Eddy Waller

Edward Waller (June 14, 1889 – August 20, 1977) was an American stage, film and television actor.

Early years Waller's involvement with dramatics began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin.

Career

Stage Waller performed in vaudeville and the legitimate theater before he entered films in Hollywood. His professional stage debut came in Chicago, Illinois. An item published in The Indianapolis News May 3, 1923, reported, "He has had several years' experience as leading man and also as director, and produces the Grand Players' plays as well as taking the leading roles."

Film Waller appeared in more than 250 sound films between 1929 and 1963 (Thomas M. Feramisco, in his book, The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room, has Waller "making the move to celluloid in 1936."), including 116 westerns and six serials. In 1955 Waller appeared as "Old Larky" (under the name credit Eddy C. Waller) in the film Foxfire starring Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler. He is best remembered as Nugget Clark, the sidekick in many films starring Allan 'Rocky' Lane between 1947 and 1953.

Television In 1955, Waller became Rusty Lee, the saddle partner to actor Douglas Kennedy in the short-lived television series, Steve Donovan, Western Marshal. After that, he appeared in several A-westerns and television programs and was a semi-regular as Mose Shell, the dedicated stagecoach driver, in nineteen episodes of the NBC western series Laramie, with John Smith and Robert Fuller.

Waller had a supporting role in the 1957-1958 syndicated series, Casey Jones starring Alan Hale, Jr. Waller played "Red Rock", the train conductor of Casey's Cannonball Express. He also played John Finney in the 1960-1961 miniseries Daniel Boone, which ran as part of Walt Disney Presents.

Death Waller died of a stroke in Los Angeles, California, at the age of eighty-eight. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). His wife of forty-nine years, Doris M. Waller (1902-1977), had died in January 1977.

