Birthday
1880/06/16
Day of death
1959/12/12 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Danville, California, USA
Also know as
Russell McCaskill Simpson, Russel Simpson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880, Danville, California – December 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor who appeared in over 500 movies. He is best known for his "grizzled old man" appearances. Gaunt, lanky, and rustic-sounding, Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years, particularly as a member of the John Ford Stock Company. At age 18 Simpson prospected for gold in Alaska. He began taking a...Read more
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Pa Joad
(1940) Santa Fe Trail
as Shubel Morgan
(1946) My Darling Clementine
as John Simpson
(1957) The Tin Star
as Clem Hall
(1926) The Earth Woman
as Ezra Tilden
(1921) Bunty Pulls the Strings
as Tammas Biggar
(1934) Carolina
as Richards
(1919) Desert Gold
as Ladd
(1927) Now We're in the Air
as Lord Abercrombie McTavish
(1950) Wagon Master
as Adam Perkins
(1948) Coroner Creek
as Walt Hardison
(1938) The Girl of the Golden West
as Fred - Outrider in Prologue
(1918) The Border Legion
as Overland Bradley
(1935) The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Doc Small
(1932) Hello Trouble
as Jonathan Kenyon
(1943) Border Patrol
as Orestes Krebs
(1945) Along Came Jones
as Pop de Longpre
(1932) Silver Dollar
as Hamlin
(1948) Joan of Arc
as Old Man with Pipe (uncredited)
(1933) The Power and the Glory
as Professor (uncredited)
(1954) Broken Lance
as Judge (uncredited)
(1932) Law and Order
as Judge R.W. Williams
(1953) The Sun Shines Bright
as Lewt Lake
(1952) Feudin' Fools
as Grandpa Smith
(1944) The Big Bonanza
as Adam Parker
(1956) Friendly Persuasion
as Brother Griffith - Elder (uncredited)
(1950) Saddle Tramp
as Pop
(1936) Ramona
as Scroggs
(1937) Paradise Isle
as Baxter
(1935) Motive for Revenge
as McAllister
(1932) Lena Rivers
as Grandfather Nichols
(1925) The Splendid Road
as Capt. Lightfoot
(1917) Blue Jeans
as Jacob Tutwiler
(1937) That I May Live
as Bish Plivens
(1930) Billy the Kid
as Angus McSween
(1948) Sundown in Santa Fe
as Sheriff Jim Wyatt
(1921) Snowblind
as Hugh Garth
(1935) Way Down East
as Squire Amasa Bartlett
(1936) The Harvester
as Abner Prewett
(1937) Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
as Bayliss Baynum
(1949) Tuna Clipper
as Capt. Fergus MacLennan
(1937) Mountain Justice
as Matthew Turnbull
(1931) The Great Meadow
as Thomas Hall
(1951) Comin' Round the Mountain
as Judge
(1927) The First Auto
as Hank Armstrong
(1919) The Brand
as Dan McGill
(1959) The Horse Soldiers
as Henry Goodbody
(1933) Face in the Sky
as Pa Nathan Brown
(1929) After the Fog
as Joshua Barker
(1938) Gold Is Where You Find It
as MacKenzie
(1925) Thunder Mountain
as Si Pace
(1931) Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
as Doctor
(1930) Man to Man
as Uncle Cal
(1915) The Old Homestead
as Sheriff
(1929) Innocents of Paris
as Emile Leval
(1930) Abraham Lincoln
as Lincoln's Employer
(1932) The Cabin in the Cotton
as Uncle Joe
(1937) Wild West Days
as Matt Keeler
(1941) Tobacco Road
as Chief of Police
(1941) Wild Geese Calling
as Marshal Len Baker
(1923) Defying Destiny
as Mr. Wilkens
(1952) Lone Star
as Maynard Cole
(1920) The Branding Iron
as John Carver
(1933) Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
as Speaker
(1929) The Sap
as The Banker
(1945) Roughly Speaking
as The Colonel - Drill Instructor (uncredited)
(1941) Last of the Duanes
as Tom Duane
(1932) The Honor of the Press
as Dan Perkins
(1922) The Kingdom Within
as Caleb Deming
(1918) Breakers Ahead
as Captain Scudder
(1957) The Lonely Man
as ---
(1925) The Eagle
as The Eagle's Lieutenant / Coach Driver (uncredited)
(1936) Paddy O'Day
as Benton
(1940) Virginia City
as Gaylord
(1932) The Famous Ferguson Case
as Banker Craig
(1934) Ever Since Eve
as Jim Wood
(1939) Dodge City
as Orth
(1939) Young Mr. Lincoln
as Woolridge (uncredited)
(1939) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
(1942) Nazi Agent
as 2nd Captain (uncredited)
(1939) Drums Along the Mohawk
as Dr. Petry
(1947) The Fabulous Texan
as Wade Clayton
(1938) Heart of the North
as Dave MacMillan
(1939) Western Caravans
as Winchester Thompson
(1949) Free For All
as Farmer
(1955) The Last Command
as The Parson
