Moroni Olsen

Highest Rated: 100% Father's Little Dividend (1951)

Lowest Rated: 40% The Strange Woman (1946)

Birthday: Jun 27, 1889

Birthplace: Not Available

Born and educated in Utah, tall, piercing-eyed actor Moroni Olsen learned how to entertain an audience as a Chautaqua tent-show performer. In the 1920s, he organized the Moroni Olsen Players, one of the most prestigious touring stock companies in the business. After several successful seasons on Broadway, Olsen came to films in the role of Porthos in the 1935 version of The Three Musketeers. Though many of his subsequent roles were not on this plateau, Olsen nearly always transcended his material: In the otherwise middling Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Mummy's Boys (1936), for example, Olsen all but ignites the screen with his terrifying portrayal of a lunatic. Thanks to his aristocratic bearing and classically trained voice, Olsen was often called upon to play famous historical personages: he was Buffalo Bill in Annie Oakley (1935), Robert E. Lee in Santa Fe Trail (1940), and Sam Houston in Lone Star (1952). Throughout his Hollywood career, Moroni Olsen was active as a director and performer with the Pasadena Playhouse, and was the guiding creative force behind Hollywood's annual Pilgrimage Play.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The First Rebel	Calhoon	—	2015
43%	Sign of the Pagan	Pope Leo	—	1954
50%	The Long, Long Trailer	Mr. Tewitt	—	1954
No Score Yet	So This Is Love	Arnold Reuben	—	1953
No Score Yet	Washington Story, (Target for Scandal)	Speaker	—	1952
No Score Yet	Lone Star	Sam Houston	—	1952
No Score Yet	At Sword's Point	Old Porthos	—	1952
No Score Yet	Submarine Command (The Submarine Story)	Rear Adm. Joshua Rice	—	1951
No Score Yet	No Questions Asked	Henry Manston	—	1951
100%	Father's Little Dividend	Herbert Dunstan	—	1951
No Score Yet	Payment on Demand	David Ramsey's Attorney	—	1951
90%	Father of the Bride	Herbert Dunstan	—	1950
63%	Samson and Delilah	Targil	—	1949
No Score Yet	Task Force	Ames	—	1949
83%	The Fountainhead	Chairman	—	1949
No Score Yet	Command Decision	Congressman Stone	—	1948
No Score Yet	Up in Central Park	Big Jim Pitts	—	1948
79%	Call Northside 777	Parole Board Chairman	—	1948
No Score Yet	High Wall	Dr. Phillip Dunlap	—	1947
No Score Yet	That Hagen Girl	Trenton Gateley	—	1947
83%	Possessed	Ames	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Beginning or the End	Dr. Arthur H. Compton	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Long Night	Chief of Police	—	1947
92%	Life With Father	Dr. Humphries	—	1947
40%	The Strange Woman	Rev. Thatcher	—	1946
No Score Yet	From This Day Forward	Tim Bagley	—	1946
96%	Notorious	Beardsley	—	1946
86%	Mildred Pierce	Insp. Peterson	—	1945
No Score Yet	Weekend at the Waldorf	House Detective Blake	—	1945
No Score Yet	Pride of the Marines	Capt. Burroughs	—	1945
No Score Yet	Don't Fence Me In	Henry Bennett	—	1945
91%	Cobra Woman	MacDonald	—	1944
100%	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	General	—	1944
No Score Yet	Buffalo Bill	Sen. Frederici	—	1944
No Score Yet	Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	Caliph Hassan	—	1944
88%	The Song of Bernadette	Chaplain	—	1943
88%	Madame Curie	President of Businessmen's Board	—	1943
No Score Yet	Mission to Moscow	Col. Faymonville	—	1943
82%	Air Force	Col. Blake	—	1943
No Score Yet	Reunion in France	Paul Grebeau	—	1942
78%	The Glass Key	Ralph Henry	—	1942
No Score Yet	Ship Ahoy	Inspector Davis	—	1942
No Score Yet	Nazi Agent (Salute to Courage)	Brenner	—	1942
No Score Yet	Dangerously They Live	Mr. Goodwin	—	1941
100%	One Foot in Heaven	Dr. John Romer	—	1941
No Score Yet	Dive Bomber	Senior Flight Surgeon	—	1941
No Score Yet	If I Had My Way	Mr. Blair	—	1940
No Score Yet	Brother Rat and a Baby (Baby Be Good)	Major	—	1940
No Score Yet	Brigham Young	Doc Richards	—	1940
63%	Santa Fe Trail	Robert E. Lee	—	1940
No Score Yet	Virginia City	Dr. Rob Cameron	—	1940
No Score Yet	Invisible Stripes	Warden	—	1939
No Score Yet	Allegheny Uprising	Calhoon	—	1939
No Score Yet	Dust Be My Destiny	Defense Attorney Slim Jones	—	1939
No Score Yet	Susannah of the Mounties	Supt. Andrew Standing	—	1939
No Score Yet	Rose of Washington Square	Buck Russell	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Three Musketeers	Bailiff	—	1939
No Score Yet	Kentucky	John Dillon II, 1937	—	1938
No Score Yet	Marie Antoinette	Bearded Man	—	1938
No Score Yet	Kidnapped	Douglas	—	1938
No Score Yet	Gold Is Where You Find It	Sen. Hearst	—	1938
No Score Yet	Submarine Patrol	Capt. Wilson	—	1938
No Score Yet	Adventure's End	Rand Husk	—	1937
No Score Yet	Manhattan Merry-Go-Round	Jonathan	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Last Gangster	Shea	—	1937
82%	The Life of Emile Zola	Capt. Guignet	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Plough and the Stars	Irish leader, James Connolly	—	1936
No Score Yet	Mary of Scotland	John Knox	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Farmer in the Dell	Chester Hart	—	1936
No Score Yet	We're Only Human	Inspector Curran	—	1935
No Score Yet	Annie Oakley	Buffalo Bill	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Three Musketeers	Porthos	—	1935

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	I Love Lucy 1951-1957	Judge	1956 1952

Quotes from Moroni Olsen's Characters

Queen/Witch:	Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
Magic Mirror:	Why, Snow White is the fairest.

Vance Irby:	Theres a Union spy in town (speaking of Flynn).....
Vance Irby:	Theres a Union spy in town. [speaking of Flynn]
Kerry Bradford:	I want you, your gold and your friends. (on discovering the secret shipment of gold to the South.)
Kerry Bradford:	I want you, your gold and your friends. [on discovering the secret shipment of gold to the South]
Vance Irby:	They may get me, but thats not important, its the gold thats important.
John Murrell:	You should remember doctor, its not the first time I was here. (arriving with a bullit in arm).
John Murrell:	You should remember doctor, its not the first time I was here. [arriving with a bullit in arm]
John Murrell:	I'm hoping you aren't thinking of collecting this reward ( a bounty is on Murrell's head).
John Murrell:	I'm hoping you aren't thinking of collecting this reward [a bounty is on Murrell's head]
Dr. Cameron:	What do think this is? a sideshow?

Magic Mirror:	Famed is thy beauty majesty, but ho! A lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Queen/Witch:	Alas for her. Reveal her name.
Magic Mirror:	Lips red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow.
Queen/Witch:	gasps Snow White.

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Moroni Olsen

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

TV

Quotes from Moroni Olsen's Characters