Walter Connolly

Connolly, Walter (1887–1940), character actor. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Connolly was educated in his hometown and at the University of Dublin and made his New York debut in 1910 in an outdoor production of As You Like It. He joined E. H. Sothern's company the next year and played supporting roles in Shakespeare productions on the road. The short, chubby Connolly first got noticed as the penny‐pinching Rollo in Applesause (1925) then went on to portray a wide range of characters, most memorably the hot‐blooded Cuban Luis in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane (1928), the wily confirmed bachelor Dudley in Your Uncle Dudley (1929), the greedy Dr. Haggett in The Late Christopher Bean (1932), and the clergyman who loves mystery novels in The Bishop Misbehaves (1935).