Real name: Lewis Delaney Offield

American actor, starring mostly in films, & on stage, radio & TV.
Born November 12, 1903 in Sedalia, Missouri, USA.
Died January 23, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Best remembered for portraying Napaloni in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially during film's "Golden Age." He would accomplish so much despite the fact that he was "functionally deaf" throughout his career and performed primarily with the aid of lip reading or vibrations.