Jack Oakie
2 credits on HibingeTV
American film actor, born in 1903. A comedic character actor who appeared in numerous early sound films including Street Girl (1929) and Sweetie (1929). He received an Oscar nomination for The Great Dictator (1940). He died in 1978.
Acted In
Musical, Drama
A pre-Code musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles, and the first film produced by RKO Radio Pictures. Betty Compson plays Frederika, a homeless young woman taken in by a four-piece band led by Mike Fall (John Harron). She becomes their manager and guides them to success, but romantic complications ensue when a prince takes an interest in her. Jack Oakie co-stars as band member Joe Spring. The film was a box office hit, accounting for nearly half of RKO's profits for the year. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain.
Musical · Drama · Romance
Street Girl
1929 - as Joe Spring
Musical, Comedy
A pre-Code musical comedy directed by Frank Tuttle for Paramount. Nancy Carroll plays Barbara Pell, a chorus girl who inherits a school for boys and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the man who jilted her. Helen Kane, the "Boop-Oop-a-Doop Girl" whose vocal style inspired Betty Boop, co-stars as Helen Fry. Jack Oakie appears as Tap-Tap Thompson. As a work published before 1930, the film is in the public domain.
Musical · Comedy · Romance
Sweetie
1929 - as Tap-Tap Thompson