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Dooley Wilson, Actor / Musician
Born: 3 April 1886
Birthplace: Tyler, Texas
Died: 30 May 1953
Best Known As: Sam in the movie Casablanca
Name at birth: Arthur Wilson
Dooley Wilson played Sam, the cheerful piano player and sidekick to saloonkeeper Rick Blaine in the classic 1942 film Casablanca. He was the Sam in the famously misremembered line "Play it again, Sam" -- a phrase which was never actually spoken in the film. Wilson, an African-American, was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s, touring nightclubs in London and Paris. In the 1930s he took up acting for good, playing supporting roles onstage and in a series of modest films. Casablanca, in which he sang the romantic tune "As Time Goes By" to Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as the beautiful Ilsa Lund, was by far Wilson's most famous role. His other films included My Favorite Blonde (1942, with Bob Hope), Stormy Weather (1943, with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers), and the 1951 western Passage West.
- 2 decades ago
Movies he was in include....
Casablanca (1942) .... Sam
"Beulah" (1950) TV Series .... Bill Jackson (1952-53)
... aka The Beulah Show
Passage West (1951) .... Rainbow
... aka High Venture (UK)
Father Is a Bachelor (1950) .... Blue
No Man of Her Own (1950) (uncredited) .... Waiter on train
Free for All (1949) .... Aristotle
Tell It to the Judge (1949) (uncredited) .... Pullman Porter
Come to the Stable (1949) .... Anthony James
Knock on Any Door (1949) (uncredited) .... Piano player
Racing Luck (1948) .... Abe
Triple Threat (1948) .... Porter
Seven Days Ashore (1944) .... Jason
Higher and Higher (1943) .... Oscar
Stormy Weather (1943) .... Gabe Tucker
Two Tickets to London (1943) .... Accordionist
Cairo (1942) .... Hector
Night in New Orleans (1942) .... Shadrach Jones
Take a Letter, Darling (1942) .... Moses
... aka Green-Eyed Woman (UK)
My Favorite Blonde (1942) .... Porter
Keep Punching (1939) (as Arthur 'Dooley' Wilson) .... Baron Skinner
Racing Luck (1935/I)
