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August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 - June 16, 1957) was an American actor. August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 – June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in five of the director's films — Citizen Kane (first screen performance), The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Macbeth and Touch of Evil (final performance, released posthumously). Born in New York City, Schilling had a rubber face and flustered gestures which made him a natural comedian and he began his career understudying comedy stars Bert Lahr and Joe Penner on Broadway. He soon became a favorite among burlesque comedians, who welcomed him into the burlesque profession. Schilling was in a relationship with burlesque star Betty Rowland and the couple toured in the Minsky burlesque troupe. Orson Welles saw Schilling in New York and followed him to Florida. There Welles hired Schilling to appear in a stage production featuring several Shakespearean scenes. "I learned my part by taking the script to Welles and having him translate the lines to everyday English," Schilling recalled in 1939. Welles promised Schilling a part in Welles's first motion picture, and kept his promise: Schilling is featured in Citizen Kane (1941). This established Schilling in Hollywood movies as a "nervous" comedian (he plays a jittery symphony conductor in Olsen and Johnson's Hellzapoppin', for example). He also co-starred with character comedian Richard Lane in a series of 11 comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures; the series ran from 1945 to 1950.
as Eddie Farnham (uncredited)
as Druggist (uncredited)
as Joe Page
as Attendant (uncredited)
as Doc Ridgeway
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
as Ed Gruman
as Mr. Rush
as Lucky
as Window Washer
as Joe Allen
as Studio Guide
as Frank
as Timothy
as Capt. Gus Schilling
as Gus
as Dean Hartley
as Benny
as A Porter
as Gus
as Gus Schilling, Lane's assistant
as Goldfish
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as Gus Schilling
as Hubert Butterfield
as Eddie Gaskin
as Gus
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as Alexander Pough
as Gus Schilling
as Gus
as Dopey Charlie
as Jafar
as J. Ambrose Winkler aka Winky
as Bill Evans
as Bucky
as Austin J. Caldwell
as Rosey Blake
as Scotty - Stage Manager
as Gillie
as Bughouse Sweeney
as Fernando
as Drug Clerk (uncredited)
as Professor Asa Quisenberry
as Joe
as Leo Cobb
as Orchestra Conductor
as Gus
as Raven
as Dave
as John
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
as Aloysius Grimshaw
as Orderly Cleaning Window
as Hotel Desk Clark
as City Dump Watchman