(1948) The Untamed Breed
as Minister
(1931) Alexander Hamilton
as Harvey Taylor - First Ex-Soldier
(1927) The Frontiersman
as Andrew Jackson
(1932) Call Her Savage
as Old Man in Wagon Train
(1936) Man Hunt
as Jeff Parkington
(1938) Valley of the Giants
as McKenzie
(1946) Death Valley
as Old Silas Bagley
(1947) Bowery Buckaroos
as Luke Barlow
(1942) Shut My Big Mouth
as Mayor Potter
(1941) Citadel of Crime
as Jess Meekins
(1940) Wyoming
as Mr. Bronson
(1927) Annie Laurie
as Sandy
(1940) Brigham Young
as U.S. Army Major
(1939) Desperate Trails
as Sheriff Big Bill Tanner
(1934) Frontier Marshal
as Editor Pickett
(1946) Bad Bascomb
as Elijah Walker
(1914) The Virginian
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1922) Human Hearts
as Paul Logan
(1932) Ridin' for Justice
as Marshal Joseph Slyde
(1944) Texas Masquerade
as J.K. Trimble
(1941) Swamp Water
as Marty McCord
(1940) Three Faces West
as Minister
(1923) The Virginian
as Trampas
(1922) Rags to Riches
as The Sheriff
(1926) Rustlin' for Cupid
as Hank Blatchford
(1939) Geronimo
as Scout
(1941) Meet John Doe
as (uncredited)
(1934) West of the Pecos
as Roy Neal
(1926) Lovey Mary
as Stubbins
(1950) Call of the Klondike
as Andy McKay
(1946) California Gold Rush
as Colonel Parker
(1920) Lahoma
as 'Brick' Willock
(1949) The Gal Who Took the West
as Bartender (as old Timer)
(1952) The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
as Sam Stanton
(1942) Lone Star Ranger
as Tom Duane
(1942) Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Ned Nolan
(1948) Albuquerque
as Abner Huggins
(1941) Bad Men of Missouri
as Hank Younger
(1948) Tap Roots
as Big Sam Dabney
(1942) The Spoilers
as Flapjack
(1924) Painted People
as Fred Lane
(1923) The Huntress
as Big Jack Skinner
(1943) The Woman of the Town
as Sime
(1943) Colt Comrades
as Sheriff
(1956) The Brass Legend
as Deputy 'Pop' Jackson
(1925) Faint Perfume
as Grandpa Crumb
(1936) San Francisco
as 'Red' Kelly
(1946) My Dog Shep
as Mathew Hodgkins
(1946) A Boy and His Dog
as Mr. Thornycroft
(1934) Three on a Honeymoon
as Ezra MacDuff
(1920) Godless Men
as 'Black' Pawl
(1954) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
as Fred Bixby
(1937) Green Light
as Sheep Man
(1922) Peg o' My Heart
as Jim O'Connell
(1947) The Romance of Rosy Ridge
as Dan Yeary
(1934) The World Moves On
as Notary (1825)
(1925) Why Women Love
as Silas Martin
(1930) The Lone Star Ranger
as Colonel John Aldridge
(1945) They Were Expendable
as 'Dad' Knowland
(1939) The Bill of Rights
as Frontiersman
(1952) Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Clem Johnson
(1936) Back to Nature
as Sheriff
(1944) Roaring Guns
as Farmer MacKenzie
(1937) Maid of Salem
as Village Marshal (Uncredited)
(1919) Bill Apperson's Boy
as Bill Apperson
(1928) Tropical Nights
as Singapore Joe
(1918) Riders of the Night
as Sally's Grandfather
(1925) Old Shoes
as ---
(1929) My Lady's Past
as ---
(1923) Circus Days
as Eben Holt
(1925) The Narrow Street
as Garvey
(1923) The Girl of the Golden West
as Jack Rance
(1927) Wild Geese
as Caleb Gare
(1943) Riding High
as Frenchy McGuire
(1936) Girl of the Ozarks
as ---
(1920) The Deadlier Sex
as Jim Willis
(1925) Paint and Powder
as Riley
(1932) The Riding Tornado
as Sheriff
(1955) The Tall Men
as Emigrant (uncredited)
(1942) Tennessee Johnson
as Kirby
(1953) Meet Me at the Fair
as Sheriff Evans
(1918) A Weaver of Dreams
as Martin Chandler
(1921) Under the Lash
as Simeon Krillet
(1932) Flames
as Jake
(1950) The Outriders
as Farmer (uncredited)
(1934) Sixteen Fathoms Deep
as A.B. Crockett
(1922) Across the Dead-Line
as Enoch Kidder
(1943) Moonlight in Vermont
as Uncle Rufus
(1929) All Faces West
as Gunner Bill
(1918) The Uphill Path
as James Lawton
Radio Scout
as Pappy Tolliver
(1937) Parnell
as Dead Child's Father
(1918) The Challenge Accepted
as Uncle Zeke Sawyer
(1951) The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Sam
(1958) The Texan
as Zeb Waters
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Quatermaster
(1955) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
as ---
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Old Man
(1957) Wagon Train
as Mr. Carr
(1954) Public Defender
as Lundquist
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Jack Brewster
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Judge Grant