Selected filmography

Films

The Mind Reader (1933) - Chauffeur (uncredited) One Way Ticket (1935) - George the Clerk (uncredited) Silver Spurs (1936) - Old-Timer (uncredited) Poppy (1936) - Bit part (uncredited) Rhythm on the Range (1936) - Field Judge (uncredited) Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) - Golf Starter The Public Pays (1936, Short) - The Association's Landlord (uncredited) Banjo on My Knee (1936) - Truck Driver (uncredited) On the Avenue (1937) - Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited) Secret Agent X-9 (1937, Serial) - Lawyer Carp [Chs. 2, 12] (uncredited) Sweetheart of the Navy (1937) - Krump Wild and Woolly (1937) - Fireman (uncredited) The Big Shot (1937) - Horace (uncredited) Small Town Boy (1937) - Sloane (uncredited) The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) - Cassiius Bundy (uncredited) Call the Mesquiteers (1938) - Hardy State Police (1938) - Const. Higgins The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938, Serial) - Stone Flaming Frontiers (1938, Serial) - Andy Grant (Chs. 1–4) Strange Faces (1938) - Jeb, Mason City Obit Writer (uncredited) The Law West of Tombstone (1938) - Jenks, Martinez Postmaster (uncredited) Out West with the Hardys (1938) - 'Doc' Carson Hodge, a Veterinarian (uncredited) Stand Up and Fight (1939) - Conductor (uncredited) Jesse James (1939) - Deputy Rough Riders' Round-up (1939) - (uncredited) I'm from Missouri (1939) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) - Storekeeper (uncredited) The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939) - Guard on Stagecoach Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - Father (scenes deleted) Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939) - Parson New Frontier (1939) - Maj. Steven Braddock Konga, the Wild Stallion (1939) - Gloomy Two Bright Boys (1939) - Sheriff Legion of Lost Flyers (1939) - Petey Allegheny Uprising (1939) - Jailer Geronimo (1939) - Private (uncredited) Man from Montreal (1939) - Old Jacques The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) - Second Stage Driver (uncredited) Legion of the Lawless (1940) - Lafe Barton The Blue Bird (1940) - Birch Tree (uncredited) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - Proprietor Viva Cisco Kid (1940) - Stagecoach Driver (uncredited) Enemy Agent (1940) - Cellmate (uncredited) 20 Mule Team (1940) - Horsecollar, the Bartender (uncredited) Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! (1940) - Panhandler You're Not So Tough (1940) - Griswold Stagecoach War (1940) - Quince Cobalt Carolina Moon (1940) - Colonel Stanhope Gold Rush Maisie (1940) - Ben Hartley Girl from Avenue A (1940) - Groom (uncredited) Brigham Young (1940) - Man with California Gold News (uncredited) Boom Town (1940) - Hotel Clerk (uncredited) The Howards of Virginia (1940) - Patriot Scout (uncredited) The Devil's Pipeline (1940) - Benedict Youth Will Be Served (1940) - First Prisoner (uncredited) Texas Terrors (1940) - Judge Charles Bennett Santa Fe Trail (1940) - Workman (uncredited) Western Union (1941) - Stagecoach Driver #1 (uncredited) Scattergood Baines (1941) - Townsman (uncredited) Nice Girl? (1941) - Farmer (uncredited) Double Date (1941) - Truck Driver In Old Colorado (1941) - Jim Stark Hands Across the Rockies (1941) - Judge Plunkett Sergeant York (1941) - Man at Church (uncredited) The Son of Davy Crockett (1941) - Grandpa Mathews Bad Men of Missouri (1941) - Wagon Train Leader (uncredited) Six-Gun Gold (1941) - Ben Blanchard Honky Tonk (1941) - Fred - Train Conductor #2 (uncredited) The Bandit Trail (1941) - Tom Haggerty Public Enemies (1941) - Olaf Road Agent (1941) - Lewis (Rancher) Don't Get Personal (1942) - Slim Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942) - Settler (uncredited) Shut My Big Mouth (1942) - Happy (uncredited) The Lone Star Ranger (1942) - Mitchell Klondike Fury (1942) - Blindy (uncredited) Sundown Jim (1942) - Clem Black Junior G-Men of the Air (1942, Serial) - Jed Holden [Chs. 1, 3, 5-6] (uncredited) My Gal Sal (1942) - Buggy Driver (uncredited) Juke Girl (1942) - Motorist Buying 6 Cents of Gas (uncredited) Wings for the Eagle (1942) - Customer Offered Pie (uncredited) A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) - Wilcox, Baggage Man (uncredited) Call of the Canyon (1942) - Dave Crosby (uncredited) Sin Town (1942) - Forager (uncredited) Night Monster (1942) - Jed Harmon The Mummy's Tomb (1942) - Police Scientist (uncredited) Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942) - Lafe Allen Cinderella Swings It (1943) - Lem Something to Shout About (1943) - George Priam - Concert Attendee (uncredited) Hangmen Also Die! (1943) - Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited) A Stranger in Town (1943) - Man in Barbershop (uncredited) Frontier Badmen (1943) - Auctioneer (uncredited) Silver Spurs (1943) - Davis (uncredited) Destroyer (1943) - Riveter (uncredited) A Lady Takes a Chance (1943) - Bus Station Attendant Headin' for God's Country (1943) - Hank The Kansan (1943) - Ed Gilbert Always a Bridesmaid (1943) - Justice Peters Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) - Shopkeeper (uncredited) My Kingdom for a Cook (1943) - Sam Thornton Ladies Courageous (1944) - Workman (uncredited) Up in Arms (1944) - Milkman (uncredited) Rationing (1944) - Smith (uncredited) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) - Southerner (uncredited) Man from Frisco (1944) - Older Worker (uncredited) Home in Indiana (1944) - Bill (uncredited) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) - Ben