Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 – October 21, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures.
Biography Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. However, Hatton had become enamored of being on stage after he acted in a school play, and he left home to go into acting as a career.
Hatton was part of a vaudeville act that went to Hollywood in 1911. There, he established a successful silent film career, including a stint being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery. During the sound era, though, his career soon skidded and he usually played smaller supporting roles, including the tobacco-chewing, rowdy character Rusty Joslin in The Three Mesquiteers Western B picture series. By the 1950s, Hatton's acting roles expanded into television, where he appeared in various series, including the Adventures of Superman.
He has a star in the Motion Picture section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.
Hatton died of a heart attack, five days after his wife on October 21, 1971, in Palmdale, California, aged 84. He is interred at Joshua Memorial Park.
Selected filmography Film
Tragic Love (1909, Short) – A Detective / In Factory A Burglar's Mistake (1909, Short) – At Folsom's / Secretary The Bangville Police (1913, Short) – Farm Hand (in vest) That Ragtime Band (1913, Short) – Trumpet Player The Squaw Man (1914) – Cowhand (uncredited) The Circus Man (1914) – Ernie Cronk The Girl of the Golden West (1915) – Castro Young Romance (1915) – Jack The Warrens of Virginia (1915) – Blake The Unafraid (1915, Short) – Bosnian Valet The Captive (1915) – Turkish Soldier (uncredited) The Woman (1915) – Secretary The Wild Goose Chase (1915, Short) – Mr. Wright The Arab (1915) – Mysterious Messenger Chimmie Fadden (1915, Short) – Larry, His Brother Kindling (1915) – Steve Bates The Case of Becky (1915) – Department Store Manager (uncredited) Blackbirds (1915) – Hawke, Jr. Carmen (1915) – Spectator at Bullfight (uncredited) Armstrong's Wife (1915) – Runner Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) – Larry At Bay (1915) – Minor Role (uncredited) The Unknown (1915) – Second Private The Cheat (1915) – Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) The Immigrant (1915) – Munsing – Harding's Secretary The Golden Chance (1915) – Jimmy The Rat Temptation (1915) – Baron Cheurial Tennessee's Pardner (1916) – Gewilliker Hay To Have and to Hold (1916) – Nicolo The Sowers (1916) – The Peddler Public Opinion (1916) – Smith The Honorable Friend (1916) – Kayosho The Lash (1916) – Mr. Crawdon Oliver Twist (1916) – The Artful Dodger Joan the Woman (1916) – Charles VII The American Consul (1917) – President Cavillo A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) – Dick Roland The Little American (1917) – Count Jules de Destin What Money Can't Buy (1917) – King Stephen III The Squaw Man's Son (1917) – Storekeeper The Crystal Gazer (1917) – Phil Mannering Hashimura Togo (1917) – Reporter The Woman God Forgot (1917) – Montezuma The Secret Game (1917) – Mr. Harris Nan of Music Mountain (1917) – Logan The Devil-Stone (1917) Jules of the Strong Heart (1918) – Ted Kendall One More American (1918) – Bump Rundle The Whispering Chorus (1918) – John Tremble Old Wives for New (1918) – Beautician (uncredited) We Can't Have Everything (1918) – Marquis Of Strathdene The Firefly of France (1918) – The Firefly Sandy (1918) – Ricks Wilson Less Than Kin (1918) – James Emmons The Source (1918) – Pop Sprowl Arizona (1918) – Tony The Dub (1919) – Phineas Driggs Don't Change Your Husband (1919) – Phineas Driggs Maggie Pepper (1919) – Jake Rothschild The Poor Boob (1919) – Stephen Douglas Experimental Marriage (1919) – Arthur Barnard Johnny Get Your Gun (1919) – Milton C. Milton For Better, for Worse (1919) – Bud You're Fired (1919) – Orchestra Leader Secret Service (1919) – Lieutenant Howard Varney A Daughter of the Wolf (1919) – Doc The Love Burglar (1919) – Parson Smith Male and Female (1919) – Honorable Ernest Wolley Everywoman (1919) – Honorable Ernest Wolley Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920) – Nick Jones The Dancin' Fool (1920) – Enoch Jones The Sea