---
name: "Frederick Burton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frederick-burton"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 October 1871"
died: "23 October 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:49:41.455644+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frederick Burton

Actor. Born 20 October 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Died 23 October 1957.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 October 1871, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 23 October 1957
- **Also known as:** Frederick Wishard Burton, Fred Burton
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 2 acting, 2 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Burton_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497446, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123579/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74877

## Biography

Frederick Burton was an American actor. Born Frederick Wishard Burton on 20 October 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he died on 23 October 1957 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

He began his career on the stage and appeared in over 120 films between 1914 and 1947, frequently in supporting or uncredited roles as judges, senators, doctors and other authority figures. His credited parts include Pa Bascom in *The Big Trail* (1930), the Doctor in *One Way Passage* (1932), and Gen. Landacre in *Flirtation Walk* (1934). He also featured in *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939), *Fury* (1936), *Jezebel* (1938) and *Go West* (1940).

Burton was married to Lora Osgood and Jessie Perine Lawrie.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, findagrave.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), Fi1m 57, as Landacre — [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)
- *One Night of Love* (1934), Fi1m 73, as Howard - Impresario — [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)

### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Jezebel* (1938), Fi1m 78, as First Director (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), Fi1m 85, as Southern Prison Official (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)

## Complete filmography (86)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Miss Susie Slagle's* (1946), as Dr. Bowen (uncredited)
- *Silver Queen* (1942), as Dr. Hartley
- *Junior G-Men of the Air* (1942), as Col. Mitchell
- *Man With Two Lives* (1942), as Hobart Bennett
- *Babes on Broadway* (1941), as Mr. Morris
- *Washington Melodrama* (1941), as Dean Lawford
- *Go West* (1940), as Johnson (uncredited)
- *Third Finger, Left Hand* (1940), as Mr. Thompson
- *Brigham Young* (1940), as Mr. Webb
- *Before I Hang* (1940), as Governor Prentiss
- *Gangs of Chicago* (1940), Actor
- *The Man from Dakota* (1940), as Campbellite Religious Leader
- *Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President* (1939), as Bishop Bannon
- *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939), as Senator Dearhorn (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-smith-goes-to-washington.md)
- *Hollywood Cavalcade* (1939), as Thomas
- *The Old Maid* (1939), as Mr. Halsey (uncredited)
- *Inside Information* (1939), as Police Commissioner Fenton
- *Confessions of a Nazi Spy* (1939), as U.S. District Court Judge
- *Silver on the Sage* (1939), as Tom Hamilton
- *Kentucky* (1938), as Presiding Officer
- *Flight to Fame* (1938), as General Darrow
- *The Saint in New York* (1938), as William Valcross
- *Air Devils* (1938), as Conspirator
- *Jezebel* (1938), as First Director (uncredited) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/jezebel.md)
- *The Duke Comes Back* (1937), as Arnold Corbin
- *The Man in Blue* (1937), as Parke Lewis
- *Love Is News* (1937), as J.D. Jones
- *The Accusing Finger* (1936), as The Governor
- *Theodora Goes Wild* (1936), as Governor Wyatt
- *Mummy's Boys* (1936), as Professor Edwards
- *Fury* (1936), as Daniel Hopkins (uncredited)
- *Everybody's Old Man* (1936), as Aylesworth
- *Wife vs. Secretary* (1936), as Ned Trent (uncredited)
- *The Voice of Bugle Ann* (1936), as The Warden
- *The Calling of Dan Matthews* (1935), as James B. Strong
- *Shipmates Forever* (1935), as Admiral Graves (uncredited)
- *McFadden´s Flats* (1935), as Jefferson
- *Transient Lady* (1935), as Major Marshall
- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), as Landacre — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)
- *One Night of Love* (1934), as Howard - Impresario — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)
- *Smarty* (1934), as Judge (uncredited)
- *Sadie McKee* (1934), as Uncle Snowden (uncredited)
- *Love Birds* (1934), as Barbwire
- *Bedside* (1934), as Hospital Superintendent
- *Counsellor at Law* (1933), as Crayfield
- *King for a Night* (1933), as Governor
- *Golden Harvest* (1933), as Judge Goodhue
- *The Working Man* (1933), as Judge Larson
- *Broadway Bad* (1933), as Robert North Sr.
- *Whistling in the Dark* (1933), as Mr. Van Buren (uncredited)
- *No Other Woman* (1933), as Anderson
- *Lawyer Man* (1932), as Second Trial Judge (uncredited)
- *Too Busy to Work* (1932), as Judge Hardy
- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), as Southern Prison Official (uncredited) — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)
- *One Way Passage* (1932), as The Doctor
- *The All-American* (1932), as Mr. Neuchard
- *The Night of June 13* (1932), as Judge (uncredited)
- *Okay, America!* (1932), as The President (uncredited)
- *Two Seconds* (1932), as Judge
- *State's Attorney* (1932), as Second Trial Judge
- *The Wet Parade* (1932), as Major Randolph
- *Fireman, Save My Child* (1932), as Mr. Platt
- *The Woman from Monte Carlo* (1932), as President of Courtmartial
- *Secret Service* (1931), as Gen. Randolph
- *Freighters of Destiny* (1931), as John Macey
- *An American Tragedy* (1931), as Samuel Griffiths
- *Sweepstakes* (1931), as Pop Blake
- *The Big Trail* (1930), as Pa Bascom
- *Running Wild* (1927), as D.W. Harvey
- *The Rejected Woman* (1924), as Leyton Carter
- *Broadway Broke* (1923), as Augustin Daly
- *The Fighting Blade* (1923), as Oliver Cromwell
- *Back Home and Broke* (1922), as Otis Grimley
- *Anna Ascends* (1922), as Mr. Fisk
- *If Women Only Knew* (1921), as Dr. John Strong
- *The Education of Elizabeth* (1921), as Middleton
- *Heliotrope* (1920), as Heliotrope Harry Hasdock (as Fred Burton)
- *Yes or No* (1920), as Donald Vane
- *The Fear Market* (1920), as Jim Carson
- *Anne of Green Gables* (1919), as Matthew Cuthbert
- *The Teeth of the Tiger* (1919), as Doctor Varney
- *The Career of Katherine Bush* (1919), as Duke Mordryn
- *Getting Mary Married* (1919), as Amos Bussard
- *Cheating Cheaters* (1919), as George Brockton
- *Arizona* (1918), as Col. Benham
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1918), as Cousin Egbert Floud

## Gallery

- ![Frederick Burton Subjects: actors (1920)](https://film.one/media/person/1226308/gallery-7cd8cef2b835.jpg) Frederick Burton Subjects: actors (1920) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Frederick_Burton_%28SAYRE_11138%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Film actor Frederick Burton in the American drama film Heliotrope (1920) Subjects: actors, motion pictures](https://film.one/media/person/1226308/gallery-06b393846e16.jpg) Film actor Frederick Burton in the American drama film Heliotrope (1920) Subjects: actors, motion pictures — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Film_actor_Frederick_Burton_%28SAYRE_15588%29.jpg/1280px-Film_actor_Frederick_Burton_%28SAYRE_15588%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frederick Burton](https://film.one/media/person/1226308/gallery-ff838afa41ea.jpg) Frederick Burton — Cosmopolitan Productions / Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Heliotrope_%281920%29_-_Frederick_Burton.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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