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Roscoe Karns
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Actor Born: September 7, 1893 in San Bernardino, CA Death: February 6, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Educated at California's Harvard Military academy and USC, "Roscoe Karns" was acting from age 15 with "Marjorie Rambeau"'s stock company. By 1922, he was playing leads at LA's Morosco theatre, which led to film work at the Christie comedy studios. He showed up in several silent features, including the historic part-talkie "The Jazz Singer" (1927) and the very first Academy Award winner, "Wings" (1927). In the early talkie era, Karns returned to the stage, then made a movie comeback playing fast-lipped reporters and press agents, most often at Columbia studios. He was awarded strong supporting roles in such Columbias as "It Happened One Night" (1934) ("Shapely's my name, and shapely's the way I like 'em"), "Twentieth Century" (1934) (working with his idol, "John Barrymore") and "His Girl Friday" (1939); he also starred in a brace of Columbia 2-reelers, "Black Eyes and Blues" and "Half Shot at Sunrise"... Full Biography
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