Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895 – June 4, 1960) was an American actor who achieved a long career from silent films to the television era. He was noted for his versatility, playing a wide range of roles and already portraying old men before he was of voting age. Life and career Lucien Littlefield was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended Staunton Military Academy. He started his movie career in 1913 and worked as an actor until his death in 1960. He usually portrayed comedic supporting characters, often much older than himself. His role of the doctor in The Cat and the Canary (1927) is one of his more notable performances. The character actor appeared with Laurel and Hardy, first as an eccentric professor in Dirty Work and finally as a veterinarian in Sons of the Desert, both made in 1933. He also played Mary Pickford's father in My Best Girl in 1927. Other roles include the western Tumbleweeds with William S. Hart, the comedy Ruggles of Red Gap with Charles Laughton, and Johnny Come Lately with James Cagney. He played an eccentric inventor in an early episode of Adventures of Superman titled "The Runaway Robot". Littlefield played many character roles in other TV shows of the 1950s, such as Blondie, Lassie, Dragnet and Peter Gunn. He died of natural causes in 1960 at a veterans' hospital in Hollywood, California, and he was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Selected filmography Rose of the Rancho (1914) (uncredited) The Ghost Breaker (1914) as Judge Jarvis The Warrens of Virginia (1915) as Tom Dabney A Gentleman of Leisure (1915) as Clerk The Wild Goose Chase (1915, short) as The 'Grind' Kindling (1915) as Fence (uncredited) The Marriage of Kitty (1915) as Minor Role Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915) as The Rag Picker The Unknown (1915) as Minor Role The Cheat (1915) as Hardy's Secretary (uncredited) The Golden Chance (1915) as Roger Manning's Valet (uncredited) Temptation (1915) (uncredited) The Blacklist (1916) as Frederick Holtz To Have and to Have (1916) as King James I The Love Mask (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) as The Gardener A Gutter Magdalene (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) The Golden Fetter (1917) as Pete On Record (1917) The Cost of Hatred (1917) The Jaguar's Claws (1917) as Minor Role The Squaw Man's Son (1917) as Lord Yester The Hostage (1917) as Paul Hawthorne