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Ned Sparks
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Ned Sparks (19 November 1883, Guelph, Ontario - 3 April 1957, Victorville, California), born Edward Arthur Sparkman was a Canadian actor who became famous in Hollywood.
Sparks, a dour-faced, cigar-chomping character actor in the 1930s, was noted for a caustic wit and was often caricatured in cartoons. Tex Avery depicts him as a hermit crab in Fresh Fish (1939) and he appears briefly in Friz Freleng's Warner Brothers cartoon Malibu Beach Party (1940).
Like most character actors, Sparks appeared in numerous films. Among those films still studied, he appeared in:
- Servants' Entrance (1934) (Hjalmar Gnu)
- Imitation of Life (1934) (Elmer Smith)
- Alice in Wonderland (1933) (Caterpillar)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (Barney Hopkins)
- 42nd Street (1933) (Thomas Barry)
- Going Hollywood (1933) (Bert Conroy)
- The Miracle Man (1932) (Harry Evans)
- The Little Miss Brown (1915) (first film appearance)