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Raymond Hatton
  • Birth Name:
    Raymond William Hatton
  • Date of Birth:
    July 7, 1887
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Cancer
  • Place of Birth:
    Red Oak, Iowa, United States
  • Place of Death:
    Palmdale, Californi
  • Date of Death:
    October 21, 1971
  • Height:
    5' 7"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Raymond Hatton
  • Spouse:
    Frances Hatton (17 April 1909 - 16 October 1971) (her death)

Career

Raymond Hatton

Trivia

Raymond Hatton
  • Raymond Hatton's last screen appearance was as the old man collecting bottles along the highway in Richard Brooks' In Cold Blood (1967).
  • Raymond Hatton continued to act into the 1960s, showing up on such TV series as The Abbott and Costello Show and Superman and in several American-International quickies.
  • He was usually cast as a grizzled old desert rat, even when (as in the case of the "Rough Riders" series with Buck Jones and Tim McCoy) he happened to be younger than the nominal leading man.
  • In the 1930s and 1940s, Hatton showed up as comic sidekick to such western stars as Johnny Mack Brown and Bob Livingston.
  • He was teamed with Wallace Beery in several popular Paramount comedies of the late silent era, notably Behind the Front (1926) and Now We're in the Air (1927).
  • In films from 1914, Hatton was starred or co-starred in several of the early Cecil B. DeMille productions, notably The Whispering Chorus (1917), in which the actor delivered a bravura performance as a man arrested for murdering himself.

Biography

Raymond Hatton
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 - October 21, 1971) was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery. Although Hatton enjoyed a successful silent film career, sound helped to boost Hatton's career and making him best remembered as the tobacco-chewing, rip snorting Rusty Joslin in The Three Mesquiteers series. Fans of the TV series Adventures of Superman remember him for playing eccentric characters in the episodes "Dagger Island" and "The Prince Albert Coat".

The son of a physician, Raymond Hatton entered films in 1909, eventually appearing in almost 500 other pictures. In early silents he formed a comedy team with big, burly Wallace Beery. He was best known as the tobacco-chewing, rip-snorting Rusty Joslin in the Three Mesquiteers series. He was also in the Rough Riders series and appeared as Johnny Mack Brown's sidekick as well. His last Western was, fittingly, Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965).

Filmography

Raymond Hatton

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