Vince Barnett
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Vince Barnett (July 4, 1902 – August 10, 1977) was an American film and television actor. He appeared on stage originally.
Barnett's initial involvement with Hollywood was as a screenwriter, writing screenplays for the two-reeler movies of the late 1920s. He began appearing in films in 1930, playing hundreds of comedy bits and supporting parts. One of his more sizable screen roles was the moronic, illiterate gangster "secretary" in Scarface (1932). Among his best-regarded early roles, apart from Scarface, were The Big Cage (1933), Thirty Day Princess (1934) and Princess O'Hara (1935).
In later years, Barnett played straight character parts, often as careworn little men, undertakers, janitors, bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir (The Killers, 1946) to westerns (Springfield Rifle, 1952). He was a welcome presence in "B" comedies and mysteries: as Runyonesque gangsters in Petticoat Larceny (1943), Little Miss Broadway (1947), and Gas House Kids Go West (1947), and notably as Tom Conway's enthusiastic sidekick in The Falcon's Alibi (1946).
After World War II, with the Hollywood studios making fewer films, Barnett became a familiar face on television.
Acting
Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
1930
Movie
Scarface
as Angelo
1932
Movie
The Killers
as Charleston
1946
Movie
Horse Feathers
as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
1932
Movie
Brute Force
as Muggsy
1947
Movie
After the Thin Man
as Wrester's Manager (uncredited)
1936
TV
The Andy Griffith Show
as Elmo
1960
Movie
On Dangerous Ground
as George (uncredited)
1951
TV
Perry Mason
as Noonan
1957
Movie
The Corpse Vanishes
as Sandy
1942
Movie
The Family Jewels
as Automobile Owner at Gas Station
1965
TV
Green Acres
1965
TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Scissors
1964
Movie
Knock on Any Door
as Carl Swanson - Bartender (uncredited)
1949
Movie
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
as Janitor
1965
Movie
The Mask of Dimitrios
as Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Springfield Rifle
as Cook (uncredited)
1952
Movie
Captive Wild Woman
as Curly
1943
Movie
Seven Sinners
as Bartender
1940
Movie
The Death Kiss
as Officer Gulliver
1932
Movie
Bowery at Midnight
as Charley
1942
Movie
The Big Mouth
as Man at Telephone Booth (uncredited)
1967
TV
Here's Lucy
as Cabbie #1
1968
Movie
High Wall
as Henry Cronner
1947
