Russell Simpson

Highest Rated: 100% Meet Me at the Fair (1952)

Lowest Rated: 40% Along Came Jones (1945)

Birthday: Jun 17, 1880

Birthplace: Not Available

American actor Russell Simpson is another of those character players who seemed to have been born in middle age. From his first screen appearance in 1910 to his last in 1959, Simpson personified the grizzled, taciturn mountain man who held strangers at bay with his shotgun and vowed that his daughter would never marry into that family he'd been feudin' with fer nigh on to forty years. It was not always thus. After prospecting in the 1898 Alaska gold rush, Simpson returned to the States and launched a career as a touring actor in stock -- most frequently cast in romantic leads. This led to a long association with Broadway impresario David Belasco. Briefly flirting with New York-based films in 1910, Simpson returned to the stage, then chose movies on a permanent basis in 1917. Of his hundreds of motion picture and TV appearances, Russell Simpson is best known for his participation in the films of director John Ford, most memorably as Pa Joad in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
85%	The Horse Soldiers	Sheriff	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Lonely Man	Red Bluff Poker Player (uncredited)	—	1957
83%	The Tin Star	Clem Hall	—	1957
No Score Yet	These Wilder Years	Farmer	—	1956
88%	Friendly Persuasion	Elder	—	1956
71%	The Tall Men	Immigrant Man	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Last Command	The Parson	—	1955
85%	Broken Lance	Judge	—	1954
89%	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Mr. Bixby	—	1954
60%	The Sun Shines Bright	Dr. Lewt Lake	—	1953
No Score Yet	Lone Star	Sen. Maynard Cole	—	1952
No Score Yet	Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair	Clem Johnson	—	1952
100%	Meet Me at the Fair	Sheriff Evans	—	1952
No Score Yet	Across the Wide Missouri	Hoback	—	1951
No Score Yet	Comin' Round the Mountain	Judge	—	1951
100%	Wagon Master	Adam Perkins	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Gal Who Took the West	Bartender as an Old Timer	—	1949
63%	The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend	Grandpa	—	1949
90%	Joan of Arc	Old Man with Pipe	—	1948
No Score Yet	Tap Roots	Sam Dabney	—	1948
No Score Yet	Coroner Creek	Walt Hardison	—	1948
No Score Yet	Albuquerque	Huggins	—	1948
No Score Yet	Romance of Rosy Ridge	Dan Yeary	—	1947
100%	My Darling Clementine	John Simpson	—	1946
No Score Yet	Bad Bascomb	Elijah Walker	—	1946
No Score Yet	Lady Luck	Daniel Boone	—	1946
No Score Yet	Death Valley	Old Silas Bagley	—	1946
91%	They Were Expendable	Dad Knowland	—	1945
40%	Along Came Jones	Pop de Longpre	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Big Bonanza	Adam Parker	—	1944
No Score Yet	Tall in the Saddle	Pat	—	1944
No Score Yet	Man from Frisco	Dr. Hershey	—	1944
No Score Yet	Texas Masquerade	J.K. Trimble	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Woman of the Town	Sime	—	1944
No Score Yet	Border Patrol	Orestes Krebs	—	1943
No Score Yet	Tennessee Johnson	Kirby	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Spoilers	Flapjack Simms	—	1942
No Score Yet	Nazi Agent (Salute to Courage)	Captain	—	1942
No Score Yet	Swamp Water	Marty McCord	—	1941
No Score Yet	Tobacco Road	Sheriff	—	1941
No Score Yet	Three Faces West	Minister	—	1940
100%	The Grapes of Wrath	Pa Joad	—	1940
63%	Santa Fe Trail	Shubel Morgan	—	1940
No Score Yet	Brigham Young	Major	—	1940
No Score Yet	Virginia City	Gaylord	—	1940
No Score Yet	Geronimo	Scout	—	1939
82%	Drums Along the Mohawk	Dr. Petry	—	1939
96%	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Allen	—	1939
100%	Young Mr. Lincoln	Woodridge	—	1939
100%	Dodge City	Orth	—	1939
No Score Yet	Desperate Trails	Big Bill Tanner	—	1939
No Score Yet	Valley of the Giants	McKenzie	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Girl of the Golden West	Pioneer	—	1938
No Score Yet	Gold Is Where You Find It	McKenzie	—	1938
No Score Yet	Paradise Isle	Baxter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge	Bayliss Baynum	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Crime of Dr. Forbes	Sheriff Neil	—	1937
No Score Yet	Maid of Salem	Village Marshal	—	1937
No Score Yet	Green Light	Sheep Man	—	1937
No Score Yet	Wild West Days	Keeler	—	1937
92%	San Francisco	Red Kelly	—	1936
No Score Yet	Ramona	Scroggs	—	1936
No Score Yet	Paddy O'Day	Benton Butler	—	1935
No Score Yet	Way Down East	Squire Bartlett	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Hoosier Schoolmaster	Doc Small	—	1935
No Score Yet	Motive for Revenge	McAllister	—	1935
No Score Yet	The County Chairman	Vance Jimmison	—	1935
No Score Yet	The World Moves On	Notary Public	—	1934
No Score Yet	Three on a Honeymoon	Ezra MacDuff	—	1934
No Score Yet	Sixteen Fathoms Deep	Crockett	—	1934
No Score Yet	Cabin in the Cotton	Uncle Joe	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Riding Tornado	Sheriff	—	1932
No Score Yet	Law and Order	Judge Williams	—	1932
No Score Yet	Call Her Savage	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Silver Dollar	Hamlin	—	1932
No Score Yet	Flames	Jake	—	1932
No Score Yet	Hello Trouble	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise	Doctor	—	1931
75%	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln's Employer	—	1930
No Score Yet	Billy the Kid	McSween	—	1930
No Score Yet	The Trail of '98	Old Swede	—	1928
No Score Yet	The First Auto	Hank	—	1927
No Score Yet	Annie Laurie	Sandy	—	1927
No Score Yet	The Eagle	Masked Cossack	—	1925
No Score Yet	The Virginian	Trampas	—	1923
No Score Yet	Peg o' My Heart	Jim O'Connell	—	1922
No Score Yet	The Girl of the Golden West	Actor	—	1915

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
50%	LA to Vegas 2018	Sean	2018
61%	Scorpion 2014-2018	Thomas	2014

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