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DeWitt Clarke Jennings was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937.
Birth Name
DeWitt Clarke Jennings
Born
Wednesday, 21 June 1871
Died
Monday, 01 March 1937
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Slave Ship | Snodgrass | 1937 |
| Fifty Roads to Town | Captain Galloway | 1937 |
| This Is My Affair | Bradley Wallace | 1937 |
| That I May Live | Chief of Police | 1937 |
| Midnight Taxi | Capt. Wainwright | 1937 |
| Nancy Steele Is Missing! | Doctor on Farm | 1937 |
| We Who Are About to Die | Mike Brannigan | 1937 |
| The Accusing Finger | Prison Warden | 1936 |
| Sing, Baby, Sing | Mr. Lee, the Landlord | 1936 |
| Kelly the Second | Judge (as DeWitt C. Jennings) / Judge | 1936 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Slave Ship | Snodgrass | 1937 |
| Fifty Roads to Town | Captain Galloway | 1937 |
| This Is My Affair | Bradley Wallace | 1937 |
| That I May Live | Chief of Police | 1937 |
| Midnight Taxi | Capt. Wainwright | 1937 |
| Nancy Steele Is Missing! | Doctor on Farm | 1937 |
| We Who Are About to Die | Mike Brannigan | 1937 |
| The Accusing Finger | Prison Warden | 1936 |
| Sing, Baby, Sing | Mr. Lee, the Landlord | 1936 |
| Kelly the Second | Judge (as DeWitt C. Jennings) / Judge | 1936 |
| Exclusive Story | Captain | 1936 |
| I Dream Too Much | Man Yelling for Food | 1935 |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Fryer | 1935 |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife | Freight Agent | 1935 |
| The Daring Young Man | Mayor's Committee Official | 1935 |
| Front Page Woman | Police Lieutenant | 1935 |
| Village Tale | Sheriff Ramsey | 1935 |
| Mary Jane's Pa | Sheriff | 1935 |
| A Dog of Flanders | Carl Cogez | 1935 |
| Murder on a Honeymoon | Captain Beegle | 1935 |
| The President Vanishes | Edward Cullen / Cullen | 1935 |
| A Wicked Woman | The Sheriff | 1934 |
| Secret of the Chateau | Louis Bardou | 1934 |
| Death on the Diamond | Patterson | 1934 |
| Take the Stand | Police Commissioner | 1934 |
| The Cat's-Paw | Pete - Policeman | 1934 |
| Charlie Chan's Courage | Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings) / Constable Brackett | 1934 |
| A Man's Game | Chief Jordan | 1934 |
| Operator 13 | Artilleryman | 1934 |
| Little Man, What Now? | Emil Kleinholz | 1934 |
| She Made Her Bed | Show Boss | 1934 |
| Massacre | Sheriff Jennings | 1934 |
| The Meanest Gal in Town | Police Chief | 1934 |
| Fugitive Lovers | Warden | 1934 |
| The Women in His Life | Warden | 1933 |
| From Headquarters | Third-Degree Detective | 1933 |
| Day of Reckoning | First Deputy | 1933 |
| Police Car 17 | Captain T. J. Hart | 1933 |
| Golden Harvest | Sheriff | 1933 |
| I Loved a Woman | Banker | 1933 |
| One Year Later | Deputy Russell | 1933 |
| Fighting with Kit Carson | Army Colonel (Ch. 1) | 1933 |
| Made on Broadway | Moriarty | 1933 |
| Song of the Eagle | Chief of Police / Colonel Hellfire Harry | 1933 |
| Strictly Personal | Inspector Flynn / Captain Reardon | 1933 |
| A Lady's Profession | Mr. Stephens | 1933 |
| Grand Slam | R.J. Flynn | 1933 |
| Mystery of the Wax Museum | Police Captain | 1933 |
| Ladies They Talk About | Detective Tracy | 1933 |
| On Your Guard | Joshua Perkins | 1933 |
| The Match King | Bodensky | 1932 |
| Central Park | Police Desk Sergeant Monahan | 1932 |
| Silver Dollar | The Mine Foreman / George, the Mine Foreman | 1932 |
| The Bride's Bereavement; or, the Snake in the Grass | Arresting Officer | 1932 |
| Tess of the Storm Country | Game Warden | 1932 |
| Movie Crazy | Mr. Hall | 1932 |
| Speak Easily | Sheriff of Lincoln County | 1932 |
| Midnight Morals | Dan McKennan | 1932 |
| The Washington Masquerade | Senate Board of Inquiry Member | 1932 |
| By Whose Hand? | City Editor | 1932 |
| Night Court | Court Policeman | 1932 |
| Dancers in the Dark | Police Sergeant McGroody | 1932 |
| Arrowsmith | B.W. Tozer | 1931 |
| The Deceiver | Inspector Dunn | 1931 |
| The Squaw Man | Sheriff Bud Hardy | 1931 |
| Caught Plastered | Police Chief H.A. Morton | 1931 |
| Politics | Police Chief | 1931 |
| The Secret 6 | Chief of Police Donlin | 1931 |
| The Primrose Path | Joe Malone | 1931 |
| The Criminal Code | Captain Gleason / Yard Captain Gleason | 1930 |
| Min and Bill | Groot | 1930 |
| The Bat Whispers | Police Captain | 1930 |
| The Big Trail | Boat Captain Hollister | 1930 |
| Scarlet Pages | Judge | 1930 |
| Outside the Law | Police Chief Kennedy | 1930 |
| The Big House | Wallace | 1930 |
| Redemption | Gypsy | 1930 |
| Those Who Dance | Captain O'Brien | 1930 |
| Captain of the Guard | Priest | 1930 |
| The Night Ride | Capt. O'Donnell | 1930 |
| New York Nights | Detective | 1929 |
| The Trial of Mary Dugan | Inspector Hunt | 1929 |
| Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 | Jay Darrell | 1929 |
| The Valiant | Warden Holt | 1929 |
| Alibi | Officer O'Brien | 1929 |
| Seven Footprints to Satan | Uncle Joe | 1929 |
| The Night Flyer | Bucks | 1928 |
| Two Arabian Knights | American Consul | 1927 |
| The Fire Brigade | Fire Chief Wallace | 1926 |
| While London Sleeps | Inspector Burke | 1926 |
| Exit Smiling | Orlando Wainwright | 1926 |
| The Ice Flood | James O'Neill | 1926 |
| Chip of the Flying U | J.G. Whitmore | 1926 |
| The Mystic | Director of Police | 1925 |
| The Deadwood Coach | Jim Shields / Jim Shields - in play | 1924 |
| Hit and Run | Joe Burns | 1924 |
| Name the Man! | Dan Collister | 1924 |
| Within the Law | Inspector Burke | 1923 |
| Mixed Faces | Murray McGuire | 1922 |
| Flesh and Blood | Detective Doyle | 1922 |
| Sherlock Brown | J.J. Wallace | 1922 |
| The Little American | English Barrister | 1917 |
| The Warrens of Virginia | Secondary Role | 1915 |
