J. Carrol Naish

Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

He became a dialect specialist, and was called upon to play character roles of many nationalities, including Southern European (especially Italian), Eastern European, Latin American, American Indians, Middle Eastern, South Asian, East Asian, Pacific Islander—even black, which earned him the moniker "Hollywood's one-man U.N."<ref name=Obit/> His own heritage was Irish but he rarely played Irish characters, explaining, "When the part of an Irishman comes along, nobody ever thinks of me."Template:Efn

Naish received two Oscar nominations for his supporting roles in the films Sahara (1943) and A Medal for Benny (1945), the latter of which also earned him a Golden Globe. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Early life

Naish was born in New York City on January 21, 1896.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> According to the actor's 1945 résumé, he was educated at St. Cecilia's Academy in New York City, and appeared on stage in Paris and New York before beginning his screen career.<ref>Naish's professional profile, published in International Motion Picture Almanac, 1945-46 Edition, New York: Quigley Publishing, 1945, p. 279.</ref>

Career

Although he played an uncredited bit role in the silent film What Price Glory? (1926), Naish said his screen career didn't actually begin until 1930, when stage actors were being recruited for the new talking pictures.<ref>Naish's professional profile, 1945.</ref> He became a prolific supporting actor, appearing in more than 200 films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role as Giuseppe in the movie Sahara (1943), in which he delivers the propaganda speech:

Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress up his Italians only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers, he cannot like Hitler make them feel like that. He cannot like Hitler scrape from their conscience the knowledge right is right and wrong is wrong, or dig holes in their heads to plant his own Ten Commandments- Steal from thy neighbor, Cheat thy neighbor, Kill thy neighbor! But are my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made of my country a concentration camp, who has made of my people slaves? Must I kiss the hand that beats me, lick the boot that kicks me? NO!

The second was for his performance as the title character's Hispanic father in the movie A Medal for Benny (1945).<ref name=Thise/> For the latter film, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

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J. Carrol Naish from a trailer for the film Hit the Deck (1955)

He often played villains, from gangsters in numerous Paramount pictures to mad scientists, such as Dr. Daka in Columbia's Batman serial. In this screen adaptation of the comic book, Naish was originally cast as The Joker, but was recast as a Japanese supervillain suitable to the patriotic wartime plotline.

In the 1940s Naish was a supporting character in a number of horror films. He played Boris Karloff's assistant in House of Frankenstein (1944).

On radio, Naish starred as Luigi Basco on the CBS program Life with Luigi (1948–1953).<ref name=Dunning/> LuigiTemplate:'s popularity resulted in a CBS television series of the same name, with Naish reprising his role.<ref name=Candeloro/>

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Three generations of Naishes in 1952. Seated is Patrick Naish; standing are his son, J. Carrol, and granddaughter, Elaine. Elaine Naish was an actress who often played supporting roles on Life With Luigi.

In 1955, Naish originated the role of Alfieri in the one-act, verse version of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge on Broadway, also starring Van Heflin and Eileen Heckart.<ref name="ibdb">Template:IBDB show</ref>

In 1957–1958, Naish played the lead role in the television series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan. Speaking in 2023, co-star James Hong said Naish had him fired from the series just because Hong had missed a single line, and accused Naish of having held "a deep prejudice".<ref name="Grdn">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Naish worked mostly in guest roles on television through the 1960s; his most recent motion picture credit was from 1964. In 1971, the 75-year-old actor was coaxed out of retirement by producer and horror-film enthusiast Samuel M. Sherman to star in a new big-screen thriller, Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971). Naish played a descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, who takes to murdering young women for experimentation in hopes of reviving his ancestor's creation. His mute assistant was played by Lon Chaney Jr. Dracula vs. Frankenstein was the last film of both Naish and Chaney.

Personal life

Naish was married (from 1929 until his death) to actress Gladys Heaney; they had one daughter, Elaine.<ref name=Obit/>

