Lucien Littlefield

Lucien Littlefield
Born	(1895-08-16)August 16, 1895 San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Died	Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1914–1960
Spouse(s)	Constance Palmer (1925–1960; his death)

Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895, San Antonio, Texas – June 4, 1960, Hollywood, California) was an American actor in the silent film era. He later made numerous cameo appearances on television series.

His role of the doctor in The Cat and the Canary (1927) is one of his more notable performances. He appeared with Laurel and Hardy, first as an eccentric professor in Dirty Work, and finally as a vet in their classic feature Sons of the Desert, both made in 1933. He also played Mary Pickford's father in My Best Girl in 1927. Other roles include Tumbleweeds, with William S. Hart, Ruggles of Red Gap, with Charles Laughton, and Johnny Come Lately, with James Cagney.

He played an eccentric inventor in an early Adventures of Superman episode called "The Runaway Robot". Littlefield played many character roles in other TV shows of the 1950s, such as Blondie, Lassie, Dragnet'' and Peter Gunn.

He died of natural causes in 1960, and was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

• Rose of the Rancho (1914) (uncredited)
• The Ghost Breaker (1914)
• The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
• A Gentleman of Leisure (1915)
• The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
• Kindling (1915)
• The Marriage of Kitty (1915)
• Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)
• The Unknown (1915)
• The Cheat (1915)
• Temptation (1915)
• The Golden Chance (1915)
• The Blacklist (1916)
• To Have and to Have (1916)
• The Love Mask (1916)
• The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
• A Gutter Magdalene (1916)
• The Golden Fetter (1917)
• Joan the Woman (1917)
• On Record (1917)
• The Cost of Hatred (1917)
• The Jaguar's Claws (1917)
• The Squaw Man's Son (1917)
• The Hostage (1917)
• Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1919)
• Everywoman (1919)
• Double Speed (1920)
• Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
• Jack Straw (1920)
• Sick Abed (1920)
• The Sins of St. Anthony (1920)
• The Fourteenth Man (1920)
• The Round-Up (1920)
• Eyes of the Heart (1920)
• The Furnace (1920)
• Her First Elopement (1920)
• All Souls' Eve (1921)
• The Little Clown (1921)
• Too Much Speed (1921)
• The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
• The Sheik (1921)
• Crazy to Marry (1921)
• The Hell Diggers (1921)
• Rent Free (1922)
• Tillie (1922)
• Saturday Night (1922)
• Her Husband's Trademark (1922)
• Across the Continent (1922)
• Beyond the Rocks (1922)
• Our Leading Citizen (1922)
• The Siren Call (1922)
• Manslaughter (1922)
• To Have and to Hold (1922)
• Mr. Billings Spends His Dime (1923)
• The Tiger's Claw (1923)
• Three Wise Fools (1923)
• The French Doll (1923)
• In the Palace of the King (1923)
• The Rendezvous (1923)
• Leap Year (1924)
• Name the Man (1924)
• Feet of Clay (1924)
• True As Steel (1924)
• Babbitt (1924)
• A Woman Who Sinned (1924)
• Never Say Die (1924)
• The Painted Lady (1924)
• Gerald Cranston's Lady (1924)
• Teeth (1924)
• Gold Heels (1924)
• The Deadwood Coach (1924)
• Charley's Aunt (1925)
• Gold and the Girl (1925)
• The Rainbow Trail (1925)
• What Price Goofy? (1925)
• Hearts and Spurs (1925)
• Innocent Husbands (1925)
• Madame Sans Jane (1925)
• There Goes the Bride (1925)
• Somewhere in Somewhere (1925)
• Laughing Ladies (1925)
• Tumbleweeds (1925)
• Soul Mates (1925)
• A Punch in the Nose (1926)
• Your Husband's Past (1926)
• Torrent (1926)
• Brooding Eyes (1926)
• Tony Runs Wild (1926)
• Bachelor Bride (1926)
• Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926)
• Take It from Me (1926)
• Twinkletoes (1926)
• Taxi! Taxi! (1926)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• The Lighter That Failed (1927)
• My Best Girl (1927)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
• The Small Bachelor (1927)
• Cheating Cheaters (1927)
• A Texas Steer (1927)
• The Valley of the Giants (1927)
• A Ship Comes In (1928)
• The Man in Hobbles (1928)
• A Blonde for a Night (1928)
• Harold Teen (1928)
• The Head Man (1928)
• Heart to Heart (1928)
• Mother Knows Best (1928)
• Do Your Duty (1928)
• Making the Grade (1929)
• Clear the Decks (1929)
• Saturday's Children (1929)
• This Is Heaven (1929)
• The Girl in the Glass Cage (1929)
