Joe Yule

Joe Yule, born in Glasgow in 1892, was a Scottish-American performer who started out in vaudeville and burlesque and later worked as a character actor in Hollywood films. His family settled in Brooklyn's Greenpoint area when he was an infant, and he was appearing in stock productions there by the age of eight. As a teenager he played local vaudeville dates, then toured major burlesque circuits such as the Columbia Burlesque Wheel, where he took Joe Yule as his stage name. In November 1938 he signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and joined its stock company, turning up in dozens of the studio's pictures through 1946. Monogram Pictures then cast him as the title character of its Bringing Up Father comedies, the Jiggs and Maggie series, in which he starred opposite Renie Riano, the only starring role he had in films. He also played Finian McLonergan in the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow in 1947. He died in 1950.