Bert Wheeler
Birthday: 1895-04-06
Place of Birth: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Albert Jerome Wheeler (April 7, 1895 – January 18, 1968) was an American comedian who performed in Broadway theatre, American comedy feature films, and vaudeville acts. He was teamed with Broadway comic Robert Woolsey, and they went on to fame as Wheeler & Woolsey.
Movies
Dixiana
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When ...
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they...
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Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them...
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Rio Rita
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with...
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Caught Plastered
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming ...
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Mummy's Boys
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, g...
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Hold 'Em Jail
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship ...
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Half Shot at Sunrise
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I....
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Kentucky Kernels
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Mil...
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The Rainmakers
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spel...
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The Nitwits
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a ...
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Girl Crazy
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dan...
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians....
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runne...
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Peach-o-Reno
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other,...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe...
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etti...
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So This Is Africa
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance....
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Las Vegas Nights
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nigh...
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High Flyers
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out....
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The Awful Sleuth
Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't rec...
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Too Many Cooks
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause ...
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Diplomaniacs
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they ...
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Cracked Nuts
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people t...
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On Again—Off Again
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug com...
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Innocently Guilty
Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife....
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Silly Billies
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in t...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 9
Announced by Bert Wheeler and featuring Marceline Day, Wesley Barry, Dorothy Jordan, Sally Starr, Ma...
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles....
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Classic Comedy Teams
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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