Wolf (1920) – Thomas Mugridge, the Cook Jes' Call Me Jim (1920) – Paul Benedict Stop Thief! (1920) – James Cluney Officer 666 (1920) – Whitney Barnes Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921) – Weelum The Concert (1921) – Dr. Hart The Betrayer (1921) Peck's Bad Boy (1921) – The Village Grocer Salvage (1921) – The Cripple The Ace of Hearts (1921) – The Menace The Affairs of Anatol (1921) – Great Blatsky – Violin Teacher (uncredited) Pilgrims of the Night (1921) – Le Blun All's Fair in Love (1921) – Craigh Randolph Doubling for Romeo (1921) – Steve Woods / Paris Head over Heels (1922) – Pepper His Back Against the Wall (1922) – Jeremy Dice The Fast Freight (1922) Pink Gods (1922) – Jim Wingate Manslaughter (1922) – Brown To Have and to Hold (1922) – King James I Ebb Tide (1922) – J.L. Huish The Hottentot (1922) – Swift Java Head (1923) – Edward Dunsack The Tie That Binds (1923) – Hiram Foster Trimmed in Scarlet (1923) – Mr. Kipp A Man of Action (1923) – Harry Hopwood Three Wise Fools (1923) – Young Gaunt The Barefoot Boy (1923) – Deacon Holloway The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) (with Lon Chaney) – Gringoire The Virginian (1923) – Shorty Enemies of Children (1923) Big Brother (1923) – Cokey Joe Miller Half-A-Dollar-Bill (1924) – Noodles – the Cook True as Steel (1924) – Great Grandfather Triumph (1924) – A Tramp The Fighting Adventurer (1924) – Denny Daynes and Po-Hsing-Chien Cornered (1924) – Nick – the Dope The Mine with the Iron Door (1924) – The Lizard Tomorrow's Love (1925) – Brown Adventure (1925) – Raff The Devil's Cargo (1925) – Mate The Top of the World (1925) – Capt. Preston Contraband (1925) – Launcelot Bangs The Thundering Herd (1925; with Noah Beery) – Jude Pilchuk In the Name of Love (1925) – Marquis de Beausant A Son of His Father (1925) – Charlie Grey Lord Jim (1925) – Cornelius Behind the Front (1926) (with Wallace Beery) – Shorty McKee Silence (1926) – Harry Silvers Born to the West (1926) – Jim Fallon Forlorn River (1926) – Arizona Pete We're in the Navy Now (1926) – 'Stinky' Smith Fashions for Women (1927) – Sam Dupont Fireman, Save My Child (1927; with Wallace Beery) – Sam Now We're in the Air (1927; with Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks) – Ray Two Flaming Youths (1927) – Himself – as Beery and Hatton (uncredited) Wife Savers (1928) – Rodney Ramsbottom Partners in Crime (1928) – 'Scoop' McGee, The Reporter The Big Killing (1928) – Deadeye Dan The Office Scandal (1929) – Pearson, the City Editor Trent's Last Case (1929) – Joshua Cupples The Mighty (1929) – Dogey Franks Hell's Heroes (1929) – 'Barbwire' Tom Gibbons Murder on the Roof (1930) – Drinkwater Midnight Mystery (1930) – Paul Cooper Road to Paradise (1930) – Nick The Silver Horde (1930) – Fraser Rogue of the Rio Grande (1930) – Pedro Pineapples (1930) The Lion and the Lamb (1931) – Muggsy Woman Hungry (1931) – Joac Honeymoon Lane (1931) – Dynamite The Squaw Man (1931) – Shorty Arrowsmith (1931) – Drunk (uncredited) Stung (1931) – Dumb Juryman Polly of the Circus (1932) – Downey Law and Order (1932) – Deadwood Stranger in Town (1932) – Elmer Alias Mary Smith (1932) – Scoop The Vanishing Frontier (1932) – Hornet O'Lowery Cornered (1932) – Deputy Jacklin Drifting Souls (1932) – Scoop The Crooked Circle (1932) – Harmon (The Hermit) The Fourth Horseman (1932) – Gabby – Tax Clerk Exposed (1932) – Marty Vanity Street (1932) – Shorty Hidden Gold (1932) – Spike Webber Malay Nights (1932) – Rance Danvers Uptown New York (1932) – Slot Machine King Long Loop Laramie (1932) Terror Trail (1933) – Lucky Dawson State Trooper (1933) – Carter The Thundering Herd (1933) – Jude Pilchuck Under the Tonto Rim (1933) – Porky The Three Musketeers (1933, Serial) (with John Wayne) – Renard The Big Cage (1933) – Timothy O'Hara Penthouse (1933) – Bodyguard Day of Reckoning (1933) – Hart The Women in His Life (1933) – Curly Lady Killer (1933) – Pete Alice in Wonderland (1933) – Mouse Lazy River (1934) – Capt. Herbert Orkney The Defense Rests (1934) – Louie Fifteen Wives (1934) – Det. Sgt. Meade Straight Is the Way (1934) – Mendel Once to Every Bachelor (1934) – Uncle John Peck's Bad Boy (1934) – Minor Role (uncredited) Wagon Wheels (1934) – Jim Burch Red Morning (1934) – Hawker Rustlers of Red Dog (1935, Serial) – Laramie Times Square Lady (1935) – 'Slim' Kennedy Princess O'Hara (1935) – Frying Pan (uncredited) G Men (1935) – Gangsters' Messenger with Warning Murder in the Fleet (1935) – Al Duval (uncredited) Calm Yourself (1935) – Mike The Daring Young Man (1935) – Flaherty Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) – Matt Abel Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935) – Merryvale Stormy (1935) – Stuffy Nevada (1935) – Sheriff Exclusive Story (1936) – City Editor Timothy's Quest (1936) – Jabe Doolittle Laughing Irish Eyes (1936) – Gallagher Desert Gold (1936) – Doc Belding Undersea Kingdom (1936) – Gasspon Fury (1936) – Hector – Barber (uncredited) The Arizona Raiders (1936) – Tracks Williams Women Are Trouble (1936) – Joe Murty The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936, Serial) – Whipsaw Yellowstone (1936) – Old Pete Mad Holiday (1936) – 'Cokey Joe' Ferris Sinner Take All (1936) – Hotel Clerk Jungle Jim (1937, Serial) – Malay Mike Marked Woman (1937) – Vanning's Lawyer Fly-Away Baby (1937) – Maxie Monkhouse Roaring Timber (1937) – 'Tennessee' Public Wedding (1937) – The Deacon Love Is on the Air (1937) – Weston Over the Goal (1937) – Deputy Abner The Adventurous Blonde (1937) – Maxie Missing Witnesses (1937) – 'Little Joe' Macey The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937; with Wallace Beery) – Cal Turner (uncredited) He Couldn't Say No (1938) – Hymie Atlas, a Gangster Over the Wall (1938) – Convict Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) – Peter Dugan The Texans (1938) – Cal Tuttle Touchdown, Army (1938) – Bob Haskins Come On, Rangers (1938) – Jeff Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) – Judge Tyler Ambush (1939) – Mosher – Hardware Storekeeper (uncredited) Paris Honeymoon (1939) – Huskins Persons in Hiding (1939) – Hadley (uncredited) Rough Riders' Round-up (1939) – Rusty Coburn I'm from Missouri (1939) – Darryl Coffee, Mule Breeder Frontier Pony Express (1939) – Horseshoe Undercover Doctor (1939) – Dizzy Warner 6,000 Enemies (1939) – 'Wibbie' Yern Wyoming Outlaw (1939) (with John Wayne) – Rusty Joslin Career (1939) – Deacon Wall Street Cowboy (1939) – Chuckawalla New Frontier (1939) (with John Wayne) – Rusty Joslin The Kansas Terrors (1939) – Rusty Joslin Cowboys from Texas (1939) – Rusty Joslin Heroes of the Saddle (1940) – Rusty Joslin Pioneers of the West (1940) – Rusty Joslin Hi-Yo Silver (1940) – Smokey (uncredited) Covered Wagon Days (1940) – Rusty Joslin Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940) – Rusty Joslin Queen of the Mob (1940) – Herb – Auto Camp Proprietor Kit Carson (1940) – Jim Bridger Oklahoma Renegades (1940) – Rusty White Eagle (1941, Serial) – Grizzly Arizona Bound (1941) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins Forbidden Trails (1941) – Sandy Hopkins Texas (1941) – Abilene Judge (uncredited) Forbidden Trails (1941) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins aka Killer Cadets on Parade (1942) – Gus Novak Below the Border (1942) – Marshal Sandy – aka Killer Reap the Wild Wind (1942) – Master Shipwright Ghost Town Law (1942) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins – aka Killer The Girl from Alaska (1942) – Shorty Down Texas Way (1942) – U.S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins The Affairs of Martha (1942) – Patrolling Beach Cleaner (uncredited) Her Cardboard Lover (1942) – George the Bailiff (uncredited) Pierre of the Plains (1942) – Pete (uncredited) Riders of the West (1942) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins West of the Law (1942) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins Dawn on the Great Divide (1942) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins Prairie Chickens (1943) – Jefferson Gilbert The Ghost Rider (1943) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins The Stranger from Pecos (1943) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins Six Gun Gospel (1943) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins The Texas Kid (1943) – Marshal Sandy Hopkins