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Rolfe Sedan

 
Actor: Rolfe Sedan
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  • Born: Jan 21, 1896 in New York City, New York
  • Died: Sep 16, 1982 in Pacific Palisades, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '20s-'30s, '50s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
  • Career Highlights: The Iron Mask, The Lucy Show: No More Double Dates, I Love Lucy: Paris at Last
  • First Major Screen Credit: Denver Dude (1927)

Biography

Dapper character actor Rolfe Sedan was nine times out of ten cast as a foreigner, usually a French maître d’ or Italian tradesman. In truth, Sedan was born in New York City. He'd planned to study scientific agriculture, but was sidetracked by film and stage work in New York; he then embarked on a vaudeville career as a dialect comic. Sedan began appearing in Hollywood films in the late '20s, frequently cast in support of such major comedy attractions as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chase, the Marx Brothers, and Harold Lloyd. He was proudest of his work in a handful of films directed by Ernst Lubitsch, notably Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938). Though distressed that he never made it to the top ranks, Sedan remained very much in demand for comedy cameos into the 1980s. Rolfe Sedan's television work included the recurring role of Mr. Beasley the postman on The Burns and Allen Show, and the part of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee in several TV commercials of the mid-'70s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Rolfe Sedan
Born January 20, 1896(1896-01-20)
New York City,New York,
United States
Died September 16, 1982 (aged 86)
Pacific Palisades, California,
United States

Rolfe Sedan (January 20, 1896 - September 16, 1982) was an American character actor.

Born Rolfe Edward Sedan in New York City, his mother was a Broadway theatre fashion designer and his father a symphony conductor.

He started out in show business as a nightclub and vaudeville performer and began acting in East Coast theatre. Sedan debuted on Broadway in 1916 and appeared in his first motion picture for Metro Pictures Corporation in 1921.

He went on to be a prolific character actor and is probably best remembered by movie buffs as the hotel manager in 1939's Ninotchka starring Greta Garbo. In that same year, he appeared in an uncredited role as a Balloon Ascensionist in The Wizard of Oz. He returned to do several different shows on Broadway during the first half of the 1940s and in the 1950s began doing guest roles on various television shows. He was also seen as the train conductor in the film Young Frankenstein. Rolfe Sedan remained active throughout a career that spanned more almost six decades.

Sedan died in 1982 in Pacific Palisades, California from heart problems at age 86. He was entombed in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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