Budd Fine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Budd Fine

American actor

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1894

Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1966

Profession: actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Budd Fine

  • Budd Fine (September 10, 1894 – February 9, 1966) was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.
  • Born Budd Nathan Fine on September 10, 1894, in Hartford Connecticut, Fine served in the US Army during World War I, during which he was awarded a Purple Heart.Fine broke into the film industry in a film short in 1924, Aggravatin' Papa, and would make his feature film debut later that year with a small role in the silent film, Hold Your Breath.
  • During the silent film era, he would make mostly shorts, with only a handful of appearances in feature films, including Buster Keaton's Battling Butler (1926), and as a soldier in the Cecil B.
  • De Mille's 1927 epic, The King of Kings.With the advent of the talking picture, Fine began to work steadily in feature films.
  • He would have small roles in many notable films, such as: the first talking version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1931's A Connecticut Yankee, starring Will Rogers; Les Misérables in 1935, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton; Anything Goes (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman; William Dieterle's 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton; the Cary Grant and Jean Arthur vehicle, Only Angels Have Wings, directed by Howard Hawks; another Grant film in 1943, also starring Laraine Day, Mr.
  • Lucky; the classic film noir, Lady in the Lake (1947), starring Robert Montgomery; the 1947 Bob Hope comedy, also starring Dorothy Lamour, My Favorite Brunette;.
  • The 1950s would see Fine reunite with De Mille, on his epic film, Samson and Delilah (1950), starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr; he would also appear that year in the musical, Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel.
  • He appeared in over 100 films, including over 80 feature films.

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