---
name: "Victor Kilian"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victor-kilian"
fi1m_id: "victor-kilian"
imdb_id: "nm0453081"
tmdb_id: 14666
wikidata_id: "Q450109"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 March 1891"
died: "11 March 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-25T03:31:33.347163+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."
---

# Victor Kilian

## Identity

Victor Kilian

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victor-kilian
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victor-kilian
- **IMDb ID:** nm0453081
- **TMDB ID:** 14666
- **Wikidata ID:** Q450109
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kilian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14666

Actor. Born 6 March 1891 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Died 11 March 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 March 1891, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 11 March 1979
- **Active:** 1938–1943
- **Also known as:** Victor Arthur Kilian
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 4 acting, 2 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 76 (2), 1940s 75 (4)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Adventure 1, Western 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kilian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14666

## Biography

Victor Kilian was an American character actor. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he began his career in vaudeville around 1909 before appearing on Broadway from the mid-1920s and making his film debut in the early 1930s. He became a prolific supporting player in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.

His credits include *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939) as Sparks, *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943) as Darby, *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944) as the Baggage Man, and *Spellbound* (1945) as the Sheriff. He was blacklisted in the early 1950s and returned to the stage; later television work included a recurring role in *Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman* (1976). He died in Hollywood in 1979.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (4) — the average rests on these

- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Fi1m 84, as Darby — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), Fi1m 64, as Gendarme — [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939), Fi1m 88, as Sparks — [page](https://film.one/film/only-angels-have-wings.md)
- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, as The Sheriff — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)

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

- *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, as Sheriff (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944), Fi1m 87, as Baggage Man (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/meet-me-in-st-louis.md)

