★ Acting
1907 – 1965
· San Francisco, California, USA
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Active 1917–1950
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
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Citizen Kane
1941
★ 7.9
as Man at Boat Dock (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Top 6 by popularity · TMDB
Filmography
71 credits
1950s
1 credit
1940s
11 credits
1930s
22 credits
1920s
29 credits
1910s
8 credits