Evans (uncredited) Raiders of Ghost City (1944) - Doc Blair Barbary Coast Gent (1944) - Chad Jenkins - Second Stage Driver (uncredited) Tall in the Saddle (1944) - Santa Inez Depot Master (uncredited) An American Romance (1944) - Sheriff of Oak Hills (uncredited) Mystery of the River Boat (1944, Serial) - Charles Langtry Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Lynch Mob Member with Rope (uncredited) Under Western Skies (1945) - Preacher (uncredited) The Man Who Walked Alone (1945) - Farmer The Affairs of Susan (1945) - Grumpy Man at Bright Dollar (uncredited) The Missing Corpse (1945) - Desmond River Gang (1945) - Mr. Fish (uncredited) Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945) - Andy Carson Dakota (1945) - Stagecoach Driver San Antonio (1945) - Cattleman (uncredited) Abilene Town (1946) - Hannaberry Because of Him (1946) - Gubbins (uncredited) Little Giant (1946) - Driver at Air-Pump (scenes deleted) Sun Valley Cyclone (1946) - Major Harding In Old Sacramento (1946) - Wagon Driver (uncredited) Renegades (1946) - Davy Lane (uncredited) Lover Come Back (1946) - Mr. Russell (uncredited) Avalanche (1946) - Sam Rendezvous with Annie (1946) - Civil War Veteran (uncredited) Sing While You Dance (1946) - Lem Aubrey Rustlers Round-Up (1946) - Tom Fremont Singing on the Trail (1946) - Lem Plainsman and the Lady (1946) - Fred Willats (uncredited) Magnificent Doll (1946) - Arthur (uncredited) Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) - Locksmith (uncredited) A Boy and His Dog (1946, Short) - Sheriff Kelly The Beginning or the End (1947) - Man (uncredited) The Michigan Kid (1947) - Post Office Clerk (uncredited) The Sea of Grass (1947) - Homesteader (uncredited) Pursued (1947) - Ben McComber (uncredited) The Millerson Case (1947) - Jeremiah Dobbs (uncredited) Sport of Kings (1947) - Perkins (uncredited) Wyoming (1947) - Drifter (uncredited) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) - Old Mariner (uncredited) Wild Harvest (1947) - Mr. Hatfield (uncredited) The Wild Frontier (1947) - Nugget Clark Magic Town (1947) - New Citizen in Crowd (uncredited) Nightmare Alley (1947) - Farmer Friend of J.E. Giles (uncredited) Louisiana (1947) - Mr. Davis Dangerous Years (1947) - Jock Nealy (uncredited) Bandits of Dark Canyon (1947) - Nugget Clark Secret Beyond the Door (1947) - Lem (uncredited) The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948) - Turnkey Black Bart (1948) - Ed Mason Oklahoma Badlands (1948) - Nugget Clark The Return of the Whistler (1948) - Sam the Estate Caretaker (uncredited) Adventures in Silverado (1948) - Will Thatcher The Bold Frontiersman (1948) - Sheriff Nugget Clark Carson City Raiders (1948) - Nugget Clark Speed to Spare (1948) - Charlie Blane, Explosives Driver (uncredited) River Lady (1948) - Hewitt Marshal of Amarillo (1948) - Nugget Clark The Arkansas Swing (1948) - Boggs The Strawberry Roan (1948) - Steve Desperadoes of Dodge City (1948) - Nugget Clark The Denver Kid (1948) - Nugget Clark The Girl from Manhattan (1948) - Jim Allison The Return of October (1948) - Stableman (uncredited) Sundown in Santa Fe (1948) - Horace Harvey 'Nugget' Clark Renegades of Sonora (1948) - Nugget Clark Whispering Smith (1948) - Conductor Sheriff of Wichita (1949) - Nugget Clark Death Valley Gunfighter (1949) - Nugget Clark Ma and Pa Kettle (1949) - Mr. Green (uncredited) Frontier Investigator (1949) - Nugget Clark Lust for Gold (1949) - Coroner (uncredited) Massacre River (1949) - Joe The Wyoming Bandit (1949) - Nugget Clark Bandit King of Texas (1949) - Nugget Clark Navajo Trail Raiders (1949) - Nugget Clark Powder River Rustlers (1949) - Nugget Clark The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) - Mr. Owen (uncredited) Gunmen of Abilene (1950) - Sheriff Nugget Clark Father Is a Bachelor (1950) - White (uncredited) Code of the Silver Sage (1950) - Nugget Clark Salt Lake Raiders (1950) - Nugget Clark Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) - Jailer (uncredited) Covered Wagon Raid (1950) - Nugget Clark The Furies (1950) - Old Man (uncredited) Vigilante Hideout (1950) - Nugget Clark Frisco Tornado (1950) - Nugget Clark Woman on the Run (1950) - Storekeeper (uncredited) Rustlers on Horseback (1950) - Nugget Clark He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950) - Pops Dunlap (uncredited) Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950) - Rigger (uncredited) California Passage (1950) - Waiter Cavalry Scout (1951) - General William Sherman Indian Uprising (1952) - Sagebrush Leadville Gunslinger (1952) - Nugget Clark Black Hills Ambush (1952) - Nugget Clark Montana Territory (1952) - Possum Enoch Thundering Caravans (1952) - Sheriff Nugget Clark Desperadoes' Outpost (1952) - Nugget Clark Marshal of Cedar Rock (1953) - Nugget Clark It Happens Every Thursday (1953) - James Bartlett Savage Frontier (1953) - Nugget Clark Powder River (1953) - Stable Owner (uncredited) The Last Posse (1953) - Dr. Pryor Bandits of the West (1953) - Nugget Clark Champ for a Day (1953) - Phil 99 River Street (1953) - Pop Durkee El Paso Stampede (1953) - Nugget Clark Make Haste to Live (1954) - 'Spud' Kelly The Far Country (1954) - Yukon Sam (uncredited) The Man from Laramie (1955) - Dr. Selden (uncredited) Man Without a Star (1955) - Tom Cassidy Foxfire (1955) - Old Larky The Night Runner (1957) - Vernon The Phantom Stagecoach (1957) - Sam Clayton (uncredited) The Restless Breed (1957) - Caesar Day of the Badman (1958) - Mr. Slocum Lassie: A Christmas Tail (1963) - Matt Krebs

