After becoming an orphan as a baby - his mother died at the age of 17 - he was raised by his father and aunt, and later a step-mother, he went to New York, where he tried to break into showbiz. He got his first break with Gus Edwards, working later as actor in several shows, among them "The Gingerbread Man" and "When Dreams Come True". During this ...
Patsy Orr, Sally Haines, Bernice Wheeler, Margaret Grae
Children
Patricia Walters
Movies
Hips, Hips, Hooray!, Half Shot at Sunrise, Diplomaniacs, Dixiana, Rio Rita, Hook, Line and Sinker, Cracked Nuts, Cockeyed Cavaliers, The Cuckoos, Kentucky Kernels, So This Is Africa, The Nitwits, Peach O'Reno, Caught Plastered, Hold 'Em Jail, High Flyers, The Rainmakers, On Again-Off Again, Girl Cra...
TV Shows
Brave Eagle
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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[on working for Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., who made no secret of the fact that he didn't appreciate comics] You could never get the stage to rehearse. He'd be using it to drape those gorgeous dames. You could rehearse in the alley for all he cared. But when you worked for Mr. Ziegfeld you had made it. That was the tops.
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Fact
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Nine of the 21 movies he and Woolsey made together were released in a DVD collection entitled "Wheeler & Woolsey: RKO Comedy Classics Collection" in March 2013 by Warner Archive.
2
Bert Wheeler had one child with actress Bernice Wheeler. Their daughter, Patricia Anne Wheeler, was born in 1936 and died of cancer in 1968.
3
In later years he teamed with a new partner, Tommy Dillon, a young chap he worked with in Las Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter.
4
Was teamed with Robert Woolsey for the Broadway production "Rio Rita", the teaming was so successful, that they were signed by RKO to repeat their stage roles in a movie version. Wheeler & Woolsey were the first comedy team to emerge as stars from sound pictures with their partnership lasting until Woolsey's death in 1938.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Defenders
1962
TV Series
Mike Finn
The Robert Herridge Theater
1960
TV Series
The Life of Riley
1956
TV Series
Thaddeus
Brave Eagle
1955-1956
TV Series
Smokey Joe
Smokey
The Awful Sleuth
1951
Short
Bert
Musical Comedy Time
1950
TV Series
Chuck Bean
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
TV Series
Character
Cavalcade of Stars
1950
TV Series
Guest Comedian
Innocently Guilty
1950
Short
Hodkinson G. Pogglebrewer
Las Vegas Nights
1941
Stu Grant
The Cowboy Quarterback
1939
Harry Lynn
A Vaudeville Interlude
1938
Short
Bert (as Bert)
High Flyers
1937
Jerry Lane
Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937
Short
Bert Wheeler
On Again-Off Again
1937
William Hobbs
Mummy's Boys
1936
Stanley Wright
Silly Billies
1936
Roy Banks
The Rainmakers
1935
Billy
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
1935
Short
Bert Wheeler
The Nitwits
1935
Johnny
Kentucky Kernels
1934
Willie
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
Bert Winstanley
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
1934
Andy
Signing 'em Up
1933
Short
Bert Wheeler
Diplomaniacs
1933
Willy
So This Is Africa
1933
Wilbur
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
Curley Harris
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
Short
Character
Girl Crazy
1932
Jimmy Deegan - The Taxi Driver
Peach-O-Reno
1931
Wattles
Caught Plastered
1931
Tommy Tanner
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
1931
Short
Mark Antony
Too Many Cooks
1931
Albert 'Al' Bennett
Cracked Nuts
1931
Wendell Graham
The Stolen Jools
1931
Short
Bert Wheeler
Hook Line and Sinker
1930
Wilbur Boswell
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930
Tommy Turner
Dixiana
1930
Peewee
The Cuckoos
1930
Sparrow
The Voice of Hollywood No. 9
1930
Short
Bert Wheeler - Guest Host
Small Timers
1929
Short
Bert Wheeler
Rio Rita
1929
Chick Bean
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
Video documentary performer: "Unidentified Tune" - uncredited
performer: "One Happy Family" 1937, "Thanks to You" 1937
Silly Billies
1936
performer: "Tumble on Tumbleweed" 1931 - uncredited
The Rainmakers
1935
performer: "Isn't Love the Grandest Thing?" 1935 - uncredited
The Nitwits
1935
"Music in My Heart" 1935 / performer: "Music in My Heart" 1935
Kentucky Kernels
1934
performer: "One Little Kiss" 1934, "Supper Song" 1934 - uncredited
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
performer: "And the Big Bad Wolf was Dead" 1934, "Dilly Dally" 1934 - uncredited
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
1934
"Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" 1933, uncredited / performer: "Keep Romance Alive" 1933, "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" 1933 - uncredited
Diplomaniacs
1933
performer: "Ood-Gay Eye-bay" 1933, "Annie Laurie" ca 1834, "Sing To Me" 1933, "On the Boulevard" 1933, "Sing to Me" 1933, "The Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851, "No More War" 1933 - uncredited
Girl Crazy
1932
performer: "You've Got What Gets Me" 1932 - uncredited
Peach-O-Reno
1931
performer: "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 1921, "From Niagara Falls to Reno", "Carolina Moon" 1928, "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", "Les patineurs The Skaters" - uncredited
Caught Plastered
1931
performer: "The Fountain in the Park" 1884, "I'm That Way About You" 1931 - uncredited
Cracked Nuts
1931
performer: "Dance" 1931 - uncredited
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930
performer: "WHISTLING THE BLUES AWAY" 1930 - uncredited
Dixiana
1930
performer: "My One Ambition Is You" 1930, "I Am Your Baby Now" - uncredited
The Cuckoos
1930
performer: "Oh! How We Love Our Alma Mater" 1926, "Good-Bye" 1926, "I Love You So Much It's a Wonder You Don't Feel It" 1930, "Sweet Adeline" 1903 - uncredited
Rio Rita
1929
performer: "Are You There" 1927, "Out on the Loose" 1927, "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other" 1927 - uncredited
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Brown Derby
1926
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Merv Griffin Show
1965-1966
TV Series
Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1952-1960
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Comedian
Brains & Brawn
1958
TV Series
Himself
The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom
1958
TV Series
Himself
The NBC Comedy Hour
1956
TV Series
Himself - Comedian
Stage Show
1954
TV Series
Himself
The Arthur Murray Party
1951-1952
TV Series
Himself - Comedian / Himself - Comedic Actor / Himself - Actor
All Star Summer Revue
1952
TV Series
Himself - Co-Host
The James Melton Show
1951
TV Series
Himself
Cavalcade of Stars
1949-1951
TV Series
Himself - Guest Comic / Himself - Guest Vaudeville Comic / Himself - Host
$4 Million
