- Born: Jun 02, 1881 in Manhattan, Kansas
- Died: Feb 05, 1950 in Los Angeles, California
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: '40s
- Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
Biography
Rotund vaudeville comic Earle Dewey co-starred with
William Frawley in several
Pathé Folly comedies in 1929, and after a lengthy hiatus, returned to films in 1940 to play scores of rustic, comic characters, more often than not unbilled. Dewey was one of the townsfolk in
Alfred Hitchcock's
Shadow of a Doubt (1943), blithely unaware that there was a killer in his midst; he also played the judge who awards
Charles Winninger's hog first prize in
State Fair (1945). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
