Eddie Acuff

Eddie Acuff

actor

Eddie Acuff was born on Jun 03, 1908 in USA. Eddie Acuff's big-screen debut came with Here Comes the Navy directed by Lloyd Bacon in 1934, strarring Marine Orderly (uncredited). Eddie Acuff is known for Slippy McGee directed by Albert H. Kelley, Don 'Red' Barry stars as Slippy McGee and Dale Evans as Mary Hunter. The upcoming new movie Eddie Acuff plays is Stop, You're Killing Me which will be released on Jun 17, 1953.

Eddie Acuff is one of those wonderful supporting actors who peopled the fascinating world of Hollywood's A, B or Z movies. In a career spanning eighteen years he appeared in an amazing almost 300 movies and one TV episode! His appearances could be invisible (when deleted), hardly visible (he portrayed an endless series of cabbies, reporters, cameramen, cowboys, hamburger vendors, orderlies, ticket agents, militiamen, bus drivers, the lot...), short but recurring (he was the accident-prone mailman in the 'Blondie' series after Irving Bacon gave up the part) or more fleshed out, notably as the sidekick in various serials. Anyway, he nearly always played - in a very talented way - the wise-cracking guy who "knows better". Born on June 3rd 1903, Edward Acuff was drawn to acting under the influence of his maternal uncle, who had been a performer on showboats along the Mississippi. Before going to Hollywood, Eddie Acuff started a theater career, and even played on Broadway (in minor roles of course) in plays such as 'The Dark Hour', 'Heat Lightning' or 'Yellow Jack'. From 1934 to 1951 (five years before his untimely death following a sudden heart attack), Eddie Acuff worked and worked and worked. Only a few of his films are classics (La forêt pétrifiée (1936), Une femme dangereuse (1940), La Grande Évasion (1941), La vie secrète de Walter Mitty (1947), L'homme de main (1949))...So what? Seeing but a glimpse of Acuff is always a dose of pleasure guaranteed. Eddie Acuff is buried at the North Hollywood Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park.

  • Birthday

    Jun 03, 1908
  • Place of Birth

    Caruthersville, Missouri, USA

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