Aldrich Bowker
Aldrich Bowker was an American stage and film actor.
Biography
Bowker was born in Ashby, Massachusetts. He graduated from Fitchburg High School. His debut came in Boston in a stage adaptation of The Christian, by Hall Caine.
He was a long-time stage performer in Chicago and Cincinnati, and in summer stock at amusement park Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. Bowker was a pioneer in "open air" theatre at Whalom Park and at his summer home in Ashburnham, where other performers were frequent guests, including Ainsworth Arnold and Bette Davis.
Between 1912 and 1938 he was active on Broadway. Notable stage plays he performed in were The High Road, A Night in Avignon, You Can't Take It With You and 200 Were Chosen.
Between 1939 and 1942 he appeared in about 25 films, including Ball of Fire.
Bowker died at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, California, from arteriosclerosis and senility.
Partial filmography
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter as Matt BrandonWaterfront as Father DunnTorchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Judge HersheyThese Glamour Girls as Charlie, the Counterman Everybody's Hobby as Uncle Bert LeslieAngels Wash Their Faces as TurnkeyNo Place to Go as HeffernanPride of the Blue Grass as JudgeOn Dress Parade as Father RyanJoe and Ethel Turp Call on the President as Mike O'BrienAbe Lincoln in Illinois as Judge Bowling GreenIt All Came True as Father McDuffy Those Were the Days! as Judge Squire JenningsSusan and God as PatrickJennie as Dr. HildebrandRomance of the Rio Grande as Padre MartinezMeet John Doe as Pop Dwyer Pot o' Gold as Judge Mike Murray The Wagons Roll at Night as Mr. WilliamsLove Crazy as Jimmy, the Doorman Ball of Fire as Justice of the PeaceI Was Framed as Dr. Phillip BlackMississippi Gambler as Judd Higgins, Mississippi Newspaper EditorThe Major and the Minor as Reverend DoyleI Married a Witch as Justice of the Peace