• Drag (1929)
• Dark Streets (1929)
• The Great Divide (1929)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)
• Getting a Raise (1930)
• Clancy in Wall Street (1930)
• No No Nanette (1930)
• High Society Blues (1930)
• Big Money (1930)
• Tom Sawyer (1930)
• She's My Weakness (1930)
• Reducing (1931)
• Scandal Sheet (1931)
• It Pays to Advertise (1931)
• Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
• Young as You Feel (1931)
• Trouble from Abroad (1931)
• The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
• Broken Lullaby (1932)
• Strangers in Love (1932)
• Are You Listening? (1932)
• Shopworn (1932)
• Strangers of the Evening (1932)
• Downstairs (1932)
• That's My Boy (1932)
• Jimmy's New Yacht (1932)
• Speed Madness (1932)
• Miss Pinkerton (1932)
• Devil and the Deep (1932)
• Pride of the Legion (1932)
• Evenings for Sale (1932)
• If I Had a Million (1932)
• Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
• That's My Baby (1932)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
• Sailor's Luck (1933)
• Sweepings (1933)
• The Big Brain (1933)
• Skyway (1933)
• Chance at Heaven (1933)
• Dirty Work (1933)
• East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
• Rainbow Over Broadway (1933)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• Professional Sweetheart (1933)
• Mandalay (1934)
• Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
• Thirty Day Princess (1934)
• Marrying Widows (1934)
• Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
• When Strangers Meet (1934)
• Gridiron Flash (1934)
• Love Time (1934)
• Sweepstake Annie (1935)
• Carnival (1935)
• Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
• One Frightened Night (1935)
• The Murder Man (1935)
• I Dream Too Much (1935)
• She Gets Her Man (1935)
• Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
• The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)
• Cappy Ricks Returns (1935)
• Magnificent Obsession (1935)
• Strike Me Pink (1936)
• Rose Marie (1936)
• The Moon's Our Home (1936)
• Let's Sing Again (1936)
• Early to Bed (1936)
• Hotel Haywire (1937)
• Wild Money (1937)
• High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)
• Souls at Sea (1937)
• Partners in Crime (1937)
• Born to the West (1937)
• Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
• Wells Fargo (1937)
• Scandal Street (1938)
• Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)
• Reckless Living (1938)
• Wide Open Faces (1938)
• The Gladiator (1938)
• I Am the Law (1938)
• The Night Hawk (1938)
• Pirates of the Skies (1939)
• Mystery Plane (1939)
• Unmarried (1939)
• What a Life (1939)
• Sabotage (1939)
• Jeepers Creepers (1939)
• Money to Burn (1939)
• Those Were the Days! (1940)
• The Westerner (1940)
• Li'l Abner (1940)
• Murder Among Friends (1941)
• The Great American Broadcast (1941)
• Man at Large (1941)
• Henry Aldrich for President (1941)
• Life with Henry (1941)
• The Little Foxes (1941)
• Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
• Castle in the Desert (1942)
• The Great Man's Lady (1942)
• This Time for Keeps (1942)
• Larceny, Inc. (1942)
• Hillbilly Blitzkrieg (1942)
• Bells of Capistrano (1942)
• Whistling in Dixie (1942)
• Silent Witness (1943)
• Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)
• Johnny Come Lately (1943)
• Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943)
• Casanova in Burlesque (1944)
• Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)
• Goodnight, Sweetheart (1944)
• When the Lights Go on Again (1944)
• One Body Too Many (1944)
• Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
• Lady, Let's Dance (1944)
• The Caribbean Mystery (1945)
• Scared Stiff (1945)
• In Old Sacramento (1946)
• Rendezvous with Annie (1946)
• That Brennan Girl (1946)
• Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
• The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947)
• The Fabulous Joe (1947)
• Sweet Genevieve (1947)
• Lightnin' in the Forest (1947)
• Jinx Money (1948)
• Hollow Triumph (1948)
• Let's Live a Little (1948)
• Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
• Susanna Pass (1949)
• At Sword's Point (1952)
• Woman of the North Country (1952)
• Roar of the Crowd (1953)
• Casanova's Big Night (1954)
• Sudden Danger (1955)
• Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)
• The High Cost of Loving (1958)
• Wink of an Eye (1958)

External links

• Lucien Littlefield at the Internet Movie Database
• Lucien Littlefield at Find a Grave