
Buddy Messinger
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 26, 1907
- Died
- October 25, 1965 (aged 57)
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
Known For
Filmography

Devil's Doorway
Movie · as Barfly (uncredited)

Crime by Night
Movie · as Bellboy (uncredited)

The Affairs of Martha
Movie · as Butcher Boy (uncredited)

Brooklyn Orchid
Movie · as Bellhop with Flowers

The Gay Sisters
Movie · as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Hold Back the Dawn
Movie · as Hospital Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Citizen Kane
Movie · as Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Movie · as Reporter

Turnabout
Movie · as Elevator Boy (uncredited)

Hullabaloo
Movie · as Third Page

Keeping Company
Movie · as Basketball Ticket Boy

Love Thy Neighbor
Movie · as Elevator Boy

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie · as Elevator Boy (uncredited)

The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Movie · as Rance

Four Girls in White
Movie · as Messenger

Idiot's Delight
Movie · as Usher

Fast and Loose
Movie · as Clerk (uncredited)

Sergeant Madden
Movie · as Hospital Clerk

Fast and Furious
Movie · as First Elevator Boy (uncredited)

The Housekeeper's Daughter
Movie · as Reporter

Hold That Kiss
Movie · as Theatre Usher

The Shining Hour
Movie · as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Too Hot to Handle
Movie · as Cycle Messenger (uncredited)

Wings Over Honolulu
Movie · as Boy

Midnight Madonna
Movie · as Messenger

Three of a Kind
Movie · as Bellhop
An All American Toothache
Movie · as (uncredited)

College Holiday
Movie · as Dancer

The Devil Is a Sissy
Movie · as Elevator Operator

Modern Times
Movie · as Cigar Counterman (uncredited)

Libeled Lady
Movie · as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Keyhole Katie
Movie

Stage Mother
Movie · as Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)

Wild Boys of the Road
Movie · as Boy (uncredited)

Cheer Up and Smile
Movie · as Donald

Hot Stuff
Movie · as Tuffy

A Lady of Chance
Movie · as Hank
Undressed
Movie · as Bobby Arnold
A Sorority Mixup
Movie
Dumb-Belles
Movie
Two Arabian Sights
Movie

Monkeys Prefer Blondes
Movie
What an Eye
Movie · as Buddy - the Office Boy

The Whispered Name
Movie · as The Office Boy

Young Ideas
Movie · as Bob Lowden
The Racing Kid
Movie · as Buddy

Abysmal Brute
Movie · as Buddy Sangster
A Howling Success
Movie

Penrod and Sam
Movie · as Rodney Bitts

Trifling with Honor
Movie · as Jimmy Hunt

Shadows
Movie · as 'Mr. Bad Boy'

When Love Comes
Movie · as Coleridge Twin

The Flirt
Movie · as Hedrick Madison

A Front Page Story
Movie · as Tommy

The Old Nest
Movie · as Jim at 10
Edgar's Feast Day
Movie

Edgar, the Detective
Movie · as Freddie Littlefield

Edgar's Country Cousin
Movie · as Freddie Littlefield

Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
Movie · as Freddy Littlefield

Edgar's Hamlet
Movie · as Freddy Littlefield

Edgar Takes the Cake
Movie · as Freddy Littlefield

Edgar's Sunday Courtship
Movie · as Freddy Littlefield

Edgar's Jonah Day
Movie · as Freddy Littlefield

Edgar's Little Saw
Movie · as Freddie Littlefield

Edgar Camps Out
Movie · as Freddie Littlefield

Jinx
Movie · as Orphan

The Hoodlum
Movie · as Dish Lowry

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Movie · as Kasim Baba

Fan Fan
Movie · as Head Collector

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Movie · as Omar - Al-talib's Evil Spirit
Treasure Island
Movie · as Captain Smolett

The Babes in the Woods
Movie

Jack and the Beanstalk
Movie