Budd Fine

Budd Fine was a character actor who moved between silent movies and the talkies. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he entered the movie business with a 1924 short, Aggravatin' Papa, and that same year took a minor part in his first feature, Hold Your Breath. During the silent period he mostly made shorts, with occasional features such as Buster Keaton's Battling Butler (1926) and a soldier role in Cecil B. De Mille's 1927 epic The King of Kings. Sound films brought him regular work, usually in small parts, in titles including A Connecticut Yankee (1931), Les Misérables (1935), Anything Goes (1936), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Lucky (1943), Lady in the Lake (1947), My Favorite Brunette (1947), Samson and Delilah (1950) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). His credits totaled more than 100 films, over 80 of them features.