Garry Owen
- Birthday
- Feb 18, 1902
Bio: The son of an actress, Garry Owen first appeared on-stage with his mother in vaudeville. Owen went on to perform in such Broadway productions as Square Crooks and Miss Manhattan. In films from 1933, Owen was occasionally seen in such sizeable roles as private-eye Paul Drake in the 1936 Perry Mason movie Case of the Black Cat. For the most part, however, he played… More Bio: The son of an actress, Garry Owen first appeared on-stage with his mother in vaudeville. Owen went on to perform in such Broadway productions as Square Crooks and Miss Manhattan. In films from 1933, Owen was occasionally seen in such sizeable roles as private-eye Paul Drake in the 1936 Perry Mason movie Case of the Black Cat. For the most part, however, he played character bits, most memorably in the films of Frank Capra; in Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), for example, he plays the monumentally impatient taxi driver who closes the picture with the exclamation, "I'm not a cab driver, I'm a coffee pot!" In addition to his feature-film work, Garry Owen showed up in scores of short subjects for Hal Roach and MGM. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
- Man
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The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
- The Private Eye
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Riding High (1950)
- Harry
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The Flying Saucer (1950)
- Bartender in Ernie's
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Too Late for Tears (Killer Bait) (1949)
- Officer at Switchboard
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