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Duke York

Mercy Plane

Shadow of the Thin Man

Ticket to Paradise

Arabian Nights

A Slight Case of Murder

Footlight Parade

Fury

Texas

AKA: Charles Everett Sinsabaugh

Born: 1902 Danby, NY

Decades Active:
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Biography: Billed as Duke York Jr. when he entered films in 1933, this muscular actor essayed such action-oriented roles as King Kala in Flash Gordon (1936). By the 1940s, York had found his particular niche as a second-string Lon Chaney Jr. He was a mainstay at Columbia's short-subject unit in the 1940s, playing the various hunchbacks, werewolves, goons, and Frankensteins who menaced such comedians as The Three Stooges, El Brendel, and Andy Clyde. One of his rare roles out of makeup was in the Stooges' 1943 comedy Higher Than a Kite, which revealed that York wasn't quite as adept at handling dialogue as he was at grunting and growling. Though Duke York committed suicide in 1952, he kept appearing in Columbia's two-reelers and Westerns through the magic of stock footage until the mid-'50s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Duke York appeared in...

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12/30/2008 - Mercy Plane
08/07/2007 - Shadow of the Thin Man
03/27/2007 - Ticket to Paradise
02/06/2007 - Arabian Nights
07/18/2006 - A Slight Case of Murder
03/21/2006 - Footlight Parade
05/10/2005 - Fury
04/05/2005 - Texas
03/01/2005 - Libeled Lady
02/22/2005 - Gene Autry Collection: Valley of Fire