Richard Tucker

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BIRTHDAY

June 04, 1884

Brooklyn, New York City, NY

DIED

December 05, 1942

RECENT CREDITS

The Great Victor Herbert (FILM) Jan. 1, 1939

Test Pilot (FILM) Jan. 1, 1938

Something to Sing About (FILM) Nov. 19, 1937

Shall We Dance? (FILM) May. 7, 1937

Libeled Lady (FILM) Jan. 1, 1936

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BIOGRAPHY

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Prosperous-looking American actor Richard Tucker went from the stage to the Edison Company in 1913, where he played romantic leads before the cameras. Even in his youth, the tall, regal Tucker exuded the air of corporate success, and was best suited to roles as bankers and stockbrokers. After World War I service, Tucker resumed his film career as a character man. In talkies, the newly mustachioed, grey-haired Tucker was seen in innumerable small authoritative roles. His two best-known assignments from this period were in the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, in which he played Flash's scientist father; and in the 1932 Laurel and Hardy feature Pack Up Your Troubles, wherein Tucker was the bank president who turned out to be Mr. Smith, the grandfather of the orphan girl Stan and Ollie were protecting. Actor Richard Tucker's hundreds of film credits are often erronously attributed to latter-day Metropolitan Opera star Richard Tucker, who was born several years after the earlier Tucker had already established himself.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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