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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 28, 1901
Died
July 6, 1986
Place of Birth
Island Pond, Vermont, USA
Also Known As
- Hubert Prior Vallée
Rudy Vallee
0.4 Popularity
Biography
Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated by his cast and crew due to his explosive ego-driven personality). In the early 1930's he was ranked with the likes of Bing Crosby and the tragic Russ Columbo in the Hit Parade. A huge hit on radio in 1933 with his program, initially known as 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour,' Vallee was considered a slave driver by his staff. He was known to instigate fist fights with virtually anyone who got on his nerves. During the run of his show he slugged photographers, threw sheet music in the faces of pianists' heads and if provoked, would sock hecklers in the nose. While audiences loved him, he was hated by most of his staff. As a very popular star in night clubs and on records, as well as in movies, he helped other singers like Alice Faye - who was for a while his band singer - and Frances Langford to start their careers. In his early movies he often played the romantic lead, but he switched later to stuffy and comic parts. He also appeared on Broadway. The mid-60's Broadway hit "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was filmed in 1967 with him in his original Broadway role.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
2015
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
8.0
Self
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
10.0
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
3.0
Tock
The Perfect Woman
1981
0.0
Self
Men Who Rate a 10
1980
6.8
Arthur Forbinger
CHiPs
1977
4.1
Autograph Hound
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
7.4
Alvin Winer
Ellery Queen
1975
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Credits
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
1995
8.0
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
as Self
1987
8.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
The Perfect Woman
as Tock
1981
3.0
Men Who Rate a 10
as Self
1980
0.0
CHiPs
as Arthur Forbinger
1977
6.8
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Autograph Hound
1976
4.1
Ellery Queen
as Alvin Winer
1975
7.4
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
5.7
Slashed Dreams
as Proprietor
1975
3.2
🎬
The Chicago Teddy Bears
1971
5.5
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.9
Night Gallery
as Dr. Francis Deeking
1970
7.8
The Phynx
as Rudy Vallee
1970
3.5
The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Opening Narrator (voice)
1968
5.6
Live a Little, Love a Little
as Louis Penlow
1968
5.5
Here's Lucy
as Rudy Vallee
1968
6.7
The Name of the Game
as Myron Lesser
1968
6.8
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
as Jasper B. Biggley
1967
6.8
Batman
as Lord Marmaduke Ffogg
1966
7.3
Petticoat Junction
1963
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
🎬
Hansel and Gretel
as Father
1958
0.0
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Rudy Vallee
1957
8.6
The Helen Morgan Story
as Himself
1957
5.2
Jazz Ball
as Self (archive footage)
1956
7.0
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
as Rudy Vallee
1955
5.2
Ricochet Romance
as Worthington Higgenmacher
1954
7.0
December Bride
1954
5.5
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
The Admiral Was a Lady
as Peter Pedigrew
1950
6.1
The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
1950
0.0
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
What's My Line?
as Self - Panelist
1950
6.9
Father Was a Fullback
as Mr. Jessup
1949
6.0
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
as Charles Hingleman
1949
5.8
Mother Is a Freshman
as John Heaslip
1949
0.0
Unfaithfully Yours
as August Henshler
1948
7.2
My Dear Secretary
as Charles Harris
1948
5.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
So This Is New York
as Herbert Daley
1948
6.0
I Remember Mama
as Dr. Johnson
1948
7.1
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
as Tommy Chamberlain
1947
6.9
Kraft Television Theatre
as Bromley
1947
7.5
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
as Lynn Sargent
1947
6.3
The Fabulous Suzanne
as Hendrick Courtney Jr.
1946
5.0
People Are Funny
as Ormsby Jamison
1946
5.2
Man Alive
as Gordon Tolliver
1945
5.1
It's in the Bag!
as Rudy Vallee
1945
5.0
11th. Naval District "United States Coast Guard Band"
as Himself - Bandleader
1944
4.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
as Himself
1943
6.0
Happy Go Lucky
as Alfred Monroe
1943
4.0
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
6.0
The Palm Beach Story
as John D. Hackensacker III
1942
7.0
🎬
Too Many Blondes
as Dick Kerrigan
1941
0.0
Time Out for Rhythm
as Daniel 'Danny' Collins
1941
6.2
Rodeo Dough
as Rudy Vallee
1940
5.3
Second Fiddle
as Roger Maxwell
1939
4.9
Breakdowns of 1938
as Rudy (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
5.0
Gold Diggers in Paris
as Terry Moore
1938
5.7
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
Sweet Music
as Skip Houston
1935
5.7
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
as Himself (uncredited)
1935
5.2
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
as Self
1934
0.0
George White's Scandals
as Jimmy Martin
1934
5.0
International House
as Himself
1933
5.7
🎬
The Musical Doctor
as Dr. Vallee
1932
0.0
Rudy Vallee Melodies
as Self
1932
3.8
Kitty from Kansas City
as Singer with Handlebar Moustache
1931
4.1
Betty Co-ed
as Himself
1931
4.5
Glorifying the American Girl
as Self
1929
5.6
The Vagabond Lover
as Rudy Bronson
1929
4.0
🎬
Radio Rhythm
as Rudy Vallee
1929
0.0