Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly (born April 8, 1887 - died May 28, 1940) was an American actor who made almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939. His movies included Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) with Janet Gaynor, It Happened One Night (1934) with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, Twentieth Century (1934) with John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, She Couldn't Take It (1935) with George Raft and Joan Bennett, Libeled Lady (1936) with Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Good Earth (1937) with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, as Nero Wolfe in The League of Frightened Men (1937), and as Victor Herbert in The Great Victor Herbert (1939). In RKO's 1939 Fifth Avenue Girl, Connolly gave one of his finest performances as a business tycoon neglected by his family. Playing opposite ingenue Ginger Rogers, there are many charming moments where Connolly displayed his acumen for playing emphatic but exasperated businessmen, his trademark role.