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Jack Oakie

Jack Oakie

Highest Rated: 100% Thieves' Highway (1949)

Lowest Rated: 71% It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Birthday: Nov 12, 1903

Birthplace: Sedalia, Missouri, USA

Delightfully brash character actor of the 1930s and 40s, Oakie was famed for his double-takes and gleeful song-and-dance style. A vaudeville performer from the early 1920s, Oakie first hit Broadway in Mistinguette's "Innocent Eyes" (1924). Talkies proved a boon to Oakie, who was signed by Paramount in 1927 and played wisecracking collegiates in several early musicals (notably "Sweetie," 1929, with Helen Kane).

Highest rated movies

100% Thieves' Highway
100% If I Had a Million
92% Lover Come Back
92% The Great Dictator
79% The Texas Rangers
78% Murder at the Vanities
71% It Happened Tomorrow

Photos

ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Roscoe Karns as Tweedledee, Jack Oakie as Tweedledum, 1933 BIG BROADCAST OF 1936, Jack Oakie, 1935 BIG BROADCAST OF 1936, Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, Henry Wadsworth, 1935 THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST, Jack Oakie, 1941, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved ICELAND, John Payne, Jack Oakie, 1942, (c) 20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright JUNE MOON, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, 1931 LITTLE MEN, George Bancroft, Jack Oakie, 1940 THE MERRY MONAHANS, Peggy Ryan, Donald O'Connor, Jack Oakie, 1944 THE MERRY MONAHANS, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, 1944 MILLION DOLLAR LEGS, Andy Clyde (crouching), Jack Oakie, 1932 ONCE IN A LIFETIME, Jack Oakie, Mona Maris, 1932 RISE AND SHINE, Jack Oakie, 1941. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright SHE WROTE THE BOOK, Jack Oakie, 1946 SONG OF THE ISLANDS, Jack Oakie, 1942. ©20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, TM & Copyright THE TOAST OF NEW YORK, Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, 1937 THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK, Jack Oakie, 1933 THE TEXAS RANGERS, Jack Oakie, Fred MacMurray, 1936 THE TEXAS RANGERS, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Oakie, 1936 THAT GIRL FROM PARIS, Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Lily Pons, Frank Jenks, 1936. TOMAHAWK, Van Heflin, Jack Oakie, 1951
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
92% 77% Lover Come Back J. Paxton Miller (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 58% The Rat Race Mac (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 36% The Wonderful Country Travis Hyte (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 11% Tomahawk Sol Beckworth (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last of the Buccaneers Sgt. Dominick (Character) - 1950
100% 79% Thieves' Highway Slob (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Northwest Stampede Mike Kirby (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet When My Baby Smiles at Me Bozo Evans (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet She Wrote the Book Jerry Marlowe (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet That's the Spirit Steve "Slim" Gogarty (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet On Stage Everybody Michael Sullivan (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweet and Lowdown Popsy (Character) - 1944
71% 68% It Happened Tomorrow Uncle Oscar Smith/Cigolini (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Merry Monahans Pete Monahan (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bowery to Broadway Michael O'Rourke (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Something to Shout About Larry Martin (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wintertime Unknown (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 60% Hello, Frisco, Hello Dan Daley (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 38% Song of the Islands Rusty Smith (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 33% Iceland Slip Riggs (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 60% The Great American Broadcast Chuck Hadley (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rise and Shine Boley Bolenciecwcz (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Navy Blues Cake O'Hara (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 66% Young People Joe Ballantine (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 40% Little Men Willie (Character) - 1940
92% 95% The Great Dictator Napaloni (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 43% Tin Pan Alley Harry Aloysius Calhoun (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Annabel Takes a Tour Lanny Morgan (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Radio City Revels Harry (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thanks for Everything Bates (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 40% The Affairs of Annabel Lanny Morgan (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hitting a New High Corny Davis (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 48% The Toast of New York Luke (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 14% Super Sleuth Willard `'Bill'` Martin (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 17% That Girl From Paris Whammo Lonsdale (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fight for Your Lady Honest Hamilton (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Champagne Waltz Happy Gallagher (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 0% Colleen Joe Cork (Character) - 1936
79% 72% The Texas Rangers Henry B. "Wahoo" Jones (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Florida Special Bangs Carter (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet King of Burlesque Cooney (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 53% Call of the Wild Shorty Hoolihan (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 60% The Big Broadcast of 1936 Spud Miller (Character) - 1935
78% 38% Murder at the Vanities Jack Ellery (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet College Rhythm Francis J. Finnegan (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sitting Pretty Chick Parker (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 72% The Eagle and the Hawk Mike "Slug" Richards (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Too Much Harmony Benny Day (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet From Hell to Heaven Charlie Bayne (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Looking for Trouble Casey (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sailor Be Good Kelsey Jones (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet 77% Million Dollar Legs Migg Tweeny (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Uptown New York Eddie Doyle (Character) - 1932
100% 69% If I Had a Million Pvt. Mulligan (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dancers in the Dark Duke Taylor (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Once in a Lifetime George Lewis (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dude Ranch Jenifer/Vance Kilroy (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gang Buster "Cyclone" Case (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touchdown Babe Barton (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Let's Go Native Voltaire McGinnis (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Social Lion Marco Perkins (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chinatown Nights The Reporter (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet 64% The Wild Party Al (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Harmony Ben Barney (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet 83% Street Girl Joe Spring (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man I Love Lew Layton (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fleet's In Searchlight Doyle (Character) - 1928

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 100% Night Gallery Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1966