
Chester Clute
Department: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chester Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films. He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Known For

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944

Manpower
1941

Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942

Here Comes Elmer
1943

One Exciting Week
1946

True Confession
1937

Nothing But Trouble
1944

Kill the Umpire
1950

All Through the Night
1942

Larceny, Inc.
1942

The Town Went Wild
1944

To Each His Own
1946

The Clock
1945

Just Off Broadway
1942

Train to Alcatraz
1948

Change of Heart
1938

Plane Crazy
1933

Colorado Sundown
1952

Guest Wife
1945

A Tragedy at Midnight
1942

Walking the Baby
1933

Niagara Falls
1941

He Couldn't Say No
1938

Love Thy Neighbor
1940

She Couldn't Say No
1940

Swing Fever
1943

Mr. Chump
1938

Lucky Losers
1950

Rationing
1944

The Door Knocker
1931

The Wrong Road
1937

The Desperadoes
1943

Navy Blues
1937

Easy Come, Easy Go
1947

Go Chase Yourself
1938

Artists and Models Abroad
1938

Comet Over Broadway
1938

Service de Luxe
1938

Spook Busters
1946

Anchors Aweigh
1945

She Went to the Races
1945

Annabel Takes a Tour
1938

Kentucky Jubilee
1951

Millionaires in Prison
1940

Stop That Cab
1951

Television Spy
1939

Three Hearts for Julia
1943

A Little Bit of Heaven
1940

The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940

Living on Love
1937

Life in Sometown, U.S.A.
1938

Youth Takes a Fling
1938

Live, Love and Learn
1937

Love Is a Headache
1938

Dance Charlie Dance
1937

Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1938

Exclusive
1937

Cinderella Jones
1946

Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1944

Dodge City
1939

East Side of Heaven
1939

Bachelor Mother
1939

The Spellbinder
1939

Miracles for Sale
1939

Dancing Co-Ed
1939

Dust Be My Destiny
1939

Arsène Lupin Returns
1938

In the Good Old Summertime
1949

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940

Lady on a Train
1945

A Likely Story
1947

You Can't Take It with You
1938

3 Men in White
1944

Arson Squad
1945

Mildred Pierce
1945

Remember the Night
1940

Blondie on a Budget
1940

Mary Ryan, Detective
1949

Hold Back the Dawn
1941

Dangerous Partners
1945

This Gun for Hire
1942

Scattergood Meets Broadway
1941

The West Side Kid
1943

Sagebrush Law
1943

The Forest Rangers
1942

Rascals
1938

Sun Valley Serenade
1941

Hired Wife
1940

Dance, Girl, Dance
1940

Sing, You Sinners
1938

Scared Stiff
1953

Turnabout
1940

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940

My Favorite Wife
1940

Too Many Girls
1940

San Diego I Love You
1944

Master Minds
1949

This Thing Called Love
1940

Wildcat Bus
1940

The Strange Mrs. Crane
1948

Laugh It Off
1939

Two O'Clock Courage
1945

Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946

What a Woman
1943

Suddenly It's Spring
1947

The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946

Someone to Remember
1943

The Perils of Pauline
1947

George Washington Slept Here
1942

Earl Carroll Vanities
1945

Crime Doctor
1943

Three Girls About Town
1941

The Fleet's In
1942

Singin' Spurs
1948

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1944

Valley of the Sun
1942

The Spoilers
1942

Square Dance Jubilee
1949

The Falcon in Hollywood
1944

On Our Merry Way
1948

The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942

Chatterbox
1943

Big Town Girl
1937

New York Town
1941

Mary Lou
1948

The Remarkable Andrew
1942

Get Hep to Love
1942

Inside Job
1946

Unfinished Business
1941

My Favorite Spy
1942

Ringside
1949

Public Deb No. 1
1940

Web of Danger
1947

The More the Merrier
1943

False Faces
1943

All That I Have
1951

She Knew All the Answers
1941

So's Your Uncle
1943

She Gets Her Man
1945

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947

Wedding Worries
1941

Too Busy to Work
1939

Du Barry Was a Lady
1943

Crazy House
1943

No Place for a Lady
1943

Princess O'Rourke
1943

On an Island with You
1948

Hard to Get
1938

The Jury's Secret
1938

Crash Donovan
1936

Reckless Age
1944

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948

The Secret Heart
1946

Angel on My Shoulder
1946

Always Together
1947

The Good Humor Man
1950

Pardon My Sarong
1942

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945

That Brennan Girl
1946

On Stage Everybody
1945

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

The Man Who Walked Alone
1945

Joe Palooka in the Knockout
1947

Swing Fever
1943

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950

Personal Maid
1931

Blondie's Big Deal
1949

Blondie's Reward
1948

Down Missouri Way
1946

The Meanest Man in the World
1943

The Great Garrick
1937

The Crimson Key
1947

Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948

Meet the Stewarts
1942

Sing Your Way Home
1945

Kimbar of the Jungle
1949

Canyon Passage
1946

Along Came Ruth
1933

Invisible Stripes
1939

Let's Go Stepping
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