## Complete filmography (115)

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

- *The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes* (1980), as Human
- *Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman* (1976), series, as Raymond Larkin
- *The Jeffersons* (1975), series, Actor
- *Planet of the Apes* (1974), series, Actor
- *All in the Family* (1971), series, as Clerk, Mr. Burkvist — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/all-in-the-family.md)
- *The Brady Bunch* (1969), series, Actor
- *Arsenic and Old Lace* (1969), Actor
- *Gunsmoke* (1955), series, as Homer Jones
- *Face to Face* (1952), as Jasper Morgan
- *Unknown World* (1951), as Dr. Jeremiah Morley (uncredited)
- *The Tall Target* (1951), as John K. Gannon (uncredited)
- *The Bandit Queen* (1950), as Don Jose Montalvo
- *One Too Many* (1950), as Frank J. Emery
- *No Way Out* (1950), as Father (uncredited)
- *The Showdown* (1950), as Hemp
- *The Old Frontier* (1950), as Judge Ames
- *The Flame and the Arrow* (1950), as Apothecary Mazzoni
- *Stars in My Crown* (1950), as Ned (uncredited)
- *Reign of Terror* (1949), as Jailer (uncredited)
- *The Wyoming Bandit* (1949), as Ross Tyler
- *Colorado Territory* (1949), as Missouri Sheriff (uncredited)
- *Clues to Adventure* (1949), as John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Rimfire* (1949), as Sheriff Jim Jordan
- *I Shot Jesse James* (1949), as Soapy
- *Yellow Sky* (1948), as Bartender (uncredited)
- *Northwest Stampede* (1948), as Mel Saunders
- *Duel in the Sun* (1946), as Gambler (uncredited)
- *Little Giant* (1946), as Gus Anderson (salesman)
- *Spellbound* (1945), as Sheriff (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *The Spanish Main* (1945), as Santa Madre Captain
- *Behind City Lights* (1945), as Daniel Lowell
- *Bedside Manner* (1945), as Board Member (uncredited)
- *Dillinger* (1945), as Pa Dillinger (uncredited)
- *The Fighting Guardsman* (1945), as Montebar
- *Belle of the Yukon* (1944), as Professor Salsbury
- *Dangerous Passage* (1944), as Buck Harris - 1st Mate
- *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944), as Baggage Man (uncredited) — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/meet-me-in-st-louis.md)
- *Barbary Coast Gent* (1944), as Curry Slake
- *Uncertain Glory* (1944), as LaTour, member of underground
- *Johnny Come Lately* (1943), as Tramp
- *Bomber's Moon* (1943), as Henryk van Seeler
- *Hitler's Madman* (1943), as Janek
- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), as Darby — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *Atlantic Convoy* (1942), as Otto
- *This Gun for Hire* (1942), as Drew
- *Reap the Wild Wind* (1942), as Widgeon
- *A Date with the Falcon* (1942), as Max Carlson (uncredited)
- *Secrets of the Lone Wolf* (1941), as Colonel Costals
- *Mob Town* (1941), as Lon Barker
- *Sergeant York* (1941), as Andrews (uncredited) — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/sergeant-york.md)
- *I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island* (1941), as Guissart
- *Blood and Sand* (1941), as Priest
- *Western Union* (1941), as Charlie
- *Chad Hanna* (1940), as Potato Man
- *Santa Fe Trail* (1940), as Dispatch Rider (uncredited)
- *The Mark of Zorro* (1940), as Boatman (uncredited)
- *Tugboat Annie Sails Again* (1940), as Sam
- *They Knew What They Wanted* (1940), as The Photographer
- *City for Conquest* (1940), as Bill Poster (uncredited)
- *The Return of Frank James* (1940), as Preacher
- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), as Gendarme — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *Out West with the Peppers* (1940), as Jim Anderson
- *Florian* (1940), as Junk Man
- *Torrid Zone* (1940), as Carlos
- *'Til We Meet Again* (1940), as Herb McGillis
- *King of the Lumberjacks* (1940), as Joe
- *Dr. Cyclops* (1940), as Steve Baker
- *Virginia City* (1940), as Abraham Lincoln
- *Young Tom Edison* (1940), as Mr. Dingle
- *Abe Lincoln in Illinois* (1940), as Minor Role (uncredited)
- *Little Old New York* (1940), as DeWitt
- *Invisible Stripes* (1939), as Loading Dock Foreman (uncredited)
- *Old Hickory* (1939), as Tim
- *Dust Be My Destiny* (1939), as Doc Saunders
- *Blackmail* (1939), as Warden Frank Miller (uncredited)
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1939), as Esmeralda's Hangman (uncredited)
- *The Story That Couldn't Be Printed* (1939), as John Peter Zenger (uncredited)
- *Only Angels Have Wings* (1939), as Sparks — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/only-angels-have-wings.md)
- *The Return of the Cisco Kid* (1939), as Bartender at Stage Stop
- *Never Say Die* (1939), as Man Who Loads Pistols
- *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (1939), as 'Pap' Finn
- *Paris Honeymoon* (1939), as The Ancient
- *Convict's Code* (1939), as C.W. Bennett
- *Boys Town* (1938), as The Sheriff — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Marie Antoinette* (1938), as Guard in Louis' Cell (uncredited)
- *Prison Break* (1938), as Old Man Fenderson
- *Gold Diggers in Paris* (1938), as Gendarme
- *Miracle Money* (1938), as Jack Saunders (uncredited)
- *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1938), as Sheriff
- *Tovarich* (1937), as Gendarme
- *It Happened in Hollywood* (1937), as Slim
- *It's All Yours* (1937), as City Clerk
- *The League of Frightened Men* (1937), as Pitney Scott
- *Seventh Heaven* (1937), as Gobin
- *Fair Warning* (1937), as Sam
- *Lady from Nowhere* (1936), as Zeke Hopper
- *Banjo on My Knee* (1936), as Mr. Slade
- *Adventure in Manhattan* (1936), as Mark Gibbs
- *Ramona* (1936), as Father Gaspara
- *The Road to Glory* (1936), as LaRoche's tall sgt
- *Shakedown* (1936), as Caretaker
- *The Music Goes 'Round* (1936), as Marshall
- *Riffraff* (1936), as 'Flytrap'
- *Bad Boy* (1935), as Sid
- *The Public Menace* (1935), as Joe
- *The Girl Friend* (1935), as Sunshine Minton
- *Atlantic Adventure* (1935), as Joe Brannigan
- *After the Dance* (1935), as Kennedy
- *Air Hawks* (1935), as Tiny Davis
- *Before Morning* (1933), as Eddie
- *Wrongorilla* (1933), as Dead Eye Pete
- *Artistic Temper* (1932), Actor
- *The Wiser Sex* (1932), as Ed
- *The Cheat* (1931), as (uncredited)
- *Gentlemen of the Press* (1929), as McPhee - Reporter (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Victor Kilian](https://film.one/media/person/1230654/gallery-9c07770fb82e.jpg) Victor Kilian — film screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Victor_Kilian_in_Convict%27s_Code.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Victor Kilian](https://film.one/media/person/1230654/gallery-0edcdc119329.jpg) Victor Kilian — Image via TMDB

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