Naish retired to San Diego and died of emphysema on January 24, 1973, at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, three days after his 77th birthday.<ref name="latimes"/> He is interred at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> For his contributions to television, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name="latimes"/>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1926	What Price Glory	French Soldier	Uncredited
1930	Cheer Up and Smile	Bit Part	Uncredited
1931	The Royal Bed	Laker	Credited as Carrol Naish
1931	Gun Smoke	Mink Gordon
1931	Surrender	French Prisoner of War	Uncredited
1931	Tonight or Never	Radio Announcer	Uncredited
1931	The Finger Points	Phone Voice ("The Finger is on You")	Uncredited
1932	The Hatchet Man	Sun Yat Ming	Credited as J. Carroll Naish Alternative title: The Honorable Mr. Wong
1932	The Beast of the City	Cholo
1932	No Living Witness	Nick
1932	The Mouthpiece	Tony Rocco	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1932	The Famous Ferguson Case	Claude Wright
1932	Two Seconds	Tony	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1932	Crooner	Nick Meyer
1932	Big City Blues	Bootlegger	Uncredited
1932	Tiger Shark	Tony	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1932	The Kid from Spain	Pedro
1932	Frisco Jenny	Ed Harris	Uncredited
1932	Week-End Marriage	Joe	Uncredited
1933	No Other Woman	Bonelli
1933	The Past of Mary Holmes	Gary Kent
1933	Infernal Machine	Bryan	Uncredited
1933	Central Airport	Drunk in wreck	Uncredited
1933	The World Gone Mad	Ramon Salvadore
1933	Elmer, the Great	Jerry	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1933	The Devil's in Love	Salazar
1933	Arizona to Broadway	Tommy Monk
1933	Captured!	Cpl. Guarand	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1933	Ann Vickers	Dr. Sorelle	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1933	The Mad Game	Chopper Allen
1933	Havana Widows	First Taxi Driver	Uncredited
1933	The Mystery Squadron	Collins	Film serial
1934	Upper World	Lou Colima	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1934	What's Your Racket?	Dick Graves
1934	Murder in Trinidad	Duval
1934	One Is Guilty	Jack Allen
1934	British Agent	Commissioner of War Trotsky	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1934	Maria Galante	French Sailor Painting Ship	Uncredited
1934	The President Vanishes	Anti-War Demonstrator	Uncredited
1935	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Grand Vizier
1935	Black Fury	Steve Croner
1935	Front Page Woman	Robert Cardoza	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1935	The Crusades	Arab Slave Dealer	Uncredited
1935	Little Big Shot	Bert	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1935	Special Agent	Joe Durell	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1935	Confidential	'Lefty' Tate
1935	Captain Blood	Cahusac	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1936	Two in the Dark	Burt Mansfield
1936	Exclusive Story	Comos
1936	Robin Hood of El Dorado	Three-Fingered Jack
1936	Charlie Chan at the Circus	Tom Holt
1936	Moonlight Murder	Bejac
1936	Absolute Quiet	Pedro
1936	Special Investigator	Edward J. Selton
1936	Anthony Adverse	Maj. Doumet	Credited as J. Carroll Naish
1936	Ramona	Juan Can
1936	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Subahdar-Major Puran Singh
1936	Exclusive Story	Comos
1936	Crack-Up	Operative #77
1937	Border Cafe	Rocky Alton
1937	Think Fast, Mr. Moto	Adram
1937	Hideaway	Mike Clarke
1937	Sea Racketeers	Harry Durant
1937	Bulldog Drummond Comes Back	Mikhail Valdin
1937	Thunder Trail	Rafael Lopez
1937	Daughter of Shanghai	Frank Barden
1938	Her Jungle Love	Kuasa
1938	Bulldog Drummond in Africa	Richard Lane
1938	King of Alcatraz	Steve Murkil
1939	Persons in Hiding	Freddie 'Gunner' Martin
1939	Hotel Imperial	Kuprin
1939	Beau Geste	Rasinoff
1939	Island of Lost Men	Gregory Prin
1940	Typhoon	Mekaike
1940	Queen of the Mob	George Frost
1940	Golden Gloves	Joe Taggerty
1940	Down Argentine Way	Casiano
1941	Mr. Dynamite	Professor
1941	That Night in Rio	Machado
1941	Blood and Sand	Garabato
1941	Accent on Love	Manuel Lombroso
1941	Forced Landing	Andros Banshek
1941	Birth of the Blues	Blackie
1941	The Corsican Brothers	Lorenzo
1942	A Gentleman at Heart	Gigi
1942	Sunday Punch	Matt Bassler
1942	Dr. Broadway	Jack Venner
1942	Jackass Mail	Signor Michel O'Sullivan
1942	The Pied Piper	Aristide Rougeron
1942	Tales of Manhattan	Costello
1942	Dr. Renault's Secret	Noel
1943	Batman	Dr. Tito Daka/Prince Daka	Film serial
1943	Behind the Rising Sun	Reo Seki
1943	Sahara	Giuseppe	Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1943	Calling Dr. Death	Inspector Gregg
1943	Gung Ho!	Lt. C.J. Cristoforos
1944	Voice in the Wind	Luigi
1944	The Whistler	The Killer
1944	The Monster Maker	Dr. Igor Markoff
1944	Jungle Woman	Dr. Carl Fletcher
1944	Waterfront	Dr. Karl Decker
1944	Dragon Seed	Japanese Kitchen Overseer
1944	Enter Arsène Lupin	Ganimard
1944	House of Frankenstein	Daniel
1945	A Medal for Benny	Charley Martin	Won: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1945	The Southerner	Devers
1945	Strange Confession	Roger Graham	Alternative title: The Missing Head
1945	Star in the Night	Nick Catapoli	Short film
1945	Getting Gertie's Garter	Charles, the butler
1946	Bad Bascomb	Bart Yancy
1946	The Beast with Five Fingers	Police Commissario Ovidio Castanio
1946	Humoresque	Rudy Boray
1947	Carnival in Costa Rica	Papa Rico Molina
1947	The Fugitive	A Police Informer
1948	Joan of Arc	John, Count of Luxembourg (Joan's captor)
1948	The Kissing Bandit	Chico
1949	Canadian Pacific	Dynamite Dawson
1949	That Midnight Kiss	Papa Donnetti
1950	Black Hand	Louis Lorelli
1950	Please Believe Me	"Lucky" Reilly
1950	Annie Get Your Gun	Chief Sitting Bull
1950	The Toast of New Orleans	Nicky Duvalle
1950	Rio Grande	Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan
1951	The Mark of the Renegade	Luis
1951	Across the Wide Missouri	Looking Glass
1951	Bannerline	Frankie Scarbine
1952	Denver and Rio Grande	Gil Harkness
1952	Clash by Night	Uncle Vince
1952	Ride the Man Down	Sheriff Joe Kneen
1952	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Narrator	Uncredited
1953	Fighter Attack	Bruno
1953	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef	Socrates "Soc" Houlis
1954	Saskatchewan	Batouche
1954	Sitting Bull	Sitting Bull
1955	New York Confidential	Ben Dagajanian
1955	Hit the Deck	Mr. Peroni
1955	Rage at Dawn	Simeon "Sim" Reno
1955	Violent Saturday	Chapman, Bank Robber
1955	The Last Command	General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
1955	Desert Sands	Sgt. Diepel
1956	Rebel in Town	Bedloe Mason
1956	Yaqui Drums	Yacqi Jack
1957	This Could Be the Night	Leon
1957	The Young Don't Cry	Plug
1961	Force of Impulse	Antonio Marino
1971	Dracula vs. Frankenstein	Dr. Frankenstein, aka Dr. Duryea

