Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Fred Toones, known professionally as Snowflake, was an American actor and comedian who appeared in more than 200 films between 1928 and 1951. He adopted the stage name Snowflake early on, beginning with Shanghaied Love in 1931, and in that film and many others it also served as his character's name. He was typecast as a porter in over 50 movies, and he took other service and domestic parts as grooms, janitors, elevator operators, cooks, butlers and bartenders, mostly in bit roles that went uncredited. His credits included the Laurel and Hardy feature Way Out West (1937), Here Comes the Navy (1934) with James Cagney, and Preston Sturges comedies such as Remember the Night (1939). He also worked steadily in B westerns and two-reel shorts, and he died in 1962 in Los Angeles.