From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Clarence William Kolb July 31 1874 November 25 1964 was an American vaudeville performer and actor He was born in Cleveland Ohio the only child of second generation Austrian parents who owned a local meat company Kolb started out as one half of a vaudeville comedy team Kolb and Dill with Max Dill They styled their act on the famous team of Weber and Fields In addition to their stage work they appeared in a series of short films and a feature length movie in 1917 Afterwards Kolb made a return to vaudeville and he only returned to the movies in the late 1930s He became famous for portraying the same type of character in many films namely a politician or businessman He is best remembered for his role as the grumpy father in the multiAcademy Awards nominated hit comedy film Merrily We Live 1938 the corrupt mayor in the comedy His Girl Friday 1940 and as Mr Honeywell in the television sitcom My Little Margie 1952 Kolb played himself in his last movie appearance Man of a Thousand Faces 1957 opposite Danny Beck who played the late Max Dill Clarence Kolb died at age 90 of a stroke at the Orchard Gables Sanitarium in Hollywood He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale California
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