Fred Kelsey
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 294
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Strangers on a Train
1951
To Catch a Thief
1955
The Enforcer
1951
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Mildred Pierce
1945
A Star Is Born
1954
Auntie Mame
1958
Love Is News
1937
Carson City
1952
Night and Day
1946
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
The Inspector General
1949
Gentleman Jim
1942
Twentieth Century
1934
The Opposite Sex
1956
Crime Wave
1953
Backfire
1950
Silver River
1948
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
The Fountainhead
1949
Nora Prentiss
1947
Gold Diggers of 1933
1933
Storm Warning
1951
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Soft Cushions
1927
Room for One More
1952
O. Henry's Full House
1952
A Stolen Life
1946
Huddle
1932
Springfield Rifle
1952
Riding Shotgun
1954
Dog Shy
1926
The Silver Chalice
1954
Monkey Businessmen
1946
Wild and Woolly
1937
Tall Man Riding
1955
Hans Christian Andersen
1952
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
In This Our Life
1942
Super-Sleuth
1937
Clock Wise
1939
Westbound
1959
Murder in the Big House
1942
Racing Blood
1954
Harold Teen
1928
Pacific Blackout
1941
Colorado Territory
1949
Josette
1938
Three Strangers
1946
Lady Gangster
1942
The Bowery
1933
Only Saps Work
1930
The Flame and the Arrow
1950
Invisible Ghost
1941
Dancing in the Dark
1949
Atlantic Adventure
1935
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954
Northern Pursuit
1943
Mr. District Attorney
1941
Illegal
1955
Larceny, Inc.
1942
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
Slave Ship
1937
Old Acquaintance
1943
Flamingo Road
1949
One Foot in Heaven
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Safety in Numbers
1938
Revenue Agent
1950
If I Had a Million
1932
The Man I Love
1946
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941
Diamond Jim
1935
Among the Missing
1934
Never Say Goodbye
1946
My Favorite Blonde
1942
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
1957
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932
One Mile from Heaven
1937
Bullet Scars
1942
Wrong Again
1929
The Golden Fleecing
1940
High School
1940
The Lone Wolf Strikes
1940
King of the Jungle
1933
Spy Ship
1942
Death Flies East
1935
Orchids and Ermine
1927
Private Number
1936
Souls for Sale
1923
South of Suva
1922
Beloved
1934
Counter-Espionage
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
Horses' Collars
1935
My Six Convicts
1952
The Unfaithful
1947
Lights Out
1923
Lovebound
1923
Charlie Chan in Reno
1939
She Got What She Wanted
1930
Speak Easily
1932
Angel's Holiday
1937
Little Annie Rooney
1925
Guilty as Hell
1932
I Was Framed
1942
Lucky Me
1954
Down on the Farm
1938
School for Girls
1934
The Social Highwayman
1926
One Frightened Night
1935
Love and Hisses
1937
The Third Degree
1926
The Crime of the Century
1933
The Third Generation
1920
Frontier Days
1945
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
True to Life
1943
Saratoga Trunk
1945
The Girl Said No
1930
Tiny Troubles
1939
Sailor's Luck
1933
Chicken Wagon Family
1939
Excuse Me
1925
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
Shadows of Sing Sing
1933
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
Time Out for Romance
1937
Naughty Baby
1928
The Lady Escapes
1937
The Match-Breaker
1921
The Crime Doctor
1934
Night Spot
1938
Captain Fly-by-Night
1922
X Marks the Spot
1942
Crime by Night
1944
Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
The Noose Hangs High
1948
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944
Rough Riders' Round-up
1939
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954
Murder on the Roof
1930
Everybody's Doing It
1938
A Woman of Affairs
1928
The Naughty Flirt
1931
Crazy Like a Fox
1926
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935
Traffic in Hearts
1924
One Clear Call
1922
Going Wild
1930
The Gorilla
1927
Scarlet Pages
1930
Make Your Own Bed
1944
Boys Will Be Boys
1932
The Last Warning
1928
Red Haired Alibi
1932
Tenderloin
1928
The Donovan Affair
1929
The Silk Lined Burglar
1919
High Tension
1936
Murder on the Waterfront
1943
The Witness Chair
1936
Carnival
1935
The People's Choice
1946
Serenade
1956
The Public Menace
1935
Trial by Trigger
1944
That's My Baby
1926
A Midnight Adventure
1928
Deserted at the Altar
1922
Deadwood Dick
1940
The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
Subway Express
1931
Paths to Paradise
1925
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
The Thirteenth Hour
1927
Dear! Deer!
