringo
The Black Terror
Directing
The Purple Lily
Directing
Smooth as Satin
Kersey
Mutiny in the County
Policeman
The Mystery Pilot
Skipper Larsen
A Midnight Adventure
Cassidy
Brothers Equal
Directing
Shopping with Wifie
Det. Dugan
Station Content
Directing