Henry Armetta
Birthday: 1888-07-03
Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Biography: Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta, July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an Italian-born American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, starting in silents around 1915 to 1946, when his last film was released posthumously. From Wikipedia.
Movies
One Night of Love
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, ...
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The Black Cat
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Wer...
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Dust Be My Destiny
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...
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Love, Live & Laugh
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't ...
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Steady Company
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Cly...
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Straight from the Heart
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help...
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Five and Ten
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New Y...
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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Imitation of Life
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The t...
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The Desert's Price
Returning from college, Wils McCann discovers that the long-standing feud between his family and the...
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In Old Arizona
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and char...
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The Devil's Brother
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo,...
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The Unholy Garden
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hi...
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7th Heaven
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered ...
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Romance
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman....
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a...
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Just a Gigolo
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young B...
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Let's Sing Again
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York....
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Two Heads on a Pillow
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife....
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The Poor Rich
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their...
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Fisherman's Wharf
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in ...
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Make a Wish
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny S...
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Half Marriage
A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose he...
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The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business....
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Dinky
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso...
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Laughing at Life
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities a...
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Lovin' the Ladies
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling th...
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Anchors Aweigh
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai...
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Too Much Harmony
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."...
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Everybody Sing
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fel...
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Bachelor's Affairs
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided...
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Street Angel
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carniva...
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The Girl Said No
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams...
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Laughing Sinners
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to c...
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Hide-Out
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the f...
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Wake Up and Dream
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time....
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Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kill...
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Princess O'Hara
When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertent...
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Magnificent Obsession
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death....
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Arsène Lupin
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even ...
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Huddle
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...
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The Cat and the Fiddle
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer....
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap ...
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Moonlight and Monkey Business
Piecemeal, chaotic slapstick comedy revolving around honeymooners and various misunderstandings....
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Homesick
Babe, a lonely servant girl in California, puts a "husband wanted" ad in the newspaper......
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Two in a Crowd
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi...
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The Sins of the Children
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate ou...
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Sunny Side Up
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Moll...
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The Escape
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to...
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Caught in the Act
On the day of his daughter's wedding, a good-natured construction worker (Henry Armetta) is suspecte...
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The Ship from Shanghai
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward,...
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The Big Store
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store,...
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What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters...
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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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After Office Hours
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder....
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You're Not So Tough
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys ...
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Submarine Patrol
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m...
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The Magnificent Brute
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ign...
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Sightseeing in New York
Nick, and Tony, are New York City taxicab drivers, who are constantly arguing in broken-English and ...
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A Girl in Every Port
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle...
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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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Kiss and Make-Up
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes th...
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his miser...
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Stage Door Canteen
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars o...
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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do...
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Speed to Burn
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raisi...
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Winner Take All
When a waiter makes a lucky hit and wins a benefit prizefight, gamblers rig some fights for him; but...
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Road Demon
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk y...
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Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home ...
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Week Ends Only
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. The...
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Red-Headed Woman
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Carnival Day
It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the sing...
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Hello Pop
A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental m...
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The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country....
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The Red Dance
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, ...
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The Marble Heart
Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, be...
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Top of the Town
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom...
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Manhattan Moon
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but R...
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Cheating Cheaters
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, t...
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Good Time Henry
Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover th...
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The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family...
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A Tailor-Made Man
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he b...
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Madame X
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen...
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Rasputin and the Empress
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russ...
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A Farewell to Arms
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederi...
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Little Accident
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby....
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Hush Money
Story of a girl who tries to live down the past and marries a wealthy man. Blackmail attempt by old ...
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Once Upon a Time
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set o...
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Deception
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have be...
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Let's Talk It Over
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately ...
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Romance in the Rain
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind...
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3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
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Strangers May Kiss
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casu...
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A Bell for Adano
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...
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The Doomed Battalion
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Ital...
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Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled ...
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The Passionate Plumber
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagor...
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Okay, America!
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell....
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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head
A writer discovers he's being used as a pawn by greedy businessmen....
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to h...
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Hat Check Girl
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others be...
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Embarrassing Moments
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it lo...
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Lady of the Pavements
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He te...
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony....
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The Eternal Sin
Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married th...
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The Face at Your Window
Two factory owners, Hiram Maxwell and Nicholas Harding are almost polar opposites -- Maxwell pays ca...
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Lonesome
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each...
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The Silent Command
A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his sed...
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