Percy Helton

Percy Helton
Percy Helton
	File:Percy Helton.jpg Helton in Criss Cross (1949)
Born	Percy Alfred Helton; January 31, 1894; New York City, New York, USA
Died	Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.; Hollywood, California, USA
Occupation	actor
Years active	1915-1970
Spouse(s)	Edna Roberta Eustace

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Percy Helton (January 31, 1894 – September 11, 1971) was an American film and television actor.

Career

Percy Helton began acting as a young child at the age of two, appearing in his father's vaudeville act. He appeared in many Broadway plays as a child actor before joining the US Army to serve in World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces. The short actor with a hoarse, raspy voice and breathy delivery was a fixture in a wide range of films and TV programs in the 1950s and 1960s. Among them were three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Asa Cooperman in the 1961 episode, "The Case of the Pathetic Patient". Helton appeared as the drunken Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. He also appeared in Criss Cross (1949), The Set-Up (1949), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He was entombed at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Percy Helton at the Internet Movie Database
Percy Helton at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Percy Helton at Find a Grave
young Percy Helton on left in Silver Wings (1922)- (University of Washington, Sayre collection)

Percy Helton
File:Percy Helton.jpg Helton in Criss Cross (1949)
Born	Percy Alfred Helton (1894-01-31)January 31, 1894 New York City, New York, USA
Died	Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hollywood, California, USA
Occupation	actor
Years active	1915-1970
Spouse(s)	Edna Roberta Eustace