American stage actor Don Costello was brought to films via an MGM contract in 1939. A valuable screen menace, Costello played such steely-eyed toughies as "Noose" in Red Skelton's Whistling in the Dark (1941). He moved to 20th Century-Fox in 1942, where among other things he was seen as the elderly--but no less criminally inclined--Doc Lake in Laurel and Hardy's A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). Perhaps his frequent association with comedians enabled his screen characters to develop a sense of humor, albeit a wicked one. In the Republic "Red Ryder" western The Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945), he scores several solid laughs as an outlaw leader posing as a schoolteacher, assuring an anxious mother that he'll learn to love her children, then muttering "If they live that long...." Don Costello died suddenly at the age of 44; his last appearance was in the Alan Ladd thriller The Blue Dahlia (1946).
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The Blue Dahlia
Actor |
1946 | |||
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The Red Dragon
Actor |
1946 | |||
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Along Came Jones
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Follow That Woman
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Great Stagecoach Robbery
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Here Come the Co-Eds
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Incendiary Blonde
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Marshal of Laredo
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Nob Hill
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Mystery Man
Actor |
1944 | |||
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Texas Masquerade
Actor |
1944 | |||
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The Whistler
Actor |
1944 | |||
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Air Raid Wardens
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Crime Doctor
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Murder on the Waterfront
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Truck Busters
Actor |
1943 | |||
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A Night to Remember
Actor |
1942 | |||
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Joe Smith, American
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Just off Broadway
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Sundown Jim
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Actor |
1941 | |||
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I'll Wait for You
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Johnny Eager
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Ride on Vaquero
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Sleepers West
Actor |
1941 | |||
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The Last of the Duanes
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Unholy Partners
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Whistling in the Dark
Actor |
1941 | |||
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One Crowded Night
Actor |
1940 | |||
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Wildcat Bus
Actor |
1940 | |||
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Another Thin Man
Actor |
1939 | |||
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