American actor Cliff Osmond was working in Southern repertory, summer stock and children's theatre when he was plucked from obscurity by director Billy Wilder, who cast Osmond as an oafish gendarme in Irma La Douce (1963). Osmond remained a loyal and stalwart member of Wilder's unofficial stock company. He played wannabe lyricist Barney Milsap in Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), flummoxed insurance detective Purkey in The Fortune Cookie (1966), and political stooge Jacobi in The Front Page (1974). After his "Wilder" days, Osmond was seen in such menacing roles as Pap in the 1981 TV adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In 1988, Cliff Osmond wrote and produced the independent feature The Penitent.
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1990 | |||
The Penitent
Director, Screenwriter |
1988 | |||
Copacabana
Actor |
1985 | |||
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1984 | |||
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California Gold Rush
Actor |
1981 | |||
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Incident at Crestridge
Actor |
1981 | |||
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President Must Die
Screenwriter |
1981 | |||
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Hangar 18
Actor |
1980 | |||
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Beggarman, Thief
Actor |
1979 | |||
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1979 | |||
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1979 | |||
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The Great Brain
Actor |
1978 | |||
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Mountain Man
Actor |
1977 | |||
The Mouse and His Child
Actor |
1977 | |||
Joe Panther
Actor |
1976 | |||
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1975 | |||
Emergency!: Election
Actor |
1975 | |||
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1975 | |||
Sharks' Treasure
Actor |
1975 | |||
The Art of Crime
Actor |
1975 | |||
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1975 | |||
The Front Page
Actor |
1974 | |||
Graveyard Tramps
Actor |
1973 | |||
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Oklahoma Crude
Actor |
1973 | |||
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1973 | |||
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Sweet Sugar
Actor |
1972 | |||
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The Devil's 8
Actor |
1969 | |||
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1968 | |||
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1968 | |||
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Three Guns for Texas
Actor |
1968 | |||
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1967 | |||
The Fortune Cookie
Actor |
1966 | |||
Kiss Me, Stupid!
Actor |
1964 | |||
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Wild and Wonderful
Actor |
1964 | |||
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Irma La Douce
Actor |
1963 | |||
The Raiders
Actor |
1963 | |||
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1962 | |||
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