Walter Catlett carved out a career for himself playing excitable, officious blowhards, and few actors did it better. A San Francisco native, he started out in vaudeville - with a detour for a while in opera - before breaking into films in the mid-1920s. Two of his best remembered roles were as the stage manager driven to distraction by 'James Cagney' , and died of a stroke in 1960.
Introduced the Gershwin standard "Lady Be Good" in the Broadway show of the same name in 1924.
Popular character actor, best known for playing somewhat blustery, often less-than-honest, characters.
He is the uncredited voice of the not-so-honest Honest John in the Disney classic Pinocchio .
