Edward Brophy

Edward Santree Brophy was born on February 27, 1895, in New York City and attended the University of Virginia.

As two occupants of a bath-house, Brophy and Keaton attempt to undress and put on bathing suits while sharing a single tiny changing room.

His subsequent films for MGM cast him in the same vein: comic foils in four more Keaton features; the loyal fight manager in The Champ (1931); a circus proprietor in Freaks (1932); and as a hired gun in The Thin Man (1934).

Very rarely was he called upon to display dramatic ability, as in the police procedural Arson, Inc. (1949), in which he played a potentially dangerous firebug.

Brophy was the model for comic-book character Doiby Dickles,[2] the cab-driving sidekick to Green Lantern in the 1940s.

Edward Brophy (center) with Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery in The Champ (1931)
Calling Philo Vance (1940) Edward Brophy (pictured right) with James Stephenson