From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Vince Barnett July 4 1902 August 10 1977 was an American film and television actor He appeared on stage originally Barnetts initial involvement with Hollywood was as a screenwriter writing screenplays for the tworeeler movies of the late 1920s He began appearing in films in 1930 playing hundreds of comedy bits and supporting parts One of his more sizable screen roles was the moronic illiterate gangster secretary in Scarface 1932 Among his bestregarded early roles apart from Scarface were The Big Cage 1933 Thirty Day Princess 1934 and Princess OHara 1935 In later years Barnett played straight character parts often as careworn little men undertakers janitors bartenders and drunks in pictures ranging from films noir The Killers 1946 to westerns Springfield Rifle 1952 He was a welcome presence in B comedies and mysteries as Runyonesque gangsters in Petticoat Larceny 1943 Little Miss Broadway 1947 and Gas House Kids Go West 1947 and notably as Tom Conways enthusiastic sidekick in The Falcons Alibi 1946 After World War II with the Hollywood studios making fewer films Barnett became a familiar face on television
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