Noble "Kid" Chissell was a boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 champion, actor, and dance marathon champion.

Noble "Kid" Chissell, former U.S. Navy Middleweight Boxing Champ (1932), received an award in 1982 for having over 1,000 screen credits. As a prizefighter he once fought "Packy East", later known as Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...

. Even earlier he won the 1928 World Marathon Dance Champion contest. He first gained international prominence as the villainous sulky driver, "Flea-Flit Dryer", in the film Home in Indiana

Home in Indiana

Home in Indiana is a 1944 film directed by Henry Hathaway. The film, that stars Walter Brennan, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, June Haver and Charlotte Greenwood, is based on the story The Phantom Filly by George Agnew Chamberlain and was shot in Technicolor...

, opposite Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan was an American actor. Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three separate occasions, which is currently the record for most wins.-Early life:...

, Ward Bond

Ward Bond

Wardell Edwin "Ward" Bond was an American film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in over 200 movies and the television series Wagon Train.-Early life:...

, Lon McAllister, June Haver

June Haver

June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...

, and Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Crain

Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress.-Early life:Crain was born in Barstow, California, to George A. Crain, a school teacher, and Loretta Carr; she was of Irish heritage on her mother's side, and of English and distant French descent on her father's...

. Numerous other motion pictures include his portrayal of a middle-weight champ in Ex-Champ, prison guard with Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...

 in I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

I Want to Live! is a 1958 film noir produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Robert Wise which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution. It stars Susan Hayward as Graham, and also features Simon Oakland, Stafford Repp, and Theodore...

, a gambler in Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls (film)

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and distributed by MGM. It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay...

, police officer Noble in The Big Chase, deputy sheriff with Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda

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 in Ballad of Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou

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, Jean Rostel the blind killer in Wax Works, a thriller television episode. In the first and sixth episodes of Disney's World of Color series, Gallegher, Chissell played the Irish fight referee and jailer opposite Edmund O'Brien. He was croupier at the roulette game in "Tiger by the Tail", one of the Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

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episodes. Life of Riley, Dragnet, and Playhouse 90 and People's Court were other series Chissell worked in.

Good friends with Hal Raynor and Joe Penner

Joe Penner

Joe Penner was an American 1930s-era vaudeville, radio and film comedian. He was an ethnic Hungarian born as József Pintér in Nagybecskerek, Austria-Hungary...

, Chissell did some radio comedy bits during the 1930s.

He also was politically active and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1953 and for the 40th State Assembly District in 1962.

Other credits include They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh...

, The Road to Rio and other Bob Hope movies and 20 of Hope's TV specials.

He was a member of the Hollywood Comedy Club, and organization of motion picture and theatrical folk, and the International Footprint Association, an organization of peace officers and reputable citizens.

Noble "Kid" Chissell was born Noble Chisman, son of Thomas Farbri Chisman (1880 - 1958) and Cora Esther Laporte (1884 - 1962), in Indianapolis in 1905. Noble was the first cousin twice removed on his mother's side of the noted Irish poet/balladeer, Johnny Tom Gleeson

Johnny Tom Gleeson

Johnny Tom Gleeson was an Irish poet and songwriter. He wrote the ballad "The Bould Thady Quill" , a spoof on a non-athlete, and two other noted poems: “The Battle Ship Sinn Féin” , his only patriotic piece, and “The Wild Bar-A-Boo” , spoofing the noted Muskerry fox chase that originated in...

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Selected filmography

• Knockout (1941)
• Home in Indiana (1944)
• My Buddy (1944)
• Jealousy (1945)
• Suspense (1946)
• A Likely Story (1947)
• Sorrowful Jones (1949)
• The Hellcats (1967)
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
• The West Is Still Wild (1977)

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