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952–1953	Life with Luigi	Luigi Basco	Unknown episodes
1956	Climax!	Mr. Combie	Episode: "An Episode of Sparrows"
1956	The Alcoa Hour	Murillo	Episode: "Key Largo"
1956	Crossroads	Rabbi Arnold Fischel	2 episodes, including "The White Carnation"
1957–1958	The New Adventures of Charlie Chan	Charlie Chan	39 episodes
1957	The Texan	Walt Pierce	Episode: "The First Notch"
1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse	Papa	Episode: "My Father, the Fool"
1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Miguel Ramierez	Episode: "Ricochet"
1958	Cimarron City	Rare Crowder	Episode: "The Blood Line"
1959	The Restless Gun	Maj. Quint Langley	Episode: "Blood of Courage"
1959	Whirlybirds	Taylor	Episode: "Two of a Kind"
1959–1960	Wagon Train	Various roles	' The Old Man Charvanaugh Story '; 'The Benjamin Burns Story '
1960	The Untouchables	Joe Bucco	Episode: "The Noise of Death"
1960–1961	Guestward, Ho!	Hawkeye	38 episodes
1963	Route 66	Mike Donato	Episode: "And Make Thunder His Tribute"
1964	The Hanged Man	Uncle Picaud	Television film
1964	Burke's Law	Mr. Toto	Episode: "Who Killed Supersleuth?"
1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Bilejik	Episode: "Djinn and Water"
1966	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Uncle Giuliano	Episode: "The Super-Colossal Affair"
1967	Green Acres	Chief Yellow Horse	Episode: "It's So Peaceful in the Country"
1969	Bonanza	Anselmo	Episode: "A Severe Case of Matrimony"
1968	Get Smart	Sam Vittorio	Episode: "The Secret of Sam Vittorio"

Radio broadcasts

Year	Program	Episode/source
1945	Suspense	"Footfalls"<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
1946	The Fifth Horseman	Aftermath
1947	Family Theater	Let Us Remember
1952	Suspense	Treasure Hunt<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref>
1953	Family Theater	Two Tickets for Stockholm<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref>

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