Television series

Ford Theatre (1952–1955) - Station Master / Clam-digger / Courtney The Lone Ranger (1953–1955) - Hardrock Hazen / Haskell / Jules The Cisco Kid (1954) - Dr. Bender / Eli Oliver Letter to Loretta (1954) - Joe Rogan Four Star Playhouse (1955) - Andy Steve Donovan, Western Marshal (1955–1956, supporting role) - Deputy Marshal Rusty Lee Fury (1956, episode "Tungsten Queen") - Hank Enos Sneak Preview (1956, episode "One Minute from Broadway") Broken Arrow (1957) - Hank Thompson Casey Jones (1957–1958, supporting role) - Red Rock Smith / Red Rock Wagon Train (1958, in "The Jennifer Churchill Story") - Ned The Texan, 2 episodes (1959) - Stage Driver / Oldest Rider The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas. The trip is hazardous with bandits and hostile Apache, and Rawhide is apprehensive about what he and Earp will face. - Rawhide Geraghty Man Without a Gun (1959, in "The Giant") Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959, "The Empty Cell") - Pop Cole Tales of Wells Fargo (1959–1961, 2 episodes) - Grandpa Charlie Bridger / Pat Rankin Overland Trail (1960) in episode 2: "The O'Mara Ladies" Pony Express (1960, in "The Search") - Nate Shotgun Slade (1960, in "The Missing Dog") - the Sheriff Outlaws (1961, in "Roly") - Forsythe Laramie (1959–1963, recurring role) - Mose / Mose - Stage Driver / Mose Shell Disneyland (1960–1962) - Captain Swain / John Finley / Linc Bonanza (1962, in "The First Born") - Harry Dr. Kildare (1962) - Dr. Millard Eakins Empire (1962 in "The Earth Mover") - Abel Saunders Lassie (1960-1963, 8 episodes) - Matt Krebbs / Henry Enders / Jonathan Grigsby