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Dooley Wilson (Arthur Dooley WIlson) was born on 3 April, 1886 in Tyler, Texas, USA, is a Soundtrack, Actor. Discover Dooley Wilson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of Dooley Wilson networth?

Popular As Arthur Dooley WIlson
Occupation soundtrack,actor
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April 1886
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Tyler, Texas, USA
Date of death 30 May, 1953
Died Place Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Dooley Wilson's Wife?

His wife is Estella Froman Williams (25 February 1926 - 30 May 1953) ( his death), Etta B (? - 3 January 1919) ( divorced)

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Casablanca (1942)$350 /week

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1952

In his final season of performing (1952-1953) Dooley was a regular on the TV sitcom Beulah (1950) which starred Ethel Waters. He played the title maid's boyfriend Bill Jackson and Dooley was the second of three actors who would play the role during its three-season run.

1950

Dooley won the role of Sam over top contender Clarence Muse who later played Sam in a 1950s TV adaptation of "Casablanca."

1946

"Back on the live stage Dooley portrayed an escaped slave in the musical "Bloomer Girl" (1946) and, as a result, made another song famous, "The Eagle and Me," which went on for inclusion in the Smithsonian recordings compilation "American Musical Theatre.

1943

" He graced approximately twenty other motion pictures in all, including the war-era musicals Stormy Weather (1943) and Higher and Higher (1943).

1942

In Casablanca (1942), Dooley immortalized the song "As Time Goes By" as boss and nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Bogart) and lost true love Ilsa Lund (Bergman) briefly rekindled an old romantic flame. While paid only $350 a week for his services, Dooley achieved his own immortality as well. However, he was not a pianist in real life and was dubbed while fingering the keyboard. In addition to "As Time Goes By," Dooley's character did warm renditions of "It Had To Be You," "Shine," "Knock On Wood" and "Parlez-moi d'amour.

1936

Appearing in such diverse Broadway plays as the comedy "Conjur Man Dies (1936) and the melodrama "The Strangler Fig" (1940), along with various Federal Theater productions for Orson Welles and John Houseman. This exposure led directly to his signing on as a contract player with Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. He unfortunately began things off in era stereotypes as porters, chauffeurs and the like. Unhappy with his movie roles he was about to abandon Hollywood altogether when Paramount lent him out to Warner Bros. for the piano-playing role of Sam and the rest is history.

1930

From the 1930s to the 1950s he focused on theatrical musicals and occasional films.

1920

As a vaudevillian, drummer and jazz band leader, he entertained both here and in 1920s European tours (Paris, London, etc).

1908

At age 12 he performed in minstrel shows and later became a fixture in black theater in both Chicago and New York (circa 1908). He received the nickname "Dooley" while working in the Pekin Theatre in Chicago, because of his then-signature Irish song "Mr. Dooley," which he usually performed in whiteface as an Irishman. In subsequent years Dooley displayed his musical skills in various forms.

1886

"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-American actor and singer who earned a comfortable niche for himself in film history with this simple, dramatic, piano-playing scene. 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.