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Arthur Loft was an American film actor. He appeared in 224 films between 1932 and 1947. He was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Birth Name
Hans Peter Loft
Born
Tuesday, 25 May 1897
Died
Wednesday, 01 January 1947
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Squadron of Doom | Chang Ho | 1949 |
| Cigarette Girl | Harry Branum | 1947 |
| Cross My Heart | Deputy | 1947 |
| Lone Star Moonlight | Thaddeus White | 1946 |
| Blondie Knows Best | Mr. Conroy | 1946 |
| The Jolson Story | Winter Garden Stage Manager | 1946 |
| Little Miss Big | Mayor | 1946 |
| Till the End of Time | Surgeon | 1946 |
| Traffic in Crime | Police Chief Jim Murphy | 1946 |
| The Searching Wind | Dr. Crocker | 1946 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Squadron of Doom | Chang Ho | 1949 |
| Cigarette Girl | Harry Branum | 1947 |
| Cross My Heart | Deputy | 1947 |
| Lone Star Moonlight | Thaddeus White | 1946 |
| Blondie Knows Best | Mr. Conroy | 1946 |
| The Jolson Story | Winter Garden Stage Manager | 1946 |
| Little Miss Big | Mayor | 1946 |
| Till the End of Time | Surgeon | 1946 |
| Traffic in Crime | Police Chief Jim Murphy | 1946 |
| The Searching Wind | Dr. Crocker | 1946 |
| Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Desk Sergeant | 1946 |
| One Exciting Week | Charlie Pickett | 1946 |
| The Walls Came Tumbling Down | Politician Anderson | 1946 |
| The Cat Creeps | Sampler - Publisher / Sampler-Publisher | 1946 |
| The Virginian | Sheriff | 1946 |
| The Blue Dahlia | 'Wolf' at Bar | 1946 |
| Sheriff of Redwood Valley | Harvey Martin | 1946 |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Joe | 1946 |
| To Each His Own | Bernadock Clinton | 1946 |
| Two Years Before the Mast | Josiah Crabtree | 1946 |
| Scarlet Street | Dellarowe | 1945 |
| Sing Your Way Home | News Editor | 1945 |
| Road to Utopia | Head Purser | 1945 |
| The Shanghai Cobra | Bradford Harris | 1945 |
| Men in Her Diary | Attorney Reynolds / Reynolds - Attorney | 1945 |
| Arson Squad | Cyrus P. Clevenger | 1945 |
| Rhythm Round-Up | Oscar Berton | 1945 |
| The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | Mr. Follinsbee | 1945 |
| Guest Wife | Train Conductor | 1945 |
| Incendiary Blonde | McKee - Bettor | 1945 |
| Along Came Jones | Sheriff | 1945 |
| On Stage Everybody | Fulton | 1945 |
| Man from Oklahoma | J. J. Cardigan | 1945 |
| Blonde from Brooklyn | Daniel Frazier | 1945 |
| The Naughty Nineties | Billy Boy | 1945 |
| Nob Hill | Turner | 1945 |
| Honeymoon Ahead | Sheriff Weeks | 1945 |
| Blood on the Sun | American Newspaperman | 1945 |
| The Master Key | M-1's Voice-Man | 1945 |
| Salty O'Rourke | Joe | 1945 |
| It's a Pleasure | Jack Weimar | 1945 |
| She Gets Her Man | Waldron | 1945 |
| Practically Yours | Uncle Ben Bellamy | 1944 |
| Lights of Old Santa Fe | Bill Wetherbee | 1944 |
| The Woman in the Window | Charlie the Hatcheck Man / Claude Mazard / Charlie / Frank Howard | 1944 |
| My Buddy | Warden | 1944 |
| The Merry Monahans | Henderson | 1944 |
| Leave It to the Irish | Chief of Police J. P. O'Brien / J.P. O'Brien | 1944 |
| Wilson | Franklin Lane - Secretary of the Interior | 1944 |
| Louisiana Hayride | Studio Director | 1944 |
| The Hitler Gang | Col. von Reichenau | 1944 |
| Rosie the Riveter | Sergeant Montgomery | 1944 |
| Buffalo Bill | Barker | 1944 |
| Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid | Clancy | 1944 |
| Charlie Chan in the Secret Service | Inspector Jones | 1944 |
| Chip Off the Old Block | Conductor | 1944 |
| And the Angels Sing | Stage Manager | 1944 |
| Standing Room Only | Foreman | 1944 |
| Jack London | Fred Palmer | 1943 |
| In Old Oklahoma | Fenton | 1943 |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Detective | 1943 |
| A Scream in the Dark | Norton | 1943 |
| Footlight Glamour | Mr. Clark | 1943 |
| Wintertime | Advertising Man | 1943 |
| Silver Spurs | Bulldog Bailey | 1943 |
| Frontier Badmen | Lindsay | 1943 |
| Let's Face It | George Collister | 1943 |
| My Friend Flicka | Charley Sargent | 1943 |
| Gildersleeve's Bad Day | Prosecuting Attorney Lucas | 1943 |
| Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Dr. Post | 1943 |
| Redhead from Manhattan | Sig Hammersmith | 1943 |
| Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour | Jackson | 1943 |
| Mission to Moscow | Man with Microphone | 1943 |
| Hangmen Also Die! | Gen. Votruba | 1943 |
| No Time for Love | Vice-President | 1943 |
| He Hired the Boss | Bartender | 1943 |
| A Stranger in Town | Police Chief Perkins | 1943 |
| The Meanest Man in the World | Mr. Billings | 1943 |
| City Without Men | Lawyer | 1943 |
| Happy Go Lucky | Second Reporter | 1943 |
| To the People of the United States | Griffith - Member of the Local Draft Board | 1943 |
| Lucky Jordan | Hearndon | 1942 |
| The Forest Rangers | John Arnold | 1942 |
| Girl Trouble | Burgess | 1942 |
| The Spirit of Stanford | Football Coach | 1942 |
| Street of Chance | Sheriff Lew Stebbins | 1942 |
| The Man in the Trunk | Sam Kohler | 1942 |
| The Glass Key | Clyde Matthews | 1942 |
| Orchestra Wives | Recording Session Director | 1942 |
| Priorities on Parade | E. V. Hartley, Personnel Manager | 1942 |
| Her Cardboard Lover | Charles the Maitre d' | 1942 |
| Night in New Orleans | Police Sergeant Bliss | 1942 |
| The Magnificent Dope | Mr. Morton, Fire Engine Salesman | 1942 |
| Meet the Stewarts | Impatient Man in Office / Impatient Man in Office (Uncredited) | 1942 |
| Dr. Broadway | Police Capt. Mahoney / Capt. Mahoney | 1942 |
| Take a Letter, Darling | Mr. French | 1942 |
| This Gun for Hire | Man who Bumps into Raven | 1942 |
| Secret Agent of Japan | Oil Man at Bar | 1942 |
| Broadway | Detective | 1942 |
| True to the Army | Ray | 1942 |
| The Male Animal | Trustee | 1942 |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | Casey | 1942 |
| The Adventures of Martin Eden | Mr. Ford, Publisher | 1942 |
| South of Santa Fe | Peter Moreland | 1942 |
| Young America | Announcer | 1942 |
| Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Hooker - Chicago Businessman / Hooker | 1942 |
| The Lady Has Plans | Mr. Weston | 1942 |
| Fly-By-Night | Inspector Karns / Police Inspector Karns | 1942 |
| Don Winslow of the Navy | Tranker - Submarine Z-37 Captain [Chs. 1-2] / Enemy Sub Capt. Tranker [Ch. 1] | 1942 |
| Blue, White and Perfect | Joseph P. McCordy | 1942 |
| The Night of January 16th | Airport Official | 1941 |
| They Died with Their Boots On | Tillaman | 1941 |
| Appointment for Love | Station Manager | 1941 |
| Three Girls About Town | Poker Player | 1941 |
| You Belong to Me | Reporter | 1941 |
| Henry Aldrich for President | Department of Commerce Inspector | 1941 |
| Down Mexico Way | Homer Gerard | 1941 |
| Texas | Cattleman | 1941 |
| The Stork Pays Off | Barney | 1941 |
| Hold Back the Dawn | Mr. Elvestad | 1941 |
| We Go Fast | Francis X. 'Frank' Futter / Francis X. Futter | 1941 |
| Life Begins for Andy Hardy | Mounted Policeman | 1941 |
| Bad Men of Missouri | Marshal Capturing Youngers | 1941 |
| Caught in the Draft | Movie Director | 1941 |
| North from the Lone Star | 'Flash' Kirby | 1941 |
| Back in the Saddle | E.G. Blaine | 1941 |
| The Saint in Palm Springs | Detective Grady | 1941 |
| The Green Hornet Strikes Again! | Tauer - Chief Gangster | 1940 |
| Texas Terrors | Olin Blake | 1940 |
| Glamour for Sale | Harry T. Braddock | 1940 |
| Colorado | Jim Macklin - Indian Commissioner / Macklin | 1940 |
| Pony Express Days | Alex Majors | 1940 |
| You're Not So Tough | Marshall | 1940 |
| The Carson City Kid | Slick Gambler / The Obnoxious Drunk | 1940 |
| The Saint Takes Over | Detective Grady | 1940 |
| The Crooked Road | Carl Gobel | 1940 |
| Covered Wagon Days | Official | 1940 |
| Riders of Pasco Basin | Matthew Kirby | 1940 |
| Millionaire Playboy | Football Coach | 1940 |
| Double Alibi | Policeman at Booking Desk | 1940 |
| Teddy the Rough Rider | Big Jim Rafferty | 1940 |
| Cafe Hostess | Steve Mason | 1940 |
| The Green Hornet | Joe Ogden | 1940 |
| Days of Jesse James | Sam Wyatt | 1939 |
| The Roaring Twenties | Still Proprietor | 1939 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Chief Clerk | 1939 |
| Pride of the Blue Grass | Dave Miller | 1939 |
| A Woman Is the Judge | Tim Ryan | 1939 |
| Smuggled Cargo | Masterson | 1939 |
| Hell's Kitchen | Elmer Krispan | 1939 |
| Help Wanted | Mr. Warner | 1939 |
| Should a Girl Marry? | Dr. Garfield | 1939 |
| Chasing Danger | Mr. Bowman | 1939 |
| Street of Missing Men | Businessman | 1939 |
| Let Us Live | Warden | 1939 |
| Everybody's Baby | Chief Kelly | 1939 |
| Southward Ho! | Captain Jeffries | 1939 |
| The Ice Follies of 1939 | Director / Director (Uncredited) | 1939 |
| Risky Business | Police Captain Wallace | 1939 |
| Charlie Chan in Honolulu | Mr. Peabody | 1939 |
| Pacific Liner | Engineering Officer Dearborn | 1939 |
| Rhythm of the Saddle | Clyde Chase | 1938 |
| The Lady Objects | Charles Clarke | 1938 |
| Down in 'Arkansaw' | Turner | 1938 |
| Vacation from Love | Police Lieutenant | 1938 |
| I Am the Law | Tom Ross | 1938 |
| City Streets | Dr. Goodman | 1938 |
| Squadron of Honor | Lou Tanner | 1938 |
| Highway Patrol | Walter Brennan | 1938 |
| The Main Event | Jack Benson | 1938 |
| There's Always a Woman | Radio Patrolman | 1938 |
| Rawhide | Ed Saunders | 1938 |
| Start Cheering | Joe Green | 1938 |
| Women in Prison | Barney Morse | 1938 |
| Who Killed Gail Preston? | Jules Stevens | 1938 |
| No Time to Marry | Wyatt Blake | 1938 |
| The Shadow | Sheriff Jackson | 1937 |
| All American Sweetheart | Cap Collender | 1937 |
| Paid to Dance | Jack Miranada | 1937 |
| The Game That Kills | Rudy Maxwell | 1937 |
| It Happened in Hollywood | Pete | 1937 |
| Public Cowboy No. 1 | Jack Shannon | 1937 |
| Motor Madness | 'Lucky' Leonard Raymond | 1937 |
| Paradise Express | Glover | 1937 |
| Devil's Playground | Damage Control Officer | 1937 |
| Woman in Distress | Stewart Sadler / Stu Saddler | 1937 |
| Silent Barriers | William Van Horne - Member of C.P.R. Board / William Van Horne | 1937 |
| Night Waitress | Borgum | 1936 |
| Wanted! Jane Turner | Henchman Glen | 1936 |
| Winterset | District Attorney | 1936 |
| The Accusing Finger | Convict | 1936 |
| Legion of Terror | Gardner | 1936 |
| Without Orders | Air Controller Calkins | 1936 |
| Ace Drummond | The Dragon / Chang-Ho | 1936 |
| The Big Game | Opposing Coach | 1936 |
| Postal Inspector | Inspector Gene Richards | 1936 |
| Two-Fisted Gentleman | Fletcher | 1936 |
| M'Liss | Clem Larkin | 1936 |
| Shakedown | Editor | 1936 |
| Parole! | Lawyer - Accusation | 1936 |
| The Rogues' Tavern | Wentworth | 1936 |
| Counterfeit | Lyons | 1936 |
| The Witness Chair | Bailiff | 1936 |
| Panic on the Air | Bartender | 1936 |
| Don't Gamble with Love | Croupier | 1936 |
| The Music Goes 'Round | Minor Role | 1936 |
| The Prisoner of Shark Island | Frank J. Thomas - Carpetbagger | 1936 |
| You May Be Next! | Police Radio Diispatcher | 1936 |
| The Lone Wolf Returns | Oscar | 1935 |
| One-Way Ticket | Gambler | 1935 |
| Bars of Hate | Gilroy - Grant's Henchman | 1935 |
| 3 Kids and a Queen | Reporter | 1935 |
| Danger Ahead | Pete - Henchman | 1935 |
| What Price Crime | Donahue | 1935 |
| On Probation | Benson | 1935 |
| Western Justice | Clem W. Slade | 1934 |
| Stand Up and Cheer! | Minor Role | 1934 |
| Bottoms Up | Yes Man | 1934 |
| Kid Courageous | Sheriff Stockton | 1934 |
| Blood Money | Charley's Man | 1933 |
| Alimony Madness | Dennis O'Shea | 1933 |
| Behind Jury Doors | James Collins | 1932 |
