Actor
Chester Clute
February 18, 1891 · Orange, New Jersey, USA
Chester Clute (February 18, 1891 – April 2, 1956) was an American actor familiar in scores of Hollywood films from his debut in 1930. Diminutive, bald-pated with a bristling moustache, he appeared in mostly unbilled roles, consisting usually of one or two lines, in nearly 250 films.
He died of a heart attack aged 65. Born Chester Lamont Clute in Orange, New Jersey. He died in Woodland Hills, California and is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Notable work
Often works with
Samuel S. Hinds
3 titles together
You Can't Take It with You, The Spoilers, Lady on a Train
Charles Arnt
3 titles together
This Gun for Hire, Remember the Night, Hold Back the Dawn
James Flavin
3 titles together
Anchors Aweigh, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Angel on My Shoulder
Edward Brophy
3 titles together
It Happened on Fifth Avenue, All Through the Night, Dance, Girl, Dance
Cary Grant
2 titles together
Arsenic and Old Lace, My Favorite Wife
Peter Lorre
2 titles together
Arsenic and Old Lace, All Through the Night
Full filmography · 150
Let's Go Stepping
cast
Upcoming
Scared Stiff
as Man with Spaghetti (uncredited)
19536.5
Colorado Sundown
as Lawyer Davis
1952
All That I Have
as Juror Meek
1951
Kentucky Jubilee
as Horace Tilbury
1951
Stop That Cab
as Lucy's Father
1951
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
as Upperbottom
1950
Lucky Losers
as Conventioneer
1950
Kill the Umpire
as Man Using Telephone (uncredited)
1950
The Good Humor Man
as Meek Man (uncredited)
1950
Master Minds
as Mike Barton
1949
Square Dance Jubilee
as Yes-Man
1949