Fred Kelsey

37 films on Best Blurays3 in 4K26 in HD6 in SD2 with no official release

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

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The Lawful Cheater (1925)

Supporting role · Director: Frank O'Connor

Video format: Lost Film

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Road to Paradise (1930)

Supporting role · Director: William Beaudine

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

The Donovan Affair (1929)

Supporting role · Director: Frank Capra

Video format: No Home Media

Best Video:

Video survived

Best Audio:

Audio lost

A Woman of Affairs (1928)

Small role · Director: Clarence Brown

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

3.5

Speak Easily (1932)

Small role · Director: Edward Sedgwick

Best English-Friendly & Video:

AlphaVideo DVD

3.0

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Small role · Director: Charles Vidor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.3

The Woman Racket (1930)

Small role · Directors: Albert H. Kelley & Robert Ober & Paul Bern

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

Sailor's Luck (1933)

Small role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox SD Streaming on multiple platforms

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & Howard Hawks & Henry King & Henry Koster & Jean Negulesco

Best English-Friendly:

UK Signal One Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Signal One, France ESC or Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

UK Signal One, France ESC or Germany Plaion Blu-ray no comparison available online

3.4

Flamingo Road (1949)

Small role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Mr. Skeffington (1944)

Small role · Director: Vincent Sherman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

4K · Disappointing

Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2024 Paramount "Presents" 4K

Video Notes:

Although there are reviews that called it disappointing. It is also regarded as a vast improvement over all previous versions by many others as well.

This is a problematic release, because while scenes like the aerial shots at the beginning looked pristine and shows new detail, many others are suspiciously identical across all three Blu-ray releases (the 2012, 2020 and this 2024).

Some defects on this are unfixed from the 2020 Blu-ray for some reason. (See this review and its discussion.)

Best Audio:

1996 Paramount Hi-Fi VHS

3.7