Jack Oakie (born Lewis Delaney Offield; November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He portrayed Napaloni in Chaplin 's The Great Dictator (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor .

Jack Oakie. Actor: The Great Dictator. "America's Joyboy," beefy, plump-faced comedian Jack Oakie, was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially film's "Golden Age."

Jack Oakie. Actor: The Great Dictator. "America's Joyboy," beefy, plump-faced comedian Jack Oakie, was one of the funniest top and second banana jokesters of stage, radio and especially film's "Golden Age." He would accomplish so much despite the fact that he was "functionally deaf" throughout his career and performed primarily with the aid of lip reading or vibrations.

Complete overview of the career and personal life of actor Jack Oakie. All his films with a synopsis for each notable movie he worked on.

Jack Oakie was long considered one of the screen’s most notorious scene-stealers. He had a unique brand of comedy and was the master of the double and triple take. He was born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903, in Sedalia, Missouri.

Oakie is most noted for his portrayal of Benzino Napaloni, the boisterous dictator of Bacteria, in Charlie Chaplin’s production of “The Great Dictator” (1940). He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Jack Oakie (born Lewis Delaney Offield; November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He portrayed Napaloni in Chaplin 's The Great Dictator (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor .

Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.

Delightfully brash character actor of the 1930s and 40s, Oakie was famed for his double-takes and gleeful song-and-dance style. A vaudeville performer from the early 1920s, Oakie first...

American character actor Jack Oakie's career spanned vaudeville, Broadway musicals, radio, television and 87 films, most of them comedies or musical comedies made in the 1930s and 1940s.