Casablanca
1943
Search results
Estelle Williams. ( m. 19??; his death 1953) Arthur " Dooley " Wilson (April 3, 1886 – May 30, 1953) was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered for his portrayal of Sam in the 1942 film Casablanca. In that romantic drama, he performs its theme song "As Time Goes By". Wilson was a drummer and singer [1] who led his own ...
Dooley was born Arthur Wilson in Tyler, Texas. His exact year of birth was debated for years, listed in reference books as either 1886 or 1894. His grave marker, however, at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles gives the year 1886. At age 12 he performed in minstrel shows and later became a fixture in black theater in both Chicago and New ...
- April 3, 1886
- May 30, 1953
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 5895391. Source citation. Actor and Musician. He spent most of his Texas childhood performing in minstrel shows. After touring Europe with his own jazz band in the 1920s, he acted in Federal Theatre Project plays and made it to Broadway in the cast of Cabin in the Sky (1940). Wilson's Hollywood career was brief---just ...
Wilson 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, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of modest films. His role in Casablanca was by far his most prominent, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde (1942) with Bob Hope ...
Actor Dooley Wilson, born on Apr 3, 1886 and died on May 30, 1953 starred in Casablanca, My Favorite Blonde, No Man of Her Own (1950), Stormy Weather, Cairo, Knock on Any Door, Take a Letter, Darling, Father Is a Bachelor, Higher and Higher, Come to the Stable
- Died at 67
- May 30, 1953Los Angeles, CA
- Apr 3, 1886Tyler, TX
- Aries
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson was an American actor, singer and musician who is best remembered as Sam in the 1942 film, Casablanca; in the film, he also performed its theme song, "As Time Goes By". Wilson 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, playing supporting roles onstage on Broadway and in a series of ...
Dooley Wilson. Actor: Casablanca. "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh; the fundamental things apply, as time goes by...". . The gentleman who crooned this now legendary tune for the morose Humphrey Bogart and moist-eyed Ingrid Bergman at Rick's Cafe Americain amid the bleak WWII backdrop was none other than 56-year-old Arthur "Dooley" Wilson, an African ...