1942
I'll Tell the World
1934
Love in High Gear
1932
Homicide
1949
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928
Atta Boy
1926
Roaring Guns
1944
The Green Archer
1940
Murder Without Tears
1953
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
Tell No Tales
1939
The Eleventh Hour
1923
A Society Sensation
1918
Bromo and Juliet
1926
Strictly Fresh Yeggs
1934
So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952
The Off-Shore Pirate
1921
Yoo-Hoo
1932
On Trial
1928
The Faker
1929
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
The Woman Racket
1930
That I May Live
1937
Straight, Place and Show
1938
Held by the Law
1927
Jewish Prudence
1927
The 13th Juror
1927
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
Scandal Sheet
1931
How DOooo You Do
1945
I'll Be Suing You
1934
Alias Jimmy Valentine
1920
Big Business
1937
Say It with Babies
1926
Friendly Enemies
1925
Manslaughter
1922
Wide Open
1930
Seven Sinners
1925
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1925
The Garden Murder Case
1936
So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950
Side Show
1931
Men Without Law
1930
The Fire Flingers
1919
Puppets of Fate
1921
Smiling Irish Eyes
1929
One Dangerous Night
1943
While the City Sleeps
1928
The Light of Victory
1919
Rough Necking
1934
There Ain't No Santa Claus
1926
Smooth as Satin
1925
The Empty Cab
1918
Come Out Fighting
1945
Borrowing Trouble
1937
The Lawful Cheater
1925
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
Plastered in Paris
1928
At Sea Ashore
1936
So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
1946
Danger Ahead
1935
Food and Magic
1943
Young Donovan's Kid
1931
Arms and the Gringo
1914
Too Busy to Work
1939
Many Sappy Returns
1938
The Yankee Consul
1924
So You Want to Hold Your Husband
1950
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941
Discarded Lovers
1932
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
Mutiny in the County
1940
She Had to Eat
1937
Bag and Baggage
1923
A Gem of a Jam
1943
The Moth
1934
Road to Paradise
1930
The Iceman's Ball
1932
Hiss and Yell
1946
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
1943
There Are No Villains
1921
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934
Berth Quakes
1938
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1
1930
So You Want an Apartment
1948
The Song of Life
1922
The Last Card
1921
Shopping with Wifie
1932
If a Body Meets a Body
1945
So You Want to Be a Musician
1953
So You Think You Can't Sleep
1953
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942
A Left Hook
1911
Youth and Adventure
1925
The Night Hawk
1924
The Yellow Dog
1918
So You Want to Be an Actor
1949
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
1949
Moving Vanities
1939
Outlaw's Son
1954
Don't Shoot
1922
The Wright Idea
1928
Andy Plays Hookey
1946
Quiet Please!
1933
Snooper Service
1945
So You Want a Raise
1950
Strop, Look and Listen
1952
Silent Sandy
1914
The Mystery Pilot
1926
Hot Money
1935
Detour to Danger
1946
The Uneasy Three
1925
On the crew 24
The Purple Lily
1918
Over the Ledge
1914
The Exposure
1914
Her Buried Past
1915
The Fighting Gringo
1917
The Mysterious Outlaw
1917
The Pretender
1915
The Outlaw and the Lady
1917
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
1917
The Golden Bullet
1917
The Almost Good Man
1917
The Black Terror
1916
The Fugitive
1917
Six-Shooter Justice
1917
The Honor of an Outlaw
1917
Goin' Straight
1917
The Wrong Man
1917
A 44-Calibre Mystery
1917
Station Content
1915
Blood Money
1917
The Drifter
1917
Brothers Equal
1916
The Nymph
1916
Hair-Trigger Burke
1917