Richard Tucker

• Born: Jun 04, 1884 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
• Died: Dec 05, 1942 in Woodland Hills, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '20s-'30s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: The Bat Whispers, My Man, Manslaughter
• First Major Screen Credit: Night Rose (1921)

Biography

Prosperous-looking American actor Richard Tucker went from the stage to the Edison Company in 1913, where he played romantic leads before the cameras. Even in his youth, the tall, regal Tucker exuded the air of corporate success, and was best suited to roles as bankers and stockbrokers. After World War I service, Tucker resumed his film career as a character man. In talkies, the newly mustachioed, grey-haired Tucker was seen in innumerable small authoritative roles. His two best-known assignments from this period were in the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, in which he played Flash's scientist father; and in the 1932 Laurel and Hardy feature Pack Up Your Troubles, wherein Tucker was the bank president who turned out to be Mr. Smith, the grandfather of the orphan girl Stan and Ollie were protecting. Actor Richard Tucker's hundreds of film credits are often erronously attributed to latter-day Metropolitan Opera star Richard Tucker, who was born several years after the earlier Tucker had already established himself. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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