Dick Wessel
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| AKA: Richard Wessel |
| Born: 1913 |
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| Biography: American actor Dick Wessel had a face like a Mack Truck bulldog and a screen personality to match. After several years on stage, Wessel began showing up in Hollywood extra roles around 1933; he is fleetingly visible in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933), Laurel and Hardy's Bonnie Scotland (1935), and the Columbia "screwball" comedy She Couldn't Take It (1935). The size of his roles increased in the '40s; perhaps his best feature-film showing was as the eponymous bald-domed master criminal in | ||||||||||||
DVDs that Dick Wessel appeared in...
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- 05/13/2008 - It Happened in Brooklyn
- 03/25/2008 - Brother Orchid
- 08/22/2006 - Aland Ladd: Beast of Berlin
- 07/18/2006 - City for Conquest
- 01/31/2006 - Squadron of Doom
- 10/25/2005 - Blackbeard the Pirate
- 04/26/2005 - X Marks the Spot
- 04/19/2005 - They Died With Their Boots On
- 02/01/2005 - Thieves' Highway [Criterion Collection]
- 01/25/2005 - Angels With Dirty Faces