Arthur Lake
Birthday: 1905-04-16
Place of Birth: Corbin, Kentucky, USA
Biography: Arthur Lake (April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.
Movies
Blondie
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion i...
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his...
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Blondie Takes a Vacation
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the estab...
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods bos...
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr...
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Blondie on a Budget
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old gi...
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Blondie Plays Cupid
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie...
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Blondie in Society
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie...
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Blondie for Victory
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the...
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Blondie Goes Latin
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the femal...
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Blondie Goes to College
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan...
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Blondie's Blessed Event
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby ...
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Footlight Glamour
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he ...
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It's a Great Life
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mix...
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Peek-A-Boo
Arthur Lake plays a bellhop whose dream is to become the house-detective at the hotel. A robbery at ...
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Leave It to Blondie
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a pl...
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Blondie Knows Best
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while ...
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Blondie's Lucky Day
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time b...
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Life with Blondie
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest...
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Blondie in the Dough
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so...
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Blondie's Anniversary
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surpr...
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Blondie's Big Moment
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in t...
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Blondie's Holiday
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount...
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Blondie's Reward
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by...
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Blondie's Secret
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised t...
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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a constructi...
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Blondie's Big Deal
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he ...
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Beware of Blondie
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to ...
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Blondie's Hero
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of ...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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Topper
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to...
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True Confession
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an...
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Night Owls
The story is about a rebellious rich daughter who, instead of buckling down in school, is man-crazy ...
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Indiscreet
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past sh...
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On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,...
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The Air Circus
Lost film. Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix s...
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Orchids to You
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's mar...
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Girl o' My Dreams
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an elec...
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Tanned Legs
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spen...
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The Big Show-Off
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order ...
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Dance Hall
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to...
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Annapolis Salute
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man...
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23 1/2 Hours Leave
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding...
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The Silver Streak
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport...
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Exiled to Shanghai
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in ...
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Cheer Up and Smile
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fi...
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She's My Weakness
Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherite...
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I Cover Chinatown
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder....
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Everybody's Doing It
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspap...
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Double Danger
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". ...
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Cradle Snatchers
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Dr...
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Harold Teen
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirite...
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The Return of Mr. Hook
Seaman Hook has big plans for after the war, mostly involving rushing home and marrying his sweetie....
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Lilac Time
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit...
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Tokyo Woes
Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at...
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The Good Egg
Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds....
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The Winnah!
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All t...
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Sailor's Holiday
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just bro...
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Midshipman Jack
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S....
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3 Is a Family
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays ...
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A Free Ride
Arthur and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ri...
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest a...
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The Bride's Play
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which...
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Whose Baby?
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, b...
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New Shoes
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes....
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Sporting Life
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter ...
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Starlit Days at the Lido
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is...
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Hop Along
Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student wh...
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Peeks at Hollywood
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood....
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Skinner's Dress Suit
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, s...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha...
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California Straight Ahead
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his w...
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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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Meet the Family
A man who works for a sporting-supply company mistakenly orders surfboards instead of surfballs and ...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack c...
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The Count of Ten
A promising young prizefighter sees his career start to go down the drain after he gets married and ...
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