Hired for comfy set decoration by MGM in his last years playing an
assortment of unbilled bits.
In the movies after 1930, he is known to work with the Law, as a policeman, inspector, detective even as a judge.
Chunky-framed American character actor who was a minor version of Pat
O'Brien in the '30s and '40s. He was invariably seen as an Irish cop or
detective in potboilers, playing both benign